Tuesday, 23 January 2024

Universal Hollywood - take 2!

 18 January 

It seems a little absurd that we should have scheduled another trip to Universal when we had already spent three days there on the other side of the country. Especially given there were no real roller coasters here. Joshua seemed to agree and had been protesting the plan for a couple of weeks. During the planning stages of the holiday I think we thought it would be a good chill day to sign out the holiday - unfortunately at the time of booking I was some what distracted and possibly didn't think through the options so well.

Not to worry, the end result was access to more Butterbeer!


The virtual roller coasters are all pretty much replicated between the east and west coast. The only variation being:
  •  The new "Secret Life of Pets" ride - cute, but not ideal for entertaining teens, and certainly far, far, far from being a thrill ride
  • The new and raved about "Super Nintendo World" - while this world looked super fun and very cleverly decorated, its championed Mario Cart Browser Challenge was an epic flop. We managed to get on this ride with a 15 minute wait time so I don't think our opinions were unique. This said to be "ground-breaking," ride using "cutting edge technology," was kind of meant to be a live ride in electronic game race. Steve and I thought perhaps it was a generational issue, but both Isabelle and Joshua thought it was a waste of time - and that is despite Isabelle going back for a second turn just to be sure she hadn't missed anything. 







Overall, we did have a really nice day. It wasn't busy so we could really take our time and enjoy the environment and rides - even Joshua!







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