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Hey I wanna go to Universal Orlando for the first time next year and wanna ask some questions and also just get general advice on it!!!!!!!! I'm planning to go in January for 5-7-ish days and try to see all three parks, is it worth it to do stuff like the express pass, stay at one of their hotels (and if so which one) and all the other bells and whistles they try to convince you is super great and necessary? Also talk about Universal in general, I would like to just hear people's experiences because it seems like a cool park. My story is I went to Universal Hollywood like three years ago and it was cool and I liked The Mummy ride and the Simpsons ride and I was like "drat that was cool, Orlando has way more stuff right, I should go there too" and then a worldwide pandemic was like "lol. just lmao." and here we are.
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 03:01 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 11:24 |
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don't make direct eye contact with king kong
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 03:12 |
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You can easily knock out Universal in 3 days. One day for each park. Get the express pass as well. Some hotels, like the Hard Rock, include this in your package, so that's worth checking out.
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 03:16 |
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JOHN CENA posted:don't make direct eye contact with king kong I'm gonna
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 03:25 |
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MJeff posted:I'm gonna ur gonna regret it!!
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 03:31 |
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The new Kong ride is loving awful. The old one ruled.
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 03:35 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwOGaIJGnPE rip to a legend...
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 03:41 |
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I’d love to meet the designer who thought that sitting in a truck and looking at 3d screens while the truck bounced around would be a huge improvement over the poo poo in that video.
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 03:51 |
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Jose Oquendo posted:I’d love to meet the designer who thought that sitting in a truck and looking at 3d screens while the truck bounced around would be a huge improvement over the poo poo in that video. hey it works for half the other rides
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 03:52 |
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the theme park equivalent of giving up and just plopping down an ipad in front of your toddler
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 03:53 |
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Jose Oquendo posted:I’d love to meet the designer who thought that sitting in a truck and looking at 3d screens while the truck bounced around would be a huge improvement over the poo poo in that video. That sounds a lot like the Simpsons ride in Hollywood lol
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 04:11 |
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MJeff posted:That sounds a lot like the Simpsons ride in Hollywood lol Sorta? Simpsons is more of a virtual rollercoaster motion simulator and it moves pretty good and definitely provides the right sensations. The new Kong ride is worse. The vehicle just kinda bumps around a little and you don’t really feel anything. Simpsons ride is a re-skinned Back to the Future ride, which opened in 1991. It’s one of the ‘original rides.’ It’s also still a better ride than that new Kong one.
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 04:15 |
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the mummy and the hulk are the only two rides worth visiting universal orlando for. the hollywood rip rockit whatever the gently caress sucks, and it also breaks down way too much
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 05:08 |
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January 5th through 7th tends to still be pretty busy as the holiday crowds are not fully weeded out yet, so you would probably either want Express or to stay in the hotels that offer complimentary Express. I recommend the latter option if you can swing it. Three days is plenty and Express Pass will allow you to do it all more leisurely. Jose Oquendo posted:I’d love to meet the designer who thought that sitting in a truck and looking at 3d screens while the truck bounced around would be a huge improvement over the poo poo in that video. At least they dressed it up with a cool facade, queue, and the scenes leading up to the main 3d portion and the animatronic Kong after are pretty cool. There's at least some effort, unlike Fast & Furious.
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 05:53 |
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Go to Universal City California instead. I went there in the year 2000 and it was pretty good.
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 07:51 |
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Spider Man is the oldest motion sim there and still the best, they put a lot more effort into making it do a lot of not screen stuff and a lot of the newer dark rides are screened up and low effort about it. Fast and Furious is probably the worst one and Kong is pretty much the same system and layout but they threw a couple of animatronics in there. Anyway this is just me saying please stop making every dark ride a thing where a car drives by a screen
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 07:51 |
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I'm actually only being partially honest, I watched "The Ball Drop" On University City Walk on December 31st/January 1st so I am the expert on the place in January. In the year 2000. They had the park open to walk through but all the rides were closed, I think they expected a lot more people to show up. But I feel pretty comfortable in my advice of saying to go there instead.
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 07:56 |
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I also went to Universal City on a field trip a couple times. It's amazing some of the poo poo they got away with as field trips growing up. Like yeah when we went to Knotts, we went to that big America house (which you should go to at Knotts, instead of, Philadelphia) and then met up with tribal leaders who taught us about culture and crafts and about what the land was like before Europeans and we didn't ride any rides, well until high school. But Universal Studios, the Orange County Fair, the Los Angeles fair, they just took us to these places without any pretense of education at all. And these weren't wealthy schools, they were just blowing the budget on bussing us there and just skipping a day of education. Pretty cool though, I remember this stuff more than anything else I did in third grade. Anyway don't look at King Kong in the eye.
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 08:08 |
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U can use ur AAA card at Universal Studios theme parks & resorts for a cool 10% discount
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 09:32 |
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Halloween Horror Nights is the greatest thing of all time
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 12:31 |
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There are people who think the Transformers ride is better than Spiderman I genuinely cant think of one reason Transformers is better. And yeah, at least Kong has the animatronic at the end. And the different drivers. And a great static jump scare in the queue if its not too crowded
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 13:54 |
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CelticPredator posted:Halloween Horror Nights is the greatest thing of all time I've heard it's pretty sick but I really wanna avoid going when it's too crowded mostly because covid but also because I hate crowds and lines. And from what I've heard Halloween is the most crowded time of the year that's not spring break or summer specifically because Horror Nights are so cool.
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 15:22 |
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At Universal Studios, E.T. is a beloved classic that doesn't exist in Hollywood anymore, and the version of The Mummy that's there is significantly better than the west coast version. Men in Black is also unique. I don't know if the Jason Bourne stunt show is running in a post-pandemic world (I assume so?) but it also got high praise. Over at Islands of Advnture, enjoy jurassic park river adventure - the hollywood one was converted to Jurassic World featuring Chris Pratt and that one raptor and that big dino that isn't the t-rex. It got better after a pandemic-downtime revision, but it's still very much worse than the one in Florida. Velocicoaster and Hagrid's coaster also get top marks. If you really give a poo poo about Harry Potter, know that you can't ride the Hogwarts Express unless you have the park-to-park/park hopper add on. the show is different depending which direction you're going. Volcano Bay is fine, I understand? I've never been. I think they've stopped electrocuting and paralyzing people, so that's good. Boxman fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Jul 30, 2022 |
# ? Jul 30, 2022 22:22 |
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You know what’s bullshit? They have a store very clearly named Wossamotta U and there’s not a single Bullwinkle-related item inside. Not one. What. The. gently caress.
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 23:00 |
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Do they even have Rocky and Bullwinkle as characters anymore? They did when I was a kid and there was merch, but that was ages ago
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# ? Jul 30, 2022 23:35 |
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When I was five my parents took me through the Backdraft show, which is burning building themed. It's gone now, and I didn't remember anything about it but but the fire. I haven't had one for a while, but being in a burning commercial building was a recurring nightmare for me.
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# ? Jul 31, 2022 00:22 |
I worked HHN in Orlando back in 2008: On the mummy when you're in the treasure room be sure to loudly yell "there's king Kong!" And then point at king Kong On the Simpsons ride when the car lands be sure to loudly yell "save the clock tower!" And then point at the clock tower. Find a card printer, make yourself a fake UO employee badge and sneak backstage to the employee grill for 75% off the lovely pizzas and chicken fingers. On men in black when you're facing the other car and you have to shoot their target, shoot the one on your own car a bunch. Edit: "I think this time it's ... it's going to work!" "Warning, coolant levels dropping" "Doombots, ignore safety warnings and set the device for maximum extraction!" Naylenas fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Jul 31, 2022 |
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# ? Jul 31, 2022 00:30 |
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Getting p hyped for the Super Mario Land at Universal Studios https://twitter.com/CodyBoopers/status/1532860010916548609
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# ? Jul 31, 2022 20:13 |
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It ain't Super Mario Land without this music playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZexyCYXoYHM
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# ? Jul 31, 2022 21:39 |
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Universal is a two-day visit, three tops if you really wanna go crazy and re-ride a bunch of poo poo Also as it’s extremely pertinent to your plans to visit all three parks, I feel you should be aware that there’s only two parks. Epic has no official ETA but isn’t expected until at least 2025. unless you were counting the water park I guess CapnAndy fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Aug 1, 2022 |
# ? Aug 1, 2022 01:56 |
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Universal markets Volcano Bay as their third park but everyone knows water parks are not theme parks. It’s intentionally misleading to people who haven’t been here
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# ? Aug 1, 2022 02:57 |
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The Fast and Furious ride is incredible just to watch Dom Torreto leap onto a drone and yell about family. Hagrid's Motorbike is also a real solid ride. I doubt I could spend more than 2 days in the whole system unless I did waterpark the third day or there was some other stuff going on like night-life events or something. If I had to spend 3 days in Orlando I'd probably hit my favorite Disney stuff quick one day but thats a whole different can of worms.
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# ? Aug 1, 2022 03:04 |
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Elendil004 posted:The Fast and Furious ride is incredible just to watch Dom Torreto leap onto a drone and yell about family. Everyone involved in that ride ought to be ashamed of themselves
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# ? Aug 1, 2022 03:09 |
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Man Musk posted:Getting p hyped for the Super Mario Land at Universal Studios This is probably the thing that will get me to go back. I haven't been since before the Harry Potter poo poo got added.
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# ? Aug 1, 2022 03:46 |
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Y'all think I'm kidding. I forgot it was during the part where they jump the ride vehicle over a big ramp using nos-enabled tow trucks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87gFEEsGux4&t=625s I did forget though he yells "Ride or Die" which is kinda like family when you think about it. Though it is cool they got everyone onboard for the ride, it does feel like a fast and furious ride and it's worth riding once.
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# ? Aug 1, 2022 03:59 |
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Roth posted:This is probably the thing that will get me to go back. I haven't been since before the Harry Potter poo poo got added. If you're looking for reasons to go in the meantime, The Secret Life of Pets is incredibly good, and I say that as someone who didn't see any of the movies. A fun, creative queue, a fuckton of animatronics in the ride, screens and tech that are creatively integrated into the entire thing. Even the rest of the area is extremely cute, with lots of little gags strewn about. If it had opened at a Disney park - or even Universal Florida - rather than at the Universal that's an afterthought for most people, the theme park community would have absolutely lost its poo poo. I'm very curious how USH is going to deal with Super Nintendo World. It didn't strike me as a park that has a surplus of real estate, or even things to do. Like, there are lots of narrow paths and choke points that could get really ugly when literally everyone is going to one place. The fact that it's on the lower lot is even worse; those escalators are going to be awful.
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# ? Aug 2, 2022 01:50 |
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is tis the harry potter stuff any good?
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# ? Aug 2, 2022 02:48 |
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Mnoba posted:is tis the harry potter stuff any good? ymmv on how tainted the entire franchise is by the creator pushing all her chips onto the transphobia board, of course
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# ? Aug 2, 2022 03:03 |
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it looks really cool and is really well done unfortunately it's loving terrible for a theme park and the whole section is a giant human crush because jk rowling demanded some stupid poo poo when building it
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# ? Aug 2, 2022 03:05 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 11:24 |
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If you're a large person (over 200 lbs and/or 6' tall) and the ride you want to take has those test seats out front, be sure to check them. There's even some videos on Youtube on how to contort yourself to fit certain rides if you're more than a couple of inches over 6'. I made the mistake of not doing so before the Mummy ride and it pushed my legs together just enough that the Curse of the Mummy turned out to be, "My nertz!" I remember my wife's initial confusion that after all roller coasters and drop rides we'd gone on that weekend that the Mummy was the one I got nauseous on until I explained that I'd spent the last ten minutes with my daddy bag getting squeezed and not in a fun way.
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