Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, February 6, 1994 TAG: 9402060187
SECTION: HORIZON PAGE: F-6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: The New York Times
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Jaws, the ride, at Universal Studios Florida in Orlando, features a 32-foot, three-ton mechanical shark pursuing tour boats across a seven-acre lagoon designed to resemble Amity Harbor, site of the attacks in "Jaws," the 1975 film by Steven Spielberg.
The shark crashes through a boathouse wall, dodges missiles and snaps its urethane teeth in the boat's wake. Jaws opened in the fall at the 444-acre theme park.
Situated in Orlando near the intersection of Interstate 4 and Florida's Turnpike, the park is open every day. Admission is $37.10 for adults, $29.68 for children ages 3 to 9; children 2 and under, free. For more information: (407) 363-8000.
An eight-acre attraction based on "Wayne's World," the 1992 "Saturday Night Live" spinoff, will open in March at Paramount's Kings Dominion near Richmond.
The site includes a detailed re-creation of Wayne's house and basement in Aurora, Ill., and his favorite hangout, Stan Mikita's Donuts. Visitors can shoot hockey goals, eat funnel cakes at Stan's and ride on a 3,157-foot-long wooden roller coaster with an 83-foot peak called "The Hurler."
The park's admission to 45 rides on 400 acres is $26.95; $18.95 for children 3 to 6; 2 and under, free. The park is open weekends from March 26 to May 30. After that, it opens daily through Labor Day, then resumes its weekend schedule through mid-October.
Kings Dominion is in Doswell, 20 miles north of Richmond, on I-95; (804) 876-5000.
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