Universal strategy

[disneylover102]

I’m trying to figure out the best strategy for Universal. I’ve never been to the Nintendo area and I already have my power up band and I want to make sure to do everything there. I am not going to splurge on the early entry to the land. I’m curious how good the single rider line is for the Mario Kart ride and if you miss any of the experience? I’m thinking everyone probably goes there first so the best strategy may be to do everything else in the morning and just deal with the Nintendo crowds later. Thoughts?

Btw I want to do Jurassic World, Mummy, and Forbidden Journey at least a few times each and also probably the studio tour and maybe a couple other rides

 

[Disney Dad ADL]

I've never personally used the single rider line on Mario Kart, you might miss the queue if care about that, but you don't skip any of the ride. My experience has been that the park tends to have the shortest lines in the morning and the gets worse in the afternoon (like Disneyland), so it's probably better to do the popular rides in the morning. I'm not sure if you'll be able to do all those rides multiple times in one day, it depends on how busy it is I suppose. We were there Saturday March 8 afternoon and Friday March 14 afternoon and all the wait times were like 45 minutes+.

 

[China Expat]

Start at Nintendo, and then do all of the rides on the lower plaza. Then do the studio tour, and save shows and upper plaza rides after. We love Water World and HP land in the afternoon.

 

[disneylover102]

Is there a preshow for Mario Kart?

 

[Disney Dad ADL]

Is there a preshow for Mario Kart?

I mean kinda, but nothing that I would worry about missing. There are basically 2 rooms that happen before you get on the ride and they show some videos. It just shows how the ride works and also a little "backstory" about how there's Team Mario vs Team Bowser and the winning team gets a trophy.

 

[BostonEd]

Start at Nintendo, and then do all of the rides on the lower plaza. Then do the studio tour, and save shows and upper plaza rides after. We love Water World and HP land in the afternoon.

Looking at the map, this seems like a sensible plan. Would you still recommend this plan for a mid-week (Monday or Tuesday) day during the last week of August? Thanks.

 

[BostonEd]

Start at Nintendo, and then do all of the rides on the lower plaza. Then do the studio tour, and save shows and upper plaza rides after.

Would you still recommend this plan for a mid-week (Monday or Tuesday) day during the last week of August?

The answer to my question is "yes". On Tuesday Aug 26, we arrived a little later than I wanted but still did OK. We were in front of the Bowser cart ride at around 10:10. (We were at the Universal globe out front at 9:55, so plan for a 15 minute walk from the front alllll the way down to Super Nintendo World.) Anyway, the posted wait time was 30 minutes, but it was basically a walk-on. We waited longer to do some of the challenges around SNW than we did for Bowser. From there, Mummy was around 20 min, and we had similar short-ish waits elsewhere. We did the studio tour first thing when we got to the upper level (walk on around 12:15), and still didn't have long lines after that. We saw the last WaterWorld show of the day.