US TF Ride Grand Opening

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At the start of the weekend just past, the US Transformers Ride (California Universal Studios) had its grand opening, and there was a big event featuring some big names in Transformers.

Peter Cullen, Frank Welker and Producer Steven Spielberg. Plus Bumblebee and Optimus Prime of course (vehicles and people in huge costumes).

A video clip can be seen here, while a heap of photos can be seen here.

For those ever planning to go to a future BotCon, or ever thought about it, this gives you another reason to go, as most flights from Australia enter America at Los Angeles.... and with a 1 or 2 night stop-over, you can do the Universal Studios on the way to whatever city is hosting BotCon that year. (or wait until the next BotCon is in LA)

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More images and videos from the grand opening last weekend. (we don't usually get to see much of Frank Welker, as he doesn't usually do public or fan events)

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Another video of the opening... don't know if it has anything new.

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Video has been removed by user

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That's weird... (I should probably look at the videos in future)

The official Transformers channel here, has several videos of the ride, so maybe the one above was replaced with one of the others now there.

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The owner of the Seibertron website has posted up comprehensive details and images of his trip to the Universal Studios in California, which shows off how the themepark has adopted a temporary Transformers theme, and, shows off a huge amount of merchandise in the gift shop.