Discover Hollywood Dream - The Ride: Backdrop
Our tips:
- Choose your music
- Belongings in a locker
- Forwards first?
Hollywood Dream - The Ride: Backdrop
Backdrop is the backwards version of Hollywood Dream - The Ride. You ride the same track, but with your back to the direction of travel. You plunge backwards from 43 metres at an impossible angle.
The concept
The idea is simple: you cannot see where you are going and cannot predict what is coming. That suddenly makes the familiar track a lot more thrilling. The trains and seats are the same as on the regular version, with speakers in the headrest.
The Experience
After the lift, you fall backwards down the first 43-metre drop. Then come the horseshoe, the camel back and the double helix, all in reverse. The feeling of weightlessness is even stronger because you have nothing to hold on to in what you see. A ride lasts about three minutes.
Discover Hollywood Dream - The Ride: Backdrop
Choose your music
On Backdrop, too, you choose a song from five tracks.
Belongings in a locker
Loose items are not allowed on the ride. Use the lockers by the attraction.
Forwards first?
Not sure? Then ride the regular version first, so you know what is coming.
Visitor information
The minimum height is 1.32 metres, also with a companion. Loose items are not allowed on the train. There are lockers by the attraction and you walk through a metal detector. With a Universal Express Pass (sold separately) you skip the regular queue if this attraction is on your pass. A train seats 36 people.
For those who have seen it all
Backdrop is the challenge for anyone who already knows Hollywood Dream - The Ride. Afterwards, take a look at the track from Hollywood Boulevard: you will see it differently.
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