New 3D King Kong Ride At Universal Studios Hollywood

New 3D King Kong Ride At Universal Studios Hollywood

Over a year and a half ago the 7 ton,30 foot tall King Kong was destroyed in June 2008 Fire on The back lot of Univerasl Studios Hollywood.

Universal instead spent 6 times as much to build a new attraction then remake the old ride. And created a 3D version of the ride.

Joe Letteri, the visual effects supervisor for the film, said:

We saw it and we said we wish we had done the whole movie in 3-D.

Since then, Weta Digital have honed the 3-D technology and many of the technological advances developed for Avatar will be used in the Kong attraction.

Universal Studios Hollywood President Larry Kurzweil, said:

After the 2008 fire, we knew we had to bring him back to the back lot studio tour, but in a way that has never been experienced before. It's going to feel like Avatar but it will be happening all around you.

Here's a list of facts and features for the new attraction:

- Guests on the studio tour will board a tram that will enter a 200-foot-long soundstage

- Guests must don 3-D glasses for the 2 1/2 -minute attraction

- Park visitors will not only see Kong in three dimensions but also smell his banana breath, feel the gust of wind as he jumps over the guests and sense the ground quake when the ape engages a Tyrannosaurus rex in a life-or-death battle

- The 180-foot-long screens will curve around the tram so that the 3-D images seem to surround the passengers

- A system of fans, sprayers and other devices installed in the building will spew air, water and odors at park visitors to bring the images to life

- The new ape will resemble the Kong from the 2005 film, right down to the broken canine tooth and the scars over its right eye.

- Other creatures and scenes from the movie, including caves, giant bats and dinosaurs from Skull Island, will also appear on the four-story-tall screens

- Universal Studios describes the new Kong attraction as the largest 3-D exhibit in the world

There was a lot of money put into this two and a half minute stop, but the right team is behind making it truly immersive. The old animatronic ride was a major icon for the theme park, but how long of a life will this new ride have? Could it be replaced by new movies the studio releases? Of course, most movies don't contain creatures of King Kong's size. But Jurassic Park is getting the reboot, so it's not hard to see this helping promote those films along with the Jurassic Park ride.

The new Kong attraction will debut as one stop on the Universal back lot tour ride this summer.

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