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The Simpsons RideSimulator rideMinimum height to ride: 40 inches DescriptionThe Simpsons Ride involves a simulator ride similar to Back to the Future: The Ride. It uses 80-foot IMAX screens to give the rider a virtual-reality trip through a cartoon theme park called Krustyland, built by Springfield's leading TV personality, Krusty the Clown. Guests will take a wild tour of Krustyland with the Simpsons Family while on Krusty's Thrilltacular Teen-Operated ride roller coaster in order to save Bart Simpson from Sideshow Bob. To the enter the queue, guests must walk through a giant Krusty head. In the queue, guests wait under various circus tents themed to carnival stalls and are shown various advertisements for the attractions at Krustyland. Once guests enter the pre-show room, they are introduced to the rides at the park by Krusty himself, before being ushered into the pre-flight boarding room themed to a small circus booth, where they are picked alongside the Simpson Family to be the first to ride the most extreme ride at the park. Guests then watch a safety video starring Itchy and Scratchy of The Itchy and Scratchy Show. Shortly after boarding Krusty-themed dark ride cars, guests are lifted 10 feet into the air rather than going through the dark ride doors in front of them, and take place in a wild chase through all of Krustyland and its attractions, and eventually part of Springfield. The ride features 29 regular characters from The Simpsons and features the voices of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Pamela Hayden, Russi Taylor and Kelsey Grammer. In an homage to the Back to the Future ride that it replaced, The Simpsons Ride features a brief animated cameo from Doc Brown. (edited 5-11-08 to remove Harry Shearer as one of the voices. The original storyline was scrapped because he refused to voice his characters. That's why you'll notice that Burns, Otto and his other characters don't appear in this ride). -- Last edited by S P [Update this description | Read previous versions] Photos
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Went on this ride for the first time on May 5th 2008 and there were no lines (it was shortly after park opening however). Thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience, very funny pre-ride videos, and the ride itself seemed to be a lot smoother than BTTF, even my wife enjoyed it and she hated BTTF!! However, we sat at the front of the ride vehicle. When I went back on May 13th, I had a very different experience on the ride when I sat at the back. The ride vehicles still have the same problem that they used to have when it was BTTF. For anyone even a little taller than average (I am 6ft 2in), there is virtually no headroom at the back of the vehicle because of the way the roof comes over to cover the riders sitting at the rear. Early on in the ride a sudden jolt caused me to lift up just an inch and back my head hard on the roof. Boy, did it hurt and my neck is still hurting from the jarring it got. I had to try and sit as low as possible in my seat to prevent it happening again. As much as the ride itself is thoroughly enjoyable - I don't think I will ride it again because of this issue unless Universal sort out the problem (I will be writing to them). A 7 out of 10 when otherwise I would have given it a 9. - Martin Wale As you walk in to the wait line, you get to enjoy "Krusty's Favorite Moments" of the Simpsons last ten seasons. A friend that I was with suggested they should play the movie instead, but I'm glad they didn't, after all, you wouldn't want to see a movie from the middle to the end and not have a clue what's going on, so I like the funny and entertaining clips that were selected. The wait time for me today was 60 minutes and the "Favorite Moments" video on the screens just barely started to re-run what I had already seen as I was waved in to stand in line to get on Car 2. The inside was also done very creatively with character interactions, but you have to go and see it yourself, I don't want to spoil anything, they were quite amusing. The Ride itself with the huge IMAX screen was phenomenal. It was what i'd like to call a "simple, but effective and well done attraction." The Ride was very well done. I had no idea what the ride would exactly be about besides something having to do with Krustyland Theme Park and I was surprised by the fun filled action with many classic Simpsons Characters. I personally liked the Simpsons Ride and would recommend everyone to see it, but go see it when it is out of "Soft Opening" and "Technical Rehearsal" because that way you don't have to wait over an extra half an hour on top of the sixty minute wait to get inside just because the ride broke down as a part of the testing phase. - Domenik Jost |
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