page_title: Transformers: The Ride 3D
section_title: Universal Studios Hollywood
hierarchical_section_title: Transformers: The Ride 3D / History / Universal Studios Hollywood
caption_attribution_description: Transformers Nest
context_page_description: Transformers: The Ride 3D is a 3D dark ride located at Universal Studios Singapore, Universal Studios Hollywood, Universal Studios Florida and upcoming to Universal Studios Beijing. The ride, based on the Transformers film franchise, was designed by Universal Creative, Oceaneering International, and Industrial Light & Magic. Each installation is reported to have cost US$100 million. Universal Studios Singapore was the first to open the ride.
  The dark ride consists of motion platform-mounted vehicles which follow a 2,000-foot-long track. Throughout the ride, screens up to 60 feet high project 3D images of various Transformers characters as the Autobots attempt to protect the AllSpark from the Decepticons.
context_section_description: Installation of Transformers: The Ride at Universal Studios Hollywood, required the removal of two attractions. On 11 April 2010, Backdraft and Special Effects Stages closed. The Special Effects Stages were relocated to the Upper Lot and renamed the Special Effects Stage on 26 June 2010. Work began almost immediately on the construction of the ride. After a period of construction spanning close to two years, the ride and its gift store, the Transformers Supply Vault, soft opened to the public in late April 2012. Transformers: The Ride officially opened to the public on 24 May 2012.
caption: Construction of the ride at Universal Studios Hollywood.
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