E.T. Adventure

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E.T. Adventure is a dark ride featured at the Universal Studios Florida, Universal Studios Japan, and, formerly, Universal Studios Hollywood theme parks. The ride is based on the movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

1 Current Ride
2 Attraction Facts
3 Notes
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Current Ride

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The current ride, at Universal Studios Florida, has guests begin by entering a sound stage. Before going into the queue, Steven Spielberg tells us that E.T.'s teacher Botanicus needs E.T. to come to his home world, "The Green Planet" because the planet is dying. Only E.T.'s magical healing touch can save the planet, so it is up to the guests to bring him home. He also tells the guests that you make your journey on bikes, and that you need a "Interplanetary Passport" to get there.

The guest gives the assistant their name and the card is programmed with it, which is used later in the ride. You now enter the movie set which begins the adventure. The interior queue is a forest setting where it is established that police are looking for E.T. The guests then board the ride, a car suspended from the track. Each individual seat is a bicycle, whose handles come down as the safety belt. The car brings the riders through more of the forest where it is revealed that they are to save E.T. and bring him home. Guests ride past police officers who begin to chase them away from the restricted area. As they are about to be caught, the bicycles begin to fly over the city and into outerspace. They fly past an alien space ship where they are told by an alien of the same species as E.T. to bring him home. The ride emerges on E.T.'s home planet, a world of exotic plants, animals, and many others of E.T.'s species. The ride continues through the alien world until the end of the ride. At the end, guests pass an animatronic E.T. who thanks them all by the name they gave to the travel agents.^[1]

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Attraction Facts

The rides at both Universal Studios Florida and Japan are still in operation. The ride is located in Woody Woodpecker's KidZone in Florida, and in the Hollywood area in Japan. The ride in Hollywood, which opened in June of 1991, was closed March 14, 2004 to make room for Revenge of the Mummy^[2]