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Watching this with my kid today. We shot this video in 1998. It was very fun to shoot and horrific to edit with the technology available at the time.

Wait this was the oringinal ending for the ride?

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2:26 Boathouse.

Wow I remember watching this video a lonnnngggg time ago, so glad it’s still up!

We’re gonna need a bigger boat I always wanted to say that

This is always so fun to look back at, just seeing dad sing is always funny! 😅

I wish I was born earlier simply to ride this version or Jaws the ride at all

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It's a shame that this version of the ride didn't always work properly, otherwise it would've been amazing.

never. gets. old.

The layout is much better in this version and the shark is much more convincing. I like the wide open water instead of the congested version they replaced this with. Either way the Jaws ride always will hold a special place in my heart and it kills me to know they tore it down.

The shark also looks way cooler in this version.

I wish they would've ran with the "shark directly attacks the boat" concept. I always had an idea for the Jaws ride where the shark lands in the boat/grabs it with its mouth and causes it to start sinking in the water, until the skipper jabbed it with something and it slid off the boat. That would've been terrifying!

what original jaws riding training video to see the whole thing this cut out what happens inside the boat house. Also captain quint died in the movie so the original finale does not make since chronologically with that off the movie. I swear jaws was middle 1975 not 1974. I think jaws 2 was 1977 three was like 1981 revenge was 1986.

We're almost to 500 views! It's only taken 6 years. =)

There's a big long video called like the jaws ride documentary that like a half hour long that some guy explains it all. Like the original ride malfunctioned so bad they sued the people. Then they ran into financial troubles in 2005 of the oil situation in Iraq . How they had to have a petition to get it reopen. They even got Roy Schneider involved at one point. In the original ride I think the sharks already in the boat house they do not so it on this version.

What was the lifespan of each version. From what years? When was the ride first introduced? What does your last sentence mean? I'm having trouble following. The 1990 version was good you say, but wasn't mechanically engineered well enough for approval?

Different theme, different tone, different boats, different sharks, different show scenes from the boathouse onwards. The 1990 version of the ride was ambitious and more faithful to the original film, but was built by a group of former Disney Imagineers who were hopelessly out of their depth and didn't have the experience or the resources to make their concept work reliably enough to turn over to park operations.

I don't understand the difference in rides. I didn't know there was more than one. Not familiar on the history. Please do tell.

How was it different? This version was sloppily designed by guys who didn't have the first clue what they were doing.

I mean to say beaches

Oh and I believe some locations such as the beeches and barges were a bit different

The dialogue of the skipper was different as well as some of the effects most notably the shark animatronic

How was this ride different from the version they replaced it with? Please compare and contrast.

Was this recorded with an Iphone?

great quality what did you use to film this your nans toaster

This is the ride I remember as a kid. Scared the shit out of me

Small white shark :/ ...

This is the one I remember as a little boy I was 6 then.

I can see moagor differances in the original one. One, where the heck is the gas dock!? Second, people like powerlines man!

There used to be pumps that blasted fake blood

Go you have a link? i came here looking to technical info on the old ride system.

a lot differents

There's acutal was a some kid on TH-cam that actually made posted a documentary about the jaws ride. He said in the video That they had so many problems with the ride. Due to all the money it was costing them to set off a fire explosion every day. All the other problems they had universal studios actually eventually sued the people that designed the original ride for them. It closed down peremetly earlier this year.

Never saw it hit the boat -_- could someone get a time

Holy crap it actually HIT the boat!

@SpazAttack7x stinks, i was on it in november, thought they'd never shut it down. i got a little sad earlier today after i got the universal insider email

@dgrgich we drank? who filmed!? great times!

@guitargeek616 it broke down repeatedly, having to be evacuated at least once a day

@Clay3613 They could, if the JAWS budget actually existed :(

@HereComesTreble23 I'm sure 20 years later they could now do that without any of the complications.

One ear only, try to redo this in HQ and have sound come through two ears.

@Ionisus They should try putting in a REAL shark and see how it would react to it.

I think I like this version better, but since I only rode the new version, it's hard to say.

@silverthehedgielover The special effects were hit or miss, no pun intended. The ride system now is no better to be honest, but tech support has more control over it- also, the red chunks coming up looked REALLY cool, but over time it made the whole lake red and chunky and it just looked bad, along with plugging up the filters. Great concept, poor execution.

they should make a swimming with jaws ride

"D-did I get him? D:" "No. :/"

@sketchly60 It does not come up on the boat. There are enough lies on the internet, move along.