The New KING KONG 360 3-D At Universal Studios Will Blow Your Mind!

A few months after the King Kong tram tour at Universal Studios was destroyed by the June 2008 fire, I visited the theme park and felt like something was missing, the backlot tour just wasn’t the same without the giant old animatronic. But last summer at Comic-Con ’09 Peter Jackson said the new King Kong that he and his VFX wizards are working on with Universal Studios is going to give you the ultimate experience…

He said the tram will still stop inside the same location but instead of a giant animatronic, there are going to be 8 projected images, 4 on each side covering the sides of the passengers. Those images will feature a scene from Peter Jackson’s awesome movie King Kong, where the big ape battles T-Rex. And there’s still going to be that ’smell-o-vision’ effect where the tram would shake with each tremble, when T-Rex got knocked down, you’d somehow feel the breath or the goo would get all over your face or somewhere along that line.
The new visual engaging tour will be called KING KONG 360 3-D and now LA Times has some more update on what we can anticipate..

When the attraction is complete, guests on the studio tour will board a tram that will enter a 200-foot-long soundstage, Johnson-Redrow said. Guests must don 3-D glasses for the 2 1/2 -minute attraction.
Inside the building, the tram will stop over a “tram-mover” system, powered by massive air bags that will lift, shake and drop the tram, giving guests the feeling of being jolted during the battle between Kong and the T. rex, she said.
The 180-foot-long screens will curve around the tram so that the 3-D images seem to surround the passengers. A system of fans, sprayers and other devices installed in the building will spew air, water and odors at park visitors to bring the images to life

park visitors will not only see Kong in three dimensions but also smell his banana breath, feel the gust of wind as he jumps over the guests and sense the ground quake when the ape engages a Tyrannosaurus rex in a life-or-death battle. The Kong attraction will be one stop on the park’s back lot studio tour ride.
During a recent preview of the technology, a dirty, battle-scarred Kong stared menacingly out from two 180-foot-long by 40-foot-tall screens that wrap around the trams that will carry visitors. In another scene, a 35-foot-tall T. rex stepped over the trams, turned to the audience and bared its massive teeth.

Wow, does that sound awesome or what!!!
It’s a good thing Peter Jackson came up with his 2005 version of the big ape in Skull Island, some of the scenes become the basis for this attraction.
Universal Studios show producer said visitors will be immersed, and it will be like AVATAR but “it’s happening all around you”
Ya know what, I think it’d be completely awesome if the 2005 movie KING KONG gets 3D conversion and re-released into IMAX theaters for limited engagement. Just think about it, hell we all know the movie had way better story than AVATAR.
But here’s a crazy conspiracy thought. What if the 2008 fire was intentional, just to make way for this new 3D tour to happen, dun, dun, dun!