I never came back to comment on how I liked the ride. I thought it was great- and have a couple things to share that haven't been offered:
1- My 3 year old (just turned 3 on the 10th of Sept) absolutely loved it. The queue was a little scary for her- not bad (but she's pretty decent with scary stuff)- so we gave her a ring-pop in line and she didn't care about the queue anymore. She also liked the worm. My 7 year old was more than fine. My 3 year old also said it was her favorite ride and asked me what King Kong did to the dinosaurs mouth. I said he broke it. She still, to this day, goes to random strangers and tells them "King Kong Broke the Dinosaurs Mouth" and then opens her mouth wide with her hands and says "like this". I'm not sure if I should feel proud or embarrassed
2- the ride broke down on us the first day and we were evacuated with the stairs, lights on, etc.
As most of you know, the truck sits on little hydraulic pads for each scene. They are just big enough for the tires. But during our evac, we had audio sync issues as well. In the bug scene, after the scene was done, the screen went white and we got the in-car audio from the 360 scene. Then, we started moving after the audio was done and watched the 360 scene with no in-car audio, only outside audio.
This was the interesting part. So there are
two soundtracks (at least during the 360 scene). The in-vehicle audio is approx 4x the volume of the outside audio and it contains Kong landing on the roof, big growls, lots of bass, the music, etc. The outside audio contains minor sounds such as leaves rustling, dinosaurs calling from the distance, and other "secondary" background noises. It is about 1/4 the volume of the in-vehicle audio.
So the summary is- there are two soundtracks and they both sync up during the scenes. I'm sure most everyone assumed it was just one, so that is pretty unique there.
