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  • I am so glad I took my kids on this before it got shut down. And we bought the picture too :)

    And if taking this out wasn't bad enough they replaced it with the Mummy! Worst ride ever... of any park!

  • @Tukarama Yeah, I was mad to see it go, but that doesn't mean I'm going to let that blind my judgement on The Mummy's Revenge; it's one of the best indoor rollercoasters in existence. If you still want to be mad about a bad replacement, take a sit on Stitch's Great Escape. Replacing Alien Encounter with bathrooms would have still been better than Stitch.

  • I loved that ride. Sad that it is gone. :(

  • I love how you took that last shot of Kong towards the end of the ride. As if he was saying goodbye.... *sigh*

  • I loved this ride too, and now they've closed Jaws....boo hoo!

  • omg lmao at the end 4:30- "Passengers narrowly escaped disaster at the hands on King Kong!"(everyone inside- "doo dee doo, look at that silly monkey, la la la") hahahaha.

  • I can still remember the banana breath when you get up close and personal with him. The last time I rode this ride was back in 2001. They just don't make them like they use too.

  • My top favorite old rides

  • Man, this brings back memories. My mom loved this ride.

    I know some of these rides take a lot to maintain, but you would think that Universal could find a way to update these so that the younger generations don't forget the classics. If they can recreate Hogsmeade down the most minute details, surely these rides deserve a little love.

  • @klwwe23 totally agree. I never got to ride this ( I was 3 in 2002) If this could be remade somehow, I might visit the park more often. In my opinion they don't have anything like these rides anymore. It's sad.

  • They also closed down Nickeloden 4D its going to be Despicabel Me

  • I too young to remember this ride :,(

    But now there taking out jaws to expand the Harry Potter world

    -:(

    I'm so pissed I loved jaws so much

  • I rode this when I was little. It was amazing!!

  • now they r taking out jaws): i cried when i found out. i love that ride. sadly i was a bit too young to remember this one....but i have a very vague memory of riding it when i was maybe 4 or 5

  • @RAWRxD09 ya same here

  • You guys all know what thi

    S means right? Next ride they'll shut down is T2!!!! That ride/show was the first of its kind and that'll be the next ride universal will probably shut down!

  • Hi, does anyone know what this ride has been changed into now?

  • @musicalmolly the mummy... it's ok not near as good as this classic though!

  • @musicalmolly A mummy ride.

  • @musicalmolly

    "Revenge of The Mummy", an indoor roller coaster ride based on the 1999 remake of "The Mummy".

  • I used to love this ride as a kid. US got rid of all the good rides. Kong, Back to the Future and the Ghostbusters show they used to run.

  • I'm pretty sure this tram operator is acting like this on purpose, last day of ride, sure he was having fun...there are some bad spielers but this I think is intentional. lol. He's doing the biit like Troll 2 or something...

  • To the person who posted this video. My mom worked in USO from 1995 to 2005 and we loved this ride. We were so mad when they closed it. I know how you feel.

  • @acciofirebolt29 I worked at the park as well. I watched them build the ride. I have some of the King Kong Hair from the Ape in my collection

  • @TELEVISIONARCHIVES why did they close it???

  • @Ajtorres88 I believe the cost was very high to run the ride.

  • @TELEVISIONARCHIVES @TELEVISIONARCHIVES it was because it had to many technical difficulties, and all you have to do is buy 1 ticket for the whole park and you can ride all the rides you want.

    If your tall enough of course.

  • It looks like a....Warzone! lol

  • This ride scarred me so deeply when I was young, that up until about 14, I had reoccuring nightmares about it. But it has a place in my heart.

  • i hope they bring back this ride=(

  • really, they shouldve closed down the corny acting, not the ride

  • i kinda remmber this ride, i was fairly young though. i love the mummy but can't really tell which is better, i remmber being scared of king king LOL!

  • I lolled when I saw the cameraman at the end XD

  • Why does Universal need to put fire in like every attraction?

  • @TastyTacoBoy

    Fire = Fun.

  • I used to cry when I rode this.

  • what year was this

  • Revenge of the Mummy is better in my opinion

  • they put a new one called king kong 360 3d in the one in califorina

  • @hampsterbrick

    I wish they would have done that in Orlando

  • @AmericanNinja85 you know I think it sucked they took this out of universal studios in orlando.

  • what s the other ride called?

  • rode this ride a LONG time ago. scared the piss outta me! lol had my eyes closed the whole time

  • my sister dropped her hat on this ride back in 1997 i was so sad when they took it down. it was an important part of my childhood

  • The first time I rode this ride I was like 6 or 7, I remember how scared I was haha. I wish I would be able to go on it again. The Mummy ride is mediocre at best, this was pure genius. Too bad it took too much work and money to maintain.

  • The revenge of the Mummy is a great ride... BUT, I miss this one a lot!!

    BTW, When was this?

  • i thought you were the annoying person yelling all of these things then i finally noticed it was a recording for the ride hahaaahah

  • i think its so cool too bad its not there any more:(

  • king kong looks way better in hollywood

  • i dont think im ever going here or disney world:(

  • @molster14 me neither :(

  • i was like 6 when i first went on this. you are so close to the flames you can feel it! :D

  • That was some horrible acting.

  • y did they get rid of it ?

  • @percyjackson31001 idk it was a ride that everyone liked it was a classic in universal now all we got it jaws aaaand thats it

  • i really miss this ride. i hate that it's gone.i didn't even lik the movie but i loved this ride and faithfully got on it every time I went to Orlando. i'd take this over the mummy any day. thanx so much for posting this. at least i can relive my childhood thru this video.

  • King Kong, you will never be forgotten you are locked in many enjoyed riders hearts forever, i wish i was born then to ride you before you were taken down...... I will be 1 of many that will miss you alot and i know this ride is locked in my hesart forever! I LOVE U KING KONG! :( MISS THIS RIDE...

  • The good old days. They need to rebuild this. The 3D one is ridiculous. This was a real attraction.

  • One old ride i CAN remember... most of it at least

  • Dam they are stuffed in that tram, it's like nobody can move. lol. I never got to ride it but it looks like a very fun ride, I just don't think it was a busy day on the ride so it wasn't real hyped except everyone on line they cramped it one tram.

  • I loved this ride. The Kong ride based on the Peter Jackson film was an abomination. Peter Jackson's Kong film period was an abomination. They should have kept the ride based on the 1976 film.

  • "Stunned passengers..." LOL! everybody was absolutely calm in that train, some of them even looked bored.

  • i wish they still had this ride i never got to ride it :(

  • I was very little when I rode this,maybe about a year before it closed.

    I still love it.

    the ironic thing is a year after the mummy opens guess what!!!!

    A remake of King Kong comes out.

  • great memories. hit this ride everytime we wnet to FL.

    thanks for posting!!

  • i miss this!!! i was the last person besides my dad and sisters to ever ride that :) we got to go on it with no one else, cause we knew the people cause we were litterally there every weekend. lol i miss that :/

  • this ride was so beast. stupid mummy ride =(

  • this was a boring ride. this is the reason they got rid of it

  • Gotta love the banana breath...

  • I remember riding this ride, when I was little I use to be scared of it! lol

    Now its the revenge of the mummy now

  • i never had the chance to experience this ride :(....it was a classic :( 

  • @SuperArdi007 me either

  • last time i went on this i was about 7 or 8 but b4 that i went on it and was scared i was about 3 or 4 and crying i wouldnt even take a pic with king kong wish i got to ride it one more time b4 they put up the mummy but the mummy is way better

  • why did this ride shut down?????????????

  • I had the opportunity to ride this when I was 7 years old, but I didn't because I was too scared. I regret that now.

  • lmao the stunned passengers

  • the actor in this is hilarious.

  • Thank you so much for posting this video! The day I went to Universal to find they had taken this ride out was a very sad day indeed! Thanks again for the memories. :.o)

  • copy caters the real tram is better you should see

  • i have it be on this ride

  • Been to Universal all my life.

    I was scared to death of this ride.

    haha

  • omg

  • I am going to Orlando in September, and we are going to Universal Studious, so is the King Kong ride not here anymore? and also, is the underground earthquake not there anymore either? thanku :]

  • @Kaylz890 im going in september too. and yes earthquake is still there.

  • The King Kong 3d "Ride" out here was a shame. A ride? Its just a room the tram goes in with a 3d screen all around. Could have been a lot better.

  • this remind me whwen i was 6 yrs old

  • i hate the mummy for taking this ride down

  • @TheFinco1001 Don't hate the mummy. It burned down by fire.

  • Orlando should replace Twister or Disaster with King Kong 360-3D.

  • @TwilightLink77 i agree. no one likes twister lol

  • I kinda wish they would have kept this ride. It isn't as technological as the newer rides but it's still A clasic. But, I also wish they could have built revevnge of the mummy in another building or expand the park.

  • i was little whn I went on it and i was so confused

  • King Kong was replaced with the Revenge of the Mummy in Universal Orlando. In LA, there going to make King Kong 3d 360...or something like that...

    On a side note; I was going through albums in my closet and saw and old map and photo and Kong was one of the main attractions. It was dumb, but I sure miss this ride.

  • @ctotheairhail King Kong was brought back to USH as a 3-D 360 movie to replace the original that burned to the ground in the fire on June 1st, 2008 on the studio backlot tour. Actually, the new King Kong at USH opens today- their Youtube page confirms it.

  • lol nows theres The Mummy in the middle of New York :(

  • remineds me of jaws but not as good to be honest

  • i remember going on this when i was in the 4th grade :( memories Haha.

  • BTW is the anouncer guy cdalling the Autobots at 3:46!? LOL Oh no! He's picking us up! Do something! AUTOBOTS!

  • why is it going away?

  • i didnt know they even had a king kong ride

  • u guys r lucky i came the day it closed and it was my first time so i dident get to ride it that sucked i really wonted to ride it badly

  • Well I can see it was good in its day maybe, but with modern technology they HAD to replace it or rework it. They chose the former but the latter may have been interesting.

  • hey a.k.a. teddy here i have a long responds to the king kong ride first i love it and y they had to take it down and i was little when ride it that happen 6years ago teddys crying

  • I am only 13 but i was 6 when i went i cried r.i.p King kong!!!

  • Good riddance. Rode it once, LONG ago, and we could not belive how cheesey all the building, and the floor...PAINTED to look like a river and stuff. Absolutely pathetic.

  • This ride has so many memories for me as well. I used to ride it all the time when I was a kid. It was one of my favorites. Shame that they tore it down.

  • Damn...I never got to get on this ride!

  • i went on it when i was about 4-5 years old...amazing ride...i rode the mummy as well...and I can only say both rides are amazing

  • I was in The Ride in August 1993. It was amazing

  • my dad went on the ride

  • they replaced this with the spiderman ride

  • @sweetpeate1 no it was the mummy returns

  • @sweetpeate1 no it was the Mummy ride

  • no it is the mummy ride

  • no its the revenge of the mummy the ride

  • seems kinda lame

  • thers a ghost story about this ride go on wikepieda thats why staff are scared to ride an empty carrige alone to get to the other side

  • Try going on this ride when you were 4 it was hecka scary lol

  • I don't think so.

  • @TELEVISIONARCHIVES they are. they gave a commercial for it

  • @TELEVISIONARCHIVES s this cool or want

  • OMG i remeber when i rode this!! it was soo awesome! they should have lefted it here. AND i remember when they opened the mummy ride i was tricked into riding it because i HATE rollercoasters and it was HORRIBLE!!

  • damit i wanted to go on the king kong ride damit damit

  • I was there that very night, but they wouldn't let me ride it. They told me only certain special people could ride it because it was the last night. So upset.

  • i never got to ride this... but i rode back to the future.... i will miss that ride

  • they're coming out with a new one in california and now they're putting one FINALLY in florida i vacation there every year so i can finally test this thing out!

  • They are not building one in Florida . That ride is gone for good.

  • actually rumor had it, that they were going to put a king kong ride at IOA similar to Everst at Animal kingdom

  • @TELEVISIONARCHIVES what about King Kong 360 3D?

  • The first time i went to universal me and my family rode this sooo many times we couldnt stop then like..4 years later they wanna remove it and put earthquake there? like seriously.. earthquake or whatever it is sucks so bad i miss this.

  • @xMeganMichellex are you talking about the one in Florida? Mummy replaced King Kong. Disaster replaced Earthquake. Actually Disaster is the same ride just a few upgrades and a fresh coat of paint. The ride itself is virtually the same and it's in the same building. But if your referring to USH...then I take all that back lol.

  • They replaced King Kong with Revenge of the Mummy which is a far better ride to my opinion. And besides, their apparently creating a new Kong ride.

  • Actually, they replaced Kong with Revenge of the Mummy. Earthquake is a separate attraction which opened with the park in 1990, but what re-themed to "Disaster" a couple years ago.

    But either way, I agree. I miss Kong.

  • they are building a new and improved king kong in hollywood. went there yesterday and they showed us the site

  • i wrote my name with a sharpie on those graffitied stone walls in the beginning these was so much stuff written on those walls it made the wait much quicker lol now that im older i wish i could get back out to Universal studios sometime

  • why is he pickingon that one tram car

  • In Orlando?

  • Yeah I read that I forgot where i got it from but it said Orlando and I think California. 2010 it will be with the new rides coming to Orlando.

  • King kong ride is coming back in 2010. they made an announcement

  • Not in Orlando . And have friends in Hollywood. No news about it at all

  • Why did they closed it down?

  • Its Not the original ride , its a new hi-tech one in universal studios hollywood , King Kong : Escape From Skull Island 360 , its called , its in construction at the moment :)

  • They're building it in the area where the backlots burnt down, right?

  • @TELEVISIONARCHIVES its open in hollywood, nothing in orlando though

  • @TELEVISIONARCHIVES there is return to king kong 3d ride tram thing in it i think :)

  • Not in Florida

  • @xFANPiREbabex is it thats werid its 2011 now

  • @xFANPiREbabex No its Not

  • Honestly, I think replacing this ride with the Mummy was a good idea. Lets be real, the Mummy has more thrills and is more high tech. Now Back to the future with the Simpsons... I think that was stupid, there they just changed the theme and not the ride type itself... like with the Mummy.

  • I just got back from WDW and Universal Studios 2 days ago. I looked for this ride and was disappointed it was gone. I rode this a couple times before but that was about 10 years ago. I looked forward to it again but thanks to youtube I can relive the memories. Thanks for posting!

  • man i loved this ride thanx for reminding me how it was

  • I used to get lost in the sets of rides like this and wished I could get out and explore the city. Go inside those apartments etc. The new rides don't catch the imagination the same way

  • I rode King Kong (years ago, back when Universal first opened in Orlando). I could not believe how boring it was, let along how ABSOLUTELY HORRENDOUS the images within the ride were. The floor was just painted to represent water, a city...and nothing was 3d. King Kong, himself looked okay. The only really funny thing was the entire waiting line area smelled like bananas...in an attempt to get you think he was eating lots of them. Silly, really.

  • i miss this ride i can hardly remember any of it till i watched this thanks 4 upload m8

  • isnt the mummy ride were king kong waz

  • King Kong was a very boring ride, but it was fun, nonetheless. I'm happy I got to ride on it at least once. Like someone else said, it was one of the few nostalgic rides you could go on and not be knocked around every five seconds in. It was just some amusement.

    Oh, well.

  • I can't remember the details but I believe Kong was going to be more animated then it ended up being. I watched them build the ride and I remember someone telling me this and that was going to happen during the ride. But it never ended up in the ride.

  • jaws was replaced??

  • no. its still there

  • your right he sucks

  • That guide you guys had was the worst actor ever.

  • King Kong Dosent Look That Good But I carnt question it because i havent been on it :/ But I love the mummy ride its great better iif it was longer tho. I think universal studios should buit a gigantic ride like a really big steep ride ino they ahve just buit 'Hollywood rip raw rocket ride' But we need one like Shikra From Busch Gardens Tampa Bay <3 my opinon Louise From Uk <3

  • i loved this ride

  • it as my favorite ride, together with back to the future. bth gone and replaced by poor stuff...

  • Well considering the fact that the BTTF ride took place in 2015 (only a few years from now) they had to change something. I was super pissed when they got rid of it (BTTF is my all time favorite movie) but The Simpson's ride is actually pretty cool.

  • well universal cant really add more rides because all those buildingd, decorations, and all those studios take up all the space. Plus, universal is in a limited space when you think about it. Thats why both park(Universal studios and Islands of Adventure) are so small compared to all the other parks in Florida. But, they somehow manage to be the best parks in America and the World!

  • I take it you have only been to Universal?

  • This was my favorite ride there. :(

  • money MONEY MONEY, WHY DONT THEY JUST ADD MORE RIDS AND LEAVE THE OTHERS Alone! universal is mega rich!

  • well its the disaster and the mummy now right?!

    cuz in the disaster ride it has part of this ride, when there in the subway

  • It's the Mummy Ride. The Disaster Ride was the Earthquake Ride.

  • No. Disaster use to be Earthquake. Same ride, just different pre-shows. The Mummy took up the whole kong building. Disaster did nothing to kong.

  • That's what i said. The Disaster Ride was the Earthquake ride before they changed it. I should know.

  • isnt this now the mummy ride?!

  • yh it is, nd the mummy ride isn't as good