Public Gets First Look at Universal Studios Beijing
Universal Studios Beijing has expanded its soft opening to the public, allowing people outside of Universal and the resort to get their first look at Universal's newest theme park.
Universal Studios Beijing features seven themed lands, including Universal's first-ever indoor Kung Fu Panda land. Transformers, Minions, and Waterworld also get their own lands here, joining The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and Jurassic World, plus the Hollywood Boulevard entrance plaza.
If you want an overview of the park from local media, here's a link, if you want to run it through your favorite browser translator, assuming you do not read Mandarin. Here's a nice video overview of the park from local media, as well.
The top new attraction in the park are the Jurassic World Adventure, a motion base ride, and Kung Fu Panda Journey of the Dragon Warrior, an indoor boat ride. On-ride POV of Jurassic World Adventure are showing up on Chinese social media already, but I am still looking for a good POV of the Kung Fu Panda ride.
Here is an overview of what's available at Universal Studios Beijing, along with some opening photos from the park and visitors.
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Hollywood Boulevard
- Lights, Camera, Action! — featuring directors Zhang Yimou and Steven Spielberg, this is Beijing's version of the special effects show from Universal Studios Singapore
Transformers Metrobase
- Transformers: Battle for the AllSpark — another installation of Universal's Transformers motion-base ride
- Decepticoaster — a clone of Incredible Hulk Coaster
- Bumblebee Boogie — a spinner ride, similar to Storm Force Accelatron
- Energon Power Station — a counter service restaurant
Kung Fu Panda Land of Awesomeness
- Kung Fu Panda Journey of the Dragon Warrior — a multimedia indoor boat ride, inside the indoor land, which will themed to "The Valley of Peace."
- Peach Tree of Heavenly Wisdom — this tree changes seasons continually thanks to projection effects on its 58,000 hand-made blossoms.
Waterworld
- Waterworld Stunt Show — the classic water stunt show from Hollywood, Osaka, and Singapore
Jurassic World
- Jurassic World Adventure — an all-new motion-base ride, featuring Tyrannosaurus rex, Indominus rex and Velociraptors
- Camp Jurassic
- Hammond's — a table service restaurant
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
- Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey
- Flight of the Hippogriff
- The Nighttime Lights at Hogwarts Castle
- The Three Broomsticks
Minion Land
- Despicable Me Minion Mayhem
- Super Silly Fun Land - including an indoor roller coaster
- Sing On Tour — departing from the Minion theme, this is Beijing's installation of the show from Universal Studios Japan
Obviously, getting into China right now is, uh... an issue, given the pandemic. But a visit to Universal Studios Beijing and a full trip report for you is definitely on my to-do list for whenever it's possible for American media to get over there.
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The Jurassic World ride looks...okay but I don't know, the screens just not the same effect as the AA dinos coming at you.
Even without the glasses on, I could see that sequence backing away from the approaching Dino was pretty impressive! I wonder when/how many times they manage to squirt water on you.
@david brown
It’s not Japanese, it’s mandarin. They speak mandarin in China.
@MikeW
Most of the ride is animatronics. The I-Rex attacking you in the beginning, the chase sequence, and squaring off the T-Rex, all of those are full size animatronics.
JWA seems like a good addition to universal's Dark ride lineup. Several impressive AA's, including that chase sequence, but I personally feel they took too many liberaties with the story to make it flow, and the ending is rather goofy and lackluster compared to the movie. But I'd give it a 7/10 solely because of the AA'S
@AgustinMacias
I know that! I mis-typed as they say. It's corrected now.
Ah, looked more screen effects, that's much better.
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So...
I wasn't expecting the Jurassic World ride to be basically Spiderman but putting you inside the first Jurassic World film? It starts in broad daylight and then two seconds later it's night... ????
I know it's in Chinese and all but this takes incoherence to a new level. Probably technically brilliant but................