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Islands of Adventure


Mitchada04

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This latest instalment even has adventure in the name, welcome to Islands of Adventure!

Let's take it one island at a time!

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And let us start in the wacky world of Suess!

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Which home to one fish, no two fish, are they red fish or blue fish though?

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And an exceedingly unique carousel!

Moving on from Suess we enter the Lost Continent! Which now feels even more lost.

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Sinbad, a decent show when you ignore the construction going on behind it.

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Now time to enter the place many will be wanting to see...

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The Wizardring World of Harry Potter!

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This actually moves!

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And the first challenge, Dragon Challenge!

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Champions you are ready for battle good luck!

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Hagrid's hut!

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With a Hippogriff!

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And the masterpiece of the whole area

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Forbidden Journey!

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Yes it is a massive shed behind but up front it is sure impressive!

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Bye bye Hogsmeade

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And hello Jurassic Park!

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Home to

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DINOSAURS

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Of course

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And this beautiful view!

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Wonder what happens here?

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This happens!

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Moving on

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Toon Lagoon!

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Best water ride I have been on.

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And last but not least, Marvel SuperHero Island!

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And The Hulk!!!

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A view from Port of Entry

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And the car park concludes this chapter! Don't worry, more photos of Islands will be appearing in the night time photo edition! But until then, thanks for reading and join us again at Universal Studios!

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Wow it really was quiet when you were there! Empty seats on Hulk and Dragons!

Fantastic photos as always, looking forward to seeing your night time ones :)

God I need to get back there :(

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For the first 8 days it was empty! Longest queue at Islands was 20 minutes for Forbidden Journey, everything else was pretty much walk on. It picked up from the 21st but even then other than Forbidden Journey at 75 minutes, the queues stayed around 30 minutes tops.

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It's certainly strange that a park of such scale has received little investment in new rides (especially its first 10 years of operation) yet it is still rated highly amongst enthusiast. Just shows, high quality rides and experiences in the first place will lead to success. I think Harry Potter world has made Universal realise Islands full potential especially with the talks of a Jurassic Park extension for 2015 ish (when JP4 is released) and other ideas that I'm sure are always in the works. What is staggering (in my eyes) is how by opening Harry Potter world (which is actually just one new awesome ride and a re-theme) Islands equalled Studios attendance yet they're regularly investing. Either way I think the future for Islands is brighter (even though it was never dull) and if they can utilise an evening show on the lake or something then it will feel complete.

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As always - great pics there! I REALLY want to ride Hulk :D Am I right in thinking that Dragon Challenge used to be Duelling Dragons, or am I thinking of something else?

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It was indeed Duelling Dragons :) it's pretty much unchanged apart from the queue line has been redone to resemble you walking through the caves or whatever to get to the dragons and that they no longer duel.

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My question is. Does Islands of Adventure ever really get busy outside of special events. Both times I went, the only rides that were ever busy was in the Harry Potter area. Walk on Dragon Challenge, no problem, straight onto Hulk, yeah sure why not. Want to ride Flight of the Hippogriff, yeah go for it but remember to join the hour long queue line beforehand.

It would seem to me that despite the attendance jumping up consistently ever year, the other main attractions are still going around half empty on every cycle. Ride enthusiast dream but it must be a conundrum for Universal in how to get people away from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and onto the other rides. And the real interest I real have is when the expansion opens, will Universal Studios have the same problems with walk on Revenge of the Mummy whilst Diagion Alley has two week long queues.

Still.. it's nice to see something so notoriously British, being such a success story.

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It is a strange one, you stand outside the entrance and there are loads of people yet once inside it is dead bar Harry Potter world and even then the rides on there has short queues. Not being a massive fan of Potter I didn't care about meandering aimlessly in all the crowded shops for hours so the empty rest of the park was brilliant.

What I'm worried about regarding the Mummy and Diagon Alley is surely the public are going to find Gringotts Bank just s bigger better version of the Mummy? I guess time will tell but at least the expansion should stop everyone going straight on to Minions giving that an 80 minute queue from the start.

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