I enjoyed the ROTM, but one son Dean got a little scared of it and had some words with me over it. Now mind you the kid talked non stop about this and other rides before the trip, but something spooked him. After the mini meltdown we went outside and talked to my wife and got past it. My son Sam liked it enough and so did I, so we went on it again and this time I picked up a lot more of the details of it. Very good dark ride and I was surprised I fit in the seats as well as I did. After the ride we saw the Blues Bros show which was cool and made our way to Disaster.
We had a 15 minute wait until the next showing and I didn't know what to expect. We made our way into the pre show area and it began. I didn't care for some of the humor that was used during the selection of audience members for the film and the few times the cocaine reference and Lindsay Lohan was mentioned. I understood it, but IMHO, it felt out of place. Moving on. On a scale of 1 to 10, I give this attraction a solid 5 and it was neat at times, but nothing I want to see every trip I make. Good special effects on the Christopher Walken charcter. Two attractions I never rode before, down, two more to go!
We made our way to Jaws and the weather and crowds were perfect. Only a 5 minute wait to get on Jaws! Thank you FOTL feature!
Mandatory shark picture alert.
I liked Jaws and it's a mix of corny and nostalgia and being a kid in 1975 when it came out, it brought back some memories. I remember seeing the original film at the drive in when it first came out and what a huge deal it was. We moved onto MIB which beats the pants off of the Buzz Lightyear ride in MK, IMO. We liked so much we rode it 3 times in a row to improve our scores. Once again, thank you FOTL.
I love the whole look and concept of this ride and think it's one of the best dark rides in the entire world! I would like to see Universal turn the Fear factor building into another E ticket type attraction that would be as awesome as MIB or close to it. Never can have enough E ticket rides/attractions in my book.
We made our way to the Simpsons ride and I have to say, I was just as excited as the kids because it was still under construction when I was there in 2007.
The Simpsons didn't disappoint me, that's for sure and I bet we rode it at least 6 times during the whole trip. It was great and not one complaint from me.
We rode again and then made our way toward the front of the park. At the last minute we decided to do the Animal actors show and usually I avoid stuff like this like the plague but what the heck. While we waited for the next show my family took a break outside the building. My wife and I had a beer and the kids had one too. My sons love a ice cold Bud.... just kidding, they had a coke.
We made our way into the building and the show was ok and here's a picture before it started. I was surprised the show went really quick.
Here's one of the animals performing.
Here's another.
We left and decided on one more ride and that was ET. After that I could see the kids were getting tired and it was getting close to 5pm. We made or way toward the gates and saw the Simpsons and their RV.
We left the park and headed over to Jimmy Buffets for dinner and then back to our hotel to regroup, rest up, and over to the Hard Rock for a swim.