UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD IS "THE ENTERTAINMENT CAPITAL OF L.A."

Universal City, California -- It’s the chance of a lifetime to be
completely immersed in the glamour and excitement of Hollywood. Beyond
its iconic red carpet entry and just inside the famed Universal Studios
Hollywood gates awaits an authentic movie magic experience filled with
thrilling action heroes, resurrected mummies, roaring dinosaurs and
ogre-animated favorites.

“Backdraft” recreates the breathtaking special effects from the Ron Howard Universal blockbuster, putting guests directly into the intensity of the film's spectacular final warehouse inferno with searing reality.  Upon entering a 500,000-cubic-foot sound stage, guests confront ruptured fuel lines, melting metal and withering heat.

Based on Universal Pictures’ blockbusters, “The Mummy” and “The Mummy Returns,” the “Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb” attraction sends guests spiraling through the ruins of Hamunaptra, where they confront images of awakened mummies, armies of slithering scarabs and a fortress of buried treasure.  The attraction encases guests within a sand and stone replication of an ancient Egyptian tomb.  Inside the burial chamber, guests traverse a rotating, vertigo-inducing tunnel and encounter the evil, haunting high priest Imhotep, sentenced to spend eternity as one of the living dead.

Housed within a two-story soundstage containing a recreation of a modern subway station, “Earthquake—The Big One” puts guests in the midst of a fully dressed movie set, ready for filming.  In slightly more than two minutes, the earth literally collapses, simulating the devastation of a 8.3 magnitude earthquake. As the pavement collapses above them, guests face sparking power cables, felled telephone polls, noxious gases, a crashed 18-wheeler containing highly flammable contents, and a massive 60,000-gallon flood.

Famous fast cars will find a permanent parking spot along the Studio Tour route in an engaging display of over 16 recognizable prop vehicles that have appeared in such cult-film favorites as:

“The Fast & The Furious”
“Back to the Future” - the DeLorean, a futuristic Edsel and Biff’s Cadillac
“Serenity” - the Mule
“Animal House” - the Death Mobile
“The Blues Brothers”- the Blues Mobile
“The Mummy”- the Dusenberg
“The Little Rascals” - the ‘Norman Schwarzkopf’ go-cart

The “Flash Flood” attraction is designed to simulate the wrath of Mother Nature during a torrential down pour and on cue, pelts the tram with “movie rain.”  Culminating in a devastating flash flood visual effect, the attraction will become an even wetter experience as 40,000-thousand of gallons of water are dispensed and strategically placed new water canons heighten the drama.

Situated in the quiet New England town of Amity, “Jaws Lake” features an animatronic great-white shark similar to the one used in Steven Spielberg’s classic “Jaws.”   Guests explore the town, which also doubled for Cabot Cove in the TV series “Murder, She Wrote,” and find themselves at the mercy of the same man-eating, great-white that terrorized the citizens of Amity.  After collapsing the dock and causing it to erupt in flames, the shark lunges out of the water for the ultimate movie making special effect.

Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster “Jurassic Park” not only lives on as a wildly popular Universal Studios Hollywood theme park ride, but the epic adventure also breathes life on the Studio Tour with many of the film’s original props staged roadside for guests to observe first-hand.  Taking up residency amid the original cars from the film, the giant camper that precariously dangled over a precipice, a lot of dinosaur cages and dinosaur carcasses, will be a herd of realistic and life-size Dilophosaurus dinosaurs.  These animated “spitters” as they are more commonly referred to in the

Universal Studios Hollywood brings famed director Steven Spielberg’s epic movie roaring to life with “Jurassic Park® – The Ride.” The phenomenal interactive ride thrusts guests into the living, breathing, prehistoric world of Jurassic Park, a land where stormy skies are pierced by colossal, three-dimensional, five-story dinosaurs and a world where visitors discover that they have become prey for a terrifying T-Rex.