Next week I'm going to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure in Orlando. I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions to what I should ride. Also, do they have some sort of Flash Pass type system?
Ive been there.
A. Get the food is pretty cheep but really good.'
B. They have Q-bots
C. Rides you must hit. DD, DDFF, Hulk, Water Rides, Men in Black Alian attack.
D. Durring the summer Hulk is about 45 min of a wait.
E. Get preferd parkriking (what I remember is it's I think $10.00)
I hope that helps.
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If you have the chance to stay on site I would do it, its a little more per night but I think it's really worth it. You get an express pass on every ride so you wait for nothing, and their hotels are really beautiful and well themed. I loved my time in the Royal Pacific.
But if you can't do that here are some of my favorite rides.
Dueling Dragons Ice is my favorite ride of either park, hopefully they will have these in 3 train operation for the summer ( I went in winter and they only had them in 1 or 2 train).
Revenge of the Mummy is fantastic, make sure you ride this at all costs!
I thought Fear Fall was sort of lame. The towers aren't all that tall. I'm more of a free fall guy anyway, not a fan of S&S towers.
Hulk is a decent ride, nothing really amazing in my point of view. It is different to get launched on a B&M though. I liked it in back but my family said it was too rough there so take your pick.
Ride Dudley Doo Right's Ripsaw Falls, best log flume ever. Seriously. I liked it better than Splash Mountain.
I'm sure you'll have time to almost finish both parks if you are going on seperate days, and there really aren't any rides that aren't worth it for the first try. Men in Black was great (when you see the bug hit the little red button right away to get an extra 100,000 points) also Jurassic Park is a really good time, you barely get wet at all.
I love these parks, two of my favorite. Enjoy yourself!
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You definitely got to ride Spiderman too. It's a great ride and unique experience.
The Popeye river raft ride is also pretty sweet but you usually come off soaked.
demon boy wrote: 2- i believe they do have a q-bot system
Really? They don't. I have an annual pass and usually go once or twice a week. Its what I do when I am bored, I live down the street...literally. If you are going during the weekend, God Have Mercy on Your Soul!! Island's gets packed!!!
My Tips:
Universal Studios Florida
1. Men In Black, go single rider. For some reason the single rider line is never long.
2. The Jaws entrance is being redone, and people assume its closed. Dont miss its entrance. If you are fine with getting wet sit on the right side of the boat. They have been adding effects to it.
3. Universal will be losing its Nick license soon, so ride Jimmy Nuetron.
4. Revenge of the Mummy, a must do! A secret, at the end of the ride there is a movie in which the main character is finally handed his cup of coffee, and gets raped by the Mummy. Literally, if you listen carefully after the blackout, the main character says "The feels good, harder."
Islands of Adventure
1. Posiedon's Furry, is a must do...best attraction at the park.
2. Dueling Dragons, the crew is one of the worst crews I have ever seen. Ride it after 6 when the park crowds die down, and the wait is a walk on. Will be rethemed for Potter, so check it out.
3. Flying Unicorns, they will be retheming it for Potter also, so just ride it.
4. Jurasic Park River Adventure, don't be fooled you will not get soaked.
5. Sipderman, the queue is always long...there is no getting around it.
6. Hulk, get in line prior to close, ad wait for the front. Everyone gets a ride once the park closes, and they do not make you select another row like other parks. They will cycle empty trains, it is kind of cool.
^^I found that the single rider line for Spiderman was never too bad. Everyone above nailed the lists of best rides in the parks. The Flying Unicorn can be made much more entertaining if you ride with someone who screams hysterically at the top of their lungs, like my brother. He amused everyone in the vicinity of the ride.
I just got back from the parks today, I did both yesterday so i only rode what i really wanted too.
I dont know the cost of the flash pass system but you can use it once for every ride, my suggestion is to simply utilize the single rider lines, which in my opinion are very difficult to find as for most rides I didnt know of them until I got into the station.
DanHockey's got a good list but I think Hulk is a must because its launch is a great experience. And make it onto either Earthquake or Jaws, leaning towards Jaws because the video they play in the queue is entertaining.
though the audio clearly tells you when to press it for a substantial bonus, you just have to hear it though like 3 other people talking and a dozen different sound effects.
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I go to Universal every now and then. If you could only hit one of the parks, I'd go with IoA. Like others have said, there's not much to do in the park, but what's there is pretty awesome.
I sincerely hope you like B&M, because that's pretty much your only choice at IoA. If I had to pick between the two (or three, you credit-whoring bastards) coasters, my favorite would be the Hulk, simply because I'm a fan of cobra rolls. And that launch, too. All of the water rides are really fun. Except Jaws. Skip that. And if you've been on Power Tower, you can skip Dr. Doom. Though it's still a fun ride.
At the Universal side, do everything that is humanly possible to get on Mummy. I greatly prefer that ride to both the coasters in IoA. Other than that, there's not too much. I find most of the other rides pretty boring, seeing as how I'm not much of a theming nut. ET is one of the most boring things I've ever been on. The only fun part is the end when ET calls off all the names you chose. Me and my four friends all picked "Muhammad" one time. It was fun.
On a side note, I just so happen to be going to the Universal CityWalk tomorrow for the Reel Big Fish concert. Hell yeah.
and E.T. was awesome when it was at Hollywood. It may not have been the most thrilling, but it really captured the atmosphere of the movie... followed by a creepier-than-small-world experience.
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Go on Earthquake.....that ride was a lot of fun. I haven't been to USO since the age of 11 I think it was. I refuse to go on Jaws if I do go back. I was so gulliable at that age I believed everything that happened that my dad told me when we went on it. I was scared to death so I refuse to ride it. But Earthquake is one heck of a ride....I suggest Earthquake. They had King Kong that was a fun ride too but I haven't been in awhile like I said and I think King Kong is gone if I'm not mistaken. Twister scared the living daylights out of me too. When the floor dropped that scared me. I don't even remember what happened because I was scared out of my mind. That's really sad. Dueling Dragons was my favorite ride. So I recommend Dueling Dragons and Earthquake. Have fun.
Instead of making a new thread in the TR forum, I'll do something like it here...
The only coasters I managed to ride were Hulk & Dueling Dragons Fire.
I loved DD Fire. Ice was broken down all day, so I never got to ride it. Hulk was a decent ride also. Mummy was also closed for the day.
Dr. Doom's Fear Fall was very neat in my opinion, as was Spiderman.
On the Universal Studios side I saw Shrek 4D, Twister, Earthquake, Fear Factor Live, and lastly Termanator. My favorite out of those was Termanator, the live action mixed with the actual 3D movie was very neat.
The day before, I went to Sea World and rode Kraken, a B&M floorless. Have any of you rode Kraken and did I miss out by not riding DD Ice?
Dude I was there the day Ice was down. So my roomate and I went to regular Universal and ended up doing Earthquake, had a nice talk about garbage cans and concrete.