Unprecedented Spring Comes.” Spring Events Held on the Greatest
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012 "Unprecedented Spring Comes.” Spring Events Held on the Greatest Scale in the Park's History Bring Breathtaking Thrills and Excitement, Making Both Adults and Children Excited! Hollywood Dream - The Ride - Backdrop, an extremely scary and thrilling ride attraction for limited period only! Backwards running version of the world-class smooth and thrilling roller coaster appears at the Park this spring! Forward or backdrop - You can enjoy both types of ride experience at the Park during this spring only! (From Friday, March 15 to Sunday, July 7, 2013) The first Universal Easter Celebration to be held in commemoration of the first anniversary of Universal Wonderland Get excited by world’s-best performances of acrobatic stunts with your children! Very dynamic and novel circus "Universal Rainbow Circus" Let's search for Easter Eggs hidden by the Easter Bunny! Enjoy the Easter Egg Hunt with your children and bring the happiest smiles to their faces! (Friday, March 15 to Sunday, June 30, 2013) Universal Studios Japan will hold spring events from Friday, March 15, 2013 on the greatest scale in the Park's history for limited period only. The spring events include two ride attractions of different genres. Enjoy novel ride experience for the limited period of spring 2013 only with your family, friends, or your boyfriend or girlfriend, being filled with unexpected wonder, joy, and throbbing excitement. For limited period only! The backwards running version of Hollywood Dream - The Ride, a smooth and thrilling, world-class roller coaster, will make you scream with thrills and excitement! Hollywood Dream - The Ride was created jointly by Universal Studios Japan and a world leading roller coaster manufacturer by bringing together their original ideas and outstanding technologies, and incorporating numerous cutting-edge functions. This unique roller coaster, which continues enjoying popularity for its smooth and thrilling ride that enables guests to feel as if they were flying in the sky, will have a new version for limited period only. It is Hollywood Dream - The Ride - Backdrop -, an extremely thrilling and scaring roller coaster that runs the track backwards and descends suddenly at unbelievably steep angles, offering guests an extremely thrilling and stimulating ride experience that brings them ultimate refreshing feeling. On this novel ride attraction, guests are lifted straight upward and when they reach the highest point then suddenly plunge with their faces to the sky, not knowing which direction the ride will take. Enjoy the limited period-only super-screaming ride experience with forwards and backwards running which could never been realized without roller coasters having world-best quality and performance. Hollywood Dream - The Ride Universal Easter Celebration Hollywood Dream - The Ride - Backdrop - The first Easter events take place in commemoration of the first anniversary of the very popular Universal Wonderland. Universal Rainbow Circus, a new and authentic circus, and the Easter Egg Hunt, a program for parents and children, will be held at the Park! In commemoration of its first anniversary, Universal Wonderland, which has enjoyed great popularity since its opening in March 2012 as a family area where everyone can have fun all day long, will hold Universal Easter Celebration, an Easter-themed event. This is the first of its kind held in the Park. Universal Rainbow Circus, a dynamic circus that grabs the attention of not only children but also adults, is a totally novel entertainment created by Universal Studios Japan for the coming spring. This is a “super novel” circus that exceeds guests' imagination, created by combining superhuman and fascinating acrobatics performed by world-class stunt performers with the world of extremely adorable characters. In addition, an authentic cross-cultural experience, the Egg Hunt Rally will take place in the colorfully decorated Park with unique and unexpected colors. Very adorable Universal Easter Celebration held to celebrate the coming spring will offer children an opportunity for their very first experience of authentic entertainment. This event, held on the greatest scale in the Park's history, will offer families new excitement as well, helping to create unforgettable happy memories. <Universal Studios Japan Spring Event Programs: Outline> Program name Venue Period Time and other information Hollywood Dream ‒ The Ride - Hollywood Area Friday, March 15 to Sunday, July 7, 2013 At all times during the period Backdrop Friday, March 15 to Sunday, June 2, 2013 Approx. 20 min. Universal Rainbow Circus New York Area * No performance on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, * Time of performance differs from excluding March 20, 27, April 3 and May 1 day to day At all times during the period Universal Wonderland Egg Hunt Rally Friday, March 15 to Sunday, June 30, 2013 Entry fee for the Rally: Hollywood Area 500 yen/person * * * Universal Studios Japan strives to offer guests a place where they can create their world-best memories with our world-best quality entertainment. In the latter half of 2014, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter will open for the first time in the world other than the U.S. As a place that every family member can enjoy together, the area will be created by authentically and meticulously reproducing Harry Potter's magical world, such as the magnificent Hogwarts Castle and its surrounding areas and other landscapes, which Harry Potter fans have known through the books and watched in movies. © 2012 Peanuts Worldwide LLC © 2012 Sesame Workshop. © 1976, 1999, 2012 SANRIO CO., LTD. © & ® Universal Studios. All rights reserved. <Outline of Each Program> The world-class, luxury, and one-of-a-kind roller coaster Hollywood Dream - The Ride rises to a new height by cutting-edge ideas! Hollywood Dream - The Ride was born in March 2007 as a novel roller coaster with a variety of cutting-edge functions which allow guests to experience a floating feeling as if they were flying in the sky, as well as extreme thrills and exhilaration. The roller coaster was developed by combining original ideas of the Universal Studios Japan Attraction Development Team and technologies of Bolliger & Mabillard (hereinafter "B & M"), a world-top Switzerland-based roller coaster manufacturer that leads the industry with its overwhelming technologies and design capabilities. During the ride guests can enjoy its smooth and thrilling performance, with favorite music selectable from several options, and the landscape of streets of Hollywood Area spread out below their eyes. The vehicle, blinking with LED lights, looks like a mysterious shooting star. Hollywood Dream - The Ride has continued to enjoy great popularity as a roller coaster that offers guests a new experience and excitement every time they ride. Specially introduced for limited period only! Extremely scary and thrilling roller coaster suddenly descending backwards at an unbelievably steep angle!! This world’s-best quality roller coaster will have a special version for a limited period only. It is Hollywood Dream - The Ride - Backdrop - that runs on the tracks “backwards” *1. Guests scream from sheer scariness, since on the vehicle they fall headfirst from the height of 43 meters, the highest point of the course at the maximum incline of approximately 60 degrees. During the ride, guests are lifted up, and then suddenly descend backwards while facing with the sky, experiencing even stronger floating feeling when they are thrown out in the sky. The super-novel roller coaster on which guests cannot predict which direction it moves makes guests feel ultimate thrills and stimulus, and super-exhilarated feeling. The body colors of the special vehicles were renewed to vivid red and gold from mild purple, based on the theme "ultimately stimulating and exhilarated feeling" obtained from the ride experience the new coaster provides. Tunes guests listened to during the ride are specially re-selected so that they can feel even stronger thrills. With these excellent functions the super novel roller coaster will be presented for guests all over the world. *1 The traveling direction of the vehicle is the same as conventional coasters, but the seats face the opposite direction. Guests' backs face the traveling direction. Features of Hollywood Dream - The Ride Three best qualities enabled extraordinarily luxury and comfortable ride, as well as ultimate feeling of flying and exhilaration [1] Roller coaster vehicles meticulously designed and manufactured with joint efforts of Japanese and Swiss engineers, incorporating cutting edge technologies Smooth and comfortable ride was enabled by quality rails meticulously designed and manufactured by B & M and Japanese engineers' elaborate rail laying technology that completely eliminated fine misalignments in the both sides of the rails, a cause of horizontal oscillation. On the underlayer (box beam) of the track (a total length of 1,267 meters), sand is filled as an acoustic absorbent to minimize gliding noises to the utmost. The vehicles designed and manufactured in Switzerland, and the seamless track assembled in Japan offer guests a super-smooth ride experience. In addition, the shape of seats, fitting very comfortably and closely to human body, was designed based on ergonomics. Bucket seats (single-seat) of the vehicles adopt safety restraint system to fix from the hip to thighs only. This system was employed for the first time in Japan so that the bodies of guests are firmly embraced by the seat even when their feet do not touch on the floor. The vehicle seats realized relaxing and luxurious ride like a classy car by combining novel idea that do not fix guest's upper body, representing state-of-the-art technology that enables high level of safety in a well-balanced manner. The engineers’ commitment to pursuing creation of best quality products in addition to an innovative idea “Air Time”*2 which was created by a perfectly designed railway course, provides guests with an ultimately exhilarating and floating feeling as if they were flying in the sky.