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After boarding, the train moved into another area of the station themed as a gamma-ray accelerator,
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while a recording of Dr. Bruce Banner was played anxiously stating, "Everything looks good...I
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think...I think this time it's...going to work!" A female voice then exclaimed, "Warning! Coolant
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levels dropping!" and announced that there was a malfunction. Alarms began to sound inside the
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accelerator as Dr. Banner screamed in terror, "No! No! No! No!" The last "No!" was synchronized
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with the tire-propelled launch mechanism, which propelled the train from in 2 seconds at an upward
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angle exiting the station.
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Immediately after exiting the tunnel, the train entered a zero-g roll inverting element and plunged
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down a drop. The train then reached a max speed of , followed by a cobra roll over the park's main
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lagoon. The train then proceeded through a vertical loop, followed by a subterranean tunnel full of
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mist. Upon exiting the tunnel, the track encircled the station, sending the train into a corkscrew
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and a second vertical loop, which wrapped around the mid-course brake run and was flanked by two
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over-banked turns. This led into the mid-course brake run slowing the train before descending
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another hill into a second corkscrew and a turn-around. The train then tilted sideways during the
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final stretch of track as riders passed an on-ride camera and entered a helix, which ended at the
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coaster's final brake run.
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2016–present
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Queue
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Following a major refurbishment that was completed in 2016, a new, original storyline was added
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with a completely redesigned queue experience that places guests inside a perilous scientific
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experiment led by General Thaddeus Ross. The entrance features a statue of Hulk holding one of the
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ride's vehicles over his head, and arching tracks passing over him. These arching coaster tracks
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came from the original Hulk Roller Coaster. The televisions now show CGI animations of test
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subjects being exposed to gamma radiation and being transformed into Hulk-like creatures. As of
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April 2015, riders must pass through metal detectors and security personnel and must rid themselves
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of all loose items from their pockets.
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Ride experience
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The refurbishment added new, immersive elements such as a revamped launch tunnel and audio speakers
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integrated on-board each train. After walking through the queue, guests arrive at General Ross'
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launching platform. After boarding, the train departs the platform and enters an area themed as a
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gamma core. The train begins to ascend a launch tunnel, while a female voice recording announces,
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"Initiating Gamma Exposure. Hulk Transformation: Accelerating. Do not be afraid." Visual and audio
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effects portraying the reaction of a gamma accelerator are activated, as a tire-propelled launch
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mechanism sends riders catapulting out of the launch tunnel. Riders experience the same track
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layout from the original Hulk ride that was rebuilt with new track pieces. An original score
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composed by Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy is played over the on-board speakers.
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Reception
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The Incredible Hulk has been well received. In its debut year, the ride was voted the 1 roller
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coaster by Discovery Channel viewers, appearing on the Thrills, Chills and Spills documentary.
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Amusement Business described The Incredible Hulk as one of Islands of Adventure's two world-class
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roller coasters (the other being the now-dismantled Dueling Dragons, also known as the Dragon
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Challenge). Dewayne Bevil of the Orlando Sentinel rated the ride as his eighth favorite attraction
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in Orlando. He states the ride is "too intense to take back-to-back trips. It rattles our nerves,
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in a good way." Arthur Levine of About.com gave the ride 9 out of 10 stars. Levine describes the
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ride as "both terrifying and exhilarating" and "not for the faint of heart".
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In Amusement Today's annual Golden Ticket Awards, The Incredible Hulk was consistently ranked until
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2013. It debuted at position 19 in 1999 before reaching its peak ranking of 9 in 2001.
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See also Incidents at Universal parks References External links
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Amusement rides manufactured by MTS Systems Corporation Amusement rides based on works by Stan Lee
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Hulk (comics) in other media Islands of Adventure Licensed-properties at Universal Parks & Resorts
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Roller coasters in Orlando, Florida Roller coasters introduced in 1999
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Roller coasters operated by Universal Parks & Resorts
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Roller coasters manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard Universal Parks & Resorts attractions by name
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Marvel Comics in amusement parks Rebuilt buildings and structures in the United States
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1999 establishments in Florida Roller coasters in Florida
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Constantin George Sandulescu (11 February 1933, Bucharest – 27 October 2018, Monte Carlo) was a
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Joycean scholar, but in the first place, he was a linguist with twelve years' experience in the
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Department of Theoretical Linguistics of the University of Stockholm in the 1970s and 1980s,
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specializing in Discourse Analysis. In that capacity he read a dozen or so papers at various
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international congresses (see texts below).
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His education includes a B.A. degree (Bucharest), M.Phil. (Leeds) and PhD (Essex). George
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Sandulescu has worked as a researcher at university level for 12 years in Romania (between 1957 and
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1969), for 12 years in Sweden (from 1970 to 1982), and for 12 years in the Principality of Monaco
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(from 1984 to 1996). He taught at Bucharest University between 1962 and 1969. He has lived, worked,
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and conducted research and teaching in major institutions in Romania, Sweden, Great Britain, the
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United States and Italy.
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After the death in 1983 of Princess Grace of Monaco, he substantially assisted in founding the
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Monaco library bearing her name, and organised important International Conferences there devoted to
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James Joyce (1985 and 1990), William Butler Yeats (1987), Samuel Beckett (1991), and Oscar Wilde
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(1993). On the invitation of Prince Rainier III, and together with the British writer Anthony
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Burgess, also a resident of Monaco, George Sandulescu was one of the founders of the Princess Grace
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Irish Library of Monaco—the fundamental purpose of which was to publish literary criticism in two
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distinct series of publications, produced by Colin Smythe Ltd., of Gerrards Cross. More than 25
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volumes were published in the period from 1985 to 1997; the programme had stopped by 2000.
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George Sandulescu attended most James Joyce Conventions, Conferences and get-togethers which took
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place in Europe (and some of them in the United States) between the years 1975 and 1990. (The same
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applied to both Theoretical and Practical Linguistics during the same period of time.)He stopped in
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1990, after having organized the 12th James Joyce Symposium in the Principality of Monaco.
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As Director of the Princess Grace Irish Library between 1982 and 1996, George Sandulescu made a
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point of organizing World Congresses in Monaco, devoted to the Irish writers Wilde, Yeats, Joyce
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and Beckett. Both the Director Sandulescu, the Reigning Family, the Trustees of the Library, and
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the Principality as a whole invited the families of these four writers to actively participate in
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the event, as an essential point in the success and completeness of these manifestations (see
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Proceedings below).
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Literary criticism
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C. George Sandulescu, The Joycean Monolgue. A Study of Ulysses, A Wake Newslitter Press,
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Colchester, Essex (England), 1979; revised for The Contemporary Literature Press, under the
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University of Bucharest
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C. George Sandulescu, The Language of the Devil, Texture and Archetype in Finnegans Wake, Colin
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Smythe Ltd. of London and Dufour Editions of Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, 1987
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Assessing the 1984 Ulysses. The Princess Grace Irish Library. Signed, Eds. C. George Sandulescu,
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Clive Hart, Colin Smythe (1986)
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Rediscovering Oscar Wilde, Ed. C.George Sandulescu, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (6
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December 1994)
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Images of Joyce: Volume 1, Eds. Clive Hart, C. George Sandulescu, Bonnie K. Scott, and Fritz Senn,
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A Colin Smythe Publication (12 November 1998)
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Images of Joyce: Volume 2, Eds. Clive Hart, C. George Sandulescu, Bonnie K. Scott, and Fritz Senn,
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A Colin Smythe Publication (12 November 1998)
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Beckett and Beyond, Ed. C. George Sandulescu, Colin Smythe Ltd. (10 May 1999)
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George Sandulescu, Two Great Translators into English – Leviţchi and Duţescu – Two Personalities