Universal Orlando has opened its first-ever escape room experience, inspired by Jurassic World and Back to the Future, at Universal Citywalk.
Universal’s Great Movie Escape offers two interactive missions, based on Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World and Amblin Entertainment’s Back to the Future.
The cinematic experiences each feature eight immersive environments with state-of-the-art challenges, detailed sets and thrilling storylines.
Universal’s award-winning entertainment team worked with escape room experts and the Back to the Future and Jurassic World filmmakers to develop the new attraction.
Universal’s Great Movie Escape
Per a press release, Universal’s Great Movie Escape goes beyond the typical escape room. Each experience is randomised, story-driven, customisable, and adjustable based on skill level.
During Jurassic World: Escape, visitors star as new geneticists at a secret lab on Isla Nublar. They are undergoing training, which includes feeding ferocious dinosaurs and splicing dinosaur DNA to create new genetic codes.
When guests discover an apex predator has broken free, they must work together to avoid becoming its prey.
In Back to the Future: OUTATIME, visitors are transported to a museum in 1993. They learn that Biff has stolen Doc Brown’s latest time travel device to sabotage the space-time continuum.
Guests must work together to uncover Doc Brown’s clues as they travel through time to find Biff and save the past and future before running “outatime”.
Meanwhile, Universal Orlando is opening a new Minions-themed attraction called ‘Illumination’s Villain-Con Minion Blast’ in summer 2023.
NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell has confirmed that construction on Universal Orlando’s new Epic Universe theme park is on track for a 2025 opening.
“We’re right on track, literally right on track. We expect to open it in 2025,” he said.
“I was down there a couple of weeks ago and everything’s coming out of the ground,” added Shell. “So all the infrastructure is in, a lot of the steel is in, and now it’s just a question of building [it] out.”
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