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Simulator ride
Simulator rides are a type of amusement park ride, where the audience is shown a movie while their seats move to correspond to the action on screen.
Until recently, constructing simulator rides was an expensive, high tech business. The first simulators were built to train military pilots. Long...
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Filter this CollectionSoarin' Over California
Soarin' Over California is a simulator attraction at Disney's California Adventure Park, part of the Disneyland Resort. The same attraction was built four years later at Epcot, part of the Walt Disney World Resort, as Soarin'.
The attraction takes...
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- 1.016 m (3.333 ft )
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- Feb 8, 2001
Star Trek: The Experience
Star Trek: The Experience was a themed attraction at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, based on the Star Trek entertainment franchise. It opened in January 1998, closed in September 2008, and was scheduled to reopen in the Neonopolis...
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Star Tours
Star Tours is a simulator ride located in several Disney theme parks, including Disneyland in California, Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida, Tokyo Disneyland in Japan, and Disneyland Park in Paris. The ride is based on the successful Star Wars...
Height Restriction:
- 1.02 m (3.35 ft )
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Duration:
- 270 s (4.5 min )
Opened:
- Jan 9, 1987
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Gundam the Ride: A Baoa Qu
Gundam the Ride: A Baoa Qu was an amusement park attraction at the Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park located in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi, Japan.
Gundam the Ride, which opened to the public on July 20, 2000, was based on the popular Mobile Suit Gundam...
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Back to the Future: The Ride
Back to the Future: The Ride was a simulator ride based on the Back to the Future trilogy of films and is a mini-sequel to 1990's Back to the Future Part III. It was replaced by The Simpsons Ride.
It is located at Universal Studios Japan, formerly...
Height Restriction:
- 1.016 m (3.333 ft )
Duration:
- 900 s (15 min )
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- May 2, 1991
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Closed:
- Mar 30, 2007
Mission: SPACE
Mission: SPACE is a motion simulator thrill ride at Epcot. It simulates what an astronaut might experience aboard a spacecraft on a mission to Mars, from the higher g-force of blastoff to the speculative hypersleep.
The attraction opened to the...
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- 1.1176 m (3.6667 ft )
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- Oct 9, 2003
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Space Shuttle America
Space Shuttle America (also known as Space Shuttle America - The Next Century) was a motion simulator ride at the Six Flags Great America theme park in Gurnee, Illinois, that opened in 1994. The ride's main feature is a full-scale replica of an...
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The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera
The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera was a simulator ride at Universal Studios Florida, and one of the park's original attractions. The story line was that Dick Dastardly (of Wacky Races fame) has kidnapped Elroy Jetson, Yogi Bear gives chase and...
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- 1.016 m (3.333 ft )
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- 480 s (8 min )
Opened:
- Jun 7, 1990
Closed:
- Oct 20, 2002
Body Wars
Body Wars was a ride at the Wonders of Life pavilion at Walt Disney World Resort's Epcot. Body Wars is a simulator ride where the riders are "shrunk" and carry out a mission inside a human body.
Guests enter the queue as "observation team members"...
Height Restriction:
- 1.016 m (3.333 ft )
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Duration:
- 420 s (7 min )
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- Oct 19, 1989
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- Jan 1, 2007
The Simpsons Ride
The Simpsons Ride is a simulator ride featured at the Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood theme parks. The ride is based on the animated television series The Simpsons. It was first announced in 2007 and replaced the Back to...
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Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast
Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast is a simulator ride at Universal Studios Florida that replaced The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera. The story line is that the evil Ooblar, (brother to King Goobot who is an enemy of Jimmy's) from the Yolkian planet...
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- 1.016 m (3.333 ft )
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Duration:
- 600 s (10 min )