娱乐英语新闻:New King Kong attraction debuts this summer: LA Times

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- A newly-constructed King Kong attraction will make its debut this summer after the original one was burned down in a massive fire 19 months ago, it was reported by The Los Angeles Times Wednesday.

Dubbed as "King Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World", the attraction will replace the old one at the same plot and setting, only it will be based on the Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson's King Kong which will include a new element recreating the fight between Kong and a T-Rex in the beginning of the attraction from the King Kong film.

"After the 2008 fire, we knew we had to bring him back to the back lot studio tour, but in a way that has never been experienced before," Universal Studios Hollywood President Larry Kurzweil was quoted as saying.

The new, 3-D Kong has been taking shape in the old Howard Hughes Spruce Goose hangar in Playa Vista, where Peter Jackson led a team in designing the attraction. Visitors who will wear 3-D glasses, won't only see Kong in three dimensions but also smell his banana breath, feel the gust of wind as he jumps over the guests and sense the ground quake when the ape engages a Tyrannosaurus rex in a life-or-death battle, the newspaper reported.

Visitors on the world-famous Studio Tour will be led by a tour guide and travels through the Front Lot, Backlot and various attractions to take a close look at sets and props from many famous movies. The Tour is the signature attraction at the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park.

The June 2008 fire destroyed a 30-foot(9.1 meter), seven-ton Kong that was built in 1986 and considered for many years to be one of the most complex animatronic figures in the world. The new Kong will resemble the one from Jackson's Oscar-winning 2005 version of "King Kong," right down to the broken canine tooth and the scars over its right eye.

The cause of the fire was an accident made by 3 employees.