Darkbeer
05-17-2003, 06:04 PM
'Mummy' Bound for New Ride (http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-universal17may17,1,3202115.story) - Los Angeles Times, 5/17/03
QuikQuote: The company says the new attraction — an unusual fusion of high-speed technology, pyrotechnic effects and space-age robotics— will be one of its most ambitious and technologically advanced to date. Just the fact that Vivendi's Universal Parks & Resorts unit is proceeding with the project when the future of its parks is uncertain makes Revenge of the Mummy unusual, especially since the industry has been so recently clobbered by the economy.
Billed as "psychological thrill ride," the attraction will hurtle passengers through Egyptian sets, chambers, passageways and tombs in vehicles that will move both backward and forward. During the ride, which will last about five minutes, they'll pass through a "ceiling of flame" hovering inches overhead and encounter a skeleton warrior that will leap onto their vehicles.
QuikQuote: The company says the new attraction — an unusual fusion of high-speed technology, pyrotechnic effects and space-age robotics— will be one of its most ambitious and technologically advanced to date. Just the fact that Vivendi's Universal Parks & Resorts unit is proceeding with the project when the future of its parks is uncertain makes Revenge of the Mummy unusual, especially since the industry has been so recently clobbered by the economy.
Billed as "psychological thrill ride," the attraction will hurtle passengers through Egyptian sets, chambers, passageways and tombs in vehicles that will move both backward and forward. During the ride, which will last about five minutes, they'll pass through a "ceiling of flame" hovering inches overhead and encounter a skeleton warrior that will leap onto their vehicles.