History Ride / UniversalStudios

** Ride/BackToTheFutureTheRide
** [[Ride/HarryPotterAndTheForbiddenJourney Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey]]
** Ride/{{JAWS}}
** Ride/JurassicParkRiverAdventure
** [[Ride/MenInBlackAlienAttack Men in Black: Alien Attack]]
** [[Ride/RevengeOfTheMummy Revenge of the Mummy]]

** ''[[Franchise/HarryPotter Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey]]'' uses a system similar to ''Transformers'' and ''Spider-Man'', although the ride vehicle is upgraded to a robotic arm attached to a track, simulating a flying bench while the movie parts are in 2D (although they are downplayed while the scale sets are used more compared to the former two.)

** [[Ride/HarryPotterAndTheForbiddenJourney Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey]]

** Ride/HarryPotterAndTheForbiddenJourney
** Ride/MenInBlackAlienAttack
** Ride/RevengeOfTheMummy

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** Japan also has a ''Series/SesameStreet''-themed 3D show[[note]]Which, in the US, can be found playing at Ride/SeaWorld parks due to [=SeaWorld=] having exclusive American theme park licensing rights to ''Sesame Street''[[/note]] and another called ''Animation Celebration 3D''.

* ContinuityNod: When ''The Wizarding World of Harry Potter'' first opened at Islands of Adventure, Weasley's Wizard Wheezes and Honeydukes shared the same building. When Diagon Alley was established, Weasley's Wizard Wheezes was moved there. This is acknowledged in the Hogwarts Express ride, where if you take the train from Hogsmede to London, Fred and George Weasley will fly by the train at one point and set off a firework display advertising that Weasley's Wizard Wheezes is now at Diagon Alley.

* MorePopularSpinoff: The film ''{{Film/Waterworld}}''? One of the biggest box office bombs of cinematic history. The ''Waterworld'' live show? Far more popular and still playing a decade after the film's release.

'''Universal Studios''' are the four theme park complexes owned and operated by Creator/{{NBC}} Creator/{{Universal}}, famous for combining thrilling rides with state-of-the-art technology. Most of the rides are based on movies, a large part of them not from Universal's own library. The studio tour [[OlderThanTheyThink dates all the way back to 1912]], and the theme park dates to 1964. They are ''very'' [[DuelingProducts big competitors]] with the Ride/DisneyThemeParks, and are often regarded as the only theme park group close to it in terms of quality.

Two more parks are expected to be built in Dubai and South Korea within this decade. Not to be confused with the ''actual'' [[Creator/{{Universal}} Universal Studios]].

** Japan also has a ''Series/SesameStreet''-themed 3D show[[note]]Which, in the US, can be found playing at Ride/SeaWorld parks[[/note]] and another called ''Animation Celebration 3D''.

** Japan also has a ''Series/SesameStreet''-themed 3D show and another called ''Animation Celebration 3D''.

** ''[[Franchise/HarryPotter Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey]]'' uses a system similar to ''Transformers'' and ''Spider-Man'', although the ride vehicle is upgraded to a robotic arm attached to a track, simulating a flying bench while the movie parts are in 2D (although they are Downplayed while the scale sets are used more compared to the former two.)

** This is arguably why The Funtastic World of [[Creator/HannaBarberra]] and [[WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy Neutron]]'s Nicktoon Blast were closed. When Hanna-Barberra closed in 2002, the worlds featured weren't very popular with kids anymore. When Jimmy Neutron closed in 2011, the only shows represented in the ride that were still airing were SpongeBobSquarePants and FairlyOddParents. The new DespicableMe ride, however, is much more relevant.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Ride'' and its Krustyland setting, which parody not only the Ride/DisneyThemeParks but Sea World, Six Flags and ''[[SelfDeprecation themselves]]''.

* AllStarCast: Most of the movie-based attractions incorporate the original performers from the films to varying degrees, and since said movies are generally ''extremely'' popular and have ''very'' famous stars...

* ExpandedUniverse: Many attractions qualify as this to their source material.
** ''Shrek 4D'' is canon, revealing that Shrek and Fiona's ride to the honeymoon hotel seen at the beginning of ''Shrek 2'' was ''extremely'' eventful.
** ''Ride/BackToTheFutureTheRide'' served as an [[AlternateContinuity alternate]] "mini-sequel" to the iconic film trilogy that guests could participate in. Countless references to Doc's [[Film/BackToTheFuture previous]] travels are laden throughout the attraction.

* Troperiffic: ''Disaster!'', an attraction where the audience gets to participate in making a trailer for a fictional Hollywood disaster film called "Mutha nature". The tropes featured and Lampshaded include GaiasVengeance, StuffBlowingUp, CowboyCop, CorruptCorporateExecutive, so forth.

* Troperiffic: ''Disaster!'', an attraction where the audience gets to participate in making a trailer for a fictional Hollywood disaster film called "Mutha nature". The tropes featured and Lampshaded include GaiasVengance, StuffBlowingUp, CowboyCop, CorruptCorporateExecutive, so forth.

* {{Mascot}}: It was originally Woody Woodpecker, then it was Fievel for a few years in the early-'90s, and then it became Woody again, who even now is rapidly losing focus. Lately, The Minions seem to be taking up the mantle since the opening of the ''Film/DespicableMe'' ''Minion Mayhem'' ride.

** WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker's Nuthose Rollercoaster is a lesser example (you can still find Woody merchandise if you look hard enough, and he's still ''technically'' the park mascot, [[OutOfFocus as hard as it is to tell these days]]), and even then, Woody seems to be on his way to being replaced as mascot by [[Film/DespicableMe The Minions]].

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: ''Ride/BackToTheFutureTheRide'' temporarily transported guests to a wondrous, [[ZeeRust zeerusty]] Hill Valley in the year 2015 as seen in ''Back to the Future Part II''. As time would pass, this would've eventually placed the ride in an awkward and highly inaccurate NextSundayAD situation, which was partially the reason for its untimely closure in 2007. Though word on the street is, the ride is still operating in Japan.

* {{Mascot}}: It was originally Woody Woodpecker, then it was Fievel for a few years in the early-'90s, and then it became Woody again, who even now is rapidly losing focus.