What it's like to ride America's scariest roller coaster, the Velocicoaster at Universal Orlando

Published:Dec 5, 202303:43
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What it's like to ride America's scariest roller coaster, the Velocicoaster at Universal Orlando
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“For the record, let me just say I think this is a terrible idea.” The man talking is Owen Grady, velociraptor whisperer from the “Jurassic World” films, who's adamant that whoever’s about to board the Velocicoaster is making an enormous mistake.

“I don’t care how long you’ve been waiting. Turn around, go home, this isn’t going to end well,” Grady (performed by Chris Pratt) says. 
 
I’m not going to lie. I used to be tempted to pay attention.

I used to be standing in the ride queue for Universal Orlando’s latest ride, a serious thrill coaster that formally opened on June 10, feeling some main dread about what I used to be about to do. This roller coaster is intense sufficient that, when the park launched a simulation video again in September, simply the CGI rendering made my insides squirm.

Honestly the ride is so scary I barely noticed the dinosaurs.

Honestly the ride is so scary I barely observed the dinosaurs.cameramanvic, Courtesy of Universal Orlando

What Universal is describing as the “apex predator of coasters” is an intense ride that’s meant to evoke the feeling of searching with Jurassic World’s velociraptor pack. “Guests like you have challenged us to push the limits of our animal encounters,” Claire Dearing, Park Operations Manager for Jurassic World (performed by Bryce Dallas Howard) says in the video. “The message was clear: More teeth.

It includes not one however two 70 mph launches in three minutes, and contains a few of the most formidable and terrifying strikes I’ve ever seen. There’s a “top hat” that rockets you 155 toes in the air after which instantly drops you into an 80-degree plummet, and that’s solely midway by the ride. The second half truly will get quicker, and does a 360-degree horizontal barrel roll simply inches above the lagoon in the heart of Universal’s Islands of Adventure (in California phrases, that’s the Disney California Adventure counterpart to Disneyland Park).

Did I point out all of this was going to occur whereas I used to be solely strapped in with a lap bar?

Fun? Terrifying? Yes and YES.

Fun? Terrifying? Yes and YES.DANIEL LECLAIR, Courtesy of Universal Orlando

I do know. I can’t imagine I did it both. Up till the very second I used to be locked into the seat, I wasn’t even positive I used to be going to.

Don’t get me mistaken: I really like thrill rides. I’ll fortunately ride the Incredicoaster greater than as soon as in a Disneyland day, and repeatedly name Space Mountain a “baby ride.” But early opinions have known as the Velocicoaster “relentless” and used phrases like “I’ll only do that once” and “don’t eat before you ride.” I wasn’t simply scared to my bones. I used to be scared on a mobile degree. Even my DNA was shaking as I entered the ride queue.

But then, the ride queue was extraordinarily cool. You stroll into gates that look like the actual Jurassic Park, full with torches burning overhead. (Just ignore the observe subsequent to you and the folks screaming like they’re going to die as they descend that 80-degree drop, it’s positive!) Then there’s an enormous statue of the vicious velociraptors, with that prime hat constructed into the sculpture and other people careening to their doom memorialized in artwork. (Definitely gained’t be you! Don’t even take into consideration all the issues that might go mistaken and not using a shoulder restraint.)

Getting way too close to an

Getting manner too shut to an “apex predator.”Julie Tremaine

In the subsequent room, there are home windows the place you see the ride automobiles rocket off, chased by the 4 raptors on the ride: Bravo, Charlie, Delta and Echo. Those riders can’t see the dinosaurs behind them. Only you recognize they’re about to get eaten alive.

Then, you meet the raptors themselves — extremely lifelike (dinosaur-like?) velociraptor animatronics that eye you like you’re lunch, and breathe on you in a manner that basically feels like you're a lot too shut to these predators, thankyouverymuch.

There isn’t simply structure all through the ride that replicates what you see in “Jurassic World,” there are actual film props, like books by Dr. Alan Grant (featured in the authentic “Jurassic Park”) and Dr. Ellie Sattler. Dr. Ian Malcolm’s “How the World Will End” is on show, which is anticipated to make an look in the forthcoming 2023 “Jurassic World: Dominion.”

The first impression in the ride queue is a scary one.

The first impression in the ride queue is a scary one.Julie Tremaine

By the time you get to the video telling you to flip round and go house, I used to be prepared to pay attention.


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