Best Bet for a 7 yr old - Your Opinion?

[Queasy]

I'm going to be spending a day at Universal with my 7 yr old son, and I'm torn between the original park and Islands of Adventure. My recollection of the original park is that it had a lot of movie-themed rides from 'older' movies (Twister, King Kong, etc) that a 7 yr old might not have even heard of. Am I right in this? Would IOA be a better fit?

 

[Disn3y]

US has Jimmy Neutron ride (Nickelodeon area), Shrek, Men in Black ride, Woody the Wookpecker area, Twister, etc.

While IOA has a Dr. Seuss area, Spider Man ride, a Popeye boat ride, other then that everything else might be to extreme for your son. Unless he is a daredevil there are coasters, and big drop rides. I would say US for a 7 year old would be better in my opinion, but really depends on how much he likes the 'big' rides.

 

[ky07]

Both parks have some good palces for kids that age to have fun
Studios has Fievels playland , Curious George play area that has alot of water for them to play in and as mentioned Woody woodpecker rollercoaster, ET as others I can't remeber.
IOA has camp Jurrassic , Discovery Zone and not to mention WWOHP coming soon.
Just a suggestion but I would go to universalorlando.com and look at the info on the parks and do like I did show it to your kid and see what park he would like cause thats what I did for the first time with my two sons but they said they wanted to go to both

 

[Darcy03231]

At 7 your son may not make the height requirements for some of the rides at IOA (my niece didn't make them at 9, but she's petite). I would say that he would be able to do/see everything on the US side other than maybe Rip Ride Rockit.