Alright, I have to set this whole review straight. I enjoyed the mummy, but I have some big problems with it. First of all, the hype to this ride had a lot of claims that just were bogus. There is no mummy actually jumping on the car. I rode this ride twice over two days the middle of june and there was no mummy jumping. I didnt even see a point where there could have been a mummy leaping on the car. A couple reviews rave about the animatronics at the beginning...again, Im not seeing it. The mummy squirts out like he has a rod in his back, because he does, and then jerks and shudders as you go by screaming at an ear-hurting volume. The Brendan Frasier joke ending was pretty damn dumb...kinda blows the whole theme considering the "making of" part of the line was probably over a half an hour ago by that point. The ride was very jerky for a new coaster, I was really suprised by that, and sore afterwards. My last complaint is that it ate 2 pairs of sunglasses I had...USE THE LOCKERS, I say this from experience.
ok, the good stuff. The backwards part was cool...the line theme was cool, with nifty stuff to keep you interested. I liked the talking mummy face in the treasure room, it did what it was supposed to do...the mummies in there were kinda lame though...the fire effects were kick ass. When the cieling catches on fire I was spooked. Overall though, its got a very wierd pace and at the end I felt more duped by the hype (which was WAY less than what my gf had worked herself into, she was almost pissed at this ride) and my neck was more abused than Id have liked.
I would have given it a 5, but a 4 is needed to balance out the 9.8 this thing currently has, it is NOT that good...a 30 minute wait is all its worth...or fast pass it. ;-)
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