Glad you are having a great time - well apart from feeling bad. I felt queasy this time on Forbidden Journey when I hadn't before. I love Rip Ride Rockit - although I couldn't quite get the secret song code in before it took off and got some random song. I had a good time clapping along to Happy - make sure you watch the video after! Have fun!
I did have fun. And I only felt bad while on the rides... get off, walk away and I'm fine. But I've found that Universal has quite a few rides now that I wish were a lot shorter...
Rip Ride Rockit is not one of them. I don't even try the codes... Rollin' works for me... fast, loud, that's good roller coaster music.
Interesting observation. Would it be worthwhile just to look around?
Maybe... Definitely at least once if you haven't seen certain things. The Harry Potter areas really are incredible. The detail, everything, is just perfect.
It was just an accumulation of a lot of things. I don't want to give it all away so that any TR I do will be worth doing, but it just wasn't as enjoyable of an experience as I'm used to having at Universal. I had fun today... I'm glad I went. I'm just not chomping at the bit to go back.
3? So sorry to hear your time at Universal was disappointing. Hopefully things look up in the next few days.
It wasn't all bad. I really did have fun today. There were just some things that frustrated me a bit today and then I realized there are too many rides that revolve around a moving vehicle and a screen. I didn't look at any of my ride photos, but I'm pretty sure I probably looked miserable in every one of them since I was just trying to hold it together till the end of the ride.
I'll share this one big observation and revelation I had today.
It is kind of a spoiler... but I thought this was why I just didn't like Forbidden Journey. People rave about it. I wasn't impressed.
But I'm also not a Potter fan and at that point, hadn't seen any movies. I've made the effort to watch the movies, understand the characters, the backgrounds, the scenery in the attraction.
I rode it today, eager to try it again, after all that preparation and a full dose of Dramamine in anticipation of the queasiness I knew it would give me.
And I still wasn't impressed.
I am, however, a Transformers fan. I was excited about this one.
Like eagerly awaiting it from the moment I heard they were building the first one in US Hollywood.
It fell a bit flat.
I liked the story and the concept. I just wish it was an AA Megatron trying to smash me instead of some 3D projection of him on a screen. I promise to stop making fun of Disco Yeti. At least the Imagineers are trying.
I think it is just the repetitive ride style Universal uses everywhere (yes, I know FJ uses the kuka arm or whatever it is called and has some AA elements) but overall it is the same concept. Stick you in front of a screen and shake you around. Even their coasters do that now. If they do that to Hulk in this refurb I might physically harm someone.
Ironically enough, I love Star Tours. The first year the new version was open, I rode it like 4 or 5 times in a row. It never bothered me at all.