E.T. Adventure Universal Studios Florida Dark Ride Full Experience POV 4K

We LOVE this ride! A magical piece of our childhood and it never gets old! E.T.'s healing touch travels through the Green Planet, reviving his friends and beginning a celebration with numerous baby E.T.s frolicking, banging on drums, swinging on ropes and crying out in joy. This lasts for about 3 minutes and is a huge contrast to the beginning; the beginning is dark and scary while this part of the ride is a beautiful symphony of joy, with spurting water and singing. At the end, the guests pass an animatronic E.T. (voiced by Pat Welsh) who thanks them all by the names that they gave to the travel agents/Spielberg's assistants. Then, in a flash of light, guests are sent back to Earth and into the unload area. As guests leave the ride, they can sometimes hear E.T.'s voice reminding them, "I'll be right here."Inside the interior queue is a dark forest setting filled with redwood trees, which resembles the scene in the film where E.T. is trying to evade police capture, along with the smell of pine that fills the queue. An animatronic Botanicus periodically rises from the cracking earth in a majestic and ominous fashion. The crowd are presented with a glorious light display accompanied with thick plumes of smoke. Botanicus the Great pleads for E.T.'s return, in a tearful soliloquy. He takes it upon himself to give the people informative lore concerning every possible aspect of the ride they may need. Along the queue line, guests pass by the communication device E.T. constructed in the film to phone home, including a Speak & Spell prop that actively displays the letters H-E-L-P E-T one at a time. An animatronic rabbit is somewhat hidden within the queue, referencing the one that appears in the film's opening. A glowing red heart can also be seen on occasion moving through the trees, meant to signify E.T.'s run from police in the film. The queue ends at the loading platform where guests board ride vehicles. Each individual seat is a bicycle, whose handles come down as the lap bars. The bike in the middle of the front row contains E.T. However, in the attraction's early years, guests also had the option of riding in a spaceship modeled after the one that E.T. came to Earth on in the movie; these ride vehicles were removed as guests preferred to ride the bikes, given how iconic they were in the famous flying scene in the movie. The vehicles travel past NASA and police officials who give chase and try to arrest the riders and capture E.T. As they are about to be caught, a police car appears out of nowhere and just as they are about to hit it, the bicycles begin to fly over the city and then into outer space. From their bikes, the guests can see a miniature city below, including real moving cars and even a football stadium and two baseball fields. The bikes are then transported to a kind of portal area with flashing lights which, when finally turned around, arrive at the Green Planet. The guests then encounter Botanicus, who urges the visitors to save E.T.'s friends. #universalstudios #universalorlando #etmovie #darkride #universalparks #universalstudiosflorida #themepark #familyride #familyvacation #thecoasterviews