Minion Mayhem was set to open to the general public Saturday. Gaier’s co-stars, Miranda Cosgrove, who voices older sister Margo, and Elsie Fisher, who is as adorable in person as she is as the animated Agnes, were also fired up about going on the ride, in which guests are “turned into” an army of minions. When it’s just me and I’m in the booth doing the voice, I get really into it and throw my arms up into the air … it’s seriously so much fun.” “When I first went on the one in Florida, I was like, ‘Wait, is that me?’ I love doing the films. “It’s super weird to hear yourself on a ride,” said actress Dana Gaier, who voices Edith, one of the girls adopted by “Despicable Me” lead character Gru in the first film. And what’s not to love? Those adorable little yellow guys with their blue overalls, gibberish and insatiable appetite for bananas have captured the hearts of audiences and helped rake in $543 million worldwide with the release of “Despicable Me” in 2010 and “Despicable Me 2” in 2013.Īt a special media-only unveiling of the “Despicable Me Minion Mayhem” ride and the opening of the interactive fun zone, dubbed “Super Silly Fun Land,” at Universal Studios Hollywood on Friday, celebrities excitedly posed for photos with the dozen or so roaming minions on the yellow carpet as they waited to experience the all-new animated and immersive 3D ultra-HD attraction.

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