The newly constructed King Kong attraction will make its big summer debut after the original attraction burning down in a large fire 19 months ago, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Called “King Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World,” will replace the old one at the sample plot and setting. The only difference is that it’ll be based on the Academy-Award-winning director Peter Jackson’s King Kong. It will include some new elements recreating the fight between Kong and a T-Rex in the beginning of the attraction from the King Kong movie.
“After the 2008 fire, we knew we had to bring him back to the back lot studio tour, but in a way that has never been experienced before,” Universal Studios Hollywood President Larry Kurzweil was quoted as saying.
3-D Kong has been taking shape in the old Howard Hughes Spruce Goose hanger in Playa Vista, where Jackson has been working hard with a team in creating this massive attraction. Visitors will wear 3-D glasses, won’t just see Kong in 3-D, but also smell his banana breath, feel the gust of wind as he jumps over guests and sense the ground quake when he engages a T-Rex in a “life-or-death battle,” the newspaper reported.
In June 2008, the fire, an accident made by three employees, destroyed a 30-foot, seven-ton Kong that was built in 1986 and for many years was considered as long of the most “complex animatronic figures in the world.” The new Kong will look like the one from Jackson’s Oscar-winning 2005 version of the film.
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