Marvel Super Hero Island is an area at Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure park in Orlando, Florida that is themed after popular Marvel Comics superheroes. The area opened in 1999, ten years prior to Universal competitor The Walt Disney Company acquiring Marvel Entertainment in 2009. The island is home to four attractions, including "The Incredible Hulk" and "The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man". Marvel Super Hero Island’s architecture and theming is modeled after a Marvel comic book, with a comic book color scheme, amplified angles, and cutouts of many of the most popular Marvel characters.
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Marvel Super Hero Island
Marvel Super Hero Island | Introduction
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Justin Hammer
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The film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke, and Samuel L. Jackson.
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It is a 2010 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Iron Man.
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The bulk of the production took place at Raleigh Studios, few scenes were filmed at Edwards Air Force Base
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Kern County in Edwards, California
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Yes.  Marvel Super Hero Island at Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida, which includes rides based on their iconic characters and costumed performers, as well as The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man ride cloned from Islands of Adventure to Universal Studios Japan.
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Marvel Super Hero Island was created in 1999
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Construction of Islands of Adventure began in 1997, with the Marvel Universe area being officially named "Marvel Super Hero Island". Islands of Adventure opened up to soft openings on March 27, 1999, and officially opened two months later on May 28. Marvel Super Hero Island is among the six of the original islands in the park.
Marvel Super Hero Island | History
The ride is set in New York as Spider-Man prevents The Sinister Syndicate from taking the Statue of Liberty. "Meet Spider-Man and the Marvel Super Heroes" is a meet-and-greet attraction, where guests can meet superheroes including Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops and Rogue, Spider-Man, and Captain America.
Universal's Islands of Adventure | Marvel Super Hero Island
Marvel Super Hero Island is an area at Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure park in Orlando, Florida that is themed after popular Marvel Comics superheroes. The area opened in 1999, ten years prior to Universal competitor The Walt Disney Company acquiring Marvel Entertainment in 2009. The island is home to four attractions, including "The Incredible Hulk" and "The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man". Marvel Super Hero Island’s architecture and theming is modeled after a Marvel comic book, with a comic book color scheme, amplified angles, and cutouts of many of the most popular Marvel characters.
Marvel Super Hero Island | Introduction
Marvel Super Hero Island currently features four attractions. "The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man" is a motion-based 3D dark ride, which was considered a huge technological achievement, combining 3-D film, ride movement, and special effects for the very first time. The ride takes place in New York City and features Spider-Man taking on the Sinister Syndicate, when it is learned that they seize the Statue of Liberty with an anti-gravity gun and threatens to destroy the statue if the city does not surrender to them. Guests enters through the "Daily Bugle" with empty offices and apparently all of the reporters have fled in the midst of the carnage.
Marvel Super Hero Island | Attractions
What is today known as Marvel Super Hero Island was originally conceived as "DC Superhero Land", an area featuring DC Comics superheroes, which was inspired by the success of Tim Burton's 1989 "Batman" film starring Michael Keaton. Along with the success of Universal Studios Florida's opening in 1990, MCA Inc. (then-owner of Universal Pictures and Universal Parks & Resorts) and Warner Bros. began entering negotiations in the early 1990s for theme park rights to DC Comics for the "second gate" adjacent to Universal Studios Florida, originally known as "Cartoon World" (later changed to Islands of Adventure). Ultimately, the deal fell through, as Time Warner acquired Six Flags in whole in 1990 and obtained the full license to DC Comics, and due to the heated dispute regarding royalty payment for the characters' park presence between Warner Bros.
Marvel Super Hero Island | History
With no reporters left, the Bugle's Editor-in-Chief J. Jonah Jameson hatches a plan to send guests as would-be-reporters to cover the story in the news-gathering vehicle, known as the SCOOP. "The Incredible Hulk Coaster" is a launched roller coaster themed after comic book superhero character, the Hulk. From 1999 to 2015, guests entered the science laboratory of Dr. Bruce Banner with many televisions showing a cartoon of the story centered around the Hulk. After the Hulk roller coaster was opened in 2016 as part of the refurbishment, a new, original storyline was added with a completely redesigned queue experience that places guests inside a perilous scientific experiment led by General Thaddeus Ross, which shows CGI animations of test subjects being exposed to gamma radiation and being transformed into Hulk-like creatures.
Marvel Super Hero Island | Attractions
Marvel Super Hero Island, a themed land featuring characters and settings from Marvel Comics, has operated at Universal Orlando Resort's Islands of Adventure park since 1999, as well as the Islands of Adventure, cloned ride "The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man" at Universal Studios Japan since 2004. Under Marvel's 1994 agreement with Universal Parks & Resorts in regional terms, none of the Marvel characters and other persons related to such characters (e.g., side characters, team members, and the villains associated with the Avengers, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Spider-Man, etc.) connected with Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios Japan can be used at Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disney Resort.
Disney Parks, Experiences and Products | Marvel Entertainment
The following list of characters are or "may" be seen at Marvel Super Hero Island. This includes from actual costume appearances to 2D drawings all around buildings to videos seen at attractions.
Marvel Super Hero Island | Characters used at Marvel Super Hero Island
"Meet Spider-Man and the Marvel Super Heroes" is a meet-and-greet attraction, where guests can meet superheroes including Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, and Rogue, Spider-Man, and Captain America.
Marvel Super Hero Island | Dining, merchandise shops, and meet and greets
Currently, Islands of Adventure uses the Avengers, Spider-Man, X-Men, and the Fantastic Four, while Universal Studios Japan only employs Spider-Man, as it operates the Islands of Adventure cloned ride "The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man" since 2004. Under the contract, it forbids Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disney Resort parks from installing these characters, as well as the other characters in the same "family" (e.g., any team members, side characters, and villains closely associating with the superheroes). In addition, Disney is not allowed to use the Marvel name in all of the U.S. and Japan, nor can create a Marvel-themed simulator ride within the legal designated regional distances of any Universal theme park in the U.S.
Marvel Super Hero Island | Disney's acquisition of Marvel
Merchandise items can be bought from a variety of themed stores including "Spider-Man Shop" (The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man), "Marvel Alterniverse Store", "Comic Book Shop", and "Oakley". "The Incredible Hulk Coaster" confronts visitors as they enter the area with an attention-grabbing roar. Hulk is a high speed launched steel roller coaster which has a top speed of . It closed on September 8, 2015, for major refurbishments and reopened in summer 2016. "Storm Force Accelatron" is a teacups ride themed after X-Men. "Doctor Doom's Fearfall" is a pair of S&S Power Space Shot attractions themed after the Fantastic Four. "The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man" is a 3-D simulator ride based on the character Spider-Man.
Universal's Islands of Adventure | Marvel Super Hero Island
Marvel Super Hero Island is based on the superhero characters featured in Marvel Comics. The area features comic-book styled architecture; many of the building interiors are created in comic book perspective, with exaggerated lines and angles. Many exteriors are painted in a special paint which appears to change color based on the angle from which it is viewed – sometimes purple, sometimes orange. The buildings are all labelled generically: "Store," "Shop," "Food," and "Comics", etc. The area is home to a variety of dining outlets and merchandise shops. Food and beverage items can be purchased from "Cafe 4" and "Captain America Diner".
Universal's Islands of Adventure | Marvel Super Hero Island
In 2002, during Halloween Horror Nights 12, Marvel Super Hero Island was converted into a scarezone known as "Island Under Siege", loosely based upon the 14-part comic book story, "Maximum Carnage". It featured an alternative plot where Spider-Man's archenemy, Carnage, killed most of the Marvel superheroes and took over the island. Criminal gangs running amok the streets, and law and order has been broken down as a result. A haunted house, "Maximum Carnage", was also featured in which guests had to explore through Carnage's hideout containing all his henchmen and the bloody remains of several superheroes. After the event had ended, Marvel got angry with Universal, saying that if kids came to the event and saw all of their favorite superheroes dead, they would stop buying Marvel comics because they would think that the superheroes were dead for real.
Marvel Super Hero Island | Halloween Horror Nights
Because of this, Universal has never had a Marvel themed house or scarezone again.
Marvel Super Hero Island | Halloween Horror Nights
These existing attractions are planned to be absorbed into a series of larger Marvel-themed lands called Avengers Campus, with another iteration set to open at Disneyland Paris. Shanghai Disneyland also have plans to incorporate Marvel attractions and Tokyo Disneyland planned to open the "Big Hero 6" attraction scheduled to open in Spring 2020.
Marvel Super Hero Island | Disney's acquisition of Marvel
In 1991, planning began for a new theme park adjacent to Universal Studios Florida. By the end of 1993, it was decided that one area of the future Islands of Adventure theme park would be themed after Marvel Comics, with a Hulk theme being selected for a thrill ride. The designers of the ride wanted to simulate being fired out of a cannon and subsequently set about prototyping a launch system. Universal Creative and MTS Systems Corporation had a working prototype in January 1995. Methods to achieve this acceleration were investigated into mid-1996. On-site construction of Islands of Adventure was underway in 1997, with Superior Rigging & Erection being responsible for erecting the supports and track of the roller coaster.
The Incredible Hulk Coaster | History
Marvel has licensed its characters for theme parks and attractions, including Marvel Super Hero Island at Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida, which includes rides based on their iconic characters and costumed performers, as well as The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man ride cloned from Islands of Adventure to Universal Studios Japan. Years after Disney purchased Marvel in late 2009, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts plans on creating original Marvel attractions at their theme parks, with Hong Kong Disneyland becoming the first Disney theme park to feature a Marvel attraction. Due to the licensing agreement with Universal Studios, signed prior to Disney's purchase of Marvel, Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disney Resort are barred from having Marvel characters in their parks.
Marvel Comics | Theme parks
Development of "The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man" at Islands of Adventure began in 1996. Allen Ambrosini from "At The Park Magazine" stated theme park guests in the late 1990s were becoming more sophisticated, desiring rides that combined theming and thrills into a single immersive experience. As a result, the ride's creators set out to develop a ride which would take the motion simulation elements of "", and combine them with a 3D film similar to that used on "". The result was a prototype ride system combining a track-mounted motion base vehicle with 3D projections and other special effects, with the aim of immersing guests inside a comic book.
The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man | Development
Guests enter the "Daily Bugle" building from Marvel Super Hero Island at Islands of Adventure or New York City at Universal Studios Japan. Guests are shown a video in which the company's good reputation is touted and a new high tech news-gathering vehicle, the "Scoop", is introduced. After walking through the empty office, guests are shown a "live" video feed of news coverage. Five supervillains led by Doctor Octopus have lain siege to the city by an experimental anti-gravity cannon created by Doctor Octopus himself. The syndicate steals the Statue of Liberty and threatens to destroy it if the city does not surrender to them.
The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man | Queue
In 1991, planning began for a new theme park adjacent to Universal Studios Florida. By the end of 1993, it was decided that one area of the future Islands of Adventure theme park would be themed after Marvel Comics, with a Hulk theme being selected for a thrill ride. The designers of the ride wanted to simulate being fired out of a cannon and subsequently set about prototyping a launch system. Universal Creative and MTS Systems Corporation had a working prototype in January 1995. Methods to achieve this acceleration were investigated into mid-1996. On-site construction of Islands of Adventure was underway in 1997, with Superior Rigging & Erection being responsible for erecting the supports and track of the roller coaster.
Doctor Doom's Fearfall | History
and Japan regardless whether the Marvel characters are used by Comcast/NBCUniversal or not. The Disneyland Resort is not constrained by the agreement, as it also states it could utilize any Marvel character west of the Mississippi whether used by Comcast/NBCUniversal or not. However, the resort is still bound by the clause of not using the Marvel name and a simulator ride containing any Marvel character. Disney parks outside the United States and Japan are permitted to use any Marvel properties, the Marvel name, as well as any type of ride they want. Both Hong Kong Disneyland and Disney California Adventure have opened Marvel attractions since the acquisition, with Iron Man Experience and at the former and at the latter.
Marvel Super Hero Island | Disney's acquisition of Marvel
The ride was refurbished in time for the release of the 2012 film, "The Amazing Spider-Man". In 2013, the attraction at Universal Studios Japan underwent a similar refurbishment with 4KHD projections being deployed. The refurbished attraction opened on July 5, 2013. After Stan Lee passed away on November 12, 2018, the Islands of Adventure location held a special tribute. The desk in the first queue room was decorated with Spider-Man cups, flowers and pictures of Stan Lee. This would last for a couple of days.
The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man | History
Storm Force Accelatron is a teacups ride located in the Islands of Adventure theme park at Universal Orlando Resort. The attraction opened in the Marvel Super Hero Island of the theme park in 2000, a year after the opening of the park. The premise of the attraction is that Magneto, the archenemy of the X-Men, is threatening the world and Storm and Professor Xavier recruit riders into the "Storm Force Accelatron", a device that they hope will stop Magneto.
Storm Force Accelatron | Introduction
In 1991, planning began for a new theme park adjacent to Universal Studios Florida. By the end of 1993, it was decided that one area of the future Islands of Adventure theme park would be themed after Marvel Comics, with a Hulk theme being selected for a thrill ride. The designers of the ride wanted to simulate being fired out of a cannon and subsequently set about prototyping a launch system. Universal Creative and MTS Systems Corporation had a working prototype in January 1995. Methods to achieve this acceleration were investigated into mid-1996. On-site construction of Islands of Adventure was underway in 1997, with Superior Rigging & Erection being responsible for erecting the supports and track of the roller coaster.
Storm Force Accelatron | History
and MCA. Meanwhile, Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. was in such dire financial straits that they sold off their characters' film rights to several major film studios, including Universal Pictures. MCA then eventually negotiated with Marvel for the theme park rights to their characters and both companies signed an agreement on March 22, 1994. This contract stipulated that "MCA will construct a complex of attractions, stores and food venues heavily themed around the Marvel properties" under the Marvel Universe banner at the second gate. The agreement remains in perpetuity (aka good faith), or indefinitely, unless Universal decides to close the Marvel Universe area, stop making payments for property usage, or Marvel opts out of the contract providing that it needs a reasonable explanation that Universal is mishandling the usage of their property.
Marvel Super Hero Island | History
On March 27, 1999, Islands of Adventure opened for technical rehearsals, with "The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man" being one of its debut attractions. On May 28, 1999, the attraction officially opened to the public. Due to the success of the attraction, Universal Studios Japan opened a clone of the ride on January 23, 2004. On May 19, 2011, Islands of Adventure announced a major refurbishment of the attraction, with plans to re-master the entire ride film in high definition as well as to update the ride's mechanics and to replace the film projectors with Infitec digital projectors. The refurbished version of the attraction debuted on March 8, 2012.
The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man | History
Along with Doctor Doom, the Hulk, and Spider-Man, Storm also has a ride in Marvel Super Hero Island of Universal Studios. The ride, based on a common teacup ride, is called "Storm Force Accelatron". It includes fog effects and strobe lights (to simulate lightning) which can be seen if ridden after dark. She is the first superheroine and the first X-Man to have a ride named after her.
Storm in other media | Theme park ride
The Hula kula was located next to the volcano during the early years of the park. Hoola Kula, aka Crazy Island, was a Super Bowl, located where The Beast is now. It was rethemed to an island theme and moved to where Amazing Confusion stands now. It was a generic Super Bowl, flat ride, where the cars spin like a waltzer, but the floor also tilts upwards at an angle. It was removed at the end of the 2002 season to make way for Amazing Confusion.
Fantasy Island (UK amusement park) | Hula Kula (Super Bowl)
Marvel Super Hero Island is also home to dining and merchandise shops. "Cafe 4" is a futuristic command center-like restaurant themed after characters from the Fantastic Four universe, featuring a cafeteria with Italian-American cuisine options. "Captain America Diner" is a restaurant themed around Captain America and other members of the Avengers (e.g., Iron Man, Thor, Scarlet Witch, Ant-Man, etc.) as well as its related villains, featuring typical fast foods like cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, chicken fingers, crispy chicken salads, and more. Merchandise items can be bought from a variety of themed stores including "Spider-Man Shop" (which guests exits from "The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man" ride), "Marvel Alterniverse Store", "Comic Book Shop", and "Oakley".
Marvel Super Hero Island | Dining, merchandise shops, and meet and greets
DC Comics Super Hero Adventures was a DC Comics themed area found at Six Flags New Orleans, in the Eastern New Orleans area of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. It opened on April 12, 2003, after Six Flags took over the lease of the park in 2002 and added the company's signature Warner Bros. characters and themes.
DC Comics Super Hero Adventures | Introduction
The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man (also known as The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man: The Ride in Universal Studios Japan) is a motion-based 3D dark ride located at the Islands of Adventure, Orlando and Universal Studios Japan, Osaka theme parks, based on the Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man. Built for Islands of Adventure's opening in 1999, the attraction is a hybrid ride combining special roving motion vehicles with 3D projection, elaborate physical sets, and both practical and tactile effects. The ride turns park guests into last minute reporters of the "Daily Bugle", and after boarding a vehicle known as the "Scoop", the rider learns that the Sinister Syndicate has captured the Statue of Liberty with an anti-gravity gun.
The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man | Introduction
The ride system used on "The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man" was originally prototyped for the attraction at Islands of Adventure, before being installed at Universal Studios Japan. It has since been utilized for "" at Universal Studios Singapore, Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Studios Florida. The ride vehicles, developed by Oceaneering International, are mounted to a track-roaming platform that provides the forward motion to move the vehicle through each show scene. The yaw motor and a stewart platform with six degrees of freedom attaching it to the platform allows the vehicle to move 360 degrees at different angles along the track.
The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man | Ride system
Universal Creative's Phil Hettema and William Mason received inventor credits on the ride system patent, known as the SCOOP. Universal Creative employees Scott Trowbridge and Thierry Coup storyboarded a scene-by-scene breakdown of the ride that would be projected onto thirteen 30-foot tall projection screens integrated with physical sets. Because guests would be moving toward, away from, or past these 3D screens, animators had to consider the perspective shift that viewers would actually encounter if these really. They developed a new process they called "squinching", used to account for a viewer's moving sightline and distorting the animation to match. Created for the Islands of Adventure theme park that opened on May 28, 1999, The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man won "Amusement Today"s Golden Ticket Award for Best Dark Ride for twelve consecutive years from 1999 through to 2010.
Universal Creative | The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man
DC Comics Super-Villains Unleashed displays various DC supervillain statues amid criminal acts. Guests use RFID wristbands to help the villains destroy the area or are hung upside-down on Doomsday Destroyer. In the DC Comics superhero hub, Arkham Asylum – Shock Therapy plunges through twists, turns and inversions, optionally in virtual reality. Batwing Spaceshot exerts 4 g-forces as it propels up a vertical tower. DC Rivals HyperCoaster speeds through camelbacks and a non-inverting loop while riders on each train's last row face backwards. Green Lantern Coaster drops beyond vertical into outer-banked turns and two inversions. Justice League: Alien Invasion 3D patrons blast animatronic characters on 3D screens.
Warner Bros. Movie World | Park layout
On May 28, 1999, Islands of Adventure officially opened to the public, with The Incredible Hulk being one of its debut attractions. On August 14, 2015, Universal announced that the coaster would undergo major enhancement and refurbishment work. The ride closed on September 8, 2015, and re-opened to the public on August 4, 2016, after several days of technical rehearsals. The refurbishment involved heavy modifications to the line queue and entrance, along with a storyline theme. To improve the smoothness of the ride, sections of track were also replaced along with the trains, which were enhanced with on-board audio and special lighting effects.
The Incredible Hulk Coaster | History
Universal was responsible for designing the exterior aesthetic of the ride, and Orlando-based architectural company Nichoson Design International was brought in to create the construction drawings. On May 28, 1999, Islands of Adventure officially opened to the public, with Doctor Doom's Fearfall being one of its debut attractions.
Doctor Doom's Fearfall | History
Spider-Man manages to capture all of the supervillains by tying them with webs. As the vehicle pulls into the unload station, Spider-Man thanks the guests for their help and sends them back to the "Daily Bugle", where he has rigged the anti-gravity cannon to lift Jameson up to the ceiling in his office. Guests unload while a modern rendition of the classic Spider-Man theme song plays and a voiceover of Stan Lee instructs the riders on exiting properly.
The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man | Ride experience
The ride has an identical sister, Hero, which opened in April 2013 at Flamingo Land in North Yorkshire.
Soarin' Eagle | Introduction
The ride's original layout was specifically designed to fit in the Yankee Harbor themed area at Six Flags Great America, on the space previously occupied by Tidal Wave. The layout for each successive attraction is either identical or a mirror image of the original. Batman: The Ride begins with the track floor in the station descending. The train moves out of the station and up a chain lift hill. At the top of the hill, the train dips down through a Bolliger & Mabillard pre-drop, coasts down a 190-degree swoop to the left and drops into the first vertical loop.
Batman: The Ride | Ride layout
On May 28, 1999, Islands of Adventure officially opened to the public The ride was originally planned to open the ride with Islands of Adventure, but could not due to timing conflicts. The attraction broke ground in October, 1999 and construction began in February, 2000. During the construction period, walls were placed around the future attraction displaying a logo of the ride with a projected opening date of Spring, 2000. The attraction finally opened on May 28, 2000.
Storm Force Accelatron | History
When the Wonder Woman comic book was first introduced Paradise Island possessed creatures reminiscent of the island country Australia's kangaroos that the Amazons rode like horses called Kangas. Diana's Kanga was named Jumpa. There were also smaller, rabbit-like creatures wandering Paradise Island.
Themyscira (DC Comics) | Pre-Crisis
The train then reached a max speed of and enters a roller coaster's cobra roll over the park's main lagoon. Riders then enter a roller coaster vertical loop, then entered a subterranean tunnel full of mist. The train encircled the gamma-ray accelerator and was sent into the back area via corkscrew A second vertical loop wrapped around the mid-course brake run, which was flanked by two over-banked turns. The train was slowed down by the mid-course brakes before being sent down another hill to a corkscrew and turn-around. Riders then traveled sideways through an on-ride camera zone and then to the ride's final brake run after a helix.
The Incredible Hulk Coaster | 1999–2015
The structure was planned years in advance before Paramount Communications purchased the park in 1992. However, Paramount took over operations in time to determine the ride's theme which was based on the Paramount Pictures film "Top Gun". On November 11, 1992, Kings Island announced that a new roller coaster named Top Gun would be added to the park. The ride would be an Arrow Dynamics suspended coaster, very similar to The Bat which had operated at the park in the 1980s. Construction of Top Gun began in December 1992 and was completed in early spring 1993. The park hired John DeCuir Jr., a production designer who worked on the film, to design the ride's loading platform, so that it would resemble the deck of an aircraft carrier.
The Bat (Kings Island; opened 1993) | History
Source: Marvel Comics house ads in "Strange Tales" #150 (Nov. 1966) and "The Amazing Spider-Man" #45 (Feb. 1967), each of which said the list was "incomplete at time of publication".
The Marvel Super Heroes | Stations
2000 – World's tallest, fastest, and only looping wooden roller coaster opens. A WaterWorks entrance from the parking lot is added for season pass holders. FearFest, an upcharge Halloween event, debuts at the park for the first time. 2001 – Part of Rivertown and Nickelodeon Splat City are merged to create the Nickelodeon Central kids area. Gold Season Passes are introduced. The world's first junior inverted coaster opens. The first 3D movie plays at the Paramount's Action FX Theater. 2002 – World's first enclosed giant top spin ride opens. Construction begins on Scooby-Doo and the Haunted Castle.
Kings Island timeline | 2000s
An unrelated game also titled was released for mobile phones between 2004 in Japan and 2005 in North America. It is a remake of "", which was previously ported to the PC Engine by Hudson as "Bikkuriman World".
Super Adventure Island | Introduction
Early in its tenure after purchasing Kings Island, Paramount unveiled Top Gun, a suspended roller coaster from Arrow Dynamics, in 1993. Located next to the habitat attraction, it was titled after a film of the same name and was the first ride to be added to the park with a Paramount theme. The following year, the entire area was renamed Adventure Village coinciding with the removal of the animal habitat and monorail ride. In 1999, a two-year expansion initiative began with the area's renaming to Action Zone and the addition of two new attractions – and Face/Off. When it debuted, Action Zone resembled a movie stunt set featuring a water tower as the centerpiece.
Kings Island | Action Zone
Vortex, an Arrow Dynamics looping coaster (first one in the world with six inversions), occupied The Bat's former location and used the same station building before being closed in 2019. Several trace remnants of The Bat were still visible, such as:
The Bat (Kings Island; opened 1981) | Later site usage
Dinosaur Island is the name of multiple locales which have appeared in various comic book series published by DC Comics.
Dinosaur Island | Introduction
The park would feature islands themed to Marvel superheroes, Dr. Seuss books, fairy tales, cartoons and dinosaurs. Jurassic Park: The Ride would be slightly different from the Hollywood location. The ride would be named "Jurassic Park: River Adventure" and feature some significant changes. On March 27, 1999, Islands of Adventure opened for technical rehearsals, with Jurassic Park: River Adventure being one of its debut attractions. On May 28, 1999, the attraction officially opened to the public. During the development, Universal Studios Japan was planning to add Jurassic Park: River Adventure. It would be a mirror version of the Islands of Adventure location.
Jurassic Park: The Ride | Opening
Marvel Super Hero Adventures pre-school franchise was announced by Marvel Entertainment in September 2017 consisting of a short-form animated series along with publishing and merchandise during "Marvel Mania" October. The toy line was manufactured by Hasbro with additional merchandise from Mad Engine, Jay Franco, GBG, Jakks Pacific and others. In the publishing field, Marvel Press issued chapter books beginning in September and of course from Marvel Comics a five-issue miniseries starting in April 2018. Super Hero Adventures has Spider-Man teaming with another Marvel hero. The first early reader chapter books was "Deck the Malls!" teamed Spider-Man with Spider-Gwen written by MacKenzie Cadenhead and Sean Ryan and art by Derek Laufman.
Marvel Super Hero Adventures | Franchise
The ride was painted blue instead of its prior color, black. The restraints also had been changed while at Six Flags Great Adventure, removing the padding. In June 1992, it was announced that Six Flags Great Adventure would add Batman The Ride, a state-of-the-art steel inverted coaster for the 1993 season and begin building it on the then-current site of Lightning Loops. Lightning Loops was shut down at the end of July to be disassembled and for construction of Batman to begin. Then in August, the park was told it would also be losing Shockwave, which closed after Labor Day weekend.
Batman The Escape | Six Flags Great Adventure
The first Dinosaur Island appeared in only one issue, "Batman" #35, from June 1946. The story by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, involved a "Dinosaur Island" amusement park that contained realistic-looking and functioning robotic dinosaurs. The second and definitive version of Dinosaur Island first appeared in the Spring 1960 issue of "Star-Spangled War Stories" #90. Created by Robert Kanigher and featuring early art from Ross Andru, this began an ongoing feature known as "The War That Time Forgot". Located in the South Pacific of DC's main shared universe, it is an island populated by living dinosaurs and other various prehistoric creatures.
Dinosaur Island | Publication history
The Incredible Hulk Coaster is a launched roller coaster located at Universal's Islands of Adventure within the Universal Orlando Resort. Designed by Werner Stengel and manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M), the roller coaster is themed after Marvel's Hulk and opened to the public on May 28, 1999. It is the first B&M coaster themed to a Marvel Comics superhero character and the first to feature a launch design, a system that was primarily implemented by Universal Creative and MTS Systems Corporation. The Incredible Hulk Coaster's launched lift hill accelerates the train up to in approximately two seconds and eventually reaches a maximum speed of .
The Incredible Hulk Coaster | Introduction
Islands of Adventure consists of eight themed "islands", the majority of which are based on licensed intellectual properties, with only two lands based on original Universal Studios works. They are, in clockwise order from entry: Port of Entry, Marvel Super Hero Island, Toon Lagoon, Skull Island, Jurassic Park, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, The Lost Continent, and Seuss Landing.
Universal's Islands of Adventure | Islands
It has since placed second in that category, after fellow Islands of Adventure attraction, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, took the top spot in 2011. In 2000, the ride won a Thea Award from the Themed Entertainment Association for outstanding themed entertainment and experience design. It has also won numerous public-voted Theme Park Insider Awards and Screamscape Ultimate Awards. The ride has been duplicated at Universal Studios Japan, which opened in January 2004.
Universal Creative | The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man
Due to a 1994 contract with Universal Parks & Resorts, Disney cannot use the "Marvel" name in the area name or attractions. The new Spider-Man themed ride will use the former It's Tough to Be a Bug! attraction.
Avengers Campus | Avengers Campus (Disney California Adventure)
During the 2002 Halloween Horror Nights, Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure featured a haunted maze entitled "Maximum Carnage". The maze was designed to be a trip through Carnage's hideout and contained all his henchmen and the bloody remains of various Marvel superheroes. The house was located at Marvel Super Hero Island under the scare zone "Island Under Siege". Carnage also was the icon chosen to represent that specific island for the event, as he killed all of the superheroes and took over the "island", allowing criminals, gangbangers, and villains to roam free with no regards to law and order. The event's main icon, "The Caretaker", chose him based on his disregard for life and desire to see total chaos.
Carnage (comics) | Attractions
Republic's flying effects, under the direction of Howard and Theodore Lydecker, were performed using a dummy that was slightly larger than life (at 7 feet tall) and made of paper mâché so that it weighed only 15 lbs. The uniform was made of thin silk and cotton jersey. Four pulleys were connected to each shoulder and leg calf, which were then strung on two wires so the dummy moved along them by its own weight. The wires were attached to two opposite objects running across the camera's field of view, and the dummy then slid from one to the other, giving the illusion of flight.
Adventures of Captain Marvel | Special effects
The ride features two subterranean dives, is partially built over water, and is illuminated green at night. A unique launch system propels riders up the hill. The system was developed by Universal Creative and MTS Systems Corporation. A prototype launch system was designed by January 1995. The prototype consisted of a series of boxcars welded together to form a launch tunnel. A track-mounted dune buggy was then propelled inside the tunnel through the use of a weight drop launch mechanism. The designers then experimented with different rates of acceleration, each emitting between one and five times the force of gravity.
The Incredible Hulk Coaster | Characteristics
In August 2015, Universal Orlando announced that The Incredible Hulk roller coaster would undergo major refurbishment that would involve the addition of "new trains, a new storyline and a completely new ride experience". The ride had operated since opening day and closed on for its refurbishment. The refurbishment later saw the ride get completely retracked, the ride receiving a new onboard soundtrack composed by Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy and the ride's storyline being changed alongside an updated queue line. The ride reopened with these changes on .
List of former Universal's Islands of Adventure attractions | The Incredible Hulk
The first installation of an Invertigo roller coaster occurred at Liseberg in 1997. "HangOver" was originally scheduled to open in 1996 as a launched roller coaster, however, the technology at the time prevented this from occurring and forced the opening back by a year. On March 21, 1998, California's Great America opened a ride known simply as "Invertigo". On April 17, 1999, "Face/Off" opened at Kings Island. It was originally themed after the 1997 Paramount Pictures/Touchstone Pictures film of the same name. On May 8, 1999, Two Face: The Flip Side opened at Six Flags America. It was themed after DC Comics' Batman rival, Harvey Dent A.K.A.
Invertigo (roller coaster) | History
As the name suggests, Superman Escape is themed after DC Comics' Superman character. The ride is located within a superhero hub at Warner Bros. Movie World which encompasses a variety of rides including Arkham Asylum – Shock Therapy, Batwing Spaceshot, Green Lantern Coaster, and . The theming in the show building prior to Superman Escape's launch was developed by local Gold Coast firm, FX Illusions.
Superman Escape | Theme
However, this only includes characters that Universal is currently using, other characters in their "families" (X-Men, Avengers, Fantastic Four, etc.), and the villains associated with said characters. This clause has allowed Walt Disney World to have meet and greets, merchandise, attractions and more with other Marvel characters not associated with the characters at Islands of Adventures, such as Star-Lord and Gamora from "Guardians of the Galaxy".
Marvel Comics | Theme parks
The water tower was originally part of a skit with stunts and special effects that imitated a live movie set with a director and stunt performers. Son of Beast opened in 2000, the second year of the area's two-year expansion. It was the tallest and fastest wooden roller coaster in the world and the first of its kind to feature a vertical loop. As a result of a number of structural issues and two accidents, the ride closed permanently in 2009 and was eventually demolished in 2012. Other notable rides include Delirium, which opened in 2003 as the largest Giant Frisbee ride in the world, and Banshee, the world's longest inverted roller coaster which opened in 2014 at the former location of Son of Beast.
Kings Island | Action Zone
Joe and Cobra character vying for control of Cobra Island.
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel Comics) | Early development
On May 28, 1999, Universal’s Islands of Adventure opened to the general public. It featured six themed "islands", including the Port of Entry, Seuss Landing, The Lost Continent, Jurassic Park, Toon Lagoon, and Marvel Super Hero Island. The park opened to mediocre attendance, and several attractions were closed shortly thereafter, including Island Skipper Tours, due to lack of attendance.
Universal Orlando | History
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Super Adventure Island II | Gameplay
"Ryker's Island" is the Marvel Universe counterpart to the real-world Rikers Island, New York City's largest jail facility, which also includes the 415 acre (1.7 km) island on which it sits. The fictional Ryker's houses both conventional criminals and costumed offenders lacking superpowers. Daredevil is held there after his arrest in "Daredevil" (vol. 2) #80. In "Amazing Spider-Man" (vol. 4) #1, Ryker's Island has been renamed the "Cellar" when it was bought and improved by Empire Unlimited.
Features of the Marvel Universe | Ryker's Island
Before finally riding, riders would progress into an area made up like an auto yard, with cars piled up atop each other and graffiti all over the walls, with the sound of barking Dobermans as well as a seemingly abandoned Shell auto station. After hearing an audio presentation and removing any loose items, riders are strapped in and the ride is dispatched. In the mid-2000s the ride's queue was altered to bypass most of this theming except for the autoyard. The revised queue was located in the pathway between the original "Lethal Weapon – The Ride" entrance and Superman Escape.
Arkham Asylum – Shock Therapy | Lethal Weapon – The Ride (1995–2012)
Upon the completion of the ride, guests exit via a path that runs under the lift hill and alongside the park's boundary before returning to the "DC Super Heroes Store". Inside guests can purchase a variety of merchandise related to Green Lantern, Batman and Superman.
Green Lantern Coaster | Exit
Early planning and design for the ride began in 2007. In October 2008, Universal Parks & Resorts announced the addition of "Transformers: The Ride" to their Singapore and Hollywood theme parks. At the time of the announcement, speculation that the ride would feature an upgraded version of the ride system used in The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man ride at Islands of Adventure appeared in the press. After the two attractions at Universal Studios Singapore and Hollywood were opened, Universal Orlando Resort announced on 1 November 2012, that "Transformers: The Ride" would open at Universal Studios Florida in mid-2013. The announcement was made just prior to that night's showing of .
Transformers: The Ride 3D | Announcements
Doctor Doom's Fearfall is a space shot ride located in the Islands of Adventure theme park at Universal Orlando Resort, based on the Marvel Comics supervillan Doctor Doom. The ride opened on May 28, 1999.
Doctor Doom's Fearfall | Introduction
By February 2005, however, the release was off the schedule.
The Marvel Super Heroes | Home media
Marvel Super Hero Adventures is an American-Canadian animated series based on characters created by Marvel Comics. Aimed at a preschool audience, the shorts first air on Disney Channel's Disney Junior block, followed by the Disney Junior channel and later the Marvel HQ YouTube channel and DisneyNOW app.
Marvel Super Hero Adventures | Introduction
These rides date back to the opening of the park.
Legoland California | Explorer Island
Featured locations include the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, the Baxter Building, the Vault and the Sanctum Sanctorum. Shaking the uDraw GameTablet will cause a massive in-game earthquake. The game includes a total of six comic book-designed stages and additionally players can earn "hero points", that can be used to upgrade all ten characters.
Marvel Super Hero Squad: Comic Combat | Gameplay
Superman Escape catapults from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 2 seconds up a 40 m (130 ft) tall top hat). Wild West Falls Adventure Ride, which headlines its eponymous area, courses a Native American village and ghost town before a splashdown finale.
Warner Bros. Movie World | Park layout
The Marvel Experience, or The Marvel Experience: The World's First Hyper-Reality Tour, is a mobile interactive attraction featuring Marvel's characters run by Hero Ventures.
Marvel Experience | Introduction
Curse of DarKastle featured a ride system (vehicles, track, and ride control system) developed by the Entertainment Systems division of Oceaneering International, Inc called EVOLUTION Dark Ride System. The vehicles were capable of pitch, roll, heave, and yaw motions as they moved through the attraction, programmed to synchronize with the attraction show. The motion base had a four degree motor. Similar technology developed by Universal Creative is utilized in The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man, which predates DarKastle, opening in 1999 at Universal's Islands of Adventure theme park in Orlando, Florida and in 2004 at Universal Studios Japan. Spider-man's ride system utilizes electric screw drives for yaw, pitch and roll whereas DarKastle uses pneumatic airbags.
Curse of DarKastle | Technology
"Fantasy Masterpieces" #10 (Aug. 1967) reprinted the entirety of the full-length All-Winners Squad story from the (unhyphenated) "All Winners Comics" #19 (Fall 1946). "Fantasy Masterpieces" #11 (Oct. 1967) re-introduced the work of the late artist Joe Maneely, a star of 1950s comics who died young in a train accident.
Marvel Super-Heroes (comics) | First series
"Marvel Super Hero Squad Online" had alternate controls, in which with one click the player could move from one place to another, or using the arrow keys or the traditional W, A, S, D keys on a keyboard. Selected characters could fly by pressing on blue circles on the ground. If the character was unable to fly, that character could have a double jump or a high/long jump. Points were separated into two compartments, gold and fractals. Gold points could be used to buy anything, while fractals also allowed a player to buy anything. However, fractals could be earned over time in game while gold had to be purchased with real money in the store.
Marvel Super Hero Squad Online | Gameplay
Starting from July 25, 2016, the Virtual Reality experience was offered from 1 p.m. to one hour prior to park close each day. It was announced on February 18, 2017 at ACE New England's Great Nor'Easter event that VR would be removed for the 2017 season.
Superman The Ride | 2016 theme change and VR experience
Batman: The Ride is an inverted roller coaster based on the DC Comics character Batman and found at seven Six Flags theme parks in the United States. Built by consulting engineers Bolliger & Mabillard, it rises to a height of between and reaches top speeds of . The original roller coaster at Six Flags Great America was partially devised by the park's general manager Jim Wintrode. Batman: The Ride was the world's first inverted roller coaster when it opened in 1992, and has since been awarded Coaster Landmark status by the American Coaster Enthusiasts. Clones of the ride exist at amusement parks around the world.
Batman: The Ride | Introduction
To add to the hype around Batman from the opening of Batman: The Ride and the mega-hit film "Batman Returns", the "Batman Stunt Show" opened in 1993 in a brand-new amphitheater located past Demon; which would later come to be known as the Southwest Territory Amphitheater. Six Flags and Time Warner had debuted "The Batman Stunt Show" at Six Flags Great Adventure the year prior, with great success. The theater would be a popular venue with several stunt shows for years to come, before being torn down for the 2016 addition of the dark ride. Space Shuttle America, a motion simulator ride, was built in 1994 near Sky Trek Tower.
Six Flags Great America | Time Warner era (1992–1998)
Sylvester McMonkey McBean's Very Unusual Driving Machine was an attraction due to open with Islands of Adventure on May 28, 1999. It was to be a twin-track ride above Seuss Landing where guests would board individual cars which featured rider controlled speeds. However, it was pushed back due to contractual disputes and safety issues. Although Universal very tentatively tried to set the ride's opening date for summer of 2001, the bankruptcy of the ride's original manufacturer, Severn Lamb, postponed its opening indefinitely in 2002. As such, the original vehicles for the ride were removed, and replaced by Seuss characters on cars which would run along the track.
List of former Universal's Islands of Adventure attractions | Sylvester McMonkey McBean's Very Unusual Driving Machine
From 2002 to 2003, an official "Island Xtreme Stunts" series of Lego sets was released. The line featured replications of the characters to semi-canonical sets such as skateboard parks and various vehicles used in the game. However, these did not financially impact the success of either the game or the Lego series itself, and the theme was discontinued after the first year. The sets are now collectors' items.
Island Xtreme Stunts | Sets
Top Gun opened on April 9, 1993. The ride's queue, where guests waited in line, featured music from the motion picture. An aircraft carrier control room exhibit was also a feature that guests would pass through on their way to the loading platform above. Access to the control room exhibit was blocked off from the queue several years later, some time before Cedar Fair purchased the park in 2006. Top Gun was renamed Flight Deck in 2008 following the sale of the park to Cedar Fair two years earlier. The theme music and signage were changed to remove all references to the movie although some of the original paintings still exist on places throughout the queue.
The Bat (Kings Island; opened 1993) | History
The comics will be available on Marvel Unlimited and Marvel Digital Comic Store for free concurrent with the episodes.
Hero Project | Comics
Stark and the pods then escape because of the blast. The Octopus explodes and Stark congratulates the guests for being heroes but the power on the guests' vehicle begins to fail and Jarvis begins to fall. Jarvis grapples to Stark who flies them back in the Iron Man Mark 45 armor (from ""). Iron Man roughly flies the guests back to Disneyland and into the expo. He finally thanks the guests, but before he can do anything else, Dum-E blinds the guests and ends the experience. The Avengers Campus also includes an interactive "Become Iron Man" experience in Expo Shop, themed merchandise and a character greeting with Iron Man.
Iron Man Experience | Ride
The game box contained a Fate Deck, roster book, and instruction manual.
Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game | Contents
"Spider-Island" is a 2011 comic book storyline starting in "The Amazing Spider-Man" and crossing over into other comic books published by Marvel Comics, most of which were limited series or one-shots specifically for this storyline. The main plot involves the inhabitants of Manhattan Island mysteriously gaining powers similar to Spider-Man. It featured the return of the Jackal and the Queen (Adrianna "Ana" Soria) to the Marvel Universe as well as laying the ground work for the second volume of the "Scarlet Spider" series.
Spider-Island | Introduction
'Oh, by the way, one of them is so nuts he shouldn't be setting foot off Muir Island'... that's asking the reader to bend so far he will break."
Legion (Marvel Comics) | Publication history
Prior to the 2000 season, Six Flags New England was known as Riverside Park. Six Flags purchased the park and added their own DC Comics theming. The site that Superman The Ride operates on is the former site of the Riverside Park Speedway. The Speedway was demolished after the 1999 season to make room for a new themed area, DC Universe (formerly known as DC Superhero Adventure until 2020). As part of the $40 million expansion, the park built Superman: Ride of Steel. Six Flags worked with Swiss manufacturer, Intamin, to build and design the ride a year earlier. The final track piece of Superman was installed on March 27, 2000, about 40 days before opening day.
Superman The Ride | History
Action Theater first opened in 1993 at Carowinds and Kings Dominion, operating as a motion simulator themed to the Paramount film "Days Of Thunder". The following year, the attraction was installed at California's Great America, Canada's Wonderland, and Kings Island. In 1998, Action Theater was renamed "Paramount Action F/X Theater", and a new feature debuted at each location called "James Bond 007: License to Thrill" – a play on the title of an older Bond film called "Licence to Kill". Dino Island 3D was shown from 1999–2000, Meteor Attack in 2000, and Superstition in 2000 and 2002. In 2001, the theme parks presented The 7th Portal (based on the web comic by Stan Lee) as a three-dimensional ride in which the riders help the Data Raiders fight the Nullifiers.
Action Theater | History
Phantom Theater maintained the same ride system as its successors, but featured 55 ride vehicles and no interactive elements. The attraction ceased operation in 2002 and became transformed into Scooby-Doo and the Haunted Castle for the 2003 season.
Boo Blasters on Boo Hill | Kings Island
Opening in April 2004, Absolutely Insane was the UK's only Sky Sling. The ride was manufactured by S&S Power and launched riders to 240 ft into the air at speeds of up to 40 mph. In 2007, towards the end of the season, the ride was left standing, but not operating, until the ride was removed from the park in March 2010.
Fantasy Island (UK amusement park) | Absolutely Insane
On August 28, 2009, The Walt Disney Company (Universal's biggest rival in the theme park market) agreed to purchase Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion. The deal was finalized on December 31, 2009 in which Disney acquired full ownership on the company. Universal stated that the acquisition would not impact its theme park licensing agreement with Marvel and Disney CEO Bob Iger acknowledged that Disney would continue to honor any contracts that Marvel currently has with Disney competitors. The 1994 agreement between Marvel Entertainment and Comcast/NBCUniversal (Universal's current parent companies) governs the use of Marvel properties in non-Universal theme parks and dictates what parks in the region can use such properties.
Marvel Super Hero Island | Disney's acquisition of Marvel
Several safety modifications were made in their wake.
Superman The Ride | Introduction
Riders enter an old, abandoned ice cream factory that has now become the hideout of Mr. Freeze, one of Batman's most famous supervillains. Although the ride was originally based on "Batman & Robin", the statue that can be seen in the station seems to be based on "".
Mr. Freeze (roller coaster) | Ride experience