The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man
The cliché “don’t miss it” rightfully applies here. It fires on all cylinders, and the whole family can do it without fear. After passing through a simulation of the “Daily Bugle” newsroom (take special notice of the hilarious pre-ride safety video, done as a pitch-perfect “Superfriends”-era cartoon), riders don polarized 3D glasses, board moving cars, and whisk through a 1.5-acre experience. Mild open-air motion simulation, computer-generated animation, and cunning sense trickery (bursts of flame, water droplets, blasts of hot air) collaborate to impart the mind-blowing illusion of being drafted into Spidey’s battles against a “Sinister Syndicate” of supervillains including Doctor Octopus and the Green Goblin, who have disassembled the Statue of Liberty with an anti-gravity gun.
Although the vehicles barely move as they make their way through the sets (so a ride has low impact on the body), you’ll come off feeling as if you’ve survived a 400-foot plunge off a city skyscraper. Comics fans should keep a lookout for Spider-Man’s creator, the late Stan Lee: He appears four times during the ride, and you’ll hear him once. The ride’s cartoonish style predates the movies with Tobey, Andrew, and Tom, but now that the Spider-Verse is a thing, it’s looking fresh again. Strategy: Go early or late in the day to minimize waits. There’s sometimes a single-rider line and it shoots past the slower standby queue. The middle of the front row is debatably the best place to sit.
The cliché “don’t miss it” rightfully applies here. It fires on all cylinders, and the whole family can do it without fear. After passing through a simulation of the “Daily Bugle” newsroom (take special notice of the hilarious pre-ride safety video, done as a pitch-perfect “Superfriends”-era cartoon), riders don polarized 3D glasses, board moving cars, and whisk through a 1.5-acre experience. Mild open-air motion simulation, computer-generated animation, and cunning sense trickery (bursts of flame, water droplets, blasts of hot air) collaborate to impart the mind-blowing illusion of being drafted into Spidey’s battles against a “Sinister Syndicate” of supervillains including Doctor Octopus and the Green Goblin, who have disassembled the Statue of Liberty with an anti-gravity gun.
Although the vehicles barely move as they make their way through the sets (so a ride has low impact on the body), you’ll come off feeling as if you’ve survived a 400-foot plunge off a city skyscraper. Comics fans should keep a lookout for Spider-Man’s creator, the late Stan Lee: He appears four times during the ride, and you’ll hear him once. The ride’s cartoonish style predates the movies with Tobey, Andrew, and Tom, but now that the Spider-Verse is a thing, it’s looking fresh again. Strategy: Go early or late in the day to minimize waits. There’s sometimes a single-rider line and it shoots past the slower standby queue. The middle of the front row is debatably the best place to sit.
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