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Jurassic Park: The Ride (Now Closed)

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I've never actually asked this since I never cared, but I have to be more careful with my health now.

What is the best place to sit in the boat if you DONT want to get wet? Summer OR off season.
 
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3rd or 4th Row in the middle 
 
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I learned something very interesting yesterday while at the park. Apparently one reason they haven't upgraded the animatronics in a while is because the company that made them went out of business. I wonder if this means when they do decide to upgrade it if they'll go with a whole new company and replace all of the old animatronics with new ones.
 
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Didn't Garner Holt make the animatronics for the ride? If not, they can totally make new animatronics for the ride. They do all of the animatronics for Disney, Universal and Knotta nowadays.
 
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Wow... that is new information indeed. Too bad, I hope they do decide to replace the animatronics... we want a top notch JP refurb
 
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A little something special that I received... the 1996 issue of Landmark Entertainment magazine that features Jurassic Park- The Ride! Due to the size of the pages when opened, my scanner not being big enough for them, and not wanting to damage this rare item, I only was able to do a proper scan of the first page and two of the rarest photos. The rest I took photos of with my digital camera, which don't look great, but when zoomed in should be easy enough to read (if a slightly blurry).

The content doesn't add too much for what we already know from the recent in-depth Goddard Interview I did with IU, but there are some technical details it touches on that are interesting to read that I don't think have really been mentioned elsewhere. Most of the photos in it can be found via other sources in better quality compared to my photos, except for the two ones I was able to get good scans of. :)

Enjoy!

http://www.trescom.org/hosted/scallenger/jpride/JP%20Ride%20Landmark%20Magazine.zip

And be on the lookout for another one for a different attraction sometime soon! :)
 
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Allen The Actor said:
Didn't Garner Holt make the animatronics for the ride? If not, they can totally make new animatronics for the ride. They do all of the animatronics for Disney, Universal and Knotta nowadays.
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And Chuck E. Cheese!

/useless information
 
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/bNZhXgJ8FiA?feature=oembed
Did the parasaurolophus always have such creepy eyes? :mellow: (skip to 2:35)
 
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From 1997:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=UUE0uNMPt9qFSUDVdQxX0iRg
 
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^WOW!!!!

This ride has not aged gracefully.  It looks AMAZING back when it was new!

Really hope they give this ride an extensive refurbishment before 2016.
 
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I still miss the parasaurolophus lunging out of the water. :c

I'm blown away at how much the animatronics have aged. I thought the baby stegosaurus was working really well currently, but now seeing this I realize I'm wrong. Haha. And those small dinosaurs after the ultrasaurs that everyone always misses; I didn't even know they could move like that!

It even looks like the T-Rex lowers her head down much farther from the hole in the ceiling in this video. And the fact that you can't even SEE her through the waterfall is awesome!

When I hear people at USH raving about how awesome JP is (currently) I'm just like "Man, you don't even KNOW."
 
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My God this ride looks incredible when everything was new. The speed of the animals is most impressive. When that Dilo to the right happens it's scary. That T-Rex also is a ton better.

EXTENSIVE REFURB PLZ
 
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That vid is amazing. The paint job on the last T-Rex is better today, but only that, the rest... the animatronics were just amazing, and the final confrontation with the TRex is far more dramatic, it moves so fast and you could not see the animatronic behind... and I didn't know there was a fog effect at the beginning of the lift chain. Crap this ride needs some love ASAP...
 
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Went on the ride today and the parasaurolophus Is currently walled off.   ....dun dun DUUUUUUUN
 
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Went on the ride today and the parasaurolophus Is currently walled off.   ....dun dun DUUUUUUUN
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Ooooh, I wonder what they're doing. *jitters with excitement*
 
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Probably just a standard simple refurb or reskin. It goes into refurb the most out of end of the dinos, probably cuz of the constant up and down movement and being underwater.
 
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Probably just a standard simple refurb or reskin. It goes into refurb the most out of end of the dinos, probably cuz of the constant up and down movement and being underwater.
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Both of those are still exciting to me. Haha.
 
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This has been out for some time in the documentary "Return To Jurassic Park: The Third Adventure" (since 2011 on the Jurassic Park Trilogy/Jurassic Park 3 BluRay set), but hadn't noticed it ever on YouTube before. Not sure if it'll always be up on YouTube given it's from a documentary on the BluRay, so check it out now. From the very start of this video to about 1:43, Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and even Sam Neill briefly talk about the ride and have a couple amusing things to say about it. During their discussion, you see clips from the ride from when it was the Jurassic Park 3 Summer Splash (in 2001).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOI2mrZ-6Ew

It is interesting to note that Spielberg makes it sound like the ride hadn't been conceived until AFTER the second film and in a "couple of months". We all know, especially from the Goddard interview, that this was definitely NOT the case, haha. But I guess we can't blame Spielberg for getting those kind of details wrong given his constantly busy schedule, especially during that time period. I'm sure the 90s were a blur to him.

The clips that it showed of the ride from the Jurassic Park 3 Summer Splash were originally from a studio-edited ridethrough on the now out of print (but can be acquired cheaply) bonus DVD "Beyond Jurassic Park". Sadly this was actually the ONE bonus feature not carried over onto the BluRay set from all the previous bonus features (unless you count, oddly, some of the storyboard videos not being as complete as the ones on the initial DVDs). You can see that bonus feature as well below if you have never seen it, and it is also unique for it includes the opening and closing Richard Kiley narration in probably the clearest we will ever have unless the master tapes somehow leak.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Mjg74jZKs8I?feature=oembed
 
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that was great!!!!! Makes me want to make an excuse to miss work and go to the park asap!
 
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The official on-ride footage you posted is from my YouTube page ;)

I still need to get the Blu-rays! My poor DVDs have been so overplayed haha
 
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