50th Birthday celebration. 12 nights of gluttony TONS O PICS & LAUGHS

Thanks for all the wondeful photos, my mouth is watering for one of those burgers and it's only 7am!
 
UNIVERSAL ORLANDO INFORMER PRIVATE EVENT (DEC 11th FRIDAY)

We thought this was going to be a very low crowd event as past events stated and it was not.
very disappointed. It includes all you can eat & drink. all the butterbeers too.
The only new ride for us was Hagrids and that was 65min wait. And we did not care for it.
This was our last time coming back the Universal, just not the type of rides mainly we enjoy.
Love the Potter areas but its just not enough. We been many times before for a day during our long Disney times and
this was the final straw. No biggie.
But anywhos lets look at all the foods we noshed on.....
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Me and me lady
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WIMPY'S
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WIMPYS BURGER OPENED
it was the best burger in the parks surprisingly. Fries were also good.
Did not expect Wimpy's to be decent at all.
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lemon strawberry slush.
Not really slushy or packed with strong flavors.
trashed almost all of it.
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Chicken stingers: pretty tasty
dessert hummus: surprisingly good.
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The events special light globe. LUMOUS
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me & wifey and the "light" crowds
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castle projections
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running open total on the butterbeer cart
this was right at the beginning of the event and the
cart item total was at 105 drinks & $823.50 WOW.
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scrumptious frozen butterbeers.
 
UNIVERSAL ORLANDO INFORMER PRIVATE EVENT (DEC 11th FRIDAY)
PART 2

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THREE BROOMSTICKS:
shepherds pie: very good
bottom left: hot butterbeer. AMAZEBALLS. We liked it as much as the frozen.
Top left: cold butterbeer. just okay
top right: chicken, ribs, corn. decent chicken, better ribs. corn nothing worth eating
salad: plain and not wasting space in our stomachs.
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GILLYWATER
just water, nothing Gilly about it. unless Gilly is slang for toilet water
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PB & Straw icecream: not shabby
Warm Apple crumb pie: very good.
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OPENED UP
for you to enjoy the innards
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RICHTER BURGER
GOD awful. terrible meat, fries plain as can be.
Tossed after a nibble
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LOUIE'S Italian Restaurant
PEPPERONI SLICE
Slightly better than pizza you get in jail I would imagine.
One bite everyone knows the rules........ toss it away.
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Finnegan's bar & grill
Bread pudding.
STANDING OVATION.
Everything about this was a homerun. Finally.
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Simpson food court menu
You tell them what you want and they bring it out to your table
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bottom: chicken & waffle sandwich with tots. horrid waffle, chicken was okay. normal tots

top right: "burger" subpar meat is going easy on it. WOW silly bad. plus for
whatever reason a watery cheese was dosed a top the "meat". one bite and in the trash it went.
fries we okay.

top left: seafood basket. shocked it was pretty good. fish nicely tender and the coconut shrimp edible. tots basic


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MENU for the event

For us it was not worth it in hindsight ($372.84 for both of us PLUS $36 parking)
but glad we went after seeing it for years.
plus it made us realize we do not need to take a day out of our Disney trips ever again.
 
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SLEEPY HOLLOW
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Corn Dog & Chicken waffle with chips
Both were very good, would preferred the batter on the hotdog a little thinner.
great flavors on both. Chips were excellent.
 


Yikes. For such a pricey event ($400???) the Universal food definitely looks subpar. I mean great that you can have as much as you want, but if it all kind of sucks then what is the point? I suppose you could have drunk yourselves sick on butterbeer. The pics are great. Though that one burger looks super gross, like SPAM. Also, definite lack of pickles. Is there a Harry Potter pickle charm??
 
Yikes. For such a pricey event ($400???) the Universal food definitely looks subpar. I mean great that you can have as much as you want, but if it all kind of sucks then what is the point? I suppose you could have drunk yourselves sick on butterbeer. The pics are great. Though that one burger looks super gross, like SPAM. Also, definite lack of pickles. Is there a Harry Potter pickle charm??
My thoughts too, food was nothing like Disney.
Thanks
 


This is awesome! Loving how fast you are and how funny, although I don't understand how anyone can hate wine. That's quite the character flaw you have there. Guess you make up for it with your love of pickles, especially at 7am.

Loving all your pics! I will say that if you only gained two pounds after all those sweets, you did very well! You have totally sold me that I must try Homecomin' next time. Guy's chicken place looks dirt cheap compared to everything else. Are the sauces as good as they're supposed to be? Gotta love the free Landry's birthday cash. I used mine last year at Yak and Yeti.

I will never understand Universal's inability to do food right. I can actually SEE in your pics the horrible quality of the burger "meat". Yuck.

Thanks for posting...looking forward to more!

Happy Birthday, by the way!
 
This is awesome! Loving how fast you are and how funny, although I don't understand how anyone can hate wine. That's quite the character flaw you have there. Guess you make up for it with your love of pickles, especially at 7am.

Loving all your pics! I will say that if you only gained two pounds after all those sweets, you did very well! You have totally sold me that I must try Homecomin' next time. Guy's chicken place looks dirt cheap compared to everything else. Are the sauces as good as they're supposed to be? Gotta love the free Landry's birthday cash. I used mine last year at Yak and Yeti.

I will never understand Universal's inability to do food right. I can actually SEE in your pics the horrible quality of the burger "meat". Yuck.

Thanks for posting...looking forward to more!

Happy Birthday, by the way!
Thanks for the bday wishes.
the food at universal is so far from Disney its a joke.
Homecomin is always a must for us, but this was our first time for brunch and this is the meal time to go.
I used the landry's card at T-Rex & Yak & Yeti. great deal too. when we went to t-trex the guy said 90min+ I whipped out the card like I was a detective investigating a crime and he cracked up, the time then was 20min. such a cool perk.
Wine is gross. Sorry. Pickles are not. easy-peesy. I really dislike all booze, except if the frozen drinks taste like candy, then its okay.
more to come....
 
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My wife came up with this idea of me peeking all around the parks.
See if you can find me (some are very hard to spot).
Loved this idea for so very fun pictures that are not the norm
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Just a start.... gonna get hard to find me
 
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PEEKING AROUND THE PARKS CONTINUED

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Not peeking but I look like a galactic UPS driver.

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More to come later......
 
That is so awesome and astounding that you got boarding group 1 not once but twice! That's some magical birthday pixie dust happening there! Happy Belated Birthday!
 
That is so awesome and astounding that you got boarding group 1 not once but twice! That's some magical birthday pixie dust happening there! Happy Belated Birthday!
It was awesome, and our 3rd day at the studios we still got boarding group 49. 3 out of 3 was a birthday wish come true. thanks, enjoy the reviews
 
PEEKING AROUND THE PARKS CONTINUED

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The madam on the pole does not approve of my shenanigans

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"hiding" in the DVC lounge for our 1st time as DVC owner. Pretty sweet.

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I see YOU
 

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