^ That's right. I had this feeling that it might open today (they raised the park prices by S$2 today - it can't be just an coincidence??), so I just took a chance - and MY GOD it's open. Started texting all my fellow passholders!
Today was a peak day, wait-time was about 30-60 minutes. Single rider and Universal Express is NOT available. Annual Passholders use the Express line.
Anyway, here's the short version (long version with all the nice photos coming up in a few hours):
- Vehicles are physically similar to Spiderman, with some Transformer logos here and there and a crazy paint job outside.
- HUGE screens (several parabolic) and projections are AMAZINGLY clear (except for one screen, strangely).
- Transitions between scenes and projections are very seamless.
- There are scenes where a lot of action is going on, such as racing on the streets for quite a distance, when the car isn't moving on the track at all (the illusion of movement is very well done there)
- NO animatronics of the robots. In fact I don't even see anything that passes as an animated prop.
- What happens on the projection screens does not really "affect" the real props (there's some scenes in Spiderman that does this, the ladder is one of them, i think?)
- Effects include: Strobe lighting, fog, wind, water and hot air (yes, no flames.)
- There are two scenes that use 2-storey high projection screens - yep, they are the elevator scenes.
- No on-ride photo op (just saying, because Spiderman had it)
BUT.. I would say that this is Spiderman 2.0... with robots. It's essentially a lot of scenes where you experience a battle of sorts (and get involved), then move on to the next. It's an amazing experience nonetheless.
Full details (including a script of the ride) soon!
True.......
I was expecting more........