Universal Studios Florida, its debut also coincided with a milestone anniversary for the first attraction inspired by the franchise phenomenon.
ET was at the premiere bash for at Universal Studios Hollywood in June 1996. With Steven Spielberg having a hand in the attraction’s development from the beginning, one might assume he would have been on board the inaugural ride-through.
But he wasn’t. Same for the second trip. And third. Or ever. “I've gone up to the point of no return and I returned down the stairs.
I don't go on those 85-foot straight down water drops,” Spielberg told ET at the event. The director had added dinosaurs to the pantheon of movie monsters a few years earlier, breaking a few box office records while he was at it, but.
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