page_title: Back to the Future: The Ride
section_title: Plot
hierarchical_section_title: Back to the Future: The Ride / Plot
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context_page_description: Back to the Future: The Ride was a simulator ride at Universal Studios theme parks. It was based on and inspired by the Back to the Future film series and is a mini-sequel to 1990's Back to the Future Part III. It was located at Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood, where it was replaced by The Simpsons Ride, and at Universal Studios Japan, where it was replaced by Despicable Me Minion Mayhem.
  The ride's story centered on a first person adventure in pursuit of Biff Tannen through time. Steven Spielberg, executive producer of the films, served as creative consultant for it.
context_section_description: Following the events of Back to the Future Part III, Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown moves to the present time in Hill Valley where, in 1991, he founded the Institute of Future Technology, a scientific institute specializing in his "futuristic" inventions. On May 2, 1991, he invites tourists into the facility as "volunteers" in order to test out his newest invention, the eight-passenger DeLorean time machine, by traveling one day into the future.
  Meanwhile, Doc travels to 2015 in the original DeLorean (a new time machine being built out of another DeLorean) to make sure the space time continuum is back to normal after the events of his previous time traveling adventures, while his other Institute scientists traveled to 1885 and 1955. However, in 1955, Biff Tannen stows away on the IFT scientists' time machine, hitching a ride back to the present-day Institute, which sets up the ride's main storyline.
caption: Entrance of Back to the Future: The Ride at Universal Studios Japan
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