Indiana Jones Adventure
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Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye is a dark ride
motion simulator
attraction based on the Indiana Jones films. Guests accompany intrepid archeologist Dr. Indiana Jones
on a quest for the Jewel of Power through a dangerous lost temple, then board military troop transport vehicles for a turbulent high speed adventure. It premiered at Disneyland
to invitation-only celebrities on March 3, 1995, and opened to the general public on March 4, 1995.
Tokyo DisneySea
hosts Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Crystal Skull, a nearly identical adventure, in Chiba, Japan
. (This attraction is not to be confused with the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which was developed and released after the attraction's opening.)
at Disney's Hollywood Studios
in Orlando
, Florida
, George Lucas
decided to join forces with Disney in creating a new attraction for Disneyland Park
in Anaheim
, California
. Unlike the previous collaboration, this attraction was created with a backstory "set in the Lost Delta of India, circa 1935". Indiana Jones Adventure is the fourth collaboration between Disney and Lucasfilm
, after the Disneyland attractions Captain EO
, Star Tours
, and Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!.
Several early concepts were considered including a walk-through adventure and a high-speed mine car adventure within a temple. To avoid a long queue, Imagineers considered using Jungle Cruise
launches to shuttle guests to the loading area. Imagineers literally had to wait for technology to catch up to their technique of story telling. Many may think the star of the show is Indy himself, but the key element used in telling this story is the troop transport vehicle. The team tested key show elements in a Burbank warehouse on a full sized elevated track that resembled a freeway. This enabled the team to test set work, lighting, effects, transport clearances and motion profiles. George Lucas was amazed by the team's ability to figure out such an ingenious way to put guests into the Indiana Jones films.
Groundbreaking for the Temple of the Forbidden Eye occurred in August 1993. More than 400 Imagineers worked on its design and construction. Tony Baxter
led a core project team of nearly 100 Imagineers. To create space for the 0.5 mile (0.80467 km) queue area and the 50000 square feet (4,645.2 m²) show building
, an area of the former "Eeyore" parking lot was demolished, in addition to the rerouting of the Monorail and Jungle Cruise attractions.
Disney filed for patent on the ride-system on November 16, 1995.
The Temple of the Forbidden Eye premiered on March 3, 1995. Among the invited celebrity guests were George Lucas
, Michael Eisner
(Disney CEO at the time), Dan Aykroyd
, and Carrie Fisher
. To promote the opening of the attraction the Disney Channel
produced an hour-long TV program entitled Indiana Jones Adventure featuring Karen Allen
and John Rhys-Davies
reprising their roles from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Forty days prior to the attraction's opening, a "Forty Years of Adventure" promotion giveaway of 40 unique annual trading cards began. Guests with valid paid admission received a voucher at the main gate turnstile to exchange for the card of the day, each in a series featuring the landmark attraction of the year starting with 1955. The last card was distributed on March 2, 1995. A special "41st" card of larger issue featured the Indiana Jones Adventure on March 3. Artist Drew Struzan
produced a one-sheet poster in the same theme as the films. The adventure opened to general admission on March 4.
AT&T
sponsored construction of the attraction and the first seven years of operation, from 1995 to 2002. One of three styles of Marabic decoder cards was distributed to each guest, advertising their promotional campaign on the back. "It’s great to have AT&T as presenting sponsor," said Disneyland President Paul Pressler
. "With Disneyland celebrating its 40th Anniversary and preparing to open its most exciting attraction, we welcome the opportunities this relationship is sure to create." Currently the attraction has no sponsor.
scattered throughout the queue as well as three newsreel
s shown before guests board the attraction. Indiana Jones
has reunited missing fragments of a map scroll of parchment documenting the precise location of an ancient Bengal
ese temple. The Temple of the Forbidden Eye, containing countless intriguing artifacts buried beneath silt by a flood of the Lost River Delta over two thousand years ago, is undergoing excavation for archeological research. The temple deity Mara
seems to conditionally offer one of three gifts to all who come to the hallowed site: earthly riches, eternal youth, or visions of the future. The only condition is that one may never gaze into the eyes of Mara. Although Jones’ discovery, dubbed the "Temple of the Forbidden Eye" by the media, has set the archaeological community abuzz, his funding has run out. To raise money so the excavation can continue, Sallah
has begun conducting guided tours. Good fortune has come to many of the tourists who survive, but others have not returned. Promising to find the missing tourists, Jones ventured inside the temple approximately one week ago, and has not yet reappeared. Jones also hoped to find the temple’s power source: the mysterious “Jewel of Power”, which Abner Ravenwood believed to be within an immense cavern, beyond the Gates of Doom. Marcus Brody has asked Sallah to continue conducting the tours, in the hope they may locate Dr. Jones.
The queue begins outside where guests wind past a 2.5 ton
Mercedes-Benz
troop transport truck. This is the actual vehicle used in the famous desert chase scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. A small mining car near the truck is a movie prop as well, used in the mine scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
. Guests also walk by a noisy steam-powered engine/generator set, which appears to power the lights strung deep into the temple.
Much of the queue is inside the temple itself. Throughout the bowels of the temple, petroglyph
s in "Marabic" warn temple visitors of the rewards and perils that can be found further within. These can be translated into English using a simple one for one substitution encoding. In the early months of the attraction's existence at Disneyland, guests were given decoder cards; while these cards are no longer distributed, the code is easily solvable as each symbol bears a strong resemblance to its corresponding letter in the English alphabet
. The sole exception is the letter I
, which, appropriately, resembles an eye
. Where the text is painted, vowel
s appear in red.
The queue contains several interactive features. In the “spike room”, the ceiling appears to be retained by several upright bamboo poles. When the key supporting pole is pushed up into the ceiling, guests are startled by sounds of the ceiling dropping as the spikes begin to descend slowly toward them. In the next area, large stone blocks released from the ceiling (triggered by the diamond-shaped stones below) are barely kept in place by wooden wedges and supports. Further on, in the Rotunda Calendar, pulling on a rope triggers responses from Dr. Dunfor Pullit, an out-of-sight archeologist supported by the rope beneath the sarcophagus stone. Various crates throughout the queue contain some significant features such as one with number "990 6753" referring to the number that marked the crate holding the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost Ark and another one that is marked "Deliver to Club Obi Wan" referring to "Club Obi Wan" a fictional club at the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
and also a reference to Obi Wan Kenobi from Star Wars
.
Eventually, guests encounter a projection of a newsreel of the discovery, followed by a safety spiel by Sallah.
Part of the attraction extends into what was once the Eeyore section of Disneyland's parking lot. As a tribute, an Eeyore sign is supported by wooden scaffolding at the very back of the projector room. Also, Mickey and Minnie are on the cover of Life Magazine in Professor Jones' office.
(EMV) intended to appear as a battered military troop transport. EMV's ride on neoprene filled tires (for operational precision) driven by brushless DC motors in the wheel hub atop the surface of a slotted roadbed. The track has only three switches: a left/right split switch just before loading/unloading, a left/right combine switch just after safety check station/dispatch and a compound switch to swap vehicles in/out of the maintenance bay, behind the mirrors. Beneath the slot a tubular guideway guides the front wheelset and a damper for the rear wheelset, and three electrical buss bars provide the EMV 480 volts AC. The power is divided among the two motion systems, control, safety and audio systems. Each transport can accommodate twelve guests with three rows of seats, four across, with the front left seat behind a non-operational steering wheel.
Each troop transport is a motion simulator which travels at a maximum speed of just over 14 miles per hour (6.3 m/s) atop a slotted roadbed / guiderail track. The transport carbody is attached by three hydraulic rams to the frame of the chassis, and allow the shell to articulate independently. A guest's physically intense experience is programed to achieve the illusion of greater speed and catastrophic mechanical failure using the enhanced-motion vehicle's ability to add several feet of lift then rapidly descend, shudder and tremble, and intensify cornering with counterbank and twist.
This ride system was invented for the Indiana Jones Adventure, and has only been implemented in two other attractions – DINOSAUR
, located at Disney's Animal Kingdom
(opened as CTX: Countdown to Extinction) in Orlando, Florida, and its Tokyo DisneySea counterpart, Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Crystal Skull. However, the Japanese version uses linear-inductive actuators instead of three hydraulic rams. The 35 gallons of hydraulic fluid used on the Disneyland version takes two hours to clean up the track when a hose splits. Because of Japan's environmental codes regarding oil spills, the design team elected to substitute electromagnetic actuators on the ride vehicle. Three of these actuators are used to create a 3-D (pitch, roll, and elevation) motion platform chassis on which the carbody sits.
The various passages heard in the attraction, and the track times at which the original versions can be found on the soundtracks for the films, follow the next entries in italics.
Here guests are presented with three doors. One of the three doors begins to glow more brightly than the other two, and Mara announces which gift the passengers have chosen to receive. The doors open, and the passengers enter.
"The Map Room: Dawn" 3:28 – Raiders of the Lost Ark
At the end of the tunnel, the eyes of a large idol of Mara begin to flash and smoke as it says
"The Map Room: Dawn", 2:25 (Raiders of the Lost Ark).
technology. "The Miracle of the Ark", 3:31 (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
struggles to keep the doors closed. Jones scolds the tourists for looking into the eyes of the idol and instructs them to proceed up the steps to the left. The transport then accelerates up the flight of stairs. "The Desert Chase", 1:19 (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
"Bones," an official "Hidden Mickey
," is a skeleton at the left, beside the exitway, with its right arm outstretched toward the track, wearing a Mouseke-ears hat backward, displaying the embroidered name "Bones". "Nocturnal Activities", 3:28 (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
The transport's headlights flicker back on, illuminating walls swarming with thousands of beetles. Hissing sounds are heard, and adventurers are blasted with puffs of air. "The Well of Souls", 0:22 (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
appears to the right of the vehicle, striking at the riders. "Slalom on Mt. Humol", 0:28 (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
Turning left, out of the massive stone effigy, the transport continues downward, crossing a smoldering wooden bridge beside the glowing lava, and passing under the rope bridge. "The Mine Car Chase", 1:06 (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom).
As the transport nears the root, many rats are seen climbing across it and falling off into the car when another burst of speed sends the car through the tree root, which vaporizes like mist. (This effect is not achieved through holography
, but through a simple video projection onto a water vapor sheet screen.) "Slalom on Mt. Humol", 0:49 (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
-wielding skeletal warriors adorning the walls. Each warrior's mouth supports a blowgun within. Blasts of air whoosh past adventurers and launching darts are heard striking the transport as it rolls over the trigger stones between the skeletal warriors, as though the tourists have set off booby traps. "Bug Tunnel and Death Trap", 2:18 (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
He welcomes the adventurers' rescue and bids them to turn on the headlights and prepare for him to board. As the lights flicker on, they illuminate a massive 16 feet (4.9 m) boulder rolling toward the transport. The transport seems to back up as the boulder threatens to crush Jones and the tourists. (This effect is achieved by moving the walls of the room forward, not moving the vehicle backward.) At the last possible second, the transport accelerates and suddenly the floor seems to give way, sending the transport into the chamber below. An impact resonates through the chamber, as if the boulder has crashed down, nearly striking the transport. "Fast Streets of Shanghai", 2:50 (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
"Flight from Peru", 1:18 (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
A final triumphant refrain of the music ushers the guests back into the station. "The Raiders' March", 2:21 (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
While waiting to disembark, Sallah announces over the mobile radio transceiver one of several "please remain seated" messages; more often than not the spiel is mismatched from the Hall of Promise experience, such as:
"If you drank too much from Fountain of Youth, we will be happy to assist you with strollers," when the adventurers experienced the Chamber of Earthly Riches.
Dark ride
A dark ride or ghost train is an indoor amusement ride where riders in guided vehicles travel through specially lit scenes that typically contain animation, sound, music, and special effects....
motion simulator
Motion simulator
A motion simulator or motion platform is a mechanism that encapsulates occupants and creates the effect/feelings of being in a moving vehicle...
attraction based on the Indiana Jones films. Guests accompany intrepid archeologist Dr. Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones
Colonel Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., Ph.D. is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Indiana Jones franchise. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg created the character in homage to the action heroes of 1930s film serials...
on a quest for the Jewel of Power through a dangerous lost temple, then board military troop transport vehicles for a turbulent high speed adventure. It premiered at Disneyland
Disneyland Park (Anaheim)
Disneyland Park is a theme park located in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of the Walt Disney Company. Known as Disneyland when it opened on July 18, 1955, and still almost universally referred to by that name, it is the only theme park to be...
to invitation-only celebrities on March 3, 1995, and opened to the general public on March 4, 1995.
Tokyo DisneySea
Tokyo DisneySea
is a 176-acre theme park at the Tokyo Disney Resort located in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, just outside Tokyo. It opened on September 4, 2001. It is owned by The Oriental Land Company, which licenses the theme from The Walt Disney Company. Tokyo DisneySea attracted an estimated 12 million visitors in...
hosts Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Crystal Skull, a nearly identical adventure, in Chiba, Japan
Chiba Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region and the Greater Tokyo Area. Its capital is Chiba City.- History :Chiba Prefecture was established on June 15, 1873 with the merger of Kisarazu Prefecture and Inba Prefecture...
. (This attraction is not to be confused with the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which was developed and released after the attraction's opening.)
History
Because of the success of Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!
Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular is a live amusement show at Disney's Hollywood Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. Based on the popular and successful Indiana Jones film franchise, it includes various stunts and live reenacted scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark...
at Disney's Hollywood Studios
Disney's Hollywood Studios
Disney's Hollywood Studios is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort. Spanning 135 acres in size, its theme is show business, drawing inspiration from the heyday of Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s...
in Orlando
Orlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...
, Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
, George Lucas
George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an American film producer, screenwriter, and director, and entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Lucasfilm. He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones...
decided to join forces with Disney in creating a new attraction for Disneyland Park
Disneyland Park (Anaheim)
Disneyland Park is a theme park located in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of the Walt Disney Company. Known as Disneyland when it opened on July 18, 1955, and still almost universally referred to by that name, it is the only theme park to be...
in Anaheim
Anaheim, California
Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was about 365,463, making it the most populated city in Orange County, the 10th most-populated city in California, and ranked 54th in the United States...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. Unlike the previous collaboration, this attraction was created with a backstory "set in the Lost Delta of India, circa 1935". Indiana Jones Adventure is the fourth collaboration between Disney and Lucasfilm
Lucasfilm
Lucasfilm Limited is an American film production company founded by George Lucas in 1971, based in San Francisco, California. Lucas is the company's current chairman and CEO, and Micheline Chau is the president and COO....
, after the Disneyland attractions Captain EO
Captain EO
Captain EO is a 3-D science fiction film starring Michael Jackson and directed by Francis Ford Coppola that was shown at Disney theme parks from 1986 through the 1990s...
, Star Tours
Star Tours
Star Tours is a motion simulator attraction currently operating at Tokyo Disneyland and Disneyland Park at Disneyland Paris. The ride is based on the successful Star Wars film series created by George Lucas, making it the first Disney attraction based on a non-Disney produced film.The first...
, and Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!.
Several early concepts were considered including a walk-through adventure and a high-speed mine car adventure within a temple. To avoid a long queue, Imagineers considered using Jungle Cruise
Jungle Cruise
The Jungle Cruise is an attraction located in Adventureland at many Disney Parks, including Disneyland, Magic Kingdom, and Tokyo Disneyland. At Hong Kong Disneyland, the attraction is named Jungle River Cruise...
launches to shuttle guests to the loading area. Imagineers literally had to wait for technology to catch up to their technique of story telling. Many may think the star of the show is Indy himself, but the key element used in telling this story is the troop transport vehicle. The team tested key show elements in a Burbank warehouse on a full sized elevated track that resembled a freeway. This enabled the team to test set work, lighting, effects, transport clearances and motion profiles. George Lucas was amazed by the team's ability to figure out such an ingenious way to put guests into the Indiana Jones films.
Groundbreaking for the Temple of the Forbidden Eye occurred in August 1993. More than 400 Imagineers worked on its design and construction. Tony Baxter
Tony Baxter (imagineer)
Tony Wayne Baxter is currently Senior Vice President, Creative Development, Walt Disney Imagineering, and is responsible for overall creative direction for the Disneyland Resort....
led a core project team of nearly 100 Imagineers. To create space for the 0.5 mile (0.80467 km) queue area and the 50000 square feet (4,645.2 m²) show building
Show building
Show building is the name often given to various enclosed structures at theme parks that contain attractions such as rides or entertainment shows...
, an area of the former "Eeyore" parking lot was demolished, in addition to the rerouting of the Monorail and Jungle Cruise attractions.
Disney filed for patent on the ride-system on November 16, 1995.
The Temple of the Forbidden Eye premiered on March 3, 1995. Among the invited celebrity guests were George Lucas
George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an American film producer, screenwriter, and director, and entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Lucasfilm. He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones...
, Michael Eisner
Michael Eisner
Michael Dammann Eisner is an American businessman. He was the chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until 2005.-Early life:...
(Disney CEO at the time), Dan Aykroyd
Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM is a Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.-Early...
, and Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher
Carrie Frances Fisher is an American actress, novelist, screenwriter, and lecturer. She is most famous for her portrayal of Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy, her bestselling novel Postcards from the Edge, for which she wrote the screenplay to the film of the same name, and her...
. To promote the opening of the attraction the Disney Channel
Disney Channel
Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. The channel's headquarters is located on West Alameda Ave. in...
produced an hour-long TV program entitled Indiana Jones Adventure featuring Karen Allen
Karen Allen
Karen Jane Allen is an American actress best known for her role as Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull...
and John Rhys-Davies
John Rhys-Davies
John Rhys-Davies is a Welsh actor and voice actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the charismatic Arab excavator Sallah in the Indiana Jones films and the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy...
reprising their roles from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Forty days prior to the attraction's opening, a "Forty Years of Adventure" promotion giveaway of 40 unique annual trading cards began. Guests with valid paid admission received a voucher at the main gate turnstile to exchange for the card of the day, each in a series featuring the landmark attraction of the year starting with 1955. The last card was distributed on March 2, 1995. A special "41st" card of larger issue featured the Indiana Jones Adventure on March 3. Artist Drew Struzan
Drew Struzan
Drew Struzan is an American artist known for his more than 150 movie posters, which include all the films in the Indiana Jones, Back to the Future and Star Wars film series. He has also painted album covers, collectibles, and book covers.- Early life and education :Drew Struzan was born in Oregon...
produced a one-sheet poster in the same theme as the films. The adventure opened to general admission on March 4.
AT&T
AT&T
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sponsored construction of the attraction and the first seven years of operation, from 1995 to 2002. One of three styles of Marabic decoder cards was distributed to each guest, advertising their promotional campaign on the back. "It’s great to have AT&T as presenting sponsor," said Disneyland President Paul Pressler
Paul Pressler
Paul Pressler is an advisor of the New York- and London-based private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. Formerly president and CEO of Gap, Inc...
. "With Disneyland celebrating its 40th Anniversary and preparing to open its most exciting attraction, we welcome the opportunities this relationship is sure to create." Currently the attraction has no sponsor.
Story
The story, set in 1935, is told through twelve letters and telegramsTelegraphy
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages via some form of signalling technology. Telegraphy requires messages to be converted to a code which is known to both sender and receiver...
scattered throughout the queue as well as three newsreel
Newsreel
A newsreel was a form of short documentary film prevalent in the first half of the 20th century, regularly released in a public presentation place and containing filmed news stories and items of topical interest. It was a source of news, current affairs and entertainment for millions of moviegoers...
s shown before guests board the attraction. Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones
Colonel Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., Ph.D. is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Indiana Jones franchise. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg created the character in homage to the action heroes of 1930s film serials...
has reunited missing fragments of a map scroll of parchment documenting the precise location of an ancient Bengal
Bengal
Bengal is a historical and geographical region in the northeast region of the Indian Subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. Today, it is mainly divided between the sovereign land of People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, although some regions of the previous...
ese temple. The Temple of the Forbidden Eye, containing countless intriguing artifacts buried beneath silt by a flood of the Lost River Delta over two thousand years ago, is undergoing excavation for archeological research. The temple deity Mara
Mara (demon)
In Buddhism, Māra is the demon that tempted Gautama Buddha by trying to seduce him with the vision of beautiful women who, in various legends, are often said to be Mara's daughters. In Buddhist cosmology, Mara personifies unwholesome impulses, unskillfulness, the "death" of the spiritual life...
seems to conditionally offer one of three gifts to all who come to the hallowed site: earthly riches, eternal youth, or visions of the future. The only condition is that one may never gaze into the eyes of Mara. Although Jones’ discovery, dubbed the "Temple of the Forbidden Eye" by the media, has set the archaeological community abuzz, his funding has run out. To raise money so the excavation can continue, Sallah
Sallah
Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir, better known as Sallah , is a fictional character played by John Rhys-Davies in two of the four Indiana Jones films: Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade...
has begun conducting guided tours. Good fortune has come to many of the tourists who survive, but others have not returned. Promising to find the missing tourists, Jones ventured inside the temple approximately one week ago, and has not yet reappeared. Jones also hoped to find the temple’s power source: the mysterious “Jewel of Power”, which Abner Ravenwood believed to be within an immense cavern, beyond the Gates of Doom. Marcus Brody has asked Sallah to continue conducting the tours, in the hope they may locate Dr. Jones.
Queue
The attraction’s immersive and carefully detailed queue leads guests through dimly lit caverns and eerie passageways containing booby-trapped sections reminiscent of the Indiana Jones movies.The queue begins outside where guests wind past a 2.5 ton
Truck classification
In the United States, commercial truck classification is determined based on the vehicle's gross vehicle weight rating . The classes range from 1-8...
Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz
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troop transport truck. This is the actual vehicle used in the famous desert chase scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. A small mining car near the truck is a movie prop as well, used in the mine scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the second film in the Indiana Jones franchise and prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark . After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone...
. Guests also walk by a noisy steam-powered engine/generator set, which appears to power the lights strung deep into the temple.
Much of the queue is inside the temple itself. Throughout the bowels of the temple, petroglyph
Petroglyph
Petroglyphs are pictogram and logogram images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, and abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images...
s in "Marabic" warn temple visitors of the rewards and perils that can be found further within. These can be translated into English using a simple one for one substitution encoding. In the early months of the attraction's existence at Disneyland, guests were given decoder cards; while these cards are no longer distributed, the code is easily solvable as each symbol bears a strong resemblance to its corresponding letter in the English alphabet
English alphabet
The modern English alphabet is a Latin alphabet consisting of 26 letters and 2 ligatures – the same letters that are found in the Basic modern Latin alphabet:...
. The sole exception is the letter I
I
I is the ninth letter and a vowel in the basic modern Latin alphabet.-History:In Semitic, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative in Egyptian, but was reassigned to by Semites, because their word for "arm" began with that sound...
, which, appropriately, resembles an eye
Human eye
The human eye is an organ which reacts to light for several purposes. As a conscious sense organ, the eye allows vision. Rod and cone cells in the retina allow conscious light perception and vision including color differentiation and the perception of depth...
. Where the text is painted, vowel
Vowel
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s appear in red.
The queue contains several interactive features. In the “spike room”, the ceiling appears to be retained by several upright bamboo poles. When the key supporting pole is pushed up into the ceiling, guests are startled by sounds of the ceiling dropping as the spikes begin to descend slowly toward them. In the next area, large stone blocks released from the ceiling (triggered by the diamond-shaped stones below) are barely kept in place by wooden wedges and supports. Further on, in the Rotunda Calendar, pulling on a rope triggers responses from Dr. Dunfor Pullit, an out-of-sight archeologist supported by the rope beneath the sarcophagus stone. Various crates throughout the queue contain some significant features such as one with number "990 6753" referring to the number that marked the crate holding the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost Ark and another one that is marked "Deliver to Club Obi Wan" referring to "Club Obi Wan" a fictional club at the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the second film in the Indiana Jones franchise and prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark . After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone...
and also a reference to Obi Wan Kenobi from Star Wars
Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
.
Eventually, guests encounter a projection of a newsreel of the discovery, followed by a safety spiel by Sallah.
Part of the attraction extends into what was once the Eeyore section of Disneyland's parking lot. As a tribute, an Eeyore sign is supported by wooden scaffolding at the very back of the projector room. Also, Mickey and Minnie are on the cover of Life Magazine in Professor Jones' office.
Vehicle
Guests board an Enhanced Motion VehicleEnhanced motion vehicle
-EMV :Disney filed for patent on the Enhanced Motion Vehicle ride system on November 16, 1995.This ride system was developed for the Indiana Jones Adventure...
(EMV) intended to appear as a battered military troop transport. EMV's ride on neoprene filled tires (for operational precision) driven by brushless DC motors in the wheel hub atop the surface of a slotted roadbed. The track has only three switches: a left/right split switch just before loading/unloading, a left/right combine switch just after safety check station/dispatch and a compound switch to swap vehicles in/out of the maintenance bay, behind the mirrors. Beneath the slot a tubular guideway guides the front wheelset and a damper for the rear wheelset, and three electrical buss bars provide the EMV 480 volts AC. The power is divided among the two motion systems, control, safety and audio systems. Each transport can accommodate twelve guests with three rows of seats, four across, with the front left seat behind a non-operational steering wheel.
Each troop transport is a motion simulator which travels at a maximum speed of just over 14 miles per hour (6.3 m/s) atop a slotted roadbed / guiderail track. The transport carbody is attached by three hydraulic rams to the frame of the chassis, and allow the shell to articulate independently. A guest's physically intense experience is programed to achieve the illusion of greater speed and catastrophic mechanical failure using the enhanced-motion vehicle's ability to add several feet of lift then rapidly descend, shudder and tremble, and intensify cornering with counterbank and twist.
This ride system was invented for the Indiana Jones Adventure, and has only been implemented in two other attractions – DINOSAUR
DINOSAUR
DINOSAUR is a dark ride at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista, Florida....
, located at Disney's Animal Kingdom
Disney's Animal Kingdom
Disney's Animal Kingdom is an animal theme park located at the Walt Disney World Resort. The fourth park built at the resort, it opened on April 22, 1998, and it is the largest single Disney theme park in the world, covering more than . It is also the first Disney theme park to be themed entirely...
(opened as CTX: Countdown to Extinction) in Orlando, Florida, and its Tokyo DisneySea counterpart, Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Crystal Skull. However, the Japanese version uses linear-inductive actuators instead of three hydraulic rams. The 35 gallons of hydraulic fluid used on the Disneyland version takes two hours to clean up the track when a hose splits. Because of Japan's environmental codes regarding oil spills, the design team elected to substitute electromagnetic actuators on the ride vehicle. Three of these actuators are used to create a 3-D (pitch, roll, and elevation) motion platform chassis on which the carbody sits.
Music
- Lost Delta Camp – A variety of big band and swing tunes from the 1930s are heard on a radio in the outdoor queue.
- Temple interior – Original percussion tracks can be heard in the indoor pathways of the queue and exit. Snippets of the Raiders' March occasionally emerge faintly in the background near the optical turnstiles.
- Troop Transports – dialogue and sound effects, as well as an orchestral soundtrack form the accompaniment tracks. This medley contains segments of John WilliamsJohn WilliamsJohn Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...
' original scores for the first three Indiana Jones movies, rescored and triggered by the perils of the adventure. Richard BellisRichard BellisRichard Bellis is notable as an Emmy Award winning composer for the mini-series "Stephen King's It." Bellis is a former President of the Society of Composers & Lyricists, former governor of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences a USC lecturer and the composer of music for numerous TV...
was responsible for this adaptation process. http://www.theraider.net/information/attractions/forbiddeneye.php The Raiders' March and Ark theme both feature prominently at various points.
The various passages heard in the attraction, and the track times at which the original versions can be found on the soundtracks for the films, follow the next entries in italics.
Adventure
At the loading area, guests board the troop transport. After a quick seatbelt check and a radio announcement warning from Sallah (such as "My friends, the brakes may be needing a little adjustment – easy on the curves"), the transport moves forward, past a cluster of mirrors concealing the maintenance dock entrance, and turns a corner into the Chamber of Destiny.Chamber of Destiny
The Chamber of Destiny actually has only one operating pair of doors, with only one corridor behind them. The walls and ceiling of the room move across the working doorway and a set of four façades (two on each side of the real doorway), so that three "doors" are visible at any given time. The doors and the Hall of Promise are lit differently based on which particular chamber has been chosen. Fake tracks lead up to the other doors to enhance the effect.Here guests are presented with three doors. One of the three doors begins to glow more brightly than the other two, and Mara announces which gift the passengers have chosen to receive. The doors open, and the passengers enter.
"The Map Room: Dawn" 3:28 – Raiders of the Lost Ark
Hall of Promise
- Fountain of Eternal Youth – Mara announces "You have chosen wisely. This path leads to timeless youth and beauty." The Hall of Promise is illuminated with shimmering aqua blue light. Front-lit scrims along the walls are painted to depict true believers drinking mystic water, discarding their withered skin and emerging young and beautiful. New statement of "Parade of the Slave Children" (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom).
- Chamber of Earthly Riches – Mara announces "You seek the treasure of Mara. Glittering Gold. It is yours." The Hall of Promise is illuminated with shimmering golden light behind the scrims where of gold and other treasures are visible, rendering the Fountain of Eternal Youth scrim paintings transparent. "The Miracle of the Ark", 0:00 (Raiders of the Lost Ark).
- Observatory of the Future – Mara announces "You seek the future. I will lift the curtain of time. It is your destiny" The transport tilts upward, directing passengers’ eyes away from the dark scrims, and towards the dazzling star field. The Hall of Promise is dimly lit in purple and the ceiling above twinkles with 5,000 fiber opticOptical fiberAn optical fiber is a flexible, transparent fiber made of a pure glass not much wider than a human hair. It functions as a waveguide, or "light pipe", to transmit light between the two ends of the fiber. The field of applied science and engineering concerned with the design and application of...
stars. Original music by Richard Bellis.
At the end of the tunnel, the eyes of a large idol of Mara begin to flash and smoke as it says
- "Foolish mortals! You looked into my eyes. Your path now leads to the Gates of Doom!",
- "Infidels! You looked into my eyes. Your path now leads to the Gates of Doom!",
- "No! You looked into my eyes. Your destiny now lies beyond the Gates of Doom!"
"The Map Room: Dawn", 2:25 (Raiders of the Lost Ark).
Tunnel of Torment
The transport momentarily appears to head toward an exit, before making a sharp turn into a large crumbling corridor. Lightning flashes along the walls, illuminating large cobra statues overhead as the transport seems to "float" through the room using the EMVEnhanced motion vehicle
-EMV :Disney filed for patent on the Enhanced Motion Vehicle ride system on November 16, 1995.This ride system was developed for the Indiana Jones Adventure...
technology. "The Miracle of the Ark", 3:31 (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
The Gate
The Gates of Doom pulsate with green mist and an audio-animatronic Indiana JonesIndiana Jones
Colonel Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., Ph.D. is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Indiana Jones franchise. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg created the character in homage to the action heroes of 1930s film serials...
struggles to keep the doors closed. Jones scolds the tourists for looking into the eyes of the idol and instructs them to proceed up the steps to the left. The transport then accelerates up the flight of stairs. "The Desert Chase", 1:19 (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Overlook
The transport emerges from the passage and teeters on the edge of a vast pit of lava. Another transport is seen attempting to cross a rickety rope bridge which spans the pit under the crumbling ceiling. (The crumbling ceiling effect has since been disabled.) On the far side of the cavern, there is a 45-foot-tall stone face of Mara, the left half of which has eroded in such a way that it resembles a skull, 'lava' occasionally pouring out of its mouth into the pool below. Its left eye contains a swirling flame, and periodically shoots green rays at both transports, causing flames to erupt from where the beam hits. New arrangement of the Ark theme—see "The Miracle of the Ark", 2:41 (Raiders of the Lost Ark)Mummy Chamber
The transport turns left and enters catacombs of false pathways lined with skeletons, some of which pop out toward the guests. A fierce wind blows from the catacombs."Bones," an official "Hidden Mickey
Hidden Mickey
A Hidden Mickey is a representation of Mickey Mouse that has been inserted subtly into the design of a ride, attraction, or other location in a Disney theme park or elsewhere on Disney properties...
," is a skeleton at the left, beside the exitway, with its right arm outstretched toward the track, wearing a Mouseke-ears hat backward, displaying the embroidered name "Bones". "Nocturnal Activities", 3:28 (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
Bug Room
Suddenly, all is dark; the music tinkles with chaotic violin pizzicatos. "In the Idol's Temple", 0:35 (Raiders of the Lost Ark)The transport's headlights flicker back on, illuminating walls swarming with thousands of beetles. Hissing sounds are heard, and adventurers are blasted with puffs of air. "The Well of Souls", 0:22 (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
The Pit
The transport finally heads out of the darkness and onto the bridge which spans the pit. The transport stalls for a moment as another oncoming transport can be seen about to cross the bridge, which turns away just before reaching the bridge. The transport then accelerates across the bridge which sways and jostles under its weight. The massive stone Mara/skull shoots beams from its eye at the bridge, attempting to destroy it. The transport makes it safely across then careens to the right. New arrangement of the Ark theme—see "The Miracle of the Ark", 2:41 (Raiders of the Lost Ark).Snake Temple
Hundreds of snakes cover the walls and ground and a large audio-animatronic cobraCobra
Cobra is a venomous snake belonging to the family Elapidae. However, not all snakes commonly referred to as cobras are of the same genus, or even of the same family. The name is short for cobra capo or capa Snake, which is Portuguese for "snake with hood", or "hood-snake"...
appears to the right of the vehicle, striking at the riders. "Slalom on Mt. Humol", 0:28 (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
Mud Slide
The transport heads back to return across the rope bridge and flashes its headlights at an oncoming transport about to cross. The transport turns sharply to the right entering behind the giant stone carving of Mara's face. "Belly of the Steel Beast", 2:39 (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)Skull
The transport slides past 1,995 human skulls (a reference to the year the attraction opened) which decorate the walls, as the spirit of Mara looms overhead. "Slalom on Mt. Humol", 0:15 (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom).Turning left, out of the massive stone effigy, the transport continues downward, crossing a smoldering wooden bridge beside the glowing lava, and passing under the rope bridge. "The Mine Car Chase", 1:06 (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom).
Rat Cave
The vehicle shudders and stalls and is heard being restarted before continuing towards a hanging tree root. "Bug Tunnel and Death Trap", 1:44 (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)As the transport nears the root, many rats are seen climbing across it and falling off into the car when another burst of speed sends the car through the tree root, which vaporizes like mist. (This effect is not achieved through holography
Holography
Holography is a technique that allows the light scattered from an object to be recorded and later reconstructed so that when an imaging system is placed in the reconstructed beam, an image of the object will be seen even when the object is no longer present...
, but through a simple video projection onto a water vapor sheet screen.) "Slalom on Mt. Humol", 0:49 (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
Dart Room
The transport careens through a dimly lit tunnel with paintings of spearSpear
A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with bamboo spears, or it may be made of a more durable material fastened to the shaft, such as flint, obsidian, iron, steel or...
-wielding skeletal warriors adorning the walls. Each warrior's mouth supports a blowgun within. Blasts of air whoosh past adventurers and launching darts are heard striking the transport as it rolls over the trigger stones between the skeletal warriors, as though the tourists have set off booby traps. "Bug Tunnel and Death Trap", 2:18 (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
Rolling Boulder
The transport then approaches a dark area and stops. Indiana Jones suddenly appears above the vehicle hanging on a rope in a shaft of light. "The Basket Game", 3:51 (Raiders of the Lost Ark)He welcomes the adventurers' rescue and bids them to turn on the headlights and prepare for him to board. As the lights flicker on, they illuminate a massive 16 feet (4.9 m) boulder rolling toward the transport. The transport seems to back up as the boulder threatens to crush Jones and the tourists. (This effect is achieved by moving the walls of the room forward, not moving the vehicle backward.) At the last possible second, the transport accelerates and suddenly the floor seems to give way, sending the transport into the chamber below. An impact resonates through the chamber, as if the boulder has crashed down, nearly striking the transport. "Fast Streets of Shanghai", 2:50 (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
Return to Base
The transport plunges down into darkness and swerves right to see Jones standing in front of the boulder, which has been cracked by its impact. An exhausted looking Dr. Jones wipes his forehead, swings his coiled whip, and says:- "Not bad, for tourists!",
- "Next time, you wear blindfolds, okay?",
- "Don't tell me that wasn't big fun!" or
- "Tourists, why'd it have to be tourists?" et cetera.
"Flight from Peru", 1:18 (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
A final triumphant refrain of the music ushers the guests back into the station. "The Raiders' March", 2:21 (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
While waiting to disembark, Sallah announces over the mobile radio transceiver one of several "please remain seated" messages; more often than not the spiel is mismatched from the Hall of Promise experience, such as:
"If you drank too much from Fountain of Youth, we will be happy to assist you with strollers," when the adventurers experienced the Chamber of Earthly Riches.
Hidden Mickeys
There is a Hidden Mickey in the attraction:- Mummy Chamber: A skeleton is wearing a Mickey Ears skull cap backwards; "Bones" is embroidered on it.
Attraction facts
- Grand opening: March 3, 1995
- Building size: 57400 ft2
- Track length: 2500 feet (762 m)
- Queue length: 1500 feet (457.2 m)
- Total vehicles: 17 (maximum 15 on track)
- Vehicle: Military troop transport with 12 seats (Enhanced-Motion Vehicle/E.M.V.)
- Height requirement: 46 inches (116.8 cm)
- Groundbreaking: August 1993
- Ride duration 3:25 minutes approx.
- Extra options: /Single Rider
Single RiderSingle rider lines are an opportunity at various theme parks to reduce the amount of time waiting in line for an attraction. When a single-rider line is in use, empty seats on the ride vehicles are filled using individuals from the line, thus ensuring that every vehicle is carrying the maximum...
Pass
See also
- Indiana JonesIndiana JonesColonel Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., Ph.D. is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Indiana Jones franchise. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg created the character in homage to the action heroes of 1930s film serials...
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril at Disneyland Paris mine car themed roller-coaster.
- Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular is a live amusement show at Disney's Hollywood Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. Based on the popular and successful Indiana Jones film franchise, it includes various stunts and live reenacted scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark...
at Disney's Hollywood StudiosDisney's Hollywood StudiosDisney's Hollywood Studios is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort. Spanning 135 acres in size, its theme is show business, drawing inspiration from the heyday of Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s...
stunt show. - Dinosaur at Disney's Animal KingdomDisney's Animal KingdomDisney's Animal Kingdom is an animal theme park located at the Walt Disney World Resort. The fourth park built at the resort, it opened on April 22, 1998, and it is the largest single Disney theme park in the world, covering more than . It is also the first Disney theme park to be themed entirely...
identical track and EMVs. - Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Crystal SkullIndiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Crystal SkullIndiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Crystal Skull, a motion simulator dark ride adventure, based on the Indiana Jones films, opened September 4, 2001 at Tokyo DisneySea theme park in Chiba, Japan...
at Tokyo DisneySeaTokyo DisneySeais a 176-acre theme park at the Tokyo Disney Resort located in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, just outside Tokyo. It opened on September 4, 2001. It is owned by The Oriental Land Company, which licenses the theme from The Walt Disney Company. Tokyo DisneySea attracted an estimated 12 million visitors in...
identical track, similar EMVs. - "Indiana Jones Summer of Hidden MysteriesIndiana Jones Summer of Hidden MysteriesThe "Indiana Jones Summer of Hidden Mysteries" was an event held at Disneyland by Walt Disney Creative Entertainment during the summer months of 2008. This was a promotional tie-in with the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull...
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External links
- http://disneywizard.angelfire.com/index.html#^
- http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/Disneyland/Secrets/Adventure/Indy.html
- Video from riders' POV