You'll be Screaming for your Mummy - About.com, 10/28/03

[Darkbeer]

You'll be Screaming for your Mummy - About.com, 10/28/03

Note: I have only quoted from the first page, the second and third pages do contain SPOILERS!

QuikQuote: The highly anticipated Revenge of the Mummy will be a "category-buster," according to its designers. Melding a dark ride's highly immerssive, rich storytelling environment with a wild launched coaster experience, and tossing in outrageous pyrotechnics, projected CGI animation, advanced animatronics, bewildering illusions, and anything else they can incorporate, the folks at Universal say that this will be the next generation of theme park attractions. And that's saying a lot coming from the people who created The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man.

Like most Universal attractions, Mummy will be an in-your-face, visceral, loud, neural-overload experience. When describing the first time the Mummy animatronic character appears, Jennifer Sauer, the Florida ride's creative director, says he's a "super high-end, kick-ass character." It's that kind of take-no-prisoners attitude that leads Universal's designers to conjure a scene in which flames will engulf the train of passengers and the room will heat up to 2000 degrees. "We use every trick in the book," promises Sauer. "(The Mummy) is an assault on your senses from beginning to end." Part of the challenge in designing an attraction like this is that some, um, less adventurous guests (oh what the heck, let's just call them wimps!) who would otherwise love to give the Mummy a whirl, will avoid it because of the extreme coaster elements. For the rest of us adrenaline nuts, however, the ride looks to be theme park nirvana.

[drinksumpepsi]

whoa sounds great.cant wait to ride it at USH hoping its at least the same as the orlando one or even better

[JRob2k1]

Great article DB.

Mummy is gonna kick some serious arse!

-JRob

[Darkbeer]

Ugh, drinksumpepsi, your avitar is driving me crazy, I guess I need to go grab a double-double with extra., extra onions, plus some fries and a drink (pink lemonade or a shake)

Well, at least I can worry about the small stuff, instead of the fire...

[Tom Sawyer]

Have you guys seen this?

http://www.coasterforce.com/atlantis/atlantis.shtml

[Nemo88]

^ that atlantis ride looks awesome!

[ExClub]

Have you guys seen this?

http://www.coasterforce.com/atlantis/atlantis.shtml

I'm sure there's a better thread to be discussing Atlantis, but...San Diego's won't be this detailed and long, will it? San Diego's looks like it has only one, small show building.

[Nemo88]

I'm sure there's a better thread to be discussing Atlantis, but...San Diego's won't be this detailed and long, will it? San Diego's looks like it has only one, small show building.-end quote


that is correct,both Mummy and Atlantis will be scaled down when brought here to California.

Kinda stinks,the only 2004 "clone" not being scaled down is Tower of Terror. (that we know of)

[cinder]

Scaled down or not, Mummy looks like it's going to rock!

[disneyfreak62]

Looking forward to Mummy! I didn't read the whole article, didn't want to ruin it for me.