Tampa park gets goose bumps

[mkt]

Tampa park gets goose bumps
By Robert Johnson
May 5, 2003

TAMPA, FL (Orlando Sentinel) -- There has been an R.L. Stine sighting at an attraction, but this time it isn't Walt Disney World.

Busch Gardens in Tampa held a media tour of its new R.L. Stine's Haunted Lighthouse 4-D attraction last week and said it will debut to the public on May 31.

Guests will wear 3-D glasses for part of the show, a 20-minute film. Added special effects are characterized as fourth-dimensional.

Not so long ago, Stine, the Goosebumps series author, was the star of a Halloween event at Disney World's MGM Studios. In 1998 he made appearances throughout the park on Halloween, including at the temporary Goosebumps Fright Show.

For Busch Gardens, and the permanent attraction, Stine penned an original story that the theme park used to produce what it calls a "spooky, family-friendly attraction."

Orlando's Universal Studios is also scheduled to open a 4-D attraction, themed on the hit movie Shrek, in June.

 

[Epcot is my fav]

The 4-D lighthouse is in Busch Gardens Williamsburg.....its really funny.....a great show!!!! it just recently opened there also!!!!!!

 

[Merlin0402]

Does anyone have any pictures of what the building looks like now?

 

[MrPromey]

Originally posted by Merlin0402
Does anyone have any pictures of what the building looks like now?

From the front side it looks just like it did before except for a banner advertising the movie and a sort of 3-D sign shaped like the front of a ship on the ground in front… In the back, they have simply built a large rectangular steel building that has been covered with stucco to look like the rest of the building. There really is no attraction theme attached to the building inside or out.

The inside actually just looks like an unusually large stadium theater.

It is “cute” but if you have been to any of the 3D movies in Orlando (Disney, Universal) you probably won’t be very impressed… Unless you squint your eyes and pretend it is a “Back to the Future” reunion.

 

[FigmentJedi]

I read that Weird Al is in it.

 

[MrPromey]

Originally posted by Tahu
I read that Weird Al is in it.

Yes, in the very end he makes a small cameo as a frightened waiter.

 

[Figment1986]

gh, ghghgh, ghost, Heeeer issss yourrr meal.

(I think this is a pleasent movie with cold air in the summer and pleasent effects to make the summer seams nicer.