+Defunctland By the way, any former employees can email me at kevinperjurer@gmail.com, but don't comment on the replies. We're saving up this info for the next podcast :D
When I was a kid I was chosen to be in the green screen segment. I was the little kid who jumped into the Rock's arms. Honestly a defining moment of my childhood
@@MrWolfSnack you probably got bullied at school didn’t you? Lol. So you take it out on random people online 🤪. It’s not to late to change your behavior. Good luck!
question if it's not a bother, i guess its because of the audience participation aspect but did the members of the audience recieve like, a dvd with the trailer they were in, cause that could have been really cool
The last time I visited this attraction, the hosts literally begged people walking by to come into the ride because there was no one on the line. My father and I had bought 3 day passes, and had nothing better to do, so we went in. It was insanely fun for some reason. I'm kind of sad it closed.
I am sad to hear this is gone. The iconic "And we are?" "Moving on!!" has been used by my family for nine years now to regroup and move on together at events and such! So weird to learn it's gone...
LOL, the Fast and Furious was just an oval track with a bunch of screens. You stand still with the car shaking occasionally to mimic "speed" and it sucks.
Ahh i remember this ride! i was like 7 at the time and I got selected to be one of the "extras" when they were showing the behinds the scene effects. I had to yank a rope and a huge tank of water fell down on me to stimulate a rainstorm!!
The Earthquake ride was the most vivid memory I had of Universal Studios when I went there when I was nine. Can hardly remember anything else, but that ride's effects were pretty awesome.
(I'm sorry for writing this...XD) Disney: So, who are you dating? Universal: Screens..? Disney: But, I thought they were hurting you! Universal: Well, they're cheap. Disney: ...
I agree 100% i loved this ride and jaws as a kid and was shocked when i went back to universal and found they both had been removed. I thought i imagined this ride because whenever i mentioned to anyone they never knew what i was talking about LOL
This reminds me of the Twister movie ride at Universal Orlando. I remember crying because I thought it was real and I thought that was what an actual tornado looked like because I come from Michigan where tornadoes are rare, and on the occasion they do touch down, were very very small. Everyone stared at me like I was an idiot.
I remember Twister-scared the hell out of ten year old me. All I remember was that it was very, very loud and the stupid flying cow my Dad pointed at to me in an attempt I believe to make me laugh/distract me from the absolute terror I was experiencing.
I had to be escorted out of a bugs life 3D when I was an 8 year old when the spider came out and shot webs or some shit out at the audience (simulated by air blasts IIRC) Low point in my life 😂
I remember going on Disaster once. I remember watching the movie trailer and seeing some people with guns, and was really confused because most of these disasters were natural disasters, and you can’t just shoot an earthquake.
Right after it opened, I was in Orlando on business (unrelated to Universal). An old friend of mine who was involved in the building of the ride gave me and my boss a backstage tour after the park closed. We were in the control room, walked around the subway platform, he showed us all the pneumatics that made it all happen and the controllers. The water that came down the staircase was released from a tank, went through a grated floor (that you couldn’t see from the tram car) then was collected and pumped back into the tank for the next run. Most of the “props” were made of clear plastic that was painted from the inside like those old slot car models. I remember touching the pay phone only to find that it was flimsy plastic prop painted. The tanker truck was mostly plastic too. He said artists do a great job painting this stuff to make it look real. The programmable controllers and industrial pneumatics were very impressive for the day. He told me on opening day, a lot of the automated control was broken so they rigged up some manual joysticks to run the ride manually. Then closed the ride right after opening day for a few weeks to fix the automations. The people riding on opening day were movie stars and such. He found it odd that they would risk manual operations on such important people. He met a lot of movie stars working opening day. I rode it about 5 times through the years. My kids got to ride it once about 15 years ago. Always fun to remember being behind the scenes.
When I rode Disaster I got to be the kid actor for 9:40-9:44. They had a literal boulder (a rock, get it?) That I was supposed to stare at. They didnt tell me it would be THE Rock in the final cut, so in the final cut I gave the most unimpressed half smile at The Rock, who in the context of the "scene" had just saved my life 😂😂😂 Good times, good times
I'd love to see someone do a poor mans universal in their garage by having a tv or a computer screen and a swivel chair that someone shakes while you look at a POV of a ride. Hell if I still lived in a house I'd do that for like a dollar a ride.
Earthquake, Twister and Jaws were my faves and to me the most iconic. All the action was _real_ not just a 3-D image on a screen. Still sad all these years later.
LOVED THIS RIDE AS A KID. Was so shocked when i went back to universal and it was gone. Genuinely thought i had imagoned this ride because when i mentioned it to people after it was gone they never knew what i was talking about🤣🤣
@@alexhollinghurst3945 yeah and its sucks its just a oval track with obvioys screens on the walls and the cart shaking a little nothing like the actual working awesome stage that was disaster and earthquake
Damn. I remember when I was like 5 or 7 and my parents took me to Universal. My very first ride was Earthquake and I was scared shitless. My parents, being awesome as they are, then proceeded to take me on Jaws.. I never wanted to go back.
Mitch Haft I agree. King Kong was replaced with basically 3D screens, I can watch a screen at home!! I think they are really screwing themselves for the future
Mitch Haft my family and I went recently. There is nothing inherently wrong with screens as long as you are mixing them with practical effects. The best that universal has of this is the Spider-Man ride in islands. Mummy has way more practical than screen so I don't count it as a "screen ride". Disney is much better at using this blend as seen in the frozen (where it is simply used on the faces of the animatronics for more expressiveness) and finding memo rides. I theorize this is to stop people from filming the ride. My father has a pair of sunglasses with a camera that he takes on rides. You can find tons of videos like that on youtube as well. Screen images don't film at all really so Universal keeps this from happening that way.
I'm talking more about the new Kong ride and the Fast and the furious essentially being carbon copies of each other. Same with Spiderman and Transformers. Universal is getting very samey. Getting rid of their unique original rides for stupid IP cash grab carbon copies.
Dragon Challenge aka Dueling Dragons is closing after labor day this year tob e replaced with a new family themed potter coaster that may have some new techniques, hoping universal changes up some things soon, especially with nintendo
when I was a kid they had amazing rides, Earthquake was scary and fun, King Kong was terrifying to me, TWISTER!? Ugh. Amazing. I haven't been there in at least a decade though. I have no idea what its like now.
well I've last been to Universal Orlando around 2 years ago, and I think the twister ride was unfortunately replaced by a Jimmy fallon ride or something. I was really sad to see it go, but I'm glad that I was able to ride it the first time I went to Universal a few years prior.
There should be a ride in which the audience splits up and each person gets to have a brief, warm conversation with a hyper-realistic animatronic Christopher Walken that quickly devolves into a three-minute series of comforting hugs.
I remember being chosen as an actor for this ride when I was seven. They told me and some other kid to stand there, shake, and scream. My mom was so proud.
As a kid I got to be a volunteer that pulls down the pillar on the original Earthquake. I didn't know that they had updated it...but it made sense. Even as a kid, I had no idea that Earthquake was a movie hahaa. Also, my shoe slipped off my foot getting on the ride one time and fell between the ride and the concrete loading platform. I told the attendant and they said, "Why did you take your shoe off?" I didn't...it slipped off...anyway, I had to get on the ride and wait for them to figure out a solution. Luckily, when the ride was over, they used a trash grabber to get my shoe. It was wet though...so I guess it went along the ride with us lol
Because RUclips keeps resetting my watch of this episode, it has become a yearly tradition. I adore Kevin's script and commentary and this is one of my favourites. It hit me way back when, instead of plastic performing actors like Mousehouse at the time, Universal just recorded riders. I love seeing the diversity in the tram cars.
my parents forced me on this attraction when i was about four or five, and ever since then i've been terrified of trains, trams, and any forms of public transportation.
You would hate going through the tunnel under the Mersey, UK with Merseyrail. The lights flicker, the trains high pitched whining sound charges to a screeching. You look through the window and you can see sparks on the tracks which occasionally light up the tunnel. Somtimes the train will stop because signals, the longest it ever stopped on my commute was about 10 minutes. Plus it's all underneath a massive river
Jayson Klein I went on that ride when I was 7 and thought it was going to be a ride that spins you around, so I had no idea what was about to happen. I was fearless when it came to scary rides and rollercoasters, but I came off of Twister The Ride in tears
Privacy Lover The Twister ride is LAME! You see a farm backdrop at night, and you see a tiny cyclone made out of fanned mist, and aninatronic things moving. IT! WAS! LAME!
I remember being that little kid in the blue jacket and pretending to see the rock next to me, I was told my acting was top notch 👌. I never new they shut down disaster, it was a fun attraction while it lasted.
i remember this ride! i starred in the scene where i had to jump across ‘rocks’, and eventually jumped into The Rock’s arms. i thought i was famous after that 😂😂
This is one of the few rides I have specific memories of from my childhood visit to Universal, as a kid I was TERRIFIED of rides, I was a huge baby lol but THIS ride for some reason didn’t scare me, I thought it was amazing.
I went on it with my dad a few months, maybe a year before it closed. I managed to get my dad to be the greenscreen actor. I have never laughed harder.
Oh wow, this one was one of my favorite rides at UO. I had the opportunity to host two sets of nieces to a Florida theme park vacation in 2015 and 2016 and hyped the ride up for both. In 2015 we made it through all the pre-shows.. got on the tram.. and it broke. We sat in the ride for a solid 15 minutes before they had to evacuate us. I was hoping the second trip would redeem the ride, but it had closed. I will certainly miss this one as I really liked the flooding effect.
On all my visits to Universal I was always in that awkward stage of 'too old for the kid parts but too young for the adult parts.' You can imagine how gutted I was to find it permanently closed before I ever felt I had the opportunity to volunteer.
I remember the Earthquake attraction from Universal Studios Hollywood, it was scary and exciting to a 5 year old, along with Kongfrontation and Jaws....
I discovered your channel and series about 1-2 months ago by looking up "Into your Imagination" from Epcot, and now I can't stop watching your videos. All the history you have here is amazing. :) Awesome work.
Does Universal still have any special effects oriented rides? Kongfrontation and this look godly with all their fire, wire, timed explosions, etc. Does ANYTHING still have this?
Mokujo MIB, Ripsaw Falls, Popeye, Jurassic Park, The Mummy, E.T., Poseidon, and Cat in the Hat are all completely practical effects (minus the bugs crawling out of the walls on The Mummy), Gringotts, Forbidden Journey, Spider-Man, Skull Island, and Transformers (plus Supercharged and probably Super Mario when they come out) all use a combination of practical and digital, and The Simpsons Ride and Minion Mayhem are pretty much the only completely digital rides. People like to think and play up the fact that Universal uses zero practical effects, when in reality, it's not as bad as they say. I'm not even including the roller coasters, either. Both Jaws and Disaster! were heavily dated in their last few years too, and not a whole lot of people like to remember how boring they became. Supercharged still looks like shit, though.
this ride was so iconic to me that the flooding part of it featured in many many many of my dreams for years as a location, and it wouldn't be until my second visit to orlando that i finally figure out where i'd originally seen that scene. genuinely it was one of my favourite attractions in orlando, and i'm sad to hear that it got axed. probably should have expected it though, the last time i went in on it there had to have been only a handful of us. definitely an underrated classic.
I rode disaster! Back in 2013. And the only thing i remember from it is that someone kept telling us over and over to scream. So you know, it was a really memorable ride over all
I'm so sad this ride closed! I don't know if this opinion is shared by others, but the concept of a multi-step experience that not only incorporates live theatrical elements (the pre-shows) but an interactive ride as well is GENIUS to me. The execution was so well done and well rounded, and the use of all props, effects, and tech was prodigious for its time. The attraction was interactive media in its purest form, and I'm still waiting for another experience like it.
I remember going into the line of Disaster! And watching the preview clips and entering the first part then getting too scared of it (I was 11 at the time, 2011) and having to leave because I got too scared. My grandma bought me a Crookshanks doll and Hermiones wand that day as well. Then I got upset at the Jaws ride. man i was an upset child
Disaster was one of my favorite rides when I was a little kid. I was even chosen to be in one of the videos for the ride and it made my day. I just now found out it closed and I’m actually really sad
I went to universal for my 5th birthday in 2002, the only ride I remember is this one, since it was the only ride my parents tricked me into going on. It scared the crap out of me. now I regret it, since there was so many rides I missed out on since I was to scared to try any after that.
Disaster will always have a special place in my heart. My grandmother got to be the sweet old gardening lady once. Oh, the laughs my family got out of that...
My fear of earthquakes is not from a first-hand harrowing experience as a Southern California native, but because of this part of the studio tour in LA. I probably cried from Earthquake until the end.
I went on Disaster with my dad a year before it closed down. When the lady was asking about who would be the protagonist, I was pointing to Dad. She picked him, which immediately made me laugh. Just my dad, standing there like, 'kill me now,' as an earthquake movie is happening is hilarious. "Hunky Jeremy!" *Hallelujah Hallelujah opera plays* 🤣
I don't have a ton of memories of Universal, but this and the Men in Black ride were my favorites just because of the employees working them. It must be such a hard job to do the same thing every day for a bunch of people who are having the experience for the first time
I remember going on this attraction, it was actually a ton of fun. One of the best parts was that my whole family didn't know that Dwayne Johnson was in the ride, so one of the better jokes came through even more. You see, one of the guests called up in the first pre-show has to be a kid (on my run through, it was my sister), who eventually is told to stand up straight, wear a blue trenchcoat, and look at "THE ROCK" which is literally a giant rock tied up and hanging off the side of the wall (there's a bit in this video where Lonnie and two other employees are gesturing to it with a spotlight). This scene is translated through editing into a bit where Dwayne Johnson catches what is clearly a large sandbag wearing that blue trenchcoat, followed by him laying on the ground next to the kid in the blue trenchcoat (who is looking at "THE ROCK" - get it?) and Dwayne asks "So...come here often?" to the kid. It was fantastic and it was a shame they didn't sell the edited version of Mutha Nature to guests, because my family would have bought it (my cousin who was with us also got to be one of the evil scientists who get crushed by falling debris a.k.a. green balls in a ball pit).
Hell yeah this is my shit! Still have it in California and love it since I was a kid. Live power lines, exploding Propane Tankers, and floods sure beats screens and holograms, and I believe it's way better than Guardians of the Galaxy Mission Breakout despite being 28 years older.
I've been to the disaster version of this ride! It was so much fun and brings back so much memories! Also, I pretended to be scared on this ride because I was on the camera and I had the notion to "look good for the camera", which was kind of a silly notion hehe
I remember Disaster. I got to be one of the extras, the person who got to be “saved” by Dwayne Johnson, and since I was young at the time I was able to bring a parent up to so my dad joined in as one of the workers who got dumped with rocks
This was one of my favorite rides next to the mummy! Me and my sister would make sure we went at least once, the flood part felt so realistic and the practical effects were so cool in the 2000s
I genuinely love your videos. You're also consistently getting better each time, wonderful improvement record! :) Thanks for making these, I always look forward to the next one. I was hoping to see Earthquake (edit: and Disaster!) pop up in this series soon, so it's a double treat!
I used to love this ride, so many inside jokes. So many memories on it. My mom got to be one of the volunteers once and it was the funniest shit ever, my friends and I were cracking up the whole time. And we are, MOVING ON 💕💕
As someone who used to go on Earthquake on every biannual visit to Florida as a kid, this is actually the first time I've heard the news that it closed. Heartbroken.
I went on the Hollywood tram ride as a kid. My mom did not tell me what was coming. And honestly, to this day I am absolutely terrorized of earthquakes
Mountain Dew Confirmed Don Bluth's animation studio, Sullivan Bluth, did the hand drawn animation alongside Rhythm and Hues' CG work. It's no wonder why it looked so good 😉
I remember this ride, I was 8 years old and got selected to play the little kid that jumps out of a building to get saved by the rock. As a kid who was obsessed with WWE at the time, it was the coolest thing ever!
Attractions such as these would never catch on in Europe ^^' "We are...!" "..." "Mo-..?" * Crowd gives awkward stares and someone in the back coughs * "Oh... alright then... Eh.. Let's- Let's move on..."
Corey Dahl He continues to comment on a lot of amusement park videos, just to make other people feel bad. But here's the secret, he's is making people feel bad... for him. :(
I live like half and hour away from disney and universal. Honestly this ride we usually went on because it would have a no wait time and have the fun water part. I did preferably like Disney’s version of this and the jaws ride
Binging your videos man. Love them. I was a frequent Universal Studios/Disney goer as a kid. Really brings me back. Would LOVE to see more Universal/Islands of Adventure videos. Keep it up brother.
I remember going into the Hollywood tour, area with the Earthquake, And my friend who was with me told me he almost fell into the flood, Good ol times,
Hey Defunctland Community! If you could ask an employee on Earthquake or Disaster anything, what would it be? Comment below!
How were the effects so quickly drained/reset?
Or, was it a very high cost or high maintenance ride?
On the employee maintenance door was there a sticker that said "If it's a rock'n, don't come a knock'n" on it?
+Defunctland By the way, any former employees can email me at kevinperjurer@gmail.com, but don't comment on the replies. We're saving up this info for the next podcast :D
Defunctland hey do twister from orlando
When I was a kid I was chosen to be in the green screen segment. I was the little kid who jumped into the Rock's arms. Honestly a defining moment of my childhood
Deep down, we all want to be saved by Dwayne Johnson don't we?
@@MrWolfSnack .... thanks? Feel proud of yourself, correcting a random stranger on the internet in a passive aggressive way?
@@MrWolfSnack you probably got bullied at school didn’t you? Lol. So you take it out on random people online 🤪. It’s not to late to change your behavior. Good luck!
Lol. I love the look you did at the end. I cracked up. How did they get you to do that look. My daughter is doing it now as we speak. I love it!
question if it's not a bother, i guess its because of the audience participation aspect but did the members of the audience recieve like, a dvd with the trailer they were in, cause that could have been really cool
The last time I visited this attraction, the hosts literally begged people walking by to come into the ride because there was no one on the line. My father and I had bought 3 day passes, and had nothing better to do, so we went in. It was insanely fun for some reason. I'm kind of sad it closed.
Yeah I loved this ride I personally thought it was way more fun that fast and furious
I am sad to hear this is gone. The iconic "And we are?" "Moving on!!" has been used by my family for nine years now to regroup and move on together at events and such! So weird to learn it's gone...
My whole family (especially my dad haha) has used it since going in 2013 or so, when I was 15. Funny to see it stuck in so many families!
The earthquake ride was done well enough to be its own stand-alone venue. It really didn't need a movie tie-in.
I wasn't even aware there was a movie. All I knew is it was a kick ass ride at the park!
I'm your 300th liker here & bye.
@@Just_A_Guy_Here.
Well I was having kinda a lousy day but you certainly made it better. Thank you. 😊
When I went on Earthquake as a kid at the end of the ride I looked back and saw the truck just zooop back up and it was hilarious
Yeah I forgot about that ha ha! Loved that ride.
I imagined it sounds like a slide whistle
Truck: OK NOW MY PART IS DONE PLEASE GET ME OUT OF HERE I HAVE STAGE FRIGHT
I did the same. Even as a kid it was a bummer
I had the exact same experience, lol
LOL, the Fast and Furious was just an oval track with a bunch of screens. You stand still with the car shaking occasionally to mimic "speed" and it sucks.
Same
The smoke machines are also loud as fuck and they hurt your ears.
The new ride just fucking sucks all around.
Yeah ikr It’s the worst ride there in my opinion
One lf the worst rides in theme park history. Its basically a cash grab ride.
Sounds like that new Kong ride
I’m currently watching every episode of defunctland
Same! I started when I watched the action park episode and I’ve been addicted ever since
Same. Covid theme park vibing.
Same
Same!
I fear I am on the same path😅
Ahh i remember this ride! i was like 7 at the time and I got selected to be one of the "extras" when they were showing the behinds the scene effects. I had to yank a rope and a huge tank of water fell down on me to stimulate a rainstorm!!
thezionzion Me too! I think I was responsible for collapsing the pillars. That ride probably made me love practical SFX
Lucky ... I’ve been to universal FL 3x as a kid in the 90s.but never chosen... I always thought they were preselected :(
How old are you now?
Same! I was so nervous I remember 😂
sounds very high tech
The Earthquake ride was the most vivid memory I had of Universal Studios when I went there when I was nine. Can hardly remember anything else, but that ride's effects were pretty awesome.
Fierycascade actually same I was 8 and when I went back when I was like 13 that was the only ride I remembered and it wasn’t even there anymore
Me too! I was seven and it terrified me. When the truck started sliding down, I thought I was dead haha
Same!
It was honestly one of the coolest rides I've ever been on
Same. Then going back I thought I imagined things.
This ride, along with King Kong and Jaws, were way better than the stupid 4D simulation rides they have now.
(I'm sorry for writing this...XD)
Disney: So, who are you dating?
Universal: Screens..?
Disney: But, I thought they were hurting you!
Universal: Well, they're cheap.
Disney: ...
@@TheCatmadilloLizard Lol, so true!!!
@@kbtracklaps Wow, u wrote this 2 years ago & still replied...
-I suspect that notifications have something to do with this-
@@TheCatmadilloLizard Yep, boredom during quarantine has me checking notifications more diligently.
I agree 100% i loved this ride and jaws as a kid and was shocked when i went back to universal and found they both had been removed. I thought i imagined this ride because whenever i mentioned to anyone they never knew what i was talking about LOL
This reminds me of the Twister movie ride at Universal Orlando. I remember crying because I thought it was real and I thought that was what an actual tornado looked like because I come from Michigan where tornadoes are rare, and on the occasion they do touch down, were very very small. Everyone stared at me like I was an idiot.
I feel you, man
I remember Twister-scared the hell out of ten year old me. All I remember was that it was very, very loud and the stupid flying cow my Dad pointed at to me in an attempt I believe to make me laugh/distract me from the absolute terror I was experiencing.
Lmao I had the exact same experience my first time going. Tornadoes are pretty rare where I come from too (TN)
Where they wrong?
I had to be escorted out of a bugs life 3D when I was an 8 year old when the spider came out and shot webs or some shit out at the audience (simulated by air blasts IIRC) Low point in my life 😂
I remember going on Disaster once. I remember watching the movie trailer and seeing some people with guns, and was really confused because most of these disasters were natural disasters, and you can’t just shoot an earthquake.
*Sharknado has entered the chat*
Guns aren't for the disaster, they're for what happens AFTER the disaster..
obviously the earthquake was an earth elemental on a rampage
either that or Mutha Nature was a terrible movie
are you aware of what country this was in?
I feel like I distinctly remember a cow being swept up in a tornado going mOOOOOOO and that’s all I legit remember from my Florida stay when I was 10.
thats twister
That is the "Twister" ride.
And half of things for sale in the gift shop afterwards were cow plushies.
Moo 🐄
Prob the twister experiance
Right after it opened, I was in Orlando on business (unrelated to Universal). An old friend of mine who was involved in the building of the ride gave me and my boss a backstage tour after the park closed. We were in the control room, walked around the subway platform, he showed us all the pneumatics that made it all happen and the controllers. The water that came down the staircase was released from a tank, went through a grated floor (that you couldn’t see from the tram car) then was collected and pumped back into the tank for the next run. Most of the “props” were made of clear plastic that was painted from the inside like those old slot car models. I remember touching the pay phone only to find that it was flimsy plastic prop painted. The tanker truck was mostly plastic too. He said artists do a great job painting this stuff to make it look real. The programmable controllers and industrial pneumatics were very impressive for the day. He told me on opening day, a lot of the automated control was broken so they rigged up some manual joysticks to run the ride manually. Then closed the ride right after opening day for a few weeks to fix the automations. The people riding on opening day were movie stars and such. He found it odd that they would risk manual operations on such important people. He met a lot of movie stars working opening day. I rode it about 5 times through the years. My kids got to ride it once about 15 years ago. Always fun to remember being behind the scenes.
When I rode Disaster I got to be the kid actor for 9:40-9:44. They had a literal boulder (a rock, get it?) That I was supposed to stare at. They didnt tell me it would be THE Rock in the final cut, so in the final cut I gave the most unimpressed half smile at The Rock, who in the context of the "scene" had just saved my life 😂😂😂 Good times, good times
That's great
The rock: *saves a kids life*
Kid: K. Thanks I guess. *Wonders what's for dinner*
Universal:More Screens
Worker: but what about anima...
CEO: I said MORE Screens
Frank Kincad: "I have a fevah! And the only prescription is MORE SCREENS!"
I'd love to see someone do a poor mans universal in their garage by having a tv or a computer screen and a swivel chair that someone shakes while you look at a POV of a ride. Hell if I still lived in a house I'd do that for like a dollar a ride.
Maybe have someone blow bubbles from the side too.
and get a squirt bottle for a misting effect? lol.
use a hosepipe for rain and flour for that one material you get for rubble
I tried something like that with some old glasses lenses a cereal box a swivel chair and extreme waterslides
i think i saw one with a dad and his daughter.
Earthquake, Twister and Jaws were my faves and to me the most iconic. All the action was _real_ not just a 3-D image on a screen. Still sad all these years later.
LOVED THIS RIDE AS A KID. Was so shocked when i went back to universal and it was gone. Genuinely thought i had imagoned this ride because when i mentioned it to people after it was gone they never knew what i was talking about🤣🤣
Fun fact: this ride scared the crap out of me so much as a child that I tried to climb out of the train to escape. 🤷🏻♀️
I went on that Disaster just a few months before it closed. I'm sad to hear it's gone, as it was one of the cooler attractions
Ian Curry sucks that it was replaced with a film series that nobody cares about anymore
@@queencancerous5332 Was it F&F? They need to stop making those films.
No reason to even go back there. I loved that ride.
@@alexhollinghurst3945 yeah and its sucks its just a oval track with obvioys screens on the walls and the cart shaking a little nothing like the actual working awesome stage that was disaster and earthquake
@@wilmagregg3131 That sucks.
them:"...staring you!"
Me: 'points at myself' *...me?*
No, the guy behind us. :/
@@syrsafox32 aww.... :(
Yes me!
@@breakingbacon658 the OTHER guy behind us
Damn. I remember when I was like 5 or 7 and my parents took me to Universal. My very first ride was Earthquake and I was scared shitless. My parents, being awesome as they are, then proceeded to take me on Jaws..
I never wanted to go back.
“Fungus: It’s Among Us!”
God fucking damnit
Yeah it hits differently now, doesn’t it?
Sus
When *the pain* is *unbearable!*
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I was just about comment about that lmao
Man im so happy all these actual rides are being replaced with screens.... what the hell is happening to Universal Studio Orlando...
Mitch Haft I agree. King Kong was replaced with basically 3D screens, I can watch a screen at home!! I think they are really screwing themselves for the future
Mitch Haft my family and I went recently. There is nothing inherently wrong with screens as long as you are mixing them with practical effects. The best that universal has of this is the Spider-Man ride in islands. Mummy has way more practical than screen so I don't count it as a "screen ride".
Disney is much better at using this blend as seen in the frozen (where it is simply used on the faces of the animatronics for more expressiveness) and finding memo rides.
I theorize this is to stop people from filming the ride. My father has a pair of sunglasses with a camera that he takes on rides. You can find tons of videos like that on youtube as well. Screen images don't film at all really so Universal keeps this from happening that way.
I'm talking more about the new Kong ride and the Fast and the furious essentially being carbon copies of each other. Same with Spiderman and Transformers. Universal is getting very samey. Getting rid of their unique original rides for stupid IP cash grab carbon copies.
Dragon Challenge aka Dueling Dragons is closing after labor day this year tob e replaced with a new family themed potter coaster that may have some new techniques, hoping universal changes up some things soon, especially with nintendo
USO is garbage now.
I rode this and it was laughable yet serious
With effects that were exaggerated but cool
I'll never forget this fun little experience
when I was a kid they had amazing rides, Earthquake was scary and fun, King Kong was terrifying to me, TWISTER!? Ugh. Amazing. I haven't been there in at least a decade though. I have no idea what its like now.
well I've last been to Universal Orlando around 2 years ago, and I think the twister ride was unfortunately replaced by a Jimmy fallon ride or something. I was really sad to see it go, but I'm glad that I was able to ride it the first time I went to Universal a few years prior.
There should be a ride in which the audience splits up and each person gets to have a brief, warm conversation with a hyper-realistic animatronic Christopher Walken that quickly devolves into a three-minute series of comforting hugs.
I remember being chosen as an actor for this ride when I was seven. They told me and some other kid to stand there, shake, and scream. My mom was so proud.
As a kid I got to be a volunteer that pulls down the pillar on the original Earthquake. I didn't know that they had updated it...but it made sense. Even as a kid, I had no idea that Earthquake was a movie hahaa.
Also, my shoe slipped off my foot getting on the ride one time and fell between the ride and the concrete loading platform. I told the attendant and they said, "Why did you take your shoe off?" I didn't...it slipped off...anyway, I had to get on the ride and wait for them to figure out a solution. Luckily, when the ride was over, they used a trash grabber to get my shoe. It was wet though...so I guess it went along the ride with us lol
lol
You look like Lonnie
Because RUclips keeps resetting my watch of this episode, it has become a yearly tradition.
I adore Kevin's script and commentary and this is one of my favourites. It hit me way back when, instead of plastic performing actors like Mousehouse at the time, Universal just recorded riders. I love seeing the diversity in the tram cars.
my parents forced me on this attraction when i was about four or five, and ever since then i've been terrified of trains, trams, and any forms of public transportation.
You would hate going through the tunnel under the Mersey, UK with Merseyrail. The lights flicker, the trains high pitched whining sound charges to a screeching. You look through the window and you can see sparks on the tracks which occasionally light up the tunnel. Somtimes the train will stop because signals, the longest it ever stopped on my commute was about 10 minutes. Plus it's all underneath a massive river
Well now we are going to experience a 3D screen with no special effects at all!
Ava’s World Better than Twister: the Ride... which wasn't even really a ride.
more like psychological trauma for children
Jayson Klein I went on that ride when I was 7 and thought it was going to be a ride that spins you around, so I had no idea what was about to happen. I was fearless when it came to scary rides and rollercoasters, but I came off of Twister The Ride in tears
i was still scared of the ride until i was 18, probably causes some past life regression trauma for children
Privacy Lover The Twister ride is LAME! You see a farm backdrop at night, and you see a tiny cyclone made out of fanned mist, and aninatronic things moving. IT! WAS! LAME!
I remember being that little kid in the blue jacket and pretending to see the rock next to me, I was told my acting was top notch 👌. I never new they shut down disaster, it was a fun attraction while it lasted.
i remember this ride! i starred in the scene where i had to jump across ‘rocks’, and eventually jumped into The Rock’s arms. i thought i was famous after that 😂😂
This is one of the few rides I have specific memories of from my childhood visit to Universal, as a kid I was TERRIFIED of rides, I was a huge baby lol but THIS ride for some reason didn’t scare me, I thought it was amazing.
I went on it with my dad a few months, maybe a year before it closed. I managed to get my dad to be the greenscreen actor. I have never laughed harder.
I starred in this film! Dwayne and I were on set together.
In all seriousness, I loved this ride.
Oh wow, this one was one of my favorite rides at UO. I had the opportunity to host two sets of nieces to a Florida theme park vacation in 2015 and 2016 and hyped the ride up for both. In 2015 we made it through all the pre-shows.. got on the tram.. and it broke. We sat in the ride for a solid 15 minutes before they had to evacuate us. I was hoping the second trip would redeem the ride, but it had closed. I will certainly miss this one as I really liked the flooding effect.
I experienced “Disaster” twice. I have such fond memories! It was a lot of fun. Such a disappointment that Fast & Furious replaced it.
On all my visits to Universal I was always in that awkward stage of 'too old for the kid parts but too young for the adult parts.' You can imagine how gutted I was to find it permanently closed before I ever felt I had the opportunity to volunteer.
3:01 huricun
Hurricane, smh I just r/woooshed myself 🤦🏿♀🤦🏿♂
Isn't it 3:01?
That's how people pronounce Hurricane, Utah in Utah. Didn't even phase me until you pointed it out lol
@@JR-me7yk yeah lol. Oops.
I remember the Earthquake attraction from Universal Studios Hollywood, it was scary and exciting to a 5 year old, along with Kongfrontation and Jaws....
Well said
Not often you see a ride with that much interaction from the staff. I can only imagine how much of a pain it was to herd guests around like that.
Seeing the employees all hug at the end actually made my heart hurt. They must have really liked working on that ride.
I was there for the last ride. I was never a big fan of disaster, but it was great seeing all the real fans riding it one last time.
Boo inc. Was it crowded?
Javier Whitefield It was packed
I rode the ride, but not the last one. When I was there, they were doing the first round of castings for the first season of Survivor.
Boo inc. I was there too for the last ride
^_^
Alexander Wizner that’s so awesome! i love Survivor!
I discovered your channel and series about 1-2 months ago by looking up "Into your Imagination" from Epcot, and now I can't stop watching your videos. All the history you have here is amazing. :) Awesome work.
Holy shit that intro straight spooked me I thought everyone actually blew up for a second
I actually went on this ride before it closed.
I didn't know it closed that recently.
Does Universal still have any special effects oriented rides? Kongfrontation and this look godly with all their fire, wire, timed explosions, etc. Does ANYTHING still have this?
Mokujo Revenge of the mummy maybe Jurassic park and MIB
Sub Par the mummy ride made me shit my pants...
Mokujo MIB, Ripsaw Falls, Popeye, Jurassic Park, The Mummy, E.T., Poseidon, and Cat in the Hat are all completely practical effects (minus the bugs crawling out of the walls on The Mummy), Gringotts, Forbidden Journey, Spider-Man, Skull Island, and Transformers (plus Supercharged and probably Super Mario when they come out) all use a combination of practical and digital, and The Simpsons Ride and Minion Mayhem are pretty much the only completely digital rides. People like to think and play up the fact that Universal uses zero practical effects, when in reality, it's not as bad as they say. I'm not even including the roller coasters, either. Both Jaws and Disaster! were heavily dated in their last few years too, and not a whole lot of people like to remember how boring they became. Supercharged still looks like shit, though.
Mokujo men in black and E.T. That’s about it
Not sure about rides, but the Waterworld show still has lots of practical effects.
this ride was so iconic to me that the flooding part of it featured in many many many of my dreams for years as a location, and it wouldn't be until my second visit to orlando that i finally figure out where i'd originally seen that scene. genuinely it was one of my favourite attractions in orlando, and i'm sad to hear that it got axed. probably should have expected it though, the last time i went in on it there had to have been only a handful of us. definitely an underrated classic.
I rode disaster! Back in 2013. And the only thing i remember from it is that someone kept telling us over and over to scream. So you know, it was a really memorable ride over all
me: *looks around behind me cause i could've sworn i heard someone before i realized that's just how the audio in the video sounded at the beginning*
Joey Cardenas I did exactly the same! It was a camera shutter.
Joey Cardenas same
jocontemporary lmao I thought someone was eating in the video
jocontemporary like a carrot or something
I did that too I was home alone and almost peed myself XD
Good to see Bill Lumbergh opening this attraction.
"If you could go ahead and count down from 10, that would be great"
I'm so sad this ride closed! I don't know if this opinion is shared by others, but the concept of a multi-step experience that not only incorporates live theatrical elements (the pre-shows) but an interactive ride as well is GENIUS to me. The execution was so well done and well rounded, and the use of all props, effects, and tech was prodigious for its time. The attraction was interactive media in its purest form, and I'm still waiting for another experience like it.
I remember going into the line of Disaster! And watching the preview clips and entering the first part then getting too scared of it (I was 11 at the time, 2011) and having to leave because I got too scared. My grandma bought me a Crookshanks doll and Hermiones wand that day as well. Then I got upset at the Jaws ride.
man i was an upset child
Disaster was one of my favorite rides when I was a little kid. I was even chosen to be in one of the videos for the ride and it made my day. I just now found out it closed and I’m actually really sad
I went to universal for my 5th birthday in 2002, the only ride I remember is this one, since it was the only ride my parents tricked me into going on. It scared the crap out of me. now I regret it, since there was so many rides I missed out on since I was to scared to try any after that.
Disaster will always have a special place in my heart. My grandmother got to be the sweet old gardening lady once. Oh, the laughs my family got out of that...
My fear of earthquakes is not from a first-hand harrowing experience as a Southern California native, but because of this part of the studio tour in LA. I probably cried from Earthquake until the end.
I used to like Universal Orlando until they expanded and "improved" it till it has completely lost its atmosphere (and my family as customers)
I rode Earthquake in FL many years ago.
SEO Toy Review sameee
Any thoughts on the experience?
I rode it and the Jaws ride with my family when I was a kid at the Florida location, too.
Same, it scared me because I was like 8 at the time. My mom and dad really loved it though.
Same, it was fun
I went on Disaster with my dad a year before it closed down. When the lady was asking about who would be the protagonist, I was pointing to Dad. She picked him, which immediately made me laugh. Just my dad, standing there like, 'kill me now,' as an earthquake movie is happening is hilarious.
"Hunky Jeremy!" *Hallelujah Hallelujah opera plays* 🤣
I don't have a ton of memories of Universal, but this and the Men in Black ride were my favorites just because of the employees working them. It must be such a hard job to do the same thing every day for a bunch of people who are having the experience for the first time
I remember going on this attraction, it was actually a ton of fun. One of the best parts was that my whole family didn't know that Dwayne Johnson was in the ride, so one of the better jokes came through even more. You see, one of the guests called up in the first pre-show has to be a kid (on my run through, it was my sister), who eventually is told to stand up straight, wear a blue trenchcoat, and look at "THE ROCK" which is literally a giant rock tied up and hanging off the side of the wall (there's a bit in this video where Lonnie and two other employees are gesturing to it with a spotlight). This scene is translated through editing into a bit where Dwayne Johnson catches what is clearly a large sandbag wearing that blue trenchcoat, followed by him laying on the ground next to the kid in the blue trenchcoat (who is looking at "THE ROCK" - get it?) and Dwayne asks "So...come here often?" to the kid.
It was fantastic and it was a shame they didn't sell the edited version of Mutha Nature to guests, because my family would have bought it (my cousin who was with us also got to be one of the evil scientists who get crushed by falling debris a.k.a. green balls in a ball pit).
Hell yeah this is my shit! Still have it in California and love it since I was a kid. Live power lines, exploding Propane Tankers, and floods sure beats screens and holograms, and I believe it's way better than Guardians of the Galaxy Mission Breakout despite being 28 years older.
I've been to the disaster version of this ride! It was so much fun and brings back so much memories! Also, I pretended to be scared on this ride because I was on the camera and I had the notion to "look good for the camera", which was kind of a silly notion hehe
"We thrust and turn and then..."
*SCREAMS OF PEOPLE ON THE RIDE*
10:25 "during the video montage clips from earthquake can be seen"
*shows scene from Dante's Peak*
I didn’t realize 5:14 was part of the performance at first and my heart sank when I saw him fall
I remember Disaster. I got to be one of the extras, the person who got to be “saved” by Dwayne Johnson, and since I was young at the time I was able to bring a parent up to so my dad joined in as one of the workers who got dumped with rocks
This was one of my favorite rides next to the mummy! Me and my sister would make sure we went at least once, the flood part felt so realistic and the practical effects were so cool in the 2000s
I take the train from Oakland to Embarcadero every day. It's never that interesting!
The real disaster is that it's so packed you can't move a muscle.
+chicagoakland loltrue
Still better than actual BART...
I genuinely love your videos. You're also consistently getting better each time, wonderful improvement record! :) Thanks for making these, I always look forward to the next one. I was hoping to see Earthquake (edit: and Disaster!) pop up in this series soon, so it's a double treat!
I used to love this ride, so many inside jokes. So many memories on it. My mom got to be one of the volunteers once and it was the funniest shit ever, my friends and I were cracking up the whole time. And we are, MOVING ON 💕💕
Promoter guy: earthquakes are the most shattering of natural disasters
Me watching this during the pandemic: ........
Carlos Acevedo I get what you’re saying but diseases aren’t natural disasters
@@Stroddy lol I just googled it and you are right 😅
I made my point, it just made the earthquake talk a bit... Underwhelming lol
I love how much Universal involved the guests in their shows. I hope that continues with at least some of their upcoming attractions.
I know it just died but please revive the great movie ride in defunctland!!!! C'mon it would be like it never closed!!!
As someone who used to go on Earthquake on every biannual visit to Florida as a kid, this is actually the first time I've heard the news that it closed. Heartbroken.
I went on the Hollywood tram ride as a kid. My mom did not tell me what was coming. And honestly, to this day I am absolutely terrorized of earthquakes
I rode the earthquake ride numerous times but had no idea they changed it to "Disaster" and now it's closed. Wow, i feel really old. lol
Can you do The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera?
YES
TheJake26 have you been in the new minion ride? . its a 60 min wait on a slow day! not worth it. 😂
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Don Bluth's animation studio, Sullivan Bluth, did the hand drawn animation alongside Rhythm and Hues' CG work. It's no wonder why it looked so good 😉
Also Alfred Hitchcock: The Art of Making Movies, which the Hanna-Barbera attraction replaced.
Essess Nine Correct me if I'm wrong but I think Hanna-Barbera was an opening day attraction I think Hitchcock was replaced by Shrek 4D
I love the ECW opening (music, word format, and font)
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I get so damn excited when I see you put out a new video
Boy, I remember going on disaster but jesus christ, the ques were like 3 hours!, me and the family qued 5 times but only got on once.
I remember this ride, I was 8 years old and got selected to play the little kid that jumps out of a building to get saved by the rock. As a kid who was obsessed with WWE at the time, it was the coolest thing ever!
I’ve been binging Defunctland for the last few weeks, and Disaster is the first ride I’ve seen on here that I’ve actually been on! Yay!
Attractions such as these would never catch on in Europe ^^'
"We are...!"
"..."
"Mo-..?"
* Crowd gives awkward stares and someone in the back coughs *
"Oh... alright then... Eh.. Let's- Let's move on..."
Yeah I found that Americans are more sporting in their interactions
So not true honestly
It makes me happy to see zero dislikes on your video. Great job!
too late
Heather Deer whoever disliked this doesn't know entertainment
They know enough to not hype up a creepy gay guy who makes slide shows and narrates them in an affected voice.
Corey Dahl My biggest fan Corey everybody!
Corey Dahl He continues to comment on a lot of amusement park videos, just to make other people feel bad. But here's the secret, he's is making people feel bad... for him. :(
I grew up in South Florida and live in SF now. This ride forever colored the way I picture earthquakes.
I love how fast the relatively short list scrolls through the list of names of people who suggested the topic
Unfortunately, The Great Movie Ride can now become part of Defunctland. A great video!
No chance that it would become "San Andreas"? Just like this but with more Dwayne Johnson?😁
I live like half and hour away from disney and universal. Honestly this ride we usually went on because it would have a no wait time and have the fun water part. I did preferably like Disney’s version of this and the jaws ride
Binging your videos man. Love them. I was a frequent Universal Studios/Disney goer as a kid. Really brings me back. Would LOVE to see more Universal/Islands of Adventure videos. Keep it up brother.
These videos keep getting better and better
Tropical Pepper epic profile pic bro!!
that's because jesus christ is my nigga
Do some videos on Mr Frog and Toad's Wild Ride, The Great Movie Ride, Universe or Energy, and Disney's River Country. (Like so they see)
Zach Mesk I agree with you on mr toads wild ride but it has to be the disney world one
Mr toads wild ride
YES!
I totally agree with River Country. The history behind it and the reason for its closing has fascinated me for a while
*Mr. Toads Wild ride. But it has to be the Disneyland one.
I remember going into the Hollywood tour, area with the Earthquake,
And my friend who was with me told me he almost fell into the flood,
Good ol times,
The left ear audio in the beginning startled me because where I'm currently sitting it sounded like it was coming from outside my bedroom window lol