UUOP #240 - A Tribute to Twister : Ride It Out
Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast
Lee Mallaby
4.6 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2017
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
On this episode we paid homage to, the more extinct, Universal Studios Florida attraction, Twister : Ride It Out.
We discuss the attraction, we share our thoughts and those of The Producers Club and we talk to Craig Hanna of the Thinkwell Group about his work on the attraction.
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| 0:00.0 | Covering the Universal Orlando Resort for over five years, you're listening to the unofficial Universal Orlando podcast. |
| 0:26.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 240 of the unofficial Universal Aarlando podcast. |
| 0:29.8 | I'm your host Lee and this week we are taking you back in time. |
| 0:34.0 | Please join me as we go back to Universal Studios, Florida Circa. |
| 0:36.5 | Does anyone want to give me a clue of what year it was when it opened, Hunter? |
| 0:41.9 | Twister Ride It Out opened on May 4th of 1998, approximately two years after the film originally released. There we go. So join me as we go back into time. I feel like I should be doing the |
| 0:46.0 | Wainswell. Where the hell am I going with this? What knows? Welcome everyone to Universal |
| 0:52.5 | Studios, Florida and to our newest attraction, Twister, ride it out. |
| 0:56.8 | Please step inside as we attempt to allow you to experience one of Mother Nature's most dangerous creations. |
| 1:03.6 | The movie Twister is about one of the most primordial forces on the face of the earth. |
| 1:08.0 | A force so powerful, so concentrated, it can rip the asphalt off a six-lane highway. |
| 1:12.6 | It can hurl a freight train hundreds of yards from its tracks, and it can even destroy an entire town. |
| 1:17.6 | At the same time, a tornado is one of the most awe-inspiring sights one can witness in nature, full of majesty and mystery. |
| 1:24.6 | I'm Darren Schmidt. I'm determined to confront that mystery by getting as close as possible to a raging twister. And I'm Tracy Malaby. I can tell you when we agreed to make Twister write it out, we had no idea what we'd signed up for because, as awesome as these twisters are, they're also unpredictable, appearing from nowhere, turning on you in a second, leaving no place to hide. |
| 1:45.5 | Twist is about the coming of a once-in-a-lifetime monstrous tornado they call an F-5. |
| 1:50.1 | Darren and I are willing to bet our lives for a chance to study the innermost secrets of that tornado. |
| 1:55.3 | They call F-5 tornadoes the finger of God. |
| 1:58.5 | Few have stared one in the face and survived to tell the tale. |
| 2:01.6 | Winds of up to 300 miles per hour, it is the most severe storm known to man. |
| 2:06.8 | Putting that experience on the screen involved the most intense, the most frightening movie |
| 2:11.1 | making I've ever seen. |
| 2:13.0 | Now, we'd like to give you the opportunity to experience what we went through. |
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