Again: this is one of those attractions that, if I had access to a time machine, I’d surely visit. There were actually two (slightly different) “Gremlins”-based attractions in the world, one at Warner Bros. Movie World in Australia and one in Movie Park Germany in, well, Germany. (Only one of them had an appearance by ALF.) Both featured a pre-show that had classic clips from movies and television getting interrupted by Gremlins-related shenanigans, followed by a dark ride where you witnessed Gremlins causing a lot of mean-spirited havoc.
While the ride looks like it was fun, you can’t help but get the feeling that it was a missed opportunity to send up the entire theme park-attractions-based-on-popular-movies phenomenon, especially given the meta-textual brilliance of Joe Dante’s “Gremlins 2: The New Batch.” Both attractions are gone now; in Germany, it was replaced with a coaster themed to Hugh Jackman’s regrettable “Van Helsing.” It’s unclear where ALF went.
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