BigSkinny

9mo

Back at Universal for the first time since 2018. Epic on day 1.
Ride List in order of the day:

Monsters Unleashed: Absolutely astounding. From the walk up, Victoria’s Castle is insert synonym for amazing. The queue was wonderful. The tunnel to the load station with the skulls and the catacomb type graves bruh. The ride just wow. A complete masterwork when you get the right timing. The animatronics with the phantom playing the opera. That’s when I knew I was in peak. It tilts you to the extreme. Wolfman part was crazy. No words.

Curse of the Werewolf: waited a bit too long for this. Felt it was just okay. We endured a weather delay. Which will be a recurring theme in this report.

Stardust Racers: Great ride. Incredibly long. Lot of airtime lot of transitional speed throughout. Launches drops, the interactions, the custom elements. It being Mach Rides, you know they dropped 70 mil+ for this, very worth it.

Yoshi’s Adventure: Decent little ride. Feel it’s there more for the look in Super Mario.

Donkey Kong: this is where things go downhill. We get in line during a weather delay. We get through the initial walk up to the main part of queue. We stop and wait 15. They restart the ride. We move maybe 120 feet. Delay for 30 minutes. Move halfway through this room another delay. Move no lie 25 feet and another delay. We get up to the big animatronic in the line and wait for another delay. The longest though is on the final hallway. We waited there like 45 minutes. All in all it was 3.5 hours. I’m with GP who don’t understand how the ride isn’t worth the wait. We had also invested so much time that they felt they had to wait. I wanted to leave after the first delay, but I couldn’t leave them.

After DK, we get the Mario keys and fight Bowser.

Next we head to Ministry of Magic. Bro, I can’t describe the immersion level of the world. It was so many people in there too. The Ministry floor was crazy too.

Monsters x2: Friends went to Berk and I went to Darkmoor to hit the goat again. Too good to only do once.

After that we raced back to the BnB for…

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Scatt

9mo

what phone did you take these on

babylon sherm

9mo

Multiple impact injuries – potential Fabio situation where this guy got hit by passing birds? A drone?

FredVanYeet

9mo

Canada's Wonderland is pretty great

Haven't been in a decade but it's poppin if you ever visit Toronto and like theme parks

BigSkinny

9mo

Did you ride AlpenFury?

FredVanYeet

9mo

I haven't been in a decade but I hear good things

Last big one I went on was the behemoth and that was a great coaster

mjpplus

8mo

Went to HHN and Epic this weekend. Man what a blast.

Kinda got f***ed over by some external s*** when I went to HHN so I was only able to do the IP Houses with the amount of time I had there.

If I had to rank them:
Terrifier
FNAF
Jason
WWE
Fallout

Now for Epic, I got to do almost everything except for the DK coaster which broke down at the end of the day and they closed it for the rest of the night as well as Stardust Racers because someone died on it like a week before I went. Man what a damn park.

The immersion in each land is amazing. You truly do feel like you’re transported into these worlds. My favorite personally was Dark Universe because I love the classic monsters but Super Nintendo World? My god it’s a game come to life. Walking in I was overwhelmed at first at just how much there was around me. I got a Power Band so I was able to do the Bowser Jr. boss fight which was cool. Speed ran all the challenges before the boss fight right before the park closed. Mario Kart ride was pretty fun once I got a hang of it.

Dark Universe is a near perfect representation of the classic Universal Monsters. My favorite ride of the entire park is Monsters Unchained. A brilliant dark ride. The Wolfman coaster was my favorite coaster that I rode at the park as well. I would love to see Universal add a HHN house here permanently and just let it run year round.

Harry Potter was cool. You’re brought into this beautiful recreation of Paris. Didn’t get to see the show, but Battle at the Ministry is excellent. The recreation of the Ministry of Magic is jaw dropping to walk through. The blend of screens and animatronics on the ride itself was incredible.

HTTYD was my least favorite land, but it was still great. The coaster there was much more intense than I anticipated. The only ride I didn’t really like in the whole park that I did was the Dragon Racers ride. It was slow, but you only went around twice and it was hard to control. Other than that the theming was great.

I definitely want to go back in the next year or two and spend more time in Super Nintendo World in particular. I kind of rushed through it since I went there at the end of the day.

ninachop

8mo

Rip Ride Rockit is gone

bakedinatlanta

6mo

Kings island 🐐

doot doot

5mo

Damn when’d you go fam?

bakedinatlanta

5mo

I’m local bro so like every 3 years or so

Scatt

5mo

might be going to epic in february