Hello all, long time reader here, first time poster. The recent topic of debate I've happened to notice is on the "blocking" of the queue, so to speak, and whether or not it will be free flow or partioned into seperate pre-shows in which guests before proceeding to the next room. Despite Universal's tendency to go with free flow preshows(only been once, and honestly not sure if I ever encountered one that wasn't)I'd imagine they will go with one in this instance. While there are downfalls to this method, namely re-riding the attraction can often lead to some aggrivation by return guests for having to re-experience every element of the preshow as well as the stop/go effect it has on the standby queue line before the preshow, ultimately I don't see how they could pull off the level of show they wish to without sectioning off each room, I imagine there will be doors as well as team members there to regulate flow. Also, since for most Orlando parks are considered once every few years or maybe once in a lifetime destinations for guests, aggrivation by guests for seeing these things over and over will probably be kept to a minimum. Besides all of this of course, its a very large part of the experience, and once you enter the preshow, you should consider yourself officially underway, especially from what I've read on these forums and others. As far as a system of multiple preshows, there are most definitely others out there, one example being the former Tomb Raider: The Ride at Paramount's(formerly) Kings Island(TR:TR no longer exists in this form, with no preshows to speak of, sadly). Riders would queue outside of the temple, and into an area known as the "digs" inside as a standard queue, before entering the "antechamber" where they would be sorted into 3 rows, the rows they would eventually be in to load the attraction(a HUSS giant top spin). A mini preshow of sorts would occur after some time, and a door would roll back, revealing another chamber, riders would stay in their rows and enter the official preshow, as the door slid closed behind them so the next group could be loaded. After the preshow, another door would roll away, this time revealing the ride chamber, which guests would then load as normal, already sorted into load rows. The ride held 77 guests, and with a ride time of roughly 2.5 minutes, about every 5 minutes the outdoor queue would move 77 people ahead, resulting in a stop/go flow. However, once inside the "antechamber", you knew in about 20 minutes you would be exiting and back out into the park. I often heard from many guests they just wished to ride the ride, and skip the numerous preshows(the digs itself could be considered a sort of pre-preshow as well, as it was elaborately themed and guests waited there until the antechamber was empty). However, Kings Island features many more return visitors than the Orlando parks do in any given summer, at least percentage wise compared to overall attendance, so I do not feel this would be an issue with the Forbidden Journey. Not saying this is how the attraction will operate, but I believe it will be very similar, just featuring a mini-queue in the room of requirement prior to boarding after the last preshow element.