This official sequel premiered in 1991, but almost no one has seen it

Ah, attraction parks. In the United States they are part of the emporium of entertainment multinationals, and have a financial importance comparable to that of films. That’s why, adapted Different attractions are sometimes closeting films that have actors and directors of the original franchises in cinema and, therefore, function as more or less canonical sequelae.

Some examples? Movies for attractions’Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout!‘, In Disney California Adventure, with voices and performances by Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel (Groot). EITHER ‘Harry Potter and The Forbidden Journey‘ and ‘Harry Potter and The Escape from Gringotts‘For the Universal Studios parks, where Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson resumed their papers. But none had the ambition and the great results of ‘Back to the Future: The Ride’.

In fact, the film that accompanies the attraction, half an hour, It works as a quarter of the sagasince his events take place after ‘Back to the future III’, when Biff Tannen, the villain of the saga, steals a Delorean to Doc. The attraction was released in May 1991, only one year after the arrival in cinemas of the third film, which we remember that it was released in turn only four months after the second, which was shot simultaneously. The Universal Studios Florida arrived on May 2, 1991, a couple of years later to the Universal Studios Hollywood and, finally, already in 2001, the Universal Studios Japan de Osaka.

With Christopher Lloyd and Thomas F. Wilson, retaking their Doc Brown and Biff Tannen roles, we moved to 1991 (that is, the present of the spectators of attraction). Doc Brown founded the Institute of Technology of the future. But when Biff steals a Delorean, Doc asks visitors, so that on board a delorean of eight passengers they embark on a persecution that takes them to the Jurassic period, to the year 2015, and to Hill Valley of 1955.

Among the attractions of ‘Back to the Future: The Ride’ was the movement simulator that made him eight people had the impression of being aboard a delorean while looking at a huge IMAX dome -shaped screen that wrapped them with a 180 -degree view. Wind, smoke and strobe lights were used during the projection to make the trip more realistic and to increase the sensation of speed and movement.

When the fame of ‘return to the future’ began to decline, the attraction was replaced by one of ‘the Simpsons’. In it, the creators allowed a good amount of winks to the attraction that had preceded them: Comic Book Guy with Marty’s futuristic jacket, an animated Doc Brown with the voice of Christopher Lloyd and references to the Institute of Technology of the future, which Doc has no choice but to sell to Professor Frink. The ‘Back To the Future: The Ride’ movie, restored and traced, appeared in various domestic editions of the saga as of 2010.

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*An earlier version of this article was published in July 2024