Bible: Matthew 28:1-11, Mark 16:1-11, Luke 24:1-12, John 20:1-18 Replacing “Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster starring Aerosmith” in Bible World is “Roll the Rock Coaster starring TobyMac.” Outside the attraction building (where the giant electric guitar is found at Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster) is the large rock that had been rolled away from the tomb. There are also two angels in dazzling white clothes. Entering the queue, quests find themselves in a budding garden in spring time. The pre-show (similar in style to the Aerosmith one in Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster–mixture of set piece and projection) is the Upper Room where the Apostles have locked themselves in for fear that they would face a similar death as Jesus. The mood of the Apostles is depressed. Some of the women disciples have been carefully let-in. They tell the Apostles that they are on the way to Jesus’ tomb to finish off the burial rituals and that they will return when they are finished there. After the women leave, the Apostles share their desires that Jesus was still alive and working miracles. When guests leave the pre-show, they are on a path that leads to a rock tomb in the background. Cast members assist the guests to rows for boarding Resurrection trains, which look sleek and metallic with a different color for each train–dark green, dark blue, dark red, and yukon gold (a brownish gold). The American Christian rapper and singer TobyMac provides the soundtrack for the attraction. Guests will get one of four of his greatest hits: After guests board the Resurrection train and are securely fastened, the train moves out of the loading station and pauses. The countdown marks the moment when the Resurrection occurred. As an aside, scientific analysis of The Shroud of Turin, a cloth that many Christians believe to be the burial cloth of Jesus, suggests that the image was produced by a several billion watt burst of light (something similar in strength to the Big Bang; see, for example the last 7 minutes of the presentation below). That burst is more than enough to launch the train from 0 to 57 mph in 2.8 seconds! The “light” is also used to capture an on-ride picture. Everything else within sight of the riders has turned to white and sparkles with LED lights. The roller coaster has the same three inversions as the current iteration. The 2-dimensional sets on the ride tell the story of the purported events of the Easter Sunday: the women finding the tomb empty only to go tell the Apostles, the tradition that Jesus’ first appearance was to his mother Mary, Peter and John running to the tomb and encountering the rolled-up burial clothes, Mary Magdalene thinking he was the gardener only to find out that it is him, and then running back to the Disciples. As the Resurrection trains break at the end of the ride, one last scene with Audio Animatronics shows the resurrected Jesus appearing to the joyful but incredulous Apostles and saying “Peace be with you.”
At the unloading station, guests disembark, check out their on-ride photos and enter the gift shop where they can purchase mementos from their own “roll the rock” experience. As you have seen, the Roll the Rock Coaster will continue to thrill guests like its predecessor while telling a well-known story–the greatest story ever told!
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