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| name = Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!<br />
| park = [[Disney's Hollywood Studios]]<br />
| land = Echo Lake<br />
| type = Live stunt show<br />
| opened = August 25, 1989<br />
| designer = Walt Disney Imagineering<br />
| duration = About 25 minutes<br />
| status = Operating<br />
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'''Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!''' is a live stunt show at [[Disney's Hollywood Studios]] at [[Walt Disney World]]. Opened on August 25, 1989, it recreates and then explains stunt sequences from the film ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (1981), performed by stunt actors in an outdoor theatre in the Echo Lake area of the park. It was the first ''Indiana Jones'' attraction at any Disney park, and it is among the longest-running shows at Walt Disney World.<br />
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== History ==<br />
The show was planned as an opening-day attraction for Disney-MGM Studios, as the park was then called, but it was not ready when the park opened on May 1, 1989. It opened a little under four months later, in the year ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' reached cinemas, and was dedicated by Disney chief executive Michael Eisner together with ''Indiana Jones'' creator George Lucas, who served as an executive producer on the show. The original production was directed by Jerry Rees, with stunt coordination by Glenn Randall Jr., a veteran film stunt coordinator.<br />
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The show closed for about six months in 2000 for refurbishment. It closed again in March 2020 with the rest of the resort during the COVID-19 pandemic and, like [[Fantasmic!]], returned later than most attractions, reopening on December 19, 2021, with its volunteer segment restored later as operating practices normalised.<br />
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== The show ==<br />
The performance is framed as a film shoot. A casting director and stunt coordinators introduce the company, explain the roles of the stunt double and the effects crew, and select adult volunteers from the audience to appear as extras in a crowd scene — a segment that also serves to explain, without stating it directly at first, that not everything in the show is as dangerous as it looks.<br />
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The first sequence restages the opening of ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. An Indiana Jones performer descends into a temple set, swaps a bag of sand for a golden idol, dodges spikes and a rolling boulder — a fibreglass boulder weighing about 400 pounds — and escapes by rope. The second sequence moves to a Cairo marketplace, where Jones and Marion fight a group of attackers among market stalls, with choreographed falls from rooftops, a sword fight undercut by the film's famous gunshot gag, and comic interplay with the volunteer extras. Between scenes, the crew demonstrate how punches are pulled and falls are broken.<br />
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The finale is set at a desert airfield and camp, built around a German flying wing aircraft, trucks and a fuel tanker. It combines a fight on and around the moving aircraft, pyrotechnics, a performer falling through a roof, and a large fireball explosion as Jones and Marion escape. The cast then take their bows and reset is left visible, reinforcing the show's framing as a working film set rather than a story.<br />
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== Theatre and operation ==<br />
The show is performed in the open-air Stunt Theater, which seats about 2,150 guests per performance and is shaded by a large canopy. Because the production depends on pyrotechnics, vehicles and physical stunts, it is performed several times a day but can be shortened or cancelled in severe weather, and individual sequences are occasionally cut when an effect or vehicle is unavailable.<br />
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Its longevity is unusual for a show tied to a single film. While the park around it has lost its working-studio function and most of its original attractions, the stunt show has continued with its 1989 structure substantially intact, updated mainly in safety practice, effects maintenance and small details of staging.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Disney's Hollywood Studios]]<br />
* [[Fantasmic!]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Shows]]<br />
[[Category:Disney's Hollywood Studios]]<br />
[[Category:1989 establishments in Florida]]</div>Admin