Voici une petite description de ce qui nous attends :
CitationThe journey begins as riders enter the Museum of Antiquities. It's not really a museum, but the hot set of the next "Mummy" movie sequel. (It's not REALLY a movie set, that's part of the attraction's storyline. But, play along with me, OK?) When you see the cameras, movie lights, storyboards, and costume cribs, you realize you've walked onto the film set's backstage area.
While in the queue, video monitors show a "mockumentary" (a la "Spinal Tap" and "A Mighty Wind") about the making of the latest "Mummy" flick. It seems weird stuff has been happening on the set. Some of the film's stars believe the place is cursed, while others say there's no such thing as curses. (Oh oh. Theme park calamity foreshadowing.) The video introduces Reggie, a low-level, but highly enthusiastic member of the movie's crew. He may have something to do with the ensuing calamity. Cue the suspenseful music.
The core of the queue winds around a burial chamber and an archaeological dig. In the center is an enormous Egyptian statue that sits above a freshly unearthed keystone. Scaffolding is set up around the statue. While there's ample evidence of the tomb raiders' work, they seem to have vanished. The plot thickens.
The story appears a bit muddled here. While we guests are eavesdropping onto the Mummy movie set, apparently actual archaeologists have actually dug up ancient artifacts. So...is the film being shot on location? But, aren't we supposed to be on a studio lot winding through an indoor soundstage made to look like a museum? Maybe I'm thinking this through way too much.
The queue leads guests up to the second level where they board the ride. The load station looks like a temple. Work lights powered by a portable generator light the area. Ride operators dressed like ancient Egyptians escort guests onto the ride. The vehicles, which look like industrial carts, are used by the archaeologists to transport supplies and relics in and out of the dig. We're going into the catacombs of the Mummy.
In the first scene, riders hear whispers, see flickering lanterns, and pass a train of cars filled with mummified folks wearing Islands of Adventure shirts and sporting fanny packs. It's the load of passengers that preceded us. Things are not looking good.
A voice from around the corner beckons. One of the mummies is still alive. It's Reggie who warns us that the curse is very real and that we need to get out. When the train moves forward, he tells us to look for the symbol of the magi, which is the only thing that will save us. The Mummy himself materializes and sucks the life out of Reggie. He turns to the riders and says, "With your souls, I will rule for all eternity." The train hightails it out of there and into the next chamber.
Behind an altar, the Mummy busts through a wall and appears as a large sand face. He makes an offer: "Join me and savor the riches of a thousand dynasties." Miraculously, a treasure trove of gold and jewels appears on either side of the train. "Or refuse and suffer a more bitter treasure," the Mummy continues. The room darkens, animated warrior mummies pop out of troughs on either side of the train. One of the animatronic warriors leaps onto the vehicles. Braziers on the altar burst into 10-foot flames, while a 20-foot flame shoots out towards the train, engulfs the ceiling, and turns the room into an inferno. The vehicles move toward a huge stone door that's descending and threatens to crush the passengers. Just as they face certain doom, the train makes a little coaster-like dip.
Having survived that insanity, the train scoots around the corner and into a dead-end room. With no way out, the vehicles proceed backwards, reverse direction, and tear through the mouth of the Mummy for a 1.5-G, Hulk-style launch uphill and into the coaster part of the attraction.
Details get sketchier here. The coaster ride includes some 0-G weightlessness all the way up to positive 3.5-Gs moments. There are no inversions, but there are some highly banked 80-degree turns. There is a blood-curdling 50-degree drop that, because it is in complete darkness, feels like an eternity. Ghosts, which I believe are projected onto fog, pursue the passengers throughout the coaster ride. The finale is one of the elements Universal is keeping under wraps.
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Theme parksBon je ne vais pas tout traduire ...
Retenons l essentiel
-Léquipe qui developpe se ride est a l origine se Spiderman, donc rien que ca, je pense que ca suffit pour dire que ca va etre qqch d extraordinaire
-L attraction combine : coaster dans le noir complet avec passage en arriere et catapultage incliné, dark ride, animatronics high tech, projection sur differents supports (notamment fumée), des effets pyrotechniques
-L histoire est que vous arrivez sur le plateau de la nouvelle suite de La Momie qui represente un musée new yorkais. Patati patat, vous rencontrer un gars de l equipe du film qui vous raconte sa vie .. et puis la momie arrive, oula, c ets terrible, faut se sauver vite fait
-le systeme de trasnport fonctionne entierement avec des LIM
-catapultage incliné avec 1.5G d acceleration (meme style que Hulk)
-descente max : 16m
-des virages inclinés a 80°
-Acceleration max : 3.5G avec qqes passages a 0G
-Des animatronics derniers cris qui saute sur les wagons, des flammes de 6m
-Une "p***** de scene finale avec un animatronic de la mort qui tue" (d apres la responsable du projet)
Ca s annonce assez grandiose
