(Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer) Jon Corfino, senior director and executive producer at Universal Creative, at the new Secret Life of Pets: Off the Leash! ride at Universal Studios Hollywood theme park, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Sidebar stories playing on living room TVs offer tips for newly adopted pets on how to beg for treats.Ī Snowball the rabbit animatronic just before riders board sets up the twist in the ride’s backstory: The riders are all pets seeking a forever home on adoption day. But for now, social distancing mandates keep the line moving quickly with little time to pause or peruse the Easter eggs sprinkled throughout the queue. The apartment couches and loveseats will offer a nice opportunity for a quick rest when the queue bogs down - although the hard plastic cushions aren’t very comfortable. Inside one mail slot, Leonard the posh poodle head-bangs to music as lights flash and a disco ball spins. The mail slots of the apartments offer video peeks at what pets do when their owners are away - the premise for the movie franchise. “It’s really one of the things we all relate with very much - that unconditional love.” “Let’s face it, we all love our pets,” said Universal Creative’s Jon Corfino, who served as senior director and executive producer on the Secret Life of Pets: Off the Leash. Secret Life of Pets riders enter through an apartment lobby where a tenant bulletin board sets up the backstory for the ride: It’s adoption day at the local pet store. The Secret Life of Pets dark ride is housed inside a newly constructed city block of five-story brownstones on the upper lot near the Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem ride - making up the new Illumination animation studios themed land. Preview of the new Secret Life of Pets: Off the Leash! ride at Universal Studios Hollywood theme park, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. The Secret Life of Pets dark ride offers an emphatic answer to critics who knock Universal Studios for relying too heavily on screen-based attractions that emphasize new high-tech bells and whistles at the expense of tried-and-true theme park storytelling tools. Universal previewed the Secret Life of Pets ride during soft opening “technical rehearsals” during the Taste of Universal food festival that ran through Sunday, April 11. The Hollywood theme park reopens to the general public on Friday, April 16 after a yearlong coronavirus closure. The new five-minute Secret Life of Pets attraction officially debuts on Thursday, April 15 during annual passholder Bonus Days at Universal Studios Hollywood. The new Secret Life of Pets dark ride at Universal Studios Hollywood strikes the right balance of animatronic figures and practical sets blended with video mapping projections and high-tech gimmickry to deliver a fun and frenetic attraction perfect for the modern day theme park.
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