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2015 Hill Valley Model - Shopping Center

An engineer working on one of the T-Rex animatronics

2015 Hill Valley Model - Courthouse Square

The team behind the filming of Back to the Future: The Ride

2015 Hill Valley Model - Entrance Gate

2015 Hill Valley Model - Suburbs

A worker stands in the model of 2015's shopping center

The prehistoric volcano

A camera captures ride footage for the 2015 segment

Shooting the final scene; the arrest of Biff Tannen

A miniature-model DeLorean floats through a river of lava

Thomas F. Wilson and Douglas Trumbull stand outside the Orlando attraction on opening day

2015 Hill Valley - Courthouse Square

2015 Hill Valley - Courthouse Square

The film crew captures the very first frames of the ride

Pyrotechnics fire as the life-size finale is filmed

The crew works on the ice age model

Filming the interior of the ice caves

A behind the camera look at the T-Rex encounter

Filming the encounter with the Tyrannosaur

Cameras capture the close-call with a pre-historic dinosaur

Fireworks explode at the opening of the Orlando attraction

Fireworks explode at the opening of the Orlando attraction

A look at the Omnimax cameras used to capture the ride

Thomas F. Wilson, Mary Steenburgen, and Michael J. Fox at the opening of the Orlando attraction

Thomas F. Wilson and Michael J. Fox at the opening of the Orlando attraction

Douglas Trumbull being interview outside the Orlando attraction

Douglas Trumbull poses with the front of the model of 2015 Hill Valley

The massive projectors hidden from guests' view

The DeLorean Time Machine outside the Orlando attraction's entrance

The complex hydraulics of the ride's vehicles

The complex hydraulics of the ride's vehicles

The complex hydraulics of the ride's vehicles

The complex hydraulics of the ride's vehicles

Steve Marble, Bob Ward, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg in the "eight-passenger DeLorean"

Construction of the Hollywood attraction in 1990

Bob Gale, Michael J. Fox, Robert Zemeckis, Mary Steenburgen, and Steven Spielberg at the opening of the Hollywood attraction

Bob Gale outside the Hollywood attraction in 2007