King Kong

[Delboy]

Could anybody tell me abut this ride,
Again we visited after it had closed,
Where was it located? What kind of ride was it?

 

[Metro West]

Revenge of the Mummy is the former location of Kongfrontation. From what I remember...the queue was themed like a NYC subway complete with graffiti. The ride itself was in a gondola (kinda like a lift hill at a ski resort) and you are enjoying the night time view of the city when Kong starts his ramage and tries to knock the gondola car...with you in it...off the track! It was a great ride.

 

[phamton]

Go to youtube.com and type in the search: King Kong ride . You will get lots of video of the ride itself.

 

[Mad Hattered]

I loved the Kong ride!!! I was sad to see it go.

 

[Coach81]

It was a great ride! Kong would attack your vehicle.. and roar right at you!!! I loved it!..

But I now enjoy the mummy ride..

When are they going to finally shut down/Update ET??

 

[Poohbug]

I still miss Kong.

Even though you know that Kong is not real, it still scared the pants off me to have him roaring in your face. Does anyone know if they are going to rebuild him in Hollywood??

 

[donaldduck352]

I hope they never get rid of ET......

 

[Planogirl]

I hope they never get rid of ET......

I agree. I love the queue even more than the ride though.

 

[DOOM1001]

OK I've heard that in the Mummy ride in the room with the statues there's a homage to Kong in the form of a small Kong statue,now I've been on Mummy several hundred times and I've never seen it.Where should I look to see it?And Kong was an awesome ride.

 

[RAPstar]

I agree. I love the queue even more than the ride though.

Off topic, but I so agree!! It was nice and cool and I loved the smell they put in there. I just wanted to lay down and take a nap in that forest.

 

[2BigKIdz]

Off topic, but I so agree!! It was nice and cool and I loved the smell they put in there. I just wanted to lay down and take a nap in that forest.

me too! I think it is a very nice, relaxing ride. My husband hates it, says it is boring.

I only got to ride Kong once back in 1999 on my first visit. It was a cool ride but I think I like the Mummy more.

 

[donaldduck352]

OK I've heard that in the Mummy ride in the room with the statues there's a homage to Kong in the form of a small Kong statue,now I've been on Mummy several hundred times and I've never seen it.Where should I look to see it?And Kong was an awesome ride.

Its on the left side.Very small easy to miss..

 

[bubba's mom]

OK I've heard that in the Mummy ride in the room with the statues there's a homage to Kong in the form of a small Kong statue,now I've been on Mummy several hundred times and I've never seen it.Where should I look to see it?And Kong was an awesome ride.

Sit on the left and look toward the back near the end of the first room...don't look low either...look mid level to up a bit.

It's about 3/4 of the way thru that room.

It's a small, gold statue that sits more than 1/2 way back on a raised "block" type of stand. You really need to look fast

 

[Figment22]

Revenge of the Mummy is the former location of Kongfrontation. From what I remember...the queue was themed like a NYC subway complete with graffiti. The ride itself was in a gondola (kinda like a lift hill at a ski resort) and you are enjoying the night time view of the city when Kong starts his ramage and tries to knock the gondola car...with you in it...off the track! It was a great ride.

The queue and gondola were based on the Roosevelt Island Tramway in New York City. Here's a photo of the RIT; the ride cars were remarkably like this.

I agree. I love the queue even more than the ride though.

I love the ET queue too. When we visited Universal a couple of weeks ago, we actually had to stand in the queue for a while; usually we just buzz right through. They really got everything right; you really feel like you're in the forest--the sights, the sounds, the smells. We even got to see and hear Botanicus' full speech. I was glad we had to wait a little bit.

 

[JLTraveling]

Aw, Kong. I just love that the topic still comes up every now and then...I miss that ride so much. I worked Kong on and off from 1992-2001...kept going off and doing other things, and then invariably something kept drawing me back.

Okay, the ride itself went roughly like this:

The premise was that King Kong was on the loose, and you were being evacuated to the safety of Roosevelt Island. The story really began in the queue, which remains, in my opinion, one of the best queues ever created. As others have said, the tram was based on the real Roosevelt Island Tram in New York. The queue wound through the station, fully themed with movie posters, metal work, and best of all, graffiti. Universal actually hired real graffiti artists to do the elaborate original tags, but park guests added to it over the years.

Anyway, throughout the station were TV monitors featuring well-known real-life news anchors from Universal-owned WWOR. Continuous news bulletins covered Kong's escape and the destruction he was wreaking on Manhattan.

As you boarded the tram (which really did look just like the real one that Figment posted photos of), your driver was fully in character, visibly shaken by Kong's rampage and the dangerous evacuation that was to come. After getting clearance from the control tower, you were on your way.

Your tram radio was patched in to the police emergency frequency to monitor Kong's movements. Of course, things went wrong and you found yourself directly in Kong's way. After two close encounters, one of which involved Kong dropping you several feet, you reached Roosevelt Island. Drop-down monitors inside the tram showed a wrapup news report, with footage of your reactions cut in (an early version of what they're doing with Disaster now).

To me, the most amazing thing about Kong was its sheer scale. That project would never be done again, because it was so incredibly expensive. The two Kongs were fully articulated, pneumatically driven animatronics--that just happened to be 39 feet tall and weigh over 13,000 pounds (street Kong) and 8,000 pounds (bridge Kong). The show building was 35,000 square feet filled with scale model recreations (not flats) of elaborate New York City scenes.

During HHN 1992, we spent our break time dressing up in costumes and masks and putting on scary scenes inside some of the sets. A TV in one of the "apartment" sets actually worked--I watched Bill Clinton win the 1992 election on that TV while spieling, and broke character to announce the victory to a tramload of guests.

Kong and Jaws were always considered "air" and "water" variants on the same theme. So if you want a rough idea of Kong, go on Jaws at night (Kong was set in the evening), and picture it taking place 30 feet in the air. Not the same, but a rough general comparison.

Sigh...I like the Mummy and all, but there's nothing particularly original there. Kong was one of a kind, and I miss it terribly

Interesting Mummy-Kong fact: The Mummy follows the old Kong path almost exactly--only backwards. The drops in the Mummy correspond to the points when Kong dropped the tram. Also, look up at the ceiling when you're on the Mummy. The overhead tracks are still there. They form part of the support for the building's roof, so they couldn't be removed.

 

[Figment22]

During HHN 1992, we spent our break time dressing up in costumes and masks and putting on scary scenes inside some of the sets. A TV in one of the "apartment" sets actually worked--I watched Bill Clinton win the 1992 election on that TV while spieling, and broke character to announce the victory to a tramload of guests.

Cool story!

Interesting Mummy-Kong fact: The Mummy follows the old Kong path almost exactly--only backwards. The drops in the Mummy correspond to the points when Kong dropped the tram. Also, look up at the ceiling when you're on the Mummy. The overhead tracks are still there. They form part of the support for the building's roof, so they couldn't be removed.

I'll have to look up next time I ride the Mummy (well, somewhere other than the fire room), I never realized that.

Great, descriptive explanation of the ride. It certainly was one of a kind.

 

[Don Pacho]

My Kong pic back in 2004

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[disneyhottie]

We remember the ride attendants handing out roasted almonds in little bags as we waited in line!!Anybody else remember that?

 

[Don Pacho]

I used to buy bananas and throw them to the gorilla. That was fun

 

[Disneyafternoonfan]

I loved the old King Kong ride too I even got a King Kong Tv shirt but I do like the mummy ride

When are they going to finally shut down/Update ET??

I like the ET too but it took till my second vist to ride since for a long time til I was about 14 I was perfied of ET and screamed ouy when ever he appered on the till. According to Wikepida after the shuting of the E.T ride in Hollywood Steven Spielberg has Unviersal not to close the one in Florida, but I know wikepida can be sometimes unrelible