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Today we are going to give you a review of a Citywalk experience. Please feel free to comment on your personal experience and tell us what you think of our opinion. We would like to know if you are looking for a special request on any venue inside Universal Studios Hollywood or Citywalk Hollywood.
Today, we visitied one of the new venues within Citywalk: Johnny Rockets Resturant and Sports Lounge.
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For my first attempt with a post here, I would like to send you a link to my highest viewed Universal attraction video on YouTube. This is my final video of the original King Kong attraction on the Studio Tour. As we all know, this attraction burned down in an historical fire on the Universal Backlot in June 2008. This video was recorded on my Hi Def camera only a couple of months before we lost the attraction forever. I hope you enjoy, like so many others have, a moment where physical props were more popular and CGI was still a thing of the future.
Skillz5
Universal’s official advertisement for Transformers: The Ride has just premiered during the Super Bowl. If you haven’t caught it already, here’s a YouTube video of the ad below.
Universal City, California –Universal Studios HollywoodSM prepares for battle with the debut of an innovative, national 30-second commercial for its exciting, new motion-based thrill ride, “Transformers™: The Ride-3D,” debuting May 2012. The spot, which airs on February 5 during NBC’s Super Bowl Pre-Game coverage, will also introduce PrepareForBattle.com, an interactive website designed to engage fans with exclusive intel as the campaign’s momentum escalates.
The evocative spot marks Universal Studios Hollywood’s inaugural consumer awareness effort for its marketing campaign launching “Transformers: The Ride-3D.” When NBC’s Super Bowl game coverage once again transcends sports to captivate the nation, Universal Studios Hollywood’s spot will capture consumer imagination as the movie-based theme park sets the stage for its epic new ride, envisioned to completely and uniquely revolutionize the next generation of immersive themed rides.
The spot will culminate with a call to action, challenging viewers to enlist at PrepareForBattle.com as N.E.S.T. volunteers within an elite AUTOBOT –human combat force. The PrepareForBattle.com website includes an interactive, online game in which fans and theme park enthusiasts will compete to rise up the military ranks by successfully completing missions involving exclusive videos, downloads and trivia. Players achieving the highest accumulated point totals will win prizes including original TRANSFORMERS collectibles and a grand prize trip to experience “Transformers: The Ride–3D” at Universal Studios Hollywood.
From Entertainment Weekly:
Universal is marking its 100th anniversary this year with a yearlong celebration of its cinematic legacy. The studio will mark the occasion with an “updated animated logo” that will debut before Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, which opens March 2. Perhaps of greater interest to film enthusiasts is the news that Universal will restore 13 of its classic films, including All Quiet on the Western Front, The Birds, Buck Privates, Dracula (1931), Dracula Spanish (1931), Frankenstein, Jaws, Schindler’s List, Out of Africa, Pillow Talk, Bride of Frankenstein, The Sting, and To Kill a Mockingbird, which will debut on Blu-ray on Jan. 31. Jaws and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, which celebrates its 30th anniversary, will also receive special Blu-ray editions later this year.
“This is a proud moment for all of us who’ve had the privilege of working at Universal Pictures,” Ron Meyer, Universal Studios president and COO, said in a statement. “Our centennial is designed to bring special memories back to longtime movie lovers and fans, and to engage new audiences with our extraordinary library of films for the first time. Our goal, 100 years later, is to preserve, restore and continue the iconic legacy of this studio for generations to come.”
I’m going to reserve final judgement until I see the logo moving, but when did Universal become ‘A Comcast Company’? What happened to NBCUniversal and General Electric’s 49% stake?
