The Jaws Ride at Universal Studios Florida - literally how you've never seen it before. *Elevated emphasis on the most important elements of the attraction, isolated in stunning HD 1080p. ...mainly just the boathouse
Things like that always spooked me too at any place that had any form of hidden animatronic.. I always say that it would be kool to work at a place that brings entertainment... But please dear lord dont have me try to fix a bug in the systems or clean a specific area around the animatronic cuz they're still freaky... Also there are ghost stories where workers are closing the rides for the night and things happening like hearing stuff go down, or having their co-worker report that they seen someone following behind them, and having animatronics around doesn't exactly ease the mind, as they can be even creepier when off.
@@chapingaryjr whatever. Having worked at an amusement park I can vouch for parks being extremely strict with providing a quality experience every time, but I don’t buy that. Not like they have someone who’s job it is to analyze if their timing is right or not, lol.
I went on it twice before it closed. Both times I had female skippers that screamed too much and talked waaaay too fast. One had an annoying high pitch screaming voice lol I would’ve preferred this guy.
Imagine you didn’t know the mechanical shark was in there and you were swimming about for fun then you decide to dive under water and it’s just there starring at you, then It moves
cool to see how the interior of the boathouse just resets when the boat exits on the other side. would love to see the animatronic shark idling underwater.
@@Commanderfox945 you may have a touch of submechanophobia. It is much more common than one would think. The fear of the unknown is part of our nature.
I swear I won't ever swim in those waters.if i fell in those waters when it still existed. And my feet brushed past the shark. I swear I'm screaming so hard
Sitting here watching the quiet boat house and all the props moving back into place knowing that mechanical shark in under that water idling with no movement at all, and we can’t see it, makes me feel sick
Monica Cashmere That’s so weird I literally just read about it ! :) the man actually fell into the ride in 1990... this is when the ride was actually still very underdeveloped and still required a lot of work as it kept having technical difficulties. They shut the ride with jt only being opened for 3 months. They opened it up again 3 years later (1993)with a remodelled ride :)
Not sure when universal thought it was a good idea to bank on 3D tram rides when we had mechanical marvels such as jaws and original King Kong. I find myself enjoying the ride cues more then the actual 3-D imagery that they call a ride. I wish I had a chance for my kids to ride jaws they would truly be shocked & Terrified by a real objective chasing them. Maybe In the short future we wouldn’t even need to leave our homes to visit theme parks. You would just need a really good VR head set and your mom and dad shaking your chair when jaws takes a bite out of you.
@@Geolgyu this is correct. Anything in water over a long period of time needs a lot of upkeep. The cost of keeping all that stuff in water was too high. Furthermore for those saying they wanted to jump in that water. New that is not normal water but stagnant, chemical filled water. Not something you want to be exposed to for any period of time.
They are technological marvels of rides but you do have to remember that due the the various mechanical nature of all of them they often broke down costing a fortune Btw kong didn't get closed down but was burned down so if it didn't burn down I'm sure it would of lasted a fair bit longer before being shut down and replaced
Yeah, 3D/4D rides are cool and all but I would still much rather get on rides like Jaws. I remember being in Highschool and those 4D rides were just starting to come out. Most people didn't even notice them because they were kinda hard to see. They would be built between shops and they would have only like one door to enter and the name of the ride above it. Never had lines.
Watching the “animatronics” reset is so fackin cool, I love it. I mean the boathouse scene actually. The boats pulling back up out of the water. The shark resetting.
Your in the boat house, the rides been closed for 20 years. The water is black, and you know the giant mechanical jaws is in there....when suddenly, someone pushes you in. Imagine the feeling as your body dips into the cold, black water. You don’t know where the rotting, rusty jaws is, and you are expecting it to jump out and eat you as you fall into the water. You fall deep into the water, seeing wires, rusty tracks & debris......then you see it......
Imagine being a security guard at night and you see something and you go check it out, and once in the boat house alone with 2 cameras there watching you, only for you to realise there isn't anything there. And after you turn around the animatronic shark comes up and grabs you by the leg and drags you down and devour you.
You know as fake as that shark is that scenario you just described is utterly terrifying that Boathouse was fucking creepy without the shark moving around just with the shit creaking and moving back and forth
I rode this when I was a kid. I cried. And refused to go on it again. But after a while of watching videos of the ride on RU-vid I felt like my fear of the ride was gone. I watched videos of the ride so often that when me and my family would go to Camel Beach (a waterpark that I used to go to every summer when I was younger) I would go into the lazy river and pretend to be a skipper on the ride. Now I'm feeling nostalgic thinking of when I would do it. But unfortunately, I never got to go to Universal again to ride it before it closed. (I didn't get to go to Universal again until my senior year in 2018 with my chorus and band to perform there.)
I am glad I had the privilege of riding this when I was a kid back in the late 90s early 2000s so terrifying! gutted that my kids won't have the same pleasure.
Talking about Halloween horror nights I got it when you said clown but if that was a random clown fuck that I would legit jump in the water and swim for mah fucking life
I rode this as a child and honestly was terrified! But once I got older loved it since my sister hated it hehehe. It's sad how they took this out! I remember how sad my dad was. He loved the original
Yeah they decided to expand the whole Harry Potter thing and link hogwarts in islands of adventure to the main universal park with the train from the movies and using screens to create the illusion of going from London to the wizarding school
It’s from one of the Jaws movies I agree it’s click bait but the photo itself is most likely from Jaws 4 (don’t recommend watching that it’s garbage, stick with the first movie)
3 Things I took from this video: 1.) Hearing The skippers voice echoe outside as the boat was leaving was pretty cool. Never got that perspective of it obviously because nobody ever stayed behind in the boathouse. Sounded like a live show or something. 2.) The fear really sets in once the doors close. Don't get me wrong its already scary, but the darkness opens the door for nightmare fuel. The outside light doesn't really show you how much danger you're in. 3.) This video didnt show it, but If I EVER saw that fucking animatronic shark swimming BACKWARDS under the water back into place in the DARKNESS? Plan my funeral asap because thats immensely terrifying.
When the boat exits the boat house,the shark would actually stay still until the boats that would dropped came back up,then the shark would get pulled on a chain back to its original position until a different boat came into the boathouse.
