MEN IN BLACK Alien Attack

Where do I begin with this ride! I absolutely love the movie men in black and I love the decorations and staging they have throughout the waiting areas! I mean it looks like it jumped right out of the set! The aliens look real and the weapons are identical to ones shown in the movie. The general construction is wonderful!
However I am not to fond of the ride! I find it to be like laser tag on wheels rather then an exciting interactive ride! Yes it is fun to shoot the aliens and such! But your too busy trying to shoot the aliens to really appreciate the ambience of the ride! I feel that they should do away with the zapping guns and focus more on a thrilling adventure to take you though the world on MIB!
This is one of those rides I get on because I love the show not the ride!

Wow, very disappointing. I was hoping for a Toy Story type of experience, but I didn’t even get a Buzz Lightyear experience adventure. It was extremely hard to figure out where you were shooting or what to shoot at to get points. I beat everybody in my 6 person car– including the guy who pushed the red button and for 100,000 points — but that is primarily due to luck.
Thank God we went on the single rider line and didn’t waste time standing in line.

This is really just for kids I feel. It’s the same as Buzz Lightyear’s Toy Story ride in Disney.
When you wait on line, it looks just like the movie set. However, I did the single rider to skip all the lines. Ended up sitting next to my bf anyways! But you don’t get to see the awesome set design.
The actual ride is a little cheesy but fun especially if you have kids with you.

It feels outdated, especially since almost every other ride at Universal Studios is in 3D or has some cool special effects. I would skip this one if you’ve been on these types of shooting/​arcade rides before.
You enter a cart and use your toy gun to shoot different aliens that pop out at you. It’s a lot of repetitive index finger usage. My hand started hurting halfway through.
I’m not sure how the points work. While we were going through the ride I had the least amount of points out of the three people in my cart, but right when we finished my score jumped up by at least 100,000 points. And I ended up with the highest points.

This ride has a similar concept as the Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin at Disney’s Magic Kingdom. It is an older ride, but it’s still worth checking out. You’ll have to put your belongings in a locker or leave with a non-​rider.
WAIT TIME/​QUEUE: The wait time varies, but usually, this ride doesn’t have nearly the wait times that the newer, more popular attractions have. There’s a single rider line, along with the Express pass and regular line. The queue itself is pretty boring when compared to the newer rides. You start outside, and it’s themed «Universe and Me.» Then you head inside into a lobby area, where you’re funneled in to an «elevator» before entering MIB headquarters. You’ll see the main floor with a bunch of desks, like you can see in the movies. You’ll see some of the aliens from the movie, such as the worm guys in the break room. Eventually, you’ll make it to the loading station.
THE RIDE: I won’t spoil the story. You’re in a six-​person vehicle (three up front and three in the back). Everyone has a gun and a red button in front of them. Shoot the aliens to get points. At one point, you’ll be shooting at another vehicle, so this is where the car may spin depending on whether you’re hit or not. (If you’re sensitive to spinning, this may be something to be aware of.)
Tips:
— Hit the red button when you’re told to. You’ll score an extra 100,000 points.
— Use the single rider line if you want to skip the long lines during the summer (but be aware you’ll be split up).
— This is more relaxing than the other rides, so use it to take a break from the more thrilling attractions.

Scored 121,950 points here! Definitely worth the wait to play

This is a fun little ride. A little dated now but still worth the wait. If you’ve been to Disneyland/​world this ride is the same idea as the Buzz Lightyear ride. You move along in a vehicle and shoot aliens to rack up a score against your other vehicle companions. The vehicle spins and moves as you progress through the story. You don’t get bashed around, but there are some sudden turns and spins that jar you a bit.
Being an older ride, this one had the shortest wait that I experienced on my most recent visit to the park in late November.

The variety of reviews for Men In Black is really interesting! I guess it just goes to show… everyone needs a little somethin’ different from theme park rides. What do I need? I need action. I need to feel my stomach coming into my throat. Loss of gravity. Sudden drops. Darkness. In other words, I love a good thrill ride. This is not a thrill ride. I repeat, this is not a thrill ride. Really it’s not even fun!
First of all, you can’t tell what you’re shooting. What’s the point of a shooting game when you are just shooting out into Neverland without knowing what you’ll hit. The points are really arbitrary. It’s pretty much a free for all throwback to the 90s. I’m a 90s baby so I usually eat this stuff up! I also really love Men In Black! Maybe this ride should be in the Kid Zone? It is totally geared toward a family. It would be cool to compete against your family members, but I think I’ll skip this one in the future. I can see this ride being replaced in the very near future!

This is a great interactive ride at Universal Studios. You’re seating in a 6 seater vehicle and your job is to take the gun in front of you and shoot the aliens throughout the ride. You generate points for each shot.
So you compete with people in your car for high score and then compete with the car opposite for average score at the end.
Great ride. So good, I had to do it 3 times in a row for practice.

Fun arcade-​style shooting game. You are an MIB agent in training, and take part in helping to stop an alien invasion!
You ride in a cart from scene to scene, shooting at the various aliens. The queue is well-​themed and looks like the facility from the movie. Tons of carts were going out with 1 or 2 empty spots, so I think single-​rider would move through the queue much faster.
There is spinning on this ride! Intensity-​level wise, it’s right at my upper tolerance for spinning. There are guaranteed points of spinning (when you encounter a «boss» alien) and you can kind of tell when it is going to happen. Luckily (for someone like me who does not really enjoy spinning) it is only one rotation on each occurrence, except at the very end, when you will whip around three times. That being said, I still really enjoy this ride and I laugh and scream when the cart spins.
My boyfriend had fun double-​fisting his guns, as the seat next to him was empty and he used both guns to rack up an insane amount of points.
The thing I hate the MOST about this ride is when you get seated with people who don’t want to play the game! They just sit in the cart and look at the aliens they are supposed to be shooting. Come on people! Get with the program! A little fun won’t kill you.

Another one of my favorite rides at Universal! We had so much fun the first time we rode this ride. The wait time then wasn’t bad, either, around 20 – 30 minutes. But so worth it!
–RIDE SPOILERS–
You enter into the MIB training facility on your way into the ride. I wish I had brought my phone, but I ended up leaving it in the lockers before coming on. But there are some areas where you can take pictures. You go down the hall and pass the worm guys from the movies. There are also several interactive doors and labs you can sneak a peek into. There’s a huge spread below you with two of the aliens from Men in Black, Bob and Bweryang. They’re operating controls in front of a large screen, and you see empty desks and chairs.
After that, you see a line of weapon replicas from the movies, and then you move into the ride. Everyone sits in rows of two, in a crescent shaped vehicle, and each person is presented with a little ray gun and interface that tells them the amount of points they are getting.
It’s like playing laser tag in a spinning dish. It’s competitive because you’re competing against your friends as well as the opposite group of people. I am not entirely sure how the point system is distributed, but I believe it’s when you shoot at the green eyes of the aliens, as well as the opposite team’s flashing green part on the top of their ride. There is also a part where they say to push the red button, and that is supposed to give you a ton of points, but I was always so into the game that I missed them saying that.
What made this experience especially awesome was the fact that one of my friends «knew someone» so we actually got a behind-​the-​scenes look at the control room, where Bob and Bweryang were located. We looked at the stuff on the desks and sat in the chairs, and got some really cool pictures in front of the two aliens. Our tour guide was awesome! Very congenial and charismatic. He said some of the chairs were actual props from the movie set.
–RIDE SPOILERS END–
PROS:
–Such a fun ride! A very interactive experience. Think laser tag ride.
–We got a really cool backstage tour.
CONS:
–I’m not sure how well the guns actually worked. The first time I played, I got less than 9,000 points and the second time, I got something like 30,000.
–After getting lucky that first time with a short wait time, every time we would come back, it would be 40+ minutes of waiting.
THE VERDICT:
I really dug this ride. It was fun and competitive, with laser tag thrown into the whole mix. I got to ride it twice, and I would ride it again, if the wait time wasn’t so long. I wouldn’t do the single rider line because I feel like part of the fun is that you’re getting to do it with your friends.

MIB is a super fun ride, where you can a group of friends/​randoms ride in a cart together as MIB trainees, when an alien ship crashes and you have to shoot real fake aliens instead the paper targets that MIB had for you at the start.
Some of the aliens shoot back, which can make your cart spin around, and towards the end you will face off against the cart of people running parallel to yours, having to shoot a little red target on top, which will cause them to spin. Then comes the big boss fight, when you’ll have to hit the red button as your normal gun won’t cut it.
We had a ton of fun, me perhaps more so since I had the highest score, and I’d highly suggest this one.
PS. Loved the armoury on the way in which of course had a Noisy Cricket :D

This is such a fun ride that’s great to go on with a group!
The queue area is fun and the line typically moves along quickly. Overlooking the aliens in the communication room is pretty awesome. Outdated? Nah, it’s a spitting image of scenery from the film.
So the ride itself is a shooting game where you’re hunting aliens with your group. If your group gets some good hits, it will cause the car of your competing party to spin, and vice versa. There’s a special «red button» for «emergencies»… make sure you don’t push it until you see the BIG alien towards the end.
My family beat the other team by a landslide, and I got the top score because I was the only person to hit the red button! We also get a really funny photo out of it.
If the line is not long you will want to ride this over and over, because you’ll get a different experience each time!

This was really fun the last time I visited. You get to shoot monsters and aliens. It is a good idea to ask what rides aren’t working. We couldn’t ride this time since there was a problem with the ride. I guess aliens did something.

This was a fun ride that’s comparable to Disney’s Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin. You ride in a car thing that spins and you try to shoot as many aliens as possible. It is a car for more than two people, so there are two levels of about three to four seats on each level.
The introduction to the ride was pretty much like the movie, so that was cool.

So glad we went ahead and did this as single riders. Zero wait but not really worth it. The concept is great but badly needs to be updated. Not all of the guns work :(

This ride left me with the ultimate dilemma: who is hotter? Will Smith at the end of the MiB ride, or Brendan Frasier at the end of the Mummy Ride?
Let’s just call it a draw…
Seriously though, this ride is fun. I’ve always been a Men in Black fan. You get to shoot at aliens just like the training exercise in the first movie. I’m pretty sure some of the controllers don’t work so well, as I was shooting continuously and barely got any points, but oh well. Maybe I’m just not cut out to be an MiB agent…
My advice is to get in the single rider line and skip the wait. We walked right up to the front with no wait and were immediately placed into the ride, while everyone else had to stand in line for 30 minutes. That’s a no-​brainer there!

Men In Black: Alien Attack is one ride in the park that you can ride over and over and you won’t have the same experience every time. That, however, is up to you as the rider chooses what and where to shoot to try and score points. It is also fun to try and beat a previous score or the scores of your fellow companions. The aliens aren’t that scary, so if a little one meets the height requirements I’m sure they will have a blast. A note on the ride itself: the cars do make sudden spinning motions that could nauseate some people prone to it. I’ve been to the park 3 times since it opened in 2000 and I look forward to it every time.
The queue moves fairly quickly as they are constantly loading 4 cars of 6 people at a time. The Express pass is worth it on this ride, in my opinion, because the express line has its own path to the loading station. This makes wait times very minimal when compared to the normal queue.
Finally, free lockers are provided outside of the ride entrance so that you can stow your belongings. They aren’t picky about items in your pockets, they just don’t want bags to be brought with you on the ride.

This is still a ride that I enjoy riding on and shooting the aliens. My grandson beat all of us on this and he never usually beats me. It may be an older ride, but still one of the real good ones at the park.
I will continue to go on this ride until they change it to something else, but it’s not as old as ET and I still don’t feel it’s beyond it’s life, but with the Harry Potter opening, it’s lost a lot of it’s luster now.

I had high hopes for you MIB… I really did. But unfortunately, it was a bit too kiddy for me.
Basically this is a shoot ‘em style game which you hunt down aliens as your cart twists and turns, and they pop out of trash cans, duck behind cars and hang down from the ceiling. Now, that might sound awesome, but really it’s all very «cartoony» and this is totally a kid ride aimed at the youngsters.
The queue for this ride isn’t all that either, unfortunately. It could be a homerun, but it just isn’t there. They have some desks as you look down on the «office» but why is the office empty? Can they have guys in suits walking around? Or some robots dressed in suits? That would make it so much better.
I get it, they need to have something for everyone — and there’s no doubts as a kid this is awesome. You get to zap aliens, you compete for a high score and the «twists and turns» are pretty exciting when you are tiny.