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Nintendo World’s Donkey Kong Ride Actually Goes Off the Rails
At Universal Studios Japan, Super Nintendo World’s “jumping” Donkey Kong ride puts visitors in the mine-cart action of the video game, broken tracks and all. That’s right, you’ll be experiencing a very realistic simulation of being in Kong’s cart and jumping onto a completely different rail on this coaster set to open at Universal Studios…
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How Universal’s E.T. Adventure Ride Still Captures the Magic of the Movie
There’s a timelessness to Steven Spielberg’s E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial — which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year — that can’t be denied. It encompasses movie magic on a level that transcends the screen through its music and its story of a friendship between a boy and an alien that defies the odds. It’s set…
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Riders Spent Two Hours Trapped On This Hanging Roller Coaster’s Tallest Hill
The only thing more terrifying than being stuck on a roller coaster is being stuck at the highest part of the ride. And the only thing more terrifying than that is if it happens to be one of those coasters where you’re hanging upside down from a harness, leaving nothing but 30m of free-fall space…