Earthquake: The Big One at Universal Studios Florida | 2002

The original version of Earthquake: The Big One.

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Taped a little bit of the exterior queue, showing some props used in the Flintstones.

You enter the first theater which has photographs of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. A casting director is here to welcome you. Then he/she would select a few people from the audience to take part in a reenactment scene from the Earthquake film. Someone from the audience would also be selected to perform a "stunt" as well.

Then you enter the next theatre and watch a small film hosted by Charlton Heston explaining how all the effects were created in the Earthquake movie. After the film is done the screen rises to reveal a porton of the actual scale model that was used in the movie.

The third theater is where all the selected guests from the pre-show perform the reenactments, which included an escalator in a shopping mall and the "stunt" guest falls down a collapsed stairwell.

Finally, you enter the subway set and experience the ride attraction.


Earthquake closed November 5, 2007 was replaced with Disaster!: A Major Motion Picture Ride...Starring You! on January 17, 2008.

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