After a number of rumored closure dates have come and gone, Universal Orlando has finally decided to call it quits and made it official: March 30, 2007 will be the very last day that Back to the Future...The Ride will be open for time travel.
We've heard more rumors & reports over the past six months than we can count, none of which we could verify with anyone at Universal since everyone at Universal we talked to didn't seem to know what was going on either. So we've remained mum on the subject since there's been nothing official until now.
Efforts to save the attraction have fallen on deaf ears, as have efforts to bring the national DeLorean Car Show to the park in the summer of 2010 to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Back to the Future with a cast reunion. It all seems so pointless now.
While there's not been any official word yet from Universal Studios Hollywood, we understand from various internal sources that the attraction there will soon face the very same fate.
Is this the end of an era, or just the closing of one chapter in the BTTF saga? One can only hope that someone, somewhere in the top brass at the studios has something clever up their sleeve in regards to this property and all of this will begin making sense soon. But I'm not holding my breath...
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