Back in July last year we spoke of rumors of a Simpsons Movie themed ride. More rumors have been flying around courteousy of LA Weekly, revealing the Simpsons ride will be called “Travel with Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie” and it will be the same kind of ride as Back to the Future. That is, the ride will be a motion simulated ride in which visitors board a stationary “car” that shifts in conjunction with the camera movements of an animated film projected onto a screen. The brain will process the coordinated movements so as to trick the viewer into thinking they are actually in transit.
The original title of this Imax format film was to be the “Simpsons: Sprint Through Springfield.” Apparently, some of the suits at Universal Orlando must have gotten convinced that people not fervently and fanatically tied to the show wouldn’t understand that Springfield is the town in which the show takes place. There’s no word yet on the actual “plot” of the film that will be used in the ride. And if you’re planning on heading down to Orlando this summer to find out, your wait will be slightly longer than the usual wait at the Jaws ride. If the columnists rumors are to be believed, the ride will open in Summer 2008.
SOURCE: AP