Photo Report: Universal Studios Hollywood 6/6

First stop, of course, is the new Transformers the Ride 3D...3 times!
More on this awesome ride can be found at our Transformers the Ride post

Jurassic Park the Ride

The Mummy the Ride

Terminator 2: 3D, a show featuring a combination of 3D with live action, pretty outdated from the late 90s, but still kinda cool

The World Famous Studio Tour with Jimmy Fallon

Backlot sets

The new King Kong 360 3D... pretty cool, it has screens running the length of the entire tram on both sides, showing a battle between King Kong and T-Rex, including the tram itself rocking around on a moving track to add to the experience

Video from the premier and ride-through video from Inside the Magic

Unfortunately, the new King Kong experience it located in front of the old bridge that would fall apart when the tram drove over it so you no longer get to experience it.

Amity featuring Jaws

Wisteria Lane, from Desperate Housewives, also used in The Munsters, among other things, it was designed to look like a common neighborhood

This house is being prepared as the Munster's house for the new remake 1313 Mockingbird Lane

Whoville from How the Grinch Stole Christmas

The Bates Motel from Psycho

The 747 crash site from War of the Worlds

The Simpsons Ride, a motion simulator ride based on The Simpsons cartoon, a refurbishment from the old Back to the Future ride

Shrek 4D, Presented in Ogrevision, a 3D show with water, light, and smoke effects, as well as seats that move with the action to increase the experience

The Special Effects Stage used to be in the Lower Lot in a Sound Stage next to Backdraft, both of which needed to make room for a bigger attraction you may have heard of, Transformers the Ride 3D. Backdraft is now gone, but this new version of the Special Effects Stage has been moved to the Sound Stage that used to have the Fear Factor show. It has a lot of the same shenanigans as the old show, but it's still cool to see how some special effects are done.

Random movie props

More props

From The Mummy

Waterworld Stunt Spectacular

This is another Universal attraction that really needs an update. The show has not been changed, that I can see, since it replaced the Miami Vice Stunt Show in 1995, right down to the stuntmen squirting people with water as they pass by to their seats.

Transformers the Ride 3D

Queue line is very detailed

The Allspark

Battle Glasses, AKA 3D glasses

The ride vehicle is a newly invented Autobot named Evac

The ride itself is complex combination of a dark-ride style and giant 3D screens that put you right into the action as the Autobots defend the Allspark against the Decepticons. What makes this attraction even more amazing is that due to size restrictions of using existing buildings from the former Backdraft and Special Effects Stage attractions, the Transformers attraction actually takes place on two levels. There is a point during the ride when the vehicle enters an elevator that lifts it up to the second level and later lowers back down the first level, but the riders have no idea because the action on the screens is perfectly synchronized with the movements of the vehicle.  It's pretty amazing to actually have the feeling of falling off a building and flying around town without ever leaving the ground, simply from the vehicles movements and the giant screens.

This attraction instantly moved to the top of the list of Southern California attractions, maybe even in the world (although there is a Transformers attraction in Singapore).

The area wouldn't be complete without a Meet and Greet with Optimus Prime and Bumblebee