The peaceful plant-eaters look at you curiously while a few spray water from their massive blowholes at the passing guests. You immediately enter a lagoon, where you are greeted by several Brachiosaurs (here called Ultrasaurs). You abruptly turn the corner as the narration comes to a climax, and pass through a massive pair of JP gates as the famous theme blares from the speakers. The raft slowly travels downstream as Richard Kiley narrates. The raft takes off down the man-made river, and the adventure begins. You climb into the raft and a handlebar comes down and locks you into the attraction it seems as if Hammond finally listened to Muldoon about implementing locking mechanisms. Across the water can be seen a “Jurassic Park Animal Control” room, where various Park Rangers dutifully monitor the ride. When it’s your turn to board the ride, a yellow raft that holds 25 people comes up an artificial river to the boarding area. The Universal Employees wear “JP Ranger Uniforms,” and hand out plastic ponchos.
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In the line cue, there are various TV monitors set in the ceiling, with a video presentation by Sir Richard Attenborough himself as John Hammond. In Hollywood, the only ride is the Jurassic Park River Adventure, but what a ride it is! You usually have to stand on line for up to an hour, unless you buy the expensive VIP day passes. You go through the gates and enter Jurassic Park proper, which includes various props from the films, such as a full-size Spinosaurus model and one of Eddie Car’s SUV’s from TLW. As you descend down a huge escalator from the higher section to the lower section of Universal, the JP gates can be clearly seen. The entire premise of the ride in LA is that John Hammond cut a deal with Universal Studios and built a Jurassic Park right in the heart of Studio City.
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The first boat that was officially launched was loaded with actors from Jurassic Park Jeff Goldblum, Ariana Richards and Laura Dern, just to name three of them, plus the creator himself Steven Spielberg. Jeff Goldblum and Steven Spielberg hosted the opening ceremony on June 15th, 1996.
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It all began in the summer of 1996, when Jurassic Park: The Ride was officially opened to the public. “Universal trusted us and they said ‘Okay.’ And 18 months before the film was in release, the ride was already on the drawing board.” Universal gave Spielberg approximately $110 million to have the JP: Ride for Hollywood built. “I had the idea to do a ride even before we shot the movie,” producer Spielberg explained.