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. The interior queue is a forest setting where it is established that the police are looking for E.T. Guests then board the ride vehicle which is a car suspended from a track. Each individual seat is a bicycle, whose handles come down as the lap bar. The bike in the middle of the front row contains E.T. The vehicles travel past NASA and police officials who give chase and try to arrest the riders. As they are about to be caught, the bicycles begin to fly over the city and then into outerspace. Arriving at the Green Planet, the guests encounter Botanicus who urges the visitors to save E.T.'s friends. E.T.'s healing touch travels through the planet, reviving his friends and beginning a celebration with baby E.T.s. 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, 2003 to make room for Revenge of the Mummy