Disaster! A Major Motion Picture Ride...Starring You!

Disaster! A Major Motion Picture Ride...Starring You! is a dark ride and show at Universal Studios Florida. It opened on January 17th, 2008 replacing Earthquake: The Big One. It is located at the San Francisco area of the park.

Experience
Guests enter the fictional Disaster! Studios, a struggling film studio specializing in disaster films. To help save money on their next blockbuster film, Mutha Nature, director and CEO Frank Kincaid (played by Christopher Walken) has assistant Lonnie cast several park guests to play roles in the film.

In the next room, Kincaid is brought to life with Musion Eyeliner technology where he interacts with Lonnie and explains his desperate situation to guests.

Guests then enter the next room where the volunteer guests film quick scenes for the film such as a little girl jumping and an elderly woman gardening.

Guests then enter the ride portion of the attraction, where they are cast as extras in the film's big disaster scene, a giant earthquake. Guests are boarded on to trams and sent into a set that simulates a massive earthquake and features several special effects such as an exploding gas truck.

Following the ride, guests watch a trailer for Mutha Nature starring a park ranger (played by Dwayne Johnson) who tries to stop evil corporations from destroying the environment and causing natural disasters. This trailer features the clips previously shot by volunteers.

Trivia
-Despite being branded as a new attraction, the ride portion of Disaster! is mostly similar to the previous Earthquake: The Big One ride.

-The attraction uses state of the art Musion Eyeliner technology to bring Christopher Walken's Frank Kincaid character to life. It is similar to the Pepper's ghost technology used at Disney's Haunted Mansion.