Blog:Back to the Future: The Ride - 4D UPDATE

Hey, guys.

I wanted to give you a little something. Imagine if Universal decided to resurrect Back to the Future: The Ride. What if Universal added a 4D element to the updated ride, with IFT workers giving visitors ¨goggles¨? Its premise is that Griff Tannen stole the DeLorean while some workers did an experiment in 2045 to give the second Gray´s Sports Almanac to his 2015 counterpart, and took the Marty of 2045 with him (Griff wanted revenge for what ¨Marty Jr.¨ did to him in 2015). There´s a nod to the original ride in there too.

DOC: Remember, when you see Griff in the DeLorean, accelerate up to 88 miles an hour and bump him! Accelerating now at 55 miles per hour, 65, 75, 85, 88 miles per hour! Hill Valley in the year 2115? Maybe Griff miscalibrated. There’s him! Let’s get him. GRIFF: Oh, Doc Brown. MARTY: Doc? Thank goodness. DOC: Yeah, Tannen, I’ve got you now. Time travel volunteers, now’s our chanc-- GRIFF: Whoa! Gotta get some gas, Doc. Got ya! (TEXACO SIGN breaks as pieces are shot into the 10-passenger DeLorean’s window) I’m up here, Doc! Going down! DOC: Down! GRIFF: Going up! DOC: Down! GRIFF: Going up! (sign breaks) All right! DOC: Got to go! Great Scott! GRIFF: Here’s my new house, like it? MARTY: That’s my house! DOC: Go left! Look out! GRIFF: Ha ha! Going circles around you, butthead! MARTY: You’re making me dizzy, here. GRIFF: Watch for traffic, Doc! DOC: I think we got him. Got ya, Tannen! Faster! GRIFF: Who’s the trank now? DOC: Griff got away! Looks like we’re headed a century back in time. And that’s Hill Valley below us in 2015. It’s raining, so this is October 21, 2015. We better close the roof. (The roof of the 10-passenger DeLorean closes via a mechanism, as it’s a convertible) MARTY: Looks different than how I saw it. GRIFF: Back again? Come on in. DOC: Lyon Estates! GRIFF: Finally! Now I can give this almanac...to myself! MARTY: Don’t do this. I saw how your grandpa would’ve led Hill Valley. GRIFF: Who cares about Gramps? He died in 2029! Here’s my house. Now we can--- MARTY: What the heck is that?! (presses the time circuits) GRIFF: Hey! DOC: Good work. Marty! Now we can get Griff in the---no! (DeLorean hits a billboard) Looks like we’re headed a million years back in time, and that’s Hill Valley in the ice age. MARTY: Sorry, Doc. I wanted to distract Griff. DOC: That's okay, Marty, just get him in the right time. GRIFF: Back again? Come on in. DOC: It’s really cold in the ice age, so we must be careful. GRIFF (punches Marty): That’s for preventing me from being something! MARTY: What the heck was that? DOC: It’s my old 8-passenger time vehicle! And the DeLorean that the Biff Tannen of 1955 is in! We must not let them see us… MARTY: Or it can create a paradox! DOC: Precisely. And it can destroy the entire universe! MARTY: Or at least our own galaxy. GRIFF (punches Marty’s head): Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Thought I was interested in science? DOC: Look out! GRIFF: Ha ha! Now to waste the Mr. Fusion! (puts in a date on the time circuits) Hey, I still got my almanac. I just need to throw its bag and receipt in so I can trap ya! MARTY/DOC: No! Griff! GRIFF: Now to go somewhere I can trap your little trank, Brown. MARTY: This is heavy, Griff. GRIFF: You’re heavy! DOC: That’s Hill Valley in prehistoric times! I recall Biff’s joyride! GRIFF: Like I said. Now, McFly, how about we do something I never thought I’d ever do? MARTY: I’m too old to die like this! GRIFF: Hey, you’re a dying old coot. (we see a T-rex in the distance) How about we feed this dude? DOC: Griff! Why are you doing this? GRIFF: So that I can have another chance at being something. DOC: Bump him! Bump him! (The engine of the 10-passenger DeLorean runs out) Blast! Engine’s run out. We need a little kick in it. Darn! Darn, darn! (DeLorean starts again) We did it, now let’s bump Griff back to the present. GRIFF: Brown! MARTY: Doc! GRIFF: How did your time vehicle get back? Too late, butthead. I’m already ready to drop Marty to this dino! (the T-rex looks ready to eat Marty) DOC: Don’t do this! (T-rex shuts his mouth coincidentally) GRIFF: What? DOC: Now we can bump him! (Griff is finally bumped) The vortex between the two time vehicles will send him straight back to the Institute! (DeLorean crashes back in) GRIFF: Oh, thanks, Doc Brown! (workers release Marty) MARTY: You saved our lives! GRIFF: Butthead! (Marty pulls the lever, and manure falls on Griff) MARTY: I guess it runs in the Tannen blood. GRIFF: Manure! I HATE MANURE! (worker covers the screen with black smoke, then Back in Time by Huey Lewis and the News plays) DOC: Hooray! Not only did you catch Griff, and save Marty and the universe, but you proved that my latest invention is a success! Go forth, time travellers, and remember: the future is what you make it! (screen cuts to rotating IFT logo) NARRATOR: Please take off your seat belts and exit. DOC: Hurry up, get out. Before you meet yourself coming in.