LittleBlackRaincloud said:
Thanks Mary for the info! I might be PMng you with questions as I think of them. Right now my major concern with the plan is this...he hates to go upside down, and I hate coasters period. However, I will LOVE just visiting, the atmosphere, and think I will try spiderman (it's not that bad is it...for a chicken like me I mean!) among other rides. I will have to research it some. I would love to see Shrek also, and was thinking about trying to go over to US also and do a couple of things...just do the super heros at IOA. I really don't know what I'm in for though, and don't want to over plan. So, my questions for you are: What coasters have inversions which would prevent DH2B from riding them? Does dueling dragons go upside down? He loves speed and all that...just hates upside downness (Is that a word?!?!) Any tips you can offer would be appreciated! Thanks again!
Edited to add: I CAN devote the whole day Friday (Our last day) to this, but would prefer not to...what do you think? Doing this would compromise MGM time some, and cut AK out of the schedule completely! Is it worth a whole day for us in your opinion?
You'll definitely LOVE the spiderman ride, it isn't a rollercoaster, it is really hard to explain, and I don't want to give any surprises away, so just trust me, it doesn't go upside down and you will love it!
My fiance actually hates roller coasters and is afraid of heights, so don't worry you will still have fun!! I can't recall offhand which rides went upside down or not, it has been a few years. I think the Incredible Hulk ride and the Dueling dragons, but I would definitely ask on the Universal forum!
I think a half a day is plenty of time!! Remember to factor in travel time, I think I've read somewhere that is about 25 minutes from WDW to US, but I would double check that too! You can do everything in Islands of Adventures in a day - and you can definitely hit all the highlights in a half a day. It is MUCH smaller then any of the WDW parks! We did the whole trip on a weekend,, and we live in LA.. we took a 5.5 hour flight in on friday night.. slept.. woke up early saturday morning, did islands of adventure all day and a little bit of US, flew home sunday morning. I don't think we missed anything! But like I said, there were no lines anywhere. And it'll be enough to get a taste for it - and if he loves it you guys can always come back one day
For the Universal Studios side - we didn't do too much there, just the Men in Black ride (think buzz lightyear space ranger spin..), Twister (if you have time for that, it is really cool,, but only if you get a good standing location.. any place off to the side just totally ruins the experience..), Jaws, king kong, and back to the future. Other then Twister, there wasn't anything there that we couldn't do at the Universal Studios here in california, so we spent all our time at Islands of Adventures. I can try to upload some of my pictures if you like?
This is exactly the kind of idea I was looking for! DH2B is also a huge comic book fan, and doesn't have any clue about about our trip. I have a free day on Thursday of our trip. (Going to the Christmas party that night.) Do you think 5 hours would be long enough at universal to see at least see some of IOA? He would love it, and of course I would keep it as a surprise also. I'll have to find a Universal board like this....
If you mean you will be at universal for 5 hours, that should be enough time to at least see the Superhero island part of islands of adventure and most of the other areas, maybe the whole park depending on crowd levels etc. When I went it was early december, and it was raining like cats and dogs, so we pretty much had the whole park to ourselves. I remember we stopped to watch this one street entertainment thing,, and so did one other couple, and the preformer said something like "hey look, everyone in the park is watching me", which was pretty much true LOL. Of course our soggy sloshy shoes and jeans slowed us down a bit, but we did almost everything in a half a day. I think your fiance will absolutely LOVE the spiderman ride and most everything in that area. We spend like 4 hours in the superhero island (mostly shopping and milling around) before I could convince my boyfriend to move into the other parts of the park. When we finished the circle, we went right back into superhero island and sstayed there for a while again LOL. 
I can't wait to surprise him with it! Just one of the many things I'm looking forward to.. Is it april yet?? 
