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As it opened, riders would enter Ultrasaurus Lagoon, where they’d see a large, partially submerged Ultrasaurus and her young. After the riders’ boats left the dock, they’d go up a brief hill before taking a quick plunge toward the Jurassic Park gate. That didn't make the cut.Įventually, everyone agreed on a design. There was going to be a dome, and we wanted to have these pterodactyls come to life and then fly around you and dive over your head. That led to one of Christopher’s favorite ideas getting nixed.Ĭhristopher: We had to cut one scene that I really liked that we called the Pterodactyl Aviary. We did drawings and then we did movement diagrams, like, “This dinosaur is going to have a head move, and his mouth is going to open.” We also created the soundtrack, because the soundtrack is 50 percent of the whole thing.Īt some point during the ride’s creation, Universal sent in a budgeting team that priced out everything Landmark had planned. We were trying to keep the interest of the guests all the way through.

In recent years it’s been retooled and rebranded to mirror the Jurassic World releases, but it’s still one of the parks’ bigger attractions, drawing millions of thrill-seekers each year.Ĭhristopher: We had to make sure every time you saw a dinosaur on the ride, it wasn't the same thing. The river ride became a smash hit, and subsequent versions later launched at Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Orlando and Universal Studios Japan. The resulting attraction, Jurassic Park: The Ride, launched at Universal Studios Hollywood in 1996 and was, at the time, the most expensive theme park attraction ever built, costing more than $100 million-about twice as much as the studio spent making Jurassic Park itself. Around the time Jurassic Park hit theaters, the theme park was looking to up its foot traffic and attraction prowess in order to compete with the Disney properties, and they thought a dinosaur-packed adventure ride could be the way to do it. While it might seem de rigueur these days for any cinematic blockbuster to become a theme park ride or even its own multifaceted in-park world, in the early '90s it was a novelty-especially for Universal Studios, which at that time was pretty much just subsisting on studio back lot tours, an E.T.

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