- Mar 5, 2016
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Pacific Rim: Shatterdome Strike at Indonesia's Trans Studio Cibubur pack recently soft opened and there's a pretty decent POV video of the experience on Youtube now. I say 'experience', because this ride seems more than a typical 3D dark ride. If you put Transformers, Spiderman, Rise of the Resistance, and Poseidon's Fury in a blender, something like this would be the result (Though less technologically advanced than most of those).
Not sure these vehicles have motion bases like Spidey/TF (Oceaneering built both of those and this ride) but it does several very cool things that make up for that IMO:
-Lining up during the pre-show in front of doors only to be 'evacuated' through a separate door in the back of the room really helps to sell the emergency evacuation aspect
-Exiting the first ride vehicle after hitting a dead end and being handed flashlights to make your way to the next ride vehicle
-The walkthrough "Kaiju Encounter: The Ride". Has any major theme park attraction ever had a ride within a ride? (also, that Kaiju head you walk through gives MIB Alien Attack feels)
-Several live actors and soap suds(?) for 'alien guts' during the walkthrough portion
-Several large physical sets throughout both 3D ride portions
This ride reminds me of the early rumors of what Rise of the Resistance would be like, with guests entering and exiting two separate ride vehicles during the entire experience. It's interesting to see two rides open almost back to back with such a focus on immersive storytelling, even tying the queue aspect with live actors into the overall experience. This does seem to be the next level of theme park immersion, so I wonder where we'll see something similar next. In a less visited indoor theme park this will probably work fine enough, but how would something like this ever fare in a high capacity Universal/Disney park?
What do you all think of this ride?
Not sure these vehicles have motion bases like Spidey/TF (Oceaneering built both of those and this ride) but it does several very cool things that make up for that IMO:
-Lining up during the pre-show in front of doors only to be 'evacuated' through a separate door in the back of the room really helps to sell the emergency evacuation aspect
-Exiting the first ride vehicle after hitting a dead end and being handed flashlights to make your way to the next ride vehicle
-The walkthrough "Kaiju Encounter: The Ride". Has any major theme park attraction ever had a ride within a ride? (also, that Kaiju head you walk through gives MIB Alien Attack feels)
-Several live actors and soap suds(?) for 'alien guts' during the walkthrough portion
-Several large physical sets throughout both 3D ride portions
This ride reminds me of the early rumors of what Rise of the Resistance would be like, with guests entering and exiting two separate ride vehicles during the entire experience. It's interesting to see two rides open almost back to back with such a focus on immersive storytelling, even tying the queue aspect with live actors into the overall experience. This does seem to be the next level of theme park immersion, so I wonder where we'll see something similar next. In a less visited indoor theme park this will probably work fine enough, but how would something like this ever fare in a high capacity Universal/Disney park?
What do you all think of this ride?