Brit Chick
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Whilst on holiday in Las Vegas I had a chance to go to the Star Trek Experience at the Hilton. Having also seen the Adventure in Hyde Park and the Science Museum exhibit a few years ago I can compare – although the Vegas Experience was not so stacked with the props and gadgets that you got to see in London, the Borg 4D and Kilingon Encounter were fantastic.
Bearing in mind I’d spent the previous week in Anaheim and had done the Terminator and Shrek 4D rides at Universal Studios I kind of had an idea what to expect. Although let me tell you, when you are sitting in your chair, and the Borg Queen comes looming towards you to assimilate you, you are not really ready for the severe poking you get from behind you - and more worryingly – underneath you. I wondered what the hell was going on !!! everyone literally tried to jump out of their seats.
The whole thing was very well done, they had young actors (I assume) playing Starfleet personal, fighting and interacting with the Borg – and the Borg outfits looked pretty much as they do on the show. Scary enough to make me grab onto my friend when they came towards us in the corridor of the "space station."
The Klingon Encounter was more of a ride, along the lines of the Back to the Future ride at Universal. Big screen in front and you sit in a (very large) shuttle which is on hydraulics and it chucks you about all over the place to coincide with whats going on on the screen – it goes on for quite a while and even I was getting a little motion sick by the end of it. Much better than the little shuttle ride they had at Hyde Park. It starts off with them saying they are going to shuttle you out because the Klingons are about to attack - then loads lights and dry ice effects, it all goes dark and then you are in the transporter room of the Enterpise E !!! you get to see the brigde and there are communcations from both Cmdr Riker and Cpt Picard
Quarks Bar was open and fully functional – all the drinks had trekky names and came in a variety of colours!. The Blood Wine was of course Red Wine, but hey, I can go with the flow. Romulan ale was available from the bar, and the gift shop. They didn’t have Gagh on the menu which was a bit of relief! My other half was quite disappointed there were no Dabo Tables (it was in the gambling capital after all). I was impressed by the food replicators – they had this machine that poured drinks and made it look as though the fluid was being ‘beamed’ down into the glasses – very hard to explain, but looked very effective.
I guess the Vegas Experience is always going to be better than the travelling exhibitions because it’s a fixture and they can add and improve it all the time. If you get to Vegas and want an afternoon away from the blackjack tables go see it – it was about $60 so that’s about £32 so its not cheap – but I had to go !!!
Bearing in mind I’d spent the previous week in Anaheim and had done the Terminator and Shrek 4D rides at Universal Studios I kind of had an idea what to expect. Although let me tell you, when you are sitting in your chair, and the Borg Queen comes looming towards you to assimilate you, you are not really ready for the severe poking you get from behind you - and more worryingly – underneath you. I wondered what the hell was going on !!! everyone literally tried to jump out of their seats.
The whole thing was very well done, they had young actors (I assume) playing Starfleet personal, fighting and interacting with the Borg – and the Borg outfits looked pretty much as they do on the show. Scary enough to make me grab onto my friend when they came towards us in the corridor of the "space station."
The Klingon Encounter was more of a ride, along the lines of the Back to the Future ride at Universal. Big screen in front and you sit in a (very large) shuttle which is on hydraulics and it chucks you about all over the place to coincide with whats going on on the screen – it goes on for quite a while and even I was getting a little motion sick by the end of it. Much better than the little shuttle ride they had at Hyde Park. It starts off with them saying they are going to shuttle you out because the Klingons are about to attack - then loads lights and dry ice effects, it all goes dark and then you are in the transporter room of the Enterpise E !!! you get to see the brigde and there are communcations from both Cmdr Riker and Cpt Picard
Quarks Bar was open and fully functional – all the drinks had trekky names and came in a variety of colours!. The Blood Wine was of course Red Wine, but hey, I can go with the flow. Romulan ale was available from the bar, and the gift shop. They didn’t have Gagh on the menu which was a bit of relief! My other half was quite disappointed there were no Dabo Tables (it was in the gambling capital after all). I was impressed by the food replicators – they had this machine that poured drinks and made it look as though the fluid was being ‘beamed’ down into the glasses – very hard to explain, but looked very effective.
I guess the Vegas Experience is always going to be better than the travelling exhibitions because it’s a fixture and they can add and improve it all the time. If you get to Vegas and want an afternoon away from the blackjack tables go see it – it was about $60 so that’s about £32 so its not cheap – but I had to go !!!
