this is no ordinary video cassette it is a special encoder unit that links your
television with the batcaves mainframe computer system at Warner Brothers movie
world please hold initiating public you are now linked
with the batcaves mainframe computer system
Batman has pre-programmed the bat surveillance system to scan Warner
Brothers movie world
this week on expedition weekly we're heading across the world to movie world
on the Gold Coast in Australia with a look at the now-closed Warner Brothers
classics and great gremlins adventure Warner Brothers movie world get with a
grand artwork and you are there go on a studio tour through two exciting live
shows Rides adventures and more much more
it's a full days entertainments at Australia's biggest most spectacular
theme park Warner Brothers movie world Hollywood on the Gold Coast Warner
Warner Brothers movie world opened in 1991 next to the Warner Roadshow studio complex
designed by Cornelius Vanderbilt wood an American developer of amusement parks
and the chief developer of Disneyland who was reported to have had a
falling-out with Walt Disney and was fired and his involvement with the
creation of the park was omitted from all official histories of Disneyland he
also went on to design another Park that will be visited on Expedition extinct
Freedomland USA in the Bronx later in his life he became president of
recreational enterprises a division of Warner Brothers the park itself was
completed within 16 months converting swampland into a theme park with a
similar model to Universal Studios or Disney's MGM studios with a focus on the
attractions teach knew about making movies
opening day attractions included a movie studio tour special effects show police
academy stunt show and the Warner brother classics and the great gremlin
adventure queing for the new ride took place outside the show building before
entering groups inside you would visit into a movie theater where you would
watch out takes from various Warner Brothers films such as Batman Returns
but before the screening ended it was interrupted and the gremlins had taken
over boarding your twenty person ride vehicle the story was that you were
navigating your way through the film archive with over six thousand Warner
Brothers original film reels in order to escape the gremlins the slow-moving dark
ride moves for in the backstage film process with rooms film to editing
make up, storage as well as gremlins recreating classic Warner Bros film
scenes periodically throughout the attraction another Warner Brothers
character will appear Beetlejuice who would try and help you escape the movie
archive the ride ended with a vehicle crash effect and beetlejuice five years
after opening the ride a duplicate of the ride opened up Warner Brothers movie
world Germany Warner Brothers movie world
that is Hollywood in Germany this park had been open since 1967 under various
names and owners but was purchased by Warner Brothers in 1994 after closing a
year earlier due to not being very popular
they began construction and reimagining of the park in 1994 and the grand
opening was in June 1996 two years later
this version of the right would have some changes though Beatlejuice would not
appear but in his place for some reason was Alf
from the American sitcom that aired on MBC between 1986 and 1990 a little
background my name is Alf I come from the planet
melmac I'm a member of a civilization millions of years ahead of your own most
of the actual ride would remain the same however Alf would appear during the ride
to help the passengers this time and end the ride by electrocuting the gremlins he
was also featured in the pre-show being attacked by the gremlins the ending of
the ride was also changed which did not feature the police cars crashed outside
but rather an Alf animatronic in a firetruck along with gizmo
both versionsof the ride ran at the same time until in September 2001 the Australian park
announced it will be closing to make way for a new ride the following year that
new ride was the scooby doo spooky coaster the craziest
spine tingling journey ever created the new Scooby Doo Spooky Coaster a be afraid
afraid from a studio who brought you the lethal weapon Arnold Wild West
Warner Brothers movie world based on the 2002 live-action film which was actually
filmed at the studio adjacent to the park as the right was being constructed
it's a wild mouse roller coaster by Mack rides enclosed inside with a short dark
ride style section at the start including a swinging axe and spooky fiend audio
animatronics sections of the femen were removed in thousand and sixteen
due to them being a fire hazard and it was updated in 2018 as the next
generation of the ride with a new story still based around the 2002 film the
main entrance facade is seamed around the spooky Island Castle featured in the
movie behind this though the original attraction facade still exists two of
the pre-show theaters also still exist adjacent to the ridee queue line as well as
the unload station which is now used as an evacuation path from the coaster
the German version lasted until the closure of Warner Brothers movie world
on the 31st of October 2004 after it was sold to premiere parks now Six Flags in
1999 the park gained some large investments with action-packed
attractions no longer attracted the family crowd this decline in visitors
results in the park again be installed to star parks in April 2004 the
following year the park reopened as movie park Germany with everything
Warner Brothers removed and replaced with newer themes from a mixture of 20th
Century Fox MGM and Nickelodeon after the park was reopened the gremlins
invasion remain closed until it was replaced with Van Heelsings factory opening
in June 2011 the park was again purchased in 2010 by the same company
who owns Kenny wood and Parque Warner among many others the area of the park
had been seen as the negative section of the park and needed rework in and due to
the popularity of the Halloween event the parks general manager pitched the
idea of a horror rollercoaster just one month after the new owners acquisition
it was approved with a 5 million euro budget as a girstlaur bobsled coaster
themed to Van Helsing Germany behold a serious threat from our experts we've
learned that vampires will attack Germany within the next few months and
without a defense strategy there may be many casualties our only hope is van
Helsing for a period of time not one but two gremlins dark rides existed in the
world and this is one ride I didn't get to experience but wish I did one version
with the ghosts were the most and full animatronic Beetlejuice is and another
with Alf
the transmission is completely the bat mainframe computer system is now
shutting down after long office activated thank you so much for watching
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