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this means that you'reshotathighspeed straight forwardintoaminute ofpitch-black hills
and tight curves, dead-ending in an encounter with leg-tickling scarab beetles. We don't
want to divulge too much, but the roller coaster part of the ride has no barrel rolls or any
upside-down stuff.
After an all-too-brief backward section, the attraction anti-climaxes in a darkened
dome, where the mummy moans and then blinds you with a strobe. Compared to Univer-
sal Studios Florida's ride of the same name, this abbreviated attraction severely disap-
points with shorter drops, simpler animatronics, and no “Brain-Fire” pyrotechnics.
TOURING TIPS
Revenge of the Mummy has a very low riders-per-hour capacity for one of
the park's top draws. Your only prayer for a tolerable wait is to be on hand when the park
opens and sprint to the Mummy immediately after riding Transformers. If you can ride
Space Mountain without getting sick, you should be fine on this.
Transformers—The Ride 3-D
What it is
Multisensory 3-D dark ride.
Scope and scale
Super-headliner.
When to go
The first
30 minutes the park is open or after 4 p.m.
Special comments
Must be 40" to ride; single-rider
line is available.
Duration of ride
4½ minutes.
Loading speed
Moderate-fast.
DESCRIPTION AND COMMENTS
Hasbro's Transformers—those toy robots from the 1980s
that you turned and twisted into trucks and planes—have been around long enough to go
from commercial to kitsch to cool and back again. Thanks to director Michael Bay's re-
cent movie trilogy, “Robots in Disguise” are again a blockbuster global franchise, and in
2012, Transformers fans finally received a theme park attraction befitting their pop-cul-
ture idols. Recruits to this cybertronic war enlist by entering the N.E.S.T. Base (headquar-
ters of the heroic Autobots and their human allies) beneath a massive dimensional mural
depicting Optimus Prime and his nemesis Megatron locked in mortal metal combat. Inside
an extensive, elaborately detailed queue, video monitors catch you up on the backstory.
Basically, the Decepticon baddies are after the Allspark, source of cybernetic sentience.
We're supposed to safeguard the shard by hitching a ride aboard our friendly Autobot ride
vehicleEVAC,presumablywithoutgetting“smooshed”likeaLincolninasouvenirpenny
press when he shifts into android form. Needless to say, Megatron and his pals Starscream
and Devastator won't make things easy, but you'll have Sideswipe and Bumblebee (sadly,
the modern Camaro version instead of an old-school VW Beetle) backing you up. For the
ride's 4½ minutes, you play human Ping-Pong ball in an epic battle between these Made
in Japan behemoths. To do justice to this Bay-splosion-packed war of good versus evil,
Universal has harnessed the same ride system behind Islands of Adventure's Amazing
