Hey everyone...long time lurker, first time poster!^I think it was money back then. They shoehorned a roller coaster in the existing building without any changes. Kinda sad. I've said for a while now that they should close it and make the building taller. Seems extremely doable.
I've heard from some sites that both show buildings are about the same size which can't possibly be true. I've been to both, and the queue experience in Florida is enough for you to think that Hollywood definitely got the short (and smaller...?) end of the stick.The Mummy ride in Florida was lucky because it got shoved into a MASSIVE show building. I remember I read before that the Kongfrontation building was a massive construction marvel, one of the first of it's kind. Truly massive in comparison.
Despite how much of a classic Kongfrontation was, it needed to go. Unlike Jaws, the entire ride experience felt pretty dated up until the very end. I wouldn't say it was necessarily the cheap route for Universal to take (since I do view Mummy as an improvement over its predecessor and they didn't 'cheapen' out on Florida's experience), but rather one that I can understand from the park's point of view. Every park needs to have an anchor attraction from its opening era, and for Florida, I've always felt that was Jaws.Off topic, but Universal was ape sh#$ crazy to close down Kongfrontation. Yes, a ride like Mummy was needed, and unlike Hollywood, they could've easily built it from scratch elsewhere. Sadly they went the cheap route. Kongfrontation was a truly amazing dark ride from what it seems.
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I just wanted to say that when i went to USH last week, after the fog effects on the Revenge of the Mummy and it shows that ghost on the screen and after that flash happened, I got stuck in the ride for nearly 5 min but didn't say any thing about it to the USH members when you get off. Just felt like sharing that with everyone
Oh it's pretty common... I have been stuck in that ride in the middle part... at the end part before they switch you back... once you've been switched back but the fake wall doesn'tgo up... it's pretty common thereThis is my first post and happy to join the forums
I just wanted to say that when i went to USH last week, after the fog effects on the Revenge of the Mummy and it shows that ghost on the screen and after that flash happened, I got stuck in the ride for nearly 5 min but didn't say any thing about it to the USH members when you get off. Just felt like sharing that with everyone
I know the last guy you're talking about! He's awesome, one time as I was getting in the ride vehicle I told him I liked his hat, and he just jumped with joy. But for the most part, the other employees in there just kinda seem like they wanna get outta there! At this point it's kind of a lost cause to hope for change in the attraction since it's been here for almost a decade and they still haven't done anything to change it (for the better). There's always room for hope, though.I know what you mean about those employees at mummy. There's only been three that i know of who were genuinely nice and helpful to me: an older latino guy with a cool mustache named Art, a younger black guy with lovely light brown eyes named Garland, and another young black guy whose name I don't know, but he always wears one of those faux Egyptian hats they used to sell and he's always smiling. Those three are wonderful.