Former Show // latest change 1997.02.06
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Former Show · the memorial record
This show is gone, but its history stays documented — the full lifetime log is below.
Universal Studios Florida publicly announced on February 6, 1997 that Twister...Ride It Out would be built in the former Ghostbusters Spooktacular venue.
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The show gave its final performance on November 8, 1996, closing permanently after six years.
Universal overhauled the show with a new pre-show in which Louis Tully pitched Ghostbusters franchise starter kits and Walter Peck threatened to shut the operation down, stretching the running time to roughly 20 minutes.
Ghostbusters Spooktacular opened with Universal Studios Florida in Soundstage 50 on the New York backlot, staging the film's rooftop climax with Pepper's Ghost illusions and a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man animatronic whose head measured 22 feet in diameter.
Per the documented record, Ghostbusters Spooktacular at Universal Studios opened on Jun 7, 1990.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for Ghostbusters Spooktacular is dated Nov 8, 1996: The show gave its final performance on November 8, 1996, closing permanently after six years.
The latest documented change (documented Feb 6, 1997): Universal Studios Florida publicly announced on February 6, 1997 that Twister...Ride It Out would be built in the former Ghostbusters Spooktacular venue.
4 documented changes, dating back to 1990 — the fan-kept show changelog nobody else keeps.
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