"Back To The Future.-The Ride brings
together the most dynamic motion-based experience possible by combining
sophisticated hydraulics, multi-channel sound, live effects and a
groundbreaking OMNIMAX film to create a total sensory impact experience
never before achieved in any media or studio attraction," says Tom
Williams, president and chief executive officer of Universal Studios
Escape. "Whatever you see on the screen, you will also feel."
State-of-the-art special effects give the
illusion of time travel. "This is a new dimension of thrills and
excitement that must be experienced to believe," says Douglas
Trumbull of Berkshire Ridefilm, who directed the four-minute,
multimillion dollar special effects ride film which is a pivotal part of
this cutting-edge simulator "ride experience." Trumbull's
other special effects directorial credits include 2001: A Space Odyssey
and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Back To The Future...The Ride continues
the record-breaking movie about time travel, directed by Robert Zemeckis,
scored by Alan Silvestri and staring Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly,
Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown and Thomas Wilson as Biff Tannen, the
nastiest villain of all time
In
this chapter, the eccentric Doc Brown, time travel master, is at home
conducting experiments in his new laboratory, the Institute of Future
Technology. Doc has created his most futuristic invention yet - a
convertible, eight-passenger Time Vehicle that's faster and more energy
efficient than his earlier time machine. But Biff Tannan is loose in the
Institute and threatens to end the universe as we know it. With no time
to lose, guests become time travel volunteers on the most mind-blowing,
pulse-racing, barrier-breaking journey of their lives. Doc guides
visitors by remote control as they careen through time in pursuit of the
evil Biff.
The
chase is on. Engulfed in three-dimensional images, guests fly into the
futuristic Hill Valley of Back To The Future II, circa 2015, and blast
back through the eons to the chilling Ice Age. With dizzying speed, they
thunder through caverns, crevasses and canyons of sheer, jagged ice,
collide with a glacier and explode into the Volcanic Bra.
Up, up everyone flies propelled through
the immense open mouth of Tyrannosaurus Rex, erupting through a volcano
and plunging over the edge of a molten lava fall in a sheer vertical
drop.
"Back To The Future...The Ride is
one of the most spectacular and sophisticated ride experiences ever
created," said Mr. Williams. "It is the result of
extraordinary and unique breakthrough technology, which combines OMNIMAX
70mm film projected on seven-story high hemispherical screens,
multi-channel sound and powerful hydraulically-activated dynamic
motion."
Every aspect of the film, simulator
vehicle motion, live effects and sound has been integrated to send
guests time-traveling into the stratosphere of cinematic excitement. And
there are only two places on earth that it can be experienced -
Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood.
Imagine
the most intense and enveloping multi-sensory motion picture experience
possible. Engulfed in cold fog. Blasting through the space/time
continuum. Breaking into an other-worldly dimension. Free-falling down
volcanic tunnels aflame with molten lava. Cascading over glacial ice
fields. Colliding with prehistoric dinosaurs. Catapulting and careening
through the past, present and future in a Time Vehicle to stop a villain
and prevent him from changing destiny. Back To The Future...The Ride
defies the imagination.