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The Jurassic Park River Adventure at Universal's Islands of Adventure, Orlando, Florida

My first stop as I was still wet from Dudley Do-Right's Rip Saw Falls and the Popeye & Bluto's Bilge Rat Barges was to take the Jurassic Park River Adventure for a ride.

The Jurassic Park River Adventure at Kong at Universal's Islands of Adventure, Orlando, Florida

 The River Adventure is pretty simple.  Take a massive shoot the chutes water ride, theme it as going through Jurassic Park and have something go wrong that sends your boat through the wrong paddock and you've got the River Adventure.

The Jurassic Park River Adventure at Universal's Islands of Adventure, Orlando, Florida

Being a Jurassic Park ride something goes wrong, the dinosaurs with a taste for humans get out and you narrowly escape from becoming T-Rex chow before diving out of the building...

The Jurassic Park River Adventure at Universal's Islands of Adventure, Orlando, Florida

...into a nice splashdown...

The Jurassic Park River Adventure at Universal's Islands of Adventure, Orlando, Florida

...where water is sprayed but you really don't get wet.  It is a great use of a ride platform mixed in with theming to tell a wonderful story.



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