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Postby cycamps on July 17th, 2007, 11:39 pm
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?
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Postby demon boy on July 18th, 2007, 12:59 am
1- Ride the following....... at leasts
Dueling Dragons
The Hulk
Dr. Dooms Freefall

2- i believe they do have a q-bot system
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Postby cowboy1192 on July 18th, 2007, 7:39 am
Never been, but from what Ive seen and heard be sure to ride Dueling Dragons and Hulk.
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Postby sfgam12321 on July 18th, 2007, 9:20 am
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)
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Postby w00dland on July 18th, 2007, 10:38 am
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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Postby cycamps on July 18th, 2007, 11:12 am
Thanks for your advice; I look forward to going to the park.
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Postby sfgam12321 on July 18th, 2007, 12:04 pm
w00dland wrote: Men in Black was great (when you see the bug hit the little red button right away to get an extra 100,000 points)


What I didn't know that when I went. But that ride has great themeing.
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Postby Sedir on July 18th, 2007, 1:24 pm
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.
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Postby Danhockey04 on July 18th, 2007, 2:30 pm
Must Rides:
Dueling Dragons: Ice/Fire
Mummy
Ripsaw Falls
Men in Black
Spiderman
Jurassic Park

Should Rides:
Hulk
E.T.
Flying Unicorn
Dr. Suess

Skippers:
Twister

You should be able to do everything there, try to get on everything. But those in the must rides list are the best rides there in my opinion.
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Postby batcave on July 18th, 2007, 2:57 pm
demon boy wrote:
2- i believe they do have a q-bot system


Really? :roll: 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:
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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.
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Postby Director_Guy on July 18th, 2007, 3:21 pm
^At USH it used to be that you would get totally soaked on Jurassic Park. I wonder what happened.

I might be going there in October. Anyone ever been that time of year? Think the crowds are as bad as they are here during Fright Fest?
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Postby MollysMomma on July 18th, 2007, 4:54 pm
^^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. :lol:
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Postby FParker185 on July 18th, 2007, 6:45 pm
I always really like Cat in the Hat alot.

I think a good plan at IOA is just ride everything in the park, they really dont have alot of stuff there, but what they have is absolutely top notch.
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Postby shocker on July 18th, 2007, 6:50 pm
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.
I'd rather be riding the Voyage
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Postby batcave on July 18th, 2007, 9:33 pm
Dude I forgot the Catt in Hat monorail thingy!!! It is kickass at night.
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Postby cycamps on July 18th, 2007, 10:33 pm
What is the bug and the little red button you hit on Men in Black?
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Postby FParker185 on July 18th, 2007, 11:24 pm
shhh, the button is a secret :)

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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Postby w00dland on July 19th, 2007, 2:15 am
If you pay attention in the Queue and when Zed tells you to push the button then you will know what to do. :D

And yes, Cat in the Hat and the Monorail in Seuss Landing are both fun rides.
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Postby Do I Know You on July 24th, 2007, 8:21 pm
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.
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Postby Sedir on July 24th, 2007, 11:13 pm
w00dland wrote:If you pay attention in the Queue and when Zed tells you to push the button then you will know what to do. :D


I remember actually hearing that part, pressing the button and not getting the points. I was pretty mad.
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Postby Director_Guy on July 25th, 2007, 1:11 pm
^^ Yay, Reel Big Fish!

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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Postby Jackluver18 on July 25th, 2007, 1:21 pm
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.
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Postby cycamps on July 29th, 2007, 7:07 pm
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?
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Postby Danhockey04 on July 29th, 2007, 7:20 pm
/\ Yes and yes.

I rode Kraken, great ride, I have an annual pass to SWO.

To DD:Ice, I think it was the better of the two, and the second best coaster at Universal behind Mummy.
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Postby batcave on July 29th, 2007, 9:33 pm
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.
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