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Unlike many rapids rides, which have the boats floating in the water to load, this one has you strolling onto a slowly moving aluminium conveyer belt.
...A safer bet for keeping stuff dry is to use the lockers back at the entrance.
You can purchase ponchos before boarding, but this ride is soaking wet, so they help little...
A map of a theme park within a theme park...Inception surely?
The ride follows the typical format of these sort of rides. You\'re off on a boat tour of Jurassic Park, but a flash flood hits, and the resulting chaos sets the Dinosaurs on the loose.
The ride follows the typical format of these sort of rides. You're off on a boat tour of Jurassic Park, but a flash flood hits, and the resulting chaos sets the Dinosaurs on the loose.
Unlike versions of this ride at other Universal theme parks, this is a spinning rapids ride, rather than a normal fowards facing boat ride.
Jurassic Park Rapids Adventure is the flagship ride of The Lost World.
The Raptor Nest.
When you ride in the backwards seat and are wating to unload, there is always that uneasy moment where you hope the car behind coming into the brakes will stop in time.
Magnetic brakes bring the car to a smooth stop, but the interia of the car causes it to keep swinging back and forth for a bit.
After the helix one final turn skims across the foliage.
Another car about to be whipped around the helix.
...A quick helix, where the cars swing right out.
After a mid course block brake, the track heads into the final major element...
More bends.