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1990somethingcomic.com/The Maxwells' vacation to Universal Studios Florida took kind of an unfortunate turn here. This is more historical accuracy on display - for the first few months the park was open, the Jaws ride broke down pretty much every time they tried to operate it. Iteventually got so bad that Universal closed the damn thing entirely and had to spend the next three years building a completely new ride from scratch. They should have seen it coming, though - ask Steven Spielberg and he'll tell you that mechanical sharks are just a pain in the fucking ass to work with.
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Every time the Jaws ride at Universal is mentioned, I can't help but think of Mallrats.
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Can we expect a strip of Nickelodeon Studios or King Kong somewhere along the line?
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Nickelodeon Studios is coming up - it was one of my fondest memories from my own childhood trips, so obviously I couldn't leave it alone
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Tell me about it. It was the dream getaway place for any 90's kid.
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It was like Mecca. It was a spiritual experience for me
I took the studio tour on my 1993 trip, and my head almost flew off, I was so excited. To look down on the soundstages where they shot Weinerville and Clarissa Explains It All, to learn how they mixed sound effects for Rocko's Modern Life, to walk in front of the big orange couch from SNICK, to see live playings of games from Double Dare and Nick Arcade, to actually see real green slime being made (they said it was perfectly edible, but I was too scared to taste it) - it was probably the high point of my childhood. How pathetic that is is open to your interpretation.
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I got to visit Nickelodeon Studios too in 1997. I have vivid memories of seeing an episode of Gullah Gullah Island being filmed from a glass window and then watching kids participate in the Game Lab. I wasn't able to, unfortunately.
Personally, I feel like I went there at a bad time since the Ghostbusters show was already closed, and regrettably I didn't even go on any of the rides while they were still there (I was even too scared to go in the E.T. ride). But the truth is, I was really staying at Disney World and Universal was just a one day visit. If I could only turn back time, I would really want to redo my trip to Universal and experience it at it's fullest, cause I missed out on a lot of great things.
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At least Jim Carrey didn't fall into the water from above.
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Joel's BTTF quote as the punchline is wonderful.
Just checking: I don't recall "a shorter line" being in the Jaws movies. Of course there's like 4 of them, and "bigger boat" isn't in the Jaws-1 script either. sfy.ru/?script=jaws Is it a reworking of "bigger boat", or is it something said by one of the people who spend their screentime arranging things on the beach? Like the guys who don't want the main tourist attraction to get bad press.
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Of course the "bigger boat" line isn't in the script:Β It was an ad-lib, Roy Scheider made it up on the set.
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That first panel must have taken a while -- I know how annoying it is to have to design a bunch of new people that look different just to use them once.
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In cases like that, I just Google Image search for random photographs taken in 1990 or whatever and then caricature the people I see. Helps me get a good sense of the then-recent fashions and hairstyles and stuff too
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And not one of them looks happy to be there- not even the kids.
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Sounds like a great description of a trip to Universal Studios then!
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I guess I consider myself lucky I got to go on that ride before it was torn down. The shark worked perfectly when I was on it.
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I honestly think the shark in the first version of the ride looked way more realistic than the remodeled one.
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I live near Orlando, mostly I rather stay home than go to a theme park
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You think they waterproofed the stupid shark...
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Nope. When they built the ride, they didn't seem to realize that putting animatronics actually IN the water was a bad idea. You'd think they'd have noticed that despite Disney building a lot of rides where robotic characters were near water, they never submerged any animated figures; I think the submarine lagoon was the only exception, and those figures are really simple anyways, not like most of 'em anyways.
And Universal still didn't learn their lesson, because ten years later they built the Jurassic Park ride, which is filled with dinosaurs in the water, and nowadays they can barely move.
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You'd think they'd have learned just form the production of the movie itself that sea water(or water in general) and animatronics don't mix. Bruce(the animatronic shark in the movie) spent most of its time broken down due to the water messing with it. That's part of the reason it's not seen much in the film, because they couldn't get it to work.
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Well, what do you expect when your theme park is blatantly an attempt to cash in on Disneyland? Executives who understand the limitations of animatronic technology?
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I've found a video from 1998 of it malfunctioning: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSYttHβ¦
The attraction has been demolished and replaced by an Harry Potter themed ride.
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Which is fine by me, 'cause I literally could have spent the whole day just in Diagon Alley.
The big hanging shark photo-op is still there, though - they just moved it closer to the lake in the middle of the park. My sister and I got our picture taken in front of it back in 1995; 20 years later, we got a chance to recreate it
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