Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Is Universal Getting Their Own "Bizarro"...

... in the form of First Task? This is in from Screamscape:

2010 - The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - (10/14/09) New pictures from the Wizarding World can be seen at Orlando United and the queue for Dueling Dragons has been altered so that guests now enter and exit through the ride’s exit area, bypassing the main castle area entirely. While we’re talking about Dueling Dragon’s, it seems that it may work like for this some time, as the only real way to allow the work in the queue to begin without closing down the ride entirely. The plan is to keep the ride’s downtime to a minimum, so I wouldn’t count on seeing the queue again until they close the ride and rebrand it in 2010 as Dragon Challenge. From what I’ve heard, one of the items that will be done at the very end when the close the ride, will be to redecorate the trains themselves, as new fiberglass wheel covers and a decorative front piece will replace the current Red/Blue Dragon pieces. There is also a very interesting rumor claiming that some kind of audio system could be added to the train as well, which would be great if it holds true. Anyone know more?

If you read the bolded statement, you will notice that some audio effects may be added to the Dueling Dragons train. I hope this happens! BTW, the reason why I brought up Bizarro is because it has audio effects as well. It is the retheme that Medusa at Six Flags Great Adventure and Superman: Ride of Steel at Six Flags New England got last year.

Anyways, the queue for Dueling Dragons has been closed off and operates only through the exit for work to begin on First Task.

1 comment:

Driving Force of Nature said...

Probably the audio is to narrate part of the story and to provide in-vehicle sound-effects. Snakes of Valdemort for example...