Rides Made into Movies, Movies Made into Rides!

           Films have a great impact on society in many different ways!  One way is through amusement park rides. When we watch films, we have a tendency to become a part of the film for that hour and a half that it plays.  Turning movies into rides and rides becoming movies is a way that people can be a part of the action of the movie. 

           Disney does this with a lot of rides and movies.  Pirates of the Caribbean was a ride before it was ever a movie and  although it wasn't as much of a success as a movie, so was The Haunted Mansion.  Disneyland and California Adventure have alot more rides that came from movies including, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Splash Mountain, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, A Bug's Life, The Tower of Terror, Toy Story, Snow White, Peter Pan and many more!  They are even planning another movie to be made after the attraction "The Jungle Cruise."    

           Disney is not the only company that turns movies into rides.  Universal studios has made rides for The Mummy, Jurassic Park, The Simpsons and a few others.  They also now have a Hary Potter amusement park.     http://www.imdb.com/list/vdduX9c5Pv4/

          Why are rides so successful at being movies? and why are these movies popular rides?  I think that it wouldn't even matter if the movies themselves weren't that great!  When people grew up going on and loving the ride, it is exciting for it to be made into a movie.  It is also extremely creative that the Imagineering teams at Disneyland are able to accompish taking a simple ride and creating an entire film out of it!  Along the same lines, it is exciting to have our favorite movies made into rides so we can become a part of the films that we love! 

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