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Overview
Hailed by designers as the 'world's first life-size, ride-through, interactive video game experience,' MEN IN BLACK Alien Attack features Will Smith and Rip Torn and is the first-ever attraction where guests (and the aliens) determine each ride's outcome by their individual and collective abilities
Smith and Torn have re-teamed as 'Agent J' and 'MIB Director Zed' in the attraction, and, through the magic of film technology, lead hardy bands of guest/trainees as they take up arms to save the earth from intergalactic terrorists. Vocal artist Michael (Police Academy) Winslow supplies a number of the ride's extra-terrestrial utterances.
Part heart-stopping thrill ride, part cosmic turkey shoot, 'MEN IN BLACK Alien Attack' remains true to the techno-futuristic style of the blockbuster Columbia Pictures/Amblin Entertainment hit film about a shadowy organization that is 'above, over and beyond the system' -- the Men In Black.
Players actually step into the movie and directly affect the environment around them by firing their laser-sighted 'alien zappets' at targets and scoring points, And the aliens can shoot back, causing chaos as the MIB trainee transports spin wildly out of control with each ricochet or direct hit.
MEN IN BLACK Alien Attack, located in a massive 70,000 square-foot building at the' North end of the US F lagoon, and camouflaged as a tetra-modern-style plaza reminiscent of the 1964 New York World's Fair, is the largest dark ride ever conceived. The ride immerses teams of guest/MIB trainees inside the adventure, careening wildly through the streets in government-issue vehicles, destroying hordes of aliens in order to earn their stripes as MIB.
The ride begins with a training lecture by MIB Director Zed (TORN), warning the guest/trainees that aliens are living among us, and the mandate of the MIB is to round them up. In fact, a shuttle will be taking off that very day, deporting some 'rather nasty' alien criminals to Planet LV-428.
Zed instructs the trainees in the finer points of 'alien spotting,' the proper use of alien 'zappers' and the training vehicle, and then turns them loose on a sequence of 'training missions.'
The trainees soon learn that the shuttle bound for Planet LV-428 has crashed in the city, the aliens are armed, and the only thing between Earth and complete inter-planetary domination is them. The training vehicle swerves back out into the street, revealing massive alien firepower, The battle is pitched - trainees firing...bugs-a-poppin...chaos everywhere. This is all-out war for the safety of humankind. As the attack intensifies, the trainees receive a special transmission on the monitor in their vehicle. It's Agent J (SMITH) who appears on screen anti he's got BA-A-A-D news…there's a huge alien bug showing up on his radar. It's hungry, angry and just up ahead.
MEN IN BLACK Alien Attack culminates (literally) in the 'belly of the beast' as the largest animatronic ever built -- a warehouse-sized alien bug 30-feet high, with eight-foot teeth and 20-foot claws -- devours the vehicle. Guest/trainees are instructed by J to shoot their way out of the slimy intestinal cavity and split-second decisions are crucial as each team determines their fate.
Regrettably, upon completion of their duties, terrified Universal ride designers were visited by shadowy government operatives and zapped with MID 'neuralizers,' erasing their memories and forever locking away the secret of the ride's conclusion. However, early, de-classified versions of the ride description, uncovered at great peril, reveal multiple outcomes ranging from a hero's we/come to a loser's farewell.
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