| DreamWorks Tours: Shrek's Adventure! | |
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| County Hall, London | |
| Coordinates | 51°30′7″N0°7′8″W / 51.50194°N 0.11889°W /51.50194; -0.11889 |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | July 2015 (2015-07) |
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| Theme | Shrek |
DreamWorks Tours: Shrek's Adventure!, commonly referred to asShrek's Adventure!,[1][2] is a tourist attraction located in theCounty Hall building, London. It is a Midway attraction operated byMerlin Entertainments.[3] The tour is named afterUniversal Pictures andDreamWorks Animation Studios franchiseShrek.
This "Immersive Tunnel" from Simworx[4] is built in collaboration with Merlin Entertainments. The 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) live interactive walk-through adventure presents an original story written by DreamWorks Animation, along with acharacter courtyard, also featuring characters from several other DreamWorks Animations franchises.[5]
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Guests enter by walking through a faux establishment called "DreamWorks Tours", where tourists can pick a destination from a popular franchise such as Berk (fromHow to Train Your Dragon), China (fromKung Fu Panda) and Europe (fromMadagascar). However, you are boarding a magic bus in order to visit the world ofShrek. Upon walking through the queue, guests can take photo opportunities, either with a statue ofDonkey peeking out of the Onion Carriage, or in front of a green screen where guests can do a roar for the camera.
When arriving at the "departure gate", the guests then walk through long halls with portraits of the Shrek characters, known as “the departure gallery”, until finally arriving at their destination where the magic buses are waiting. Guests are soon greeted by the Head Tour Guide of Dreamworks Tours, who lets them in on what they're in for when going to the realm of Far Far Away, only to get her presentation ruined by pictures of various villains. They press on however in order to greet Donkey, who reveals that the buses aren't functioning due to a "lack of magic". The tour guide then says that the buses actually run on the magic of music, and playsone song from a selection of famous tunes from the Shrek films. With help from the guests in singing along, the buses begin to gain steam and Donkey awaits the guests’ arrival. The guests then enter a 4D experience where soon enough they're riding through a simulation of traveling through London, England and then fly into the sky, where they meet various DreamWorks characters, first running intothe Penguins of Madagascar, then into Hiccup, Toothless and Astrid, until finally seeingPo riding on a giant firework rocket.
Donkey proceeds to land in Shrek's swamp, unintentionally crushing the witch Griselda in the process (a nod to the death of the Wicked Witch of the East in The Wizard of Oz). Guests then leave the bus and visit Shrek's house, where Cinderella is housekeeping. She tells them thatShrek is not home and that there is a strange cart nearby. When walking towards, guests find out that it'sRumpelstiltskin's old mobile home, where a fortune teller tells the guests that Rumpel is angry upon hearing about the death of his "favorite witch". It turns out that Rumpel was going to propose to Griselda to be his wife, and now that she's been killed, he's out for cold blooded revenge on the tourists. Shrek then promises to help his new friends get back home before they are taken away by Rumpelstiltskin.
Along the adventure, guests encounter various show scenes and interact with certain characters. The most prominent being a trip to the Poision Apple, whereDoris is serving drinks and talks toPuss in Boots about the current situation involving Rumpel. She is soon visited by Baba, who kidnaps Puss and talks to her about what's been going down with Rumpel, and protects the tourists from being spotted by her. Eventually the guests manage to escape and find themselves in the Duloc torture chamber, which is now being used as a set for the game show, Wheel of Torture, hosted byThelonius (who also now works for Rumpel).Pinocchio is being held captive, and in order to free him, guests must answer three questions correctly. The outcome remains the same regardless of who answers the questions, as Pinocchio will be tortured some more by Thelonius. During the process, he'll tell everyone that in order to get back home, they'll have to see the Muffin Man.
Trying to find Drury Lane, the tourists run through a mirror maze (a nod to the original Shrek! book) where holographs of Shrek, Donkey and the Magic Mirror pop up. They luckily find their way there, only to encounter Sleeping Beauty. She will try to tell guests where to find the Muffin Man, but constantly sleeps before she can give any directions. Eventually, she stays awake long enough and the guests can finally meet the Muffin Man. He shows the guests a cauldron that can help bring them back home, and takes a volunteer to put in the last pinch of magic flour. The guests expect to go home, but are surprised to find themselves in a prison withFiona but are quickly rescued by Shrek. One of the DreamWorks Tours staff members end up finding the guests and hopes they had a "Shrek-Tacular" time.
At the end, there are multiple photo opportunities with various Shrek and DreamWorks characters, and naturally, there's a gift shop at the very end.
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