The Indiana Jones Adventure dark ride in the crumbling Temple of the Forbidden Eye at Disneyland will reopen this week after undergoing a comprehensive refurbishment that was expected to repair ailing animatronics and address downtime issues.
The Indiana Jones Adventure attraction will reopen on Friday, March 17, according to the Disneyland website.
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The Adventureland thrill ride takes daring passengers in a rugged troop transport over rough terrain as they race through a cursed temple filled with slithering snakes, screaming mummies and collapsing bridges.
Indiana Jones Adventure closed in early January for seasonal refurbishment and maintenance to address behind-the-scenes and guest-facing updates to audio-animatronics and other special effects — but not any significant changes from a story standpoint.
The Indy attraction that opened in March 1995 marks its 28th anniversary this month. In recent years, the aging yet popular Adventureland motion-base dark ride has been prone to downtime issues that were expected to be addressed in the latest refurb.
In 2020, Disneyland crews replaced a perpetually collapsing bridge traversing a perilous molten lava flow in the attraction’s show set. Before that, the Indy ride underwent its last major refurbishment in 2014, according to MousePlanet.
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