As a former islands of adventure employee that worked when it opened I can tell you that when this ride first opened it was incredible. Everything looked so realistic. But now it has damaged effects and broken and rotted animatronics. They have got to revamp the ride but they still have to keep the original Jurassic Park theming
Jurassic Park merch I think is more popular because of the red color scheme, it's not just the Jurassic Park movie being better than the World entries. I'm okay with them adding screen effects and updates, but keep the original theming.
@@millabasset1710you can still use the Jurassic Park merch while changing it to Jurassic World. Over here at Universal Studios Hollywood the exit gift shop is half Park and half world
I’m on team refurb and redo all the animatronics. As much as I love dinosaurs, Jurassic World is just not going to age as well as Jurassic Park, so I don’t think they need to continue to convert rides to the second franchise. If the original could be restored to its former glory, and maybe with some new effects, it would be worth the investment without being nearly as costly as a full replacement. I also personally don’t mind the lack of continuity between park/world in the land, it’s still the same world. I would rather there not be a specific timeline than to have all attractions themed to the inferior trilogy.
I think now that JW is over and done with, and it's well become clear the franchise just doesn't have investment, I think that JP is safe for now. Still would like the animatronics to get some love though
The way the first animatronic dinosaur doesn't move for the first 10 seconds after the doors have already opened and you're just sitting there staring at its' stationary awkwardly contorted neck......
Disagree, most screen based attractions at ioa and studios are better than this, good non screen ride > good screen based ride, but good screen based ride > bad non screen ride.
@@captain_bobo Not for me at all. Maybe Spider-Man is at least on somewhat equal footing but other screens like Jimmy Fallon, Kong, F&F, Simpsons, etc are far far beneath River Adventure.
I will take poorly aging, dated animatronics, and moving through a physical space over shaking around in a box while looking at a screen any day! That being said, there are some amazing screen rides like Spider-Man, but they're far and few in between.
When I was at Universal Studios Japan last month, their version of the Jurassic Park ride was temporarily closed down due to having major renovations and it won’t be completed until around early 2025. However, the park has been tight lipped about what the renovations would be like if they are going to make it the same attraction but with new technologies or that it’s going to be completely re-themed to Jurassic World like the one in Hollywood.
The missing dinosaur in the water is what kills it for me the most. Basically ruins the storyline for the whole ride, i think river adventure has huge potential if they refurbished the ride. It’s still a fun ride and a decent splash to cool you off, but is in pretty egregious disrepair for a theme park that’s supposed to be at the top of the leaderboard for the whole world.
The T-Rex at the end used to be hidden behind an actual waterfall. At the last moment the waterfall "curtain" would split down the middle and the T-Rex would quickly emerge loudly and in your face. Terrified me as a child, yet I loved it so much. Also, the "bubbles" under the boat at the part where the Hadrosaur knocks you off course were always there, with and without the animatronic. It's there to give some type of haptic feedback that the boat did in fact come in contact with the dino. One time years ago our boat was out of sync and the effect went off before our boat reached that point and it shot water up like a geyser and completely drenched all of us. It was funny. Slightly startling because it was the first and last time I experienced that... and we did not realize at first what was happening. Probably more in line with how that would actually go with a real Hadrosaur. Lol
When I went to IoA for my first time two years ago, I was so excited to do the Jurassic Park River Adventure. I saw the original JP in theaters six times in 1993, and had heard everyone talk about how cool the ride was. I was so disappointed to ride it and see the animatronics in such disrepair. We went again this year and it was even worse -- the ultrasaur's neck moves at an angle that no living thing ever has, the hadrosaur is gone. And when we rode, the timing was off on the T-Rex. That might not have been a usual thing, maybe the boats got stacked weird. But the boat in front of us went down, and the animatronic never reset itself. We were staring at a T-Rex who was looking down the drop, looking not fearsome but just disappointed that its dinner had gotten away. What a disappointment. I'd love for them to really put something new and fun in there, especially since Jurassic Park already has the best ride in the park in Velocicoaster. I'd love a clone of the ride in China. Or, close down Kong (without the 3D, it's just a shell of what it was) and combine the plots and make it an extra long Jeep journey with animatronics. You'd go down in ride count, but you could make it the best dark ride in the park.
That sucks. I will say that when I went back in 2014, the timing got off & we had a similar issue with the Trex. I commented bc I've never seen anyone mention that b4. But yeah the animatronics were not as bad back then. Sorry that was your experience.
the original Jurassic Park is already iconic and will always be iconic. The Jurassic World movies aren't nearly as good and will not stand the test of time. Just referb it and leave half of the area themed to Jurassic World and half to Jurassic Park
As I said with Poseidon Entertainment's video on River Adventure, I wouldn't mind if the entirety of Jurassic Park was rethemed to Jurassic World, but I would prefer if Universal chose to completely overhaul River Adventure and the Discovery Center, keeping them both themed to the original trilogy. I feel the island would be a fun novelty if it had a balance between JP and JW on it, keep with the timelessness of the entire park. And with the inevitable Universe profits I'm sure it'll be possible. Bear in mind I've only ever seen the first film from both trilogies
I really love The Lost World, but seeing only the first of each is not a bad thing. Like my friend who's only seen Star Wars but none of the sequels/prequels.
Considering that Universal is willing to build a Harry Potter & Fantastic Beasts hybrid land in the modern day, I hope they keep the theming and just improve all the Park segments.
Epic Universe is opening next year and a massive update to IOA/ USF is coming very soon. Watch what they do next. That is why there has been no money invested into it. Universal Creative always has something up their sleeve.
@@EmillioMelendez , I’m not sure if River Adventure will survive. Water rides are expensive to operate. A clone of the Jurassic World Adventure from Beijing would fit nicely where Kong now sits, then update the current river adventure to Jurassic World.
Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture (Jurassic Park River Adventure is in a state of disrepair) and this picture (Dinosaur in Disney’s Animal Kingdom is in a state of disrepair): They’re the same picture.
Hey, at least Islands of Adventure isn't getting rid of their awesome dinosaur animatronic ride for a lazy I.P ride that makes ZERO sense for the park.
You said it. That’s for sure. I have a positive opinion for both of these rides too, and I’m yet to experience river adventure. I went to Disney’s animal kingdom once in 2016.
As much as I love this ride, I’d be okay with a revamp as long as they don’t change it to World and keep the original “Park” theme. There seems to be a stronger admiration for the Park series than World as the newest films didn’t land with audiences well, besides in terms of box office.
You think Orlando is bad? You should see Hollywood. Literally could see the insides of multiple animatronics when I was there back in 2010. It was SO BAD.
When I was little, the first time I got into this ride, I got so scared by the T-Rex and the atmosphere of the warehouse I cried. I was like, six or seven. The next time we visited I was thirteen, and I was STILL terrified of it, to the point where I kept my eyes closed the entire ride. It was awesome! I haven't been to the parks since then (I'm 23 now) but I still hold that memory as a highlight of my childhood (next to Tower of Terror, where I literally bolted out of the ride the second the seatbelt lock went off and someone had to catch me on the way out), and to see its downfall through this just breaks my heart...
It’s interesting how even while being better maintained than the Orlando version, USJ closed their JPRA from late 2023 till what’s gonna be likely fall next year I believe just to do a huge renovation, so why wouldn’t Orlando take that time to fix up theirs
In regards to having two different spiderman ride systems, it’s worth noting the increasing rumors that Comcast may be selling marvel back to Disney and that the next big projects may be lost continent replacement, marvel replacement, and Simpsons. I wouldn’t be surprised if they keep patching up JP until then. I have a feeling they’ll end up just doing a version of hollywoods, especially since they’ve announced they’re doing new Jurassic world films with Scarlett Johansson
I remember the old Jurrasic park ride at Hollywood and even the new jw overlay (basically the same thing) but this ride was and still is magnificent in Hollywood. Amazing every time. Especially the T-Rex and Indominis Rex at the ending but even the other dinosaurs in the ride are amazing along with the theming and other effects. Plus it’s perfect for when California decides to be 105 degrees and getting soaked at the end just feels like heaven after sweating in line for a hour lol
13 years ago to the day me and my family went on this ride The first animatronic was still there, but he just laid in the water and yelled at us The animatronic that was supposed to hit us in the way of the rafter didn’t even emerge. We just somehow moved towards the raptors lolol
I think they should. 1 Rebuild the whole jurassic park riv-ad ride. 2 revamp the hole land 3 re-theme velocicoaster to Jurassic park (it would be kinda cool) and keep florida jurassic park and hollywood can be jurassic world
I've been saying it for a bit now, but I guarantee you that their next big move after Epic Universe opens will be a refresh of IoA. They're building the park at an Epic (pun intended) pace, they've been rushing through to finish new projects and rethemes at the USF, but all they've been doing at IoA is closing down attractions with no announced plans for replacing or refurbishing them. The last time they even gave the whole park a literal fresh coat of paint was nearly ten years ago now, after the runaway success of the Wizarding World. Half of Suess Landing is in as bad a state of disrepair as the River Adventure, the Lost Continent is basically just a randomly placed shopping district without any anchor attractions anymore, and those rumors are still swirling about Disney potentially letting those legacy agreements for Marvel and the Simpsons lapse when the contracts run out. If Epic Universe is as much the runaway success as people are expecting, they'll need something to pull people back to the main resort. What better than announcing a bunch of new updates to Islands of Adventure on the heels of all these family-friendly updates to Universal Studios?
They could also make it look abandoned. Like how the JP Visitor's center was in JW ( 2015). But still make fix the animatronics ( if they even can still fix them ) . Or they could even make it based on Isla Sorna.
this ride needs more attention considering that the animatronics arent as good as they are. people argue that they should just replace it with jurrasic world, but i like that orlando and hollywood have exclusive rides instead of the same rides. i they should do a massive refurbishment and fix the animatronics and add in better effects and more quality overall
It’s one of my favourite attractions of all time and I’m sad it’s been in such disrepair for so long. My blue sky dream for it right now is to get the same Jurassic World overhaul that Hollywood got, but then for the new Epic Universe Park to get its own retro throwback Jurassic Park land with some brand-new attractions, like maybe a couple of the cancelled attractions that were originally meant to be built like the helicopter safari or a rebranded JP version of the attraction in Beijing but based around the T-Rex breakout scene from the original movie.
I had a yearly pass, and i loved this ride so so much. It was fun. Buuuuut, yeah no this ride had TONS of malfunctions and glitches to where i was starting to feel very nervous to go back on. Most of the time the animatronics werent on time to do their animations, didnt move, or werent even there (like the hydrasaur). The trex doesnt move much, some of the dilophosaurus’ didnt move much/at all. And a few times we had to stay in line pretty long because the ride was delayed due to errors. 80% of the time the beginning doors were either stuck open, or were just super delayed to open. The box was ALWAYS delayed aswell. The stegosaur (big one) always looked a bit “rotten” to me, dunno about others tho. I used to watch videos on the ride when i was younger and i always wanted to go on, and then when i finally got to go on, it was not as fun as it had looked.
That ride is showing it’s age and I remember the bad musty smell when entering the drop building. this ride needs to be upgraded entirely. A Jurassic World retheme is needed. And those poor Animotronics are suffering in the Florida heat. I gotta love how Hollywood rethemed the drop part to make it look like an actual scene from the movies. But sadly people might have to accept changes at some point.
You should do a video on the Cat in the Hat it’s in similar disrepair. I did a lot of research on it lately, comparing old and newer videos of it it seems that the cat animatronics you see on the ride today are not the same when it opened, they have different color schemes and some of have slightly different face shapes. I suspect the original animatronics was replaced around 2015-2016 to what you see today. My only guess is the originals broke and the new ones was made by a different company (the original manufacturer AVG animatronics went out of business in the 2000s) or they had spares in storage for exactly this situation. You Definitely should take a look into it. Now for another ride, Dudley do Right’s Ripsaw Falls, it seems universal been giving it alot of care recently, ALOT of the effects have been fixed and majority of the animatronics are back in working order almost like new. Last time I rode 2 weeks ago almost all effects was working again minus a few. The snidely animatronic on the tracks you see outside now has a ton more movement and his arms work again, the Dudley in the canoe now actually moves again, and much more. So atleast we know they are taking care of some opening day attractions.
8:34 I actually experienced the cage drop 3 or 4 times when the ride broke down. We had to wait for all the other boats to go, so we were under it for a while. This was on the reopening after it was closed for repairs back in early 2023.
The problem with retheming to Jurassic World is all of the animatronics they would choose to keep, Hollywood didnt make a new Trex or set of raptors, as well as many of the herbivores, the old animatronics would still be an eye sore compared to the new ones, theres really no winning here because Universal will always cut corners with this ride
I would love something like Jurassic World Adventure, maybe even combining that with the original Jeep safari concept and theme it to the original movie.
Hey im binging ur stuff sorry for the slew of comments: The problem boils down to FL humidity eats animatronics both aesthetically and mechanically. Brer frog on splash as small as he was suffered this. ITs also why Velocicoasters figures are all in the absolute belly center of a climate controlled building while the ones in the paddock are static sculptures. Rumor I heard was figures had to have new skins every 4 months that mandated a constant cycle of replacement of skins. Regardless your stuffs great and you've earned a sub
They could try to tie a major refurb into the 7th movie coming out next summer, but a refurb at the scale needed would probably need to already be in progress to make that timeline.
River adventure is actually one of my favorites at the park!! But without the hadrasaur to knock the boat off course, the story is too confusing for it to continue as it is.
God I’m so happy people are finally talking about this. I went a couple years ago with friends for the first time, and finally got to sit on the ride of my dreams. God, it was so slimy and algae covered. Everything smelled and none of the animatronics worked. T-Rex didn’t even pop out at the end. The ride needs some serious work, but I really hope they go more the route of refurbishment rather than total redo like California. One ride needs to stay as Jurassic Park
I think because there were multiple other JP attractions being built in other universal parks , they focused on refurbishing other rides in Orlando and waiting to see what they will do with river adventure, especially after building velocicoaster and having it themed to the new movies.
This might not be a good video idea. BUT many people complain about Jim Reid Anderson. You should make a video of why he was GOOD in keeping Six Flags. For example, he helped with the Stock from 2010 to 2017. And maybe why he purchase on Frontier City, Darien Lake, and Six Flags Qiddiya (even know he drop the stock because of that). Also talk of his "strategy" plan to have different rides (including the RMC Raptors)
Oh man I rode this so many times as a kid when IoA first opened. The T-Rex was scary every time, it felt like she was leaning down to grab a snack from the boat! It's so sad to see the shape this ride is in now.
wife and I were on this ride 6 weeks ago. 3 boats including ours all got stuck before the big drop at TRex. ride shut off, lights came on and it took 10-15 minutes for them to bring these 'planks' to escort us off the boats and through the whole attractions inner building back to main area. still love the ride but an interesting experience to say the least. we all got a free exprass one-time pass
I'm a huge Jurassic Park fan, always have been, always will be. Islands of adventure is my favourite park ive ever visited. The two have a huge part in my life. I havent been in this ride in 7+ years, however im going in a few weeks time. It absolutely breaks my heart to see one of my all time favourite rides look like this. Jurassic World really isnt that great, compared to Jurassic Park but i went to universal studios Hollywood last year and i can honestly say the refurbishment of their jurassic park the ride was insane. The animatronics were scarily good, and the ride felt fresh. If this is the future of river adventure i definitely wouldnt be sad, as sad as i am with the state of river adventure today!
We regularly get hit by hurricanes and these rides regularly get damaged by them, also Orlando gets a ton of rain and these are outdoors. So yeah even if they aren’t submerged they’re gonna get roughed up. Last hurricane we got hit by the hulks little tunnel thing in the track was fully submerged, and whole sections of the Jurassic park building were destroyed. You’re being a bit harsh and not considering a ton of factors
The coolest thing for a jeep safari would be going with the inGen team on the game trail like in The Lost World. It'd fit as a Kong ride replacement and make sense as it's basically part of but not technically inside the Jurassic Park area.
This is Exactly the same Experience I Witnessed when I rode this!!! Also you forgot to mention that the T-Rex didn't have the SAME roars from the movie! It just had 1 random stock Dinosaur sound Effect then nothing else! ☠️
The Parasaurolophus (the hadrosaur that knocks the boat off the path) could be replaced by something that works like the hippos from The Jungle Cruise. Not necesarily an animatronic, but just a rigid fiberglass sculpture that rises from the water. That way it wont be as easily damaged be water. Sure, it'd suck to lose the articulated, moving, figure, but what can you do? Replacing it with an even more advanced, more delicate, animatronic is not an option.
I would love the Jurassic area extended and filled the spot of the kong ride as well. if they switched the kong ride to the Jurassic world ride in Beijing that would be incredible. then give river cruise a Jurassic park 3 vibe with Spinosaurus hunting you through the water section and make the Pteranodon Flyers ride at least as interesting as Flight of the Hippogriff and you would have a wining park.
I think its possible that they could be waiting for that next Jurassic movie/trilogy/etc so they can redesign the ride based around that......which means we have a ways to go
I wish they would just retheme skull island as an extension of Jurassic Park/World. Just put “electric fences” up on the sides of the land “it’s an expanded paddock, that’s why it’s outside the gate.” Then use the existing Kong ride as the jeep tour. Then they can either retheme the river adventure to World OR knock it down for the dark ride. Skull Island just seems so out of place.
Hopefully they will redo and bring all the great animatronics back it’s not like they haven’t done it for lots of other rides. Hopefully after Epic opens or before they make this great like it used to be.
Not only replace the existing animatronics, but add some new ones. Ultrasaur Lagoon, add two more Ultrasaurs, an adult and a juvenile, maybe add a few apatasaurs on the shore, bending down to drink. Add about six microceratus, perhaps have several behind some bushes moving around. Add two hardosaurs wading in the water near the entrance of Hadrosaur Lagoon, along with the one that knocks the boat off-course.
If they wanted to play the middle road, retheming the ride to the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World series "Camp Cretaceous"-"Chaos Theory", would be interesting to see. You could have Darius guiding a group through a dinosaur preserve. Taking a EPCOT approach and being educational about dinosaurs. Keep the "something goes wrong" element (pack of raptors cause a stampede, Rexy disrupts the tour), Rexy is now guarding an actual waterfall! I think it would be a neat idea, but all the ideas from dedicated fans won't mean anything if Universal refuses to maintain up keep of the original ride or give vast improvements!
I’m surprised some people don’t actually realize that the concepts that were going to be used for the jeep tour actually evolved into Jurassic World adventure attraction over in Beijing. I think of universal uniquely built the Jeep attraction theme to the newest Jurassic Park movie or based off the 90s one I think it’d be really nice for the park
If Universal Creative is smart, they should get rid of all the old Dinosaur animatronics and replace them with modern, stronger Dino animatronics to give Jurassic Park: River Adventure a longer lifespan. I understand that Universal would need to spend more money and manhours to make that a reality, but I think it would reinvigorate interest for the ride. I know there's some Jurassic World themed attractions (such as Raptor Encounter and Velocicoaster) in the Jurassic Park area of IoA, but Universal (in my opinion) should still maintain the Jurassic Park IP for IoA. If they decide to go in that direction, then you don't piss off or alienate the Original JP fans and can still cater to the JW fans.
What I don't understand, is what are they actually doing when this is closed for WEEKS for maintenance?! I remember going on this for the first time in years, the day it opened from being closed for ages for maintenance, and I was so excited to relive my childhood memories, and the first thing was the doors at the start were just stuck open. I said to a member of staff when I got off "This has literally just reopened from a maintenance closure? What have they actually been doing?" And he said "We ask the same question." But I'm genuinely curious to know!? Is it just all "saftey only, zero show" things that the eye would never see?
So, actually technically they can fix it, it was done for JW the ride, the animatronic move much better now than before but, i think they just are too lazy/don't want to , as simple as that, and it's sad since it's such a masterpiece and could be awesome.
i’m a huge jurassic park fan. i love this ride with my whole heart. but seeing it makes me so sad, i don’t do it anymore. i was in florida for the past year for my dcp, my mom got me an ap to universal for my birthday, so i could go whenever i wanted. i think out of the around 10 times i went in 11 months i rode it twice. once when my mom dropped me off and then another with my friend. i just can’t justify the hot wait time for the poor quality of the ride anymore. i hope they fix it someday, but i don’t see that anytime soon with epic universe expenses. i do have a funny story from my last time riding though (sadly about an animatronic being broken). when we were going up the lift hill the raptor that’s supposed to run at u behind the fences, it was sitting at the back of its set, with a strobe light, and only its arms were moving. it looked like it was just sitting back there waving at the guests. i thought it was kind of funny. also tbh: i haven’t physically rode the one in hollywood yet, but i really like the world overlay. i think the story with the indominous is really fun and the battle at the end is super cool. the only part i don’t like in that version is the mosasaurous area. not that it’s terrible, it’s just not as good as the rest
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Islands 30th is in 5 years meaning Universal will be updating and tidying up the park (however Studos should be the main focused on park post epic) so I think we could see the Hyrule Kingdom land take over lost continent, Harry Potter expanding to the other area of lost continent (basically new pathway for the train and a new extended cue for Hagrids and all the shops and restaurants fitting into Hogwarts), I would also say Seuss Landing should get an update especially with Cat and The Hat but maybe also that Grinch family mine train coaster opening next door taking over the abandoned stage plot of land, then Jurassic Park will most likely transform into Jurassic World with River Adventure getting the World overhaul and all the signs and all changing The thing is this pretty realistic since 2 of these aren’t huge expansions since they’re really just touch ups on the current lands, Seuss Landing would also kinda fit in that category but would get a bigger addition, and for the 30th anniversary maybe Hyrule opens that year
Definitely agree something needs to be done and any of your suggestions would be good. Additionally, Reign of Kong is also a problem so if they did want to make Jurassic World Adventure, they would have plenty of space between Jurassic Park River Adventure, Thunder Falls Terrace, and Skull Island Reign of Kong to put in that ride or one like it (King Kong version) and could then put in another ride like the jeep concept.
I think they’ve just put this ride on the back burner until Epic Universe is completed. As soon a month goes by after the opening of EU, I think Universal is going to announce a bunch of ride refurbishments
While on a trip with my family I remember me and my little sister were sat next to this gigantic woman and my sister was made to sit on the edge. She barely was secure in her seat and they let us through.. on the trex drop she almost slipped out but I quickly put my hand over her and saved her .
Still an awesome ride. All things considered for being large outdoor animatronics, that are in or near water for over 25 years in the harsh Florida elements, they still work somehwat good.
I was at Islands of Adventure this past Monday and I was deceived a few days prior by the website which said it was gonna be open along with Fast and Furious, Revenge of the Mummy and a few others were closed, Universal either needs to update the information on the website or stop lying to draw crowds when attractions are not open or broke down.
Unpopular opinion but it would be awesome to put a b&m flying coaster in this plot, tallest and fastest. I love tatsu out in California and they have flying dinosaur in Japan but I'd like another big thrill ride to compliment velocicoaster
If you Think about it, the fact that the narrator talks about a dinosaur that isnt there is like in the movie when they’re trying to see the dilophosarus that isnt there
They just need to close the ride and re build it to be like the version in Universal Studios Hollywood. That version looks really good and worth getting into.
If the demo River Adventure, might as well take out Kong for a new land. However, you already have Lost Continent that is further gone (plus Toon Lagoon Theater and the strip for that land that could be broken off into something else)
Am AP and local, haven't ridden in years but the last time I did the psittacosaurs also looked like shit also. Is the other hadrosaur still there? I used to love that baby stego, she used to do a fun little shimmy when the geyser went off. The raptors were missing limbs and tails last time I rode as well. Just because they're in the dark doesn't mean we can't see how awful they look now. It's a shame, I was an opening day passholder. ETA: Jurassic World 4 is currently in production. They just finished filming in Malta.
