I got a free 3 month pass to both parks, so I coughed up the $14 to park and amused myself for the day. I'm not sure I would have been so happy if I had to pay full price ($99). Surprisingly, I now prefer Universal to Islands of Adventure. The Dr Doom ride launches you only once in the air. The various islands have no continuity and are getting old (Jurassic Park?). Suess land is for kids. Persian land has one lame show. Castle land has the best coaster, but, it's being folded into Harry Potter. This will be the biggest disppointment in a while. They didn't even expand the park. They just replaced a land. It will be small. The castle is no where near to scale. They're just folding Dueling Dragons into it. I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a bunch of shops with Jurassic parks theme song bellowing through it. Speaking of which, JP is the largest island but it just has the old log flume and a lame gondola. Toon Town is a water park. Not great in the winter. One flume was off line. Marvel land is just creepy. And it's basically the Hulk Coaster. The Morrocan bazaar at the entrance makes no sense.
Universal is better because of it's continuity and the Rock 'N Roll Roller Coaster, Simpson's and Mummy ride. Disaster was off line (ironic because of Haiti). I still don't get the Blues Brothers (Chicago) being included with SF and NY. Men in Black was never good and now is sooo dated. Shrek and Jimmy Neutron is good for kids. The rest of rides at least make sense as part of a Hollywood back lot (old rides at least can feign history). The most amusing thing was that their Starbuck's was the cheapest vendor in the whole park. Where else can you say that? All in all it's still less of a rip than Disney. Not that there is anything right about that.
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