Universal Studios fan Fest Nights unleashes an incredibly huge dungeon and dragon puppet

Starting this Friday Dungeons and Dragons Fans can experience the realm of desktop RPG in new ways on Universal Studios Fan Festival night in Hollywood. The fanatic celebration will showcase new participatory entertainment at the dark theme park event, which will give guests the opportunity to experience their own participatory entertainment. D&D adventure. Think of Halloween horror nights, but with less fantasy spins and fears, you'll be adding a group walkthrough in the zoomed version Dungeons and Dragons: The Secrets on the Water and other immersive experiences One, Star Trekand Back to the future.

During a recent media behind-the-scenes tour, IO9, along with Universal Studios Entertainment Production Director Stephen Siercks, witnessed the construction of fantasy forests and ruins in Waterdeep. this D&D Experience the many visibility of interactive RPGs Dungeon Mastersaw the costumes and props. However, this formal collaboration with Hasbro and the Coast Wizard tries to go a different route.

Here, the Pulse Team will enter and encounter Harp in one of their missions to join their hero spy network and remove the legendary lover Xanathar to save the city of Waterdeep while still combining the game elements. Participants will be able to determine the class name. “We want to have experience with the role of dice,” Siercks revealed, adding how this will work in “making these plots twist and able to roll down 20 of the last moments in this space, and there are Easter eggs along the way, as well as some dice.”

The last moment he refers to is the last plot twist that happens when you face to face with the big bad guy Xanathar of the mission. Trust us, it's great to see close. “This is an unusually impressive creature and a great collaboration with Henson Creature Shop. We're excited to work with them, an amazing collaboration between Universal Studios Hollywood Entertainment Team, the Coast Wizard, Hasbro Team, Jim Henson's Jim Henson's Jim Henson's Jim Henson's Jim Henson's Jim Henson's Jim Henson's Jim Henson's Creature Shop is totally visible to put the monster's artistic level and prepare space for the hidden puppets during the performance.

Siercks continued: “So it was a pleasant surprise to see this creature come to life before us – just when we thought we had saved a day, he was here and he wouldn't let us walk so quickly with ease.”

Iconic D&D The opponent sits on a pile of gold, a towering behemoth – think of Audrey II's final form Horror store Or for fans of Horror Nights, from Aliens and Predators house. “So you can see Xanathar and his goldfish Silgar, where, with it, there are some battles,” Sex said. “We've worked with Henson on a few different occasions, so this is definitely one of the people who've risen.”

So cool that it's not only a pre-programmed animation, but also a performance with a puppet brings the feeling of immersive gaming, which almost makes you feel like you're at Jim Henson Dungeons and Dragons Movie. It just adds to the magic of the studio activity that is common in the movie.

“Xanathar has oral movements, eye movements, and it's totally lit up, so working with it is very impressive. We're going to have something to hide the vision here, so all our focus goes in that direction, and then in that surprise moment, we all turn around and he's all there,” Siecks explains. “We did a great job setting up moments like this [where we] Can introduce [guests to] Xanathar is the person you end up looking to see from the beginning, and then when you find them you can connect that point. ”

And the level of real details is not over D&D fan. “Easter eggs, characters, plot twists and turns, story points really speak to those fans so that they can get more experience from the experience as well.” [the] Fantasy type. and Dungeons and Dragons Just we can both develop an amazing story around us and surface [and] Develop great experiences and bring these environments to life to bring our guests in. That [is] We also know what guests want. ”

Universal Studios Fan Fest Nights will begin this Friday at Universal Studios Hollywood and will run a select night before May 18. More information on tickets and pricing.

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