UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD – Saturday 8/4/2018
PART TWO
After lunch, we met up with Ryan and he hooked us up with 3 sets of Express Passes and got us on the Studio Tour. I learned a lot about movie making that I just didn’t realize because I am naïve, I guess, I don’t know. I just assumed they closed down all of NYC and blew up bridges and rebuilt them. /shrug But I guess they don’t do that. The Studio Tour was a lot of fun, I would even say a must do if you never have.
Ride: Studio Tour
Bay Approval: 3/5 (She seemed bored and didn’t like any of the cool stuff, whatever kid.)
Wet Meter: 3/5
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Next my mom and Brad went to the Walking Dead Attraction and me and Bay went and got a shake to share. I have never watched The Walking Dead and I just wasn’t in the mood for Zombies and screaming, so I never went through it. Brad said it was meh.
Drink: Swirl Shake at Mel’s Diner
Bay Approval: 5/5
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Since we had three rides we could use these Express Passes on, we figured we would be nice and use one on a ride Bay wanted to do – Despicable Me Minion Mayhem! The best part of these Express Passes is that it usually gets you immediately inside for the queue and it was a hot day in the sun so we were most grateful for that. The ride was okay. I’m not a huge Minion fan. They are weird.
Ride: Despicable Me Minion Mayhem
Bay Approval: 5/5
Wet Meter: 1/5 just a few drops
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We decided that it was time to make the trek back to the Lower Lot. Universal is spread out and it’s really annoying to get to everything. I want to guess that if we didn’t get these Express Passes that we probably wouldn’t have even tried to ride the other two rides on the lower lot. The wait times were over 100 minutes and I just cannot with that.
First we did the Mummy ride, where we learned that there was a remake with Tom Cruise recently that flopped as a part of this movie reboot series Universal was trying to do. I’ve never seen a single Mummy movie. I’m just here for the rides. This coaster was pretty fun, but a little short. It goes forwards and then backwards, which I like. Definitely not worth a 125 minute wait time though.
Ride: Revenge of The Mummy
Bay Approval: 2/5 (too dark and didn’t like the ghosts)
Wet Meter: 0/5
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And finally to finish off the Lower Lot, we did the Transformers Ride. This was very similar to the Harry Potter ride, so it was pretty fun, but I still have no desire to see these terrible movies. TERRIBLE AWFUL MOVIES.
Ride: Transformers: The Ride 3D
Bay Approval: 5/5 super fun!
Wet Meter: 2/5 WHY WAS WATER INVOLVED AT ALL
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With some time to kill before our next attraction, we headed to Moe’s Tavern for some more beer. Now at this point I was on Day Thirteen of my Margarita Streak but I didn’t even look to see if Universal served Margaritas….. So I broke my streak. Womp, womp. It’s probably for the best. Anyway, Duff Light > Duff.
This lady ruined my picture with her stupid face and her stupid Dodgers hat.
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We headed to the Water World show and sat as far away from the splash zone as possible. We felt like literally every ride spray water on you at some point and we were making sure to not get wet at the attraction that actually tells you where you will get wet. This was a really fun show! I never saw Water World but now I kind of want to see it.
Ride: Water World the Show
Bay Approval: 5/5
Wet Meter: 11/5 if you sit in the wrong spot and 0/5 if you’re smart like us
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After that we stopped so Bay could get a picture with Puss N Boots. Shrek photobombed.
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Then it was time to go to Ollivanders. The wait was about 15 minutes and my mom was like “WHAT ARE WE EVEN IN LINE FOR???” (Clearly not a HP fan.) I loved the little show they did. It was just like being in the book. Bay wasn’t a fan of the show because the magic scared her. /eyeroll Then we ended up not getting a wand because I felt overwhelmed.
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After that we headed to the Three Broomsticks for dinner. We finally got to try some Butter Beer. I knew I wasn’t going to like it because I don’t like cream soda, but I tried it anyway.
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We headed over to Honeyduke’s so I could get a Chocolate Frog and a Pumpkin Pasty. YUM.