Universal Studios Hollywood
Transformers: The Ride opens this month at Universal Studios Hollywood, and I got the opportunity to check it out before the grand opening on May 25. Along the way I hit some attractions that have opened since my last visit and some old attractions that are likely to disappear over the next couple of years. With the addition of Transformers and a certain boy wizard (hopefully before 2016), the park is really turning up the heat on the SoCal theme park competition. It's still not quite as extensive as the Florida parks, but it's getting there. The Los Angeles County Arboretum
Our Canon PowerShot bit the dust, so I was at a botanical garden without an actual camera - something similar to torture. To say I like to take a lot of pictures of flowers and stuff is a bit of an understatement. But it turns out there was a lot less flowers and a lot more bark at the Los Angeles County Arboretum. Due to major damage caused by a wind storm in November, most of that bark was either lying on the ground or being sawed into smaller pieces and cleaned up. There were still things to see, so I was forced to capture nature with my smartphone camera. You can judge the results for yourself. Universal's Islands of Adventure
To cap off an incredibly short trip to the Sunshine State, I chose to spend as much time as possible at Universal's Islands of Adventure. Joining me were Erik and Misty of Erik & Smisty's Florida Oddventures and Erik & Misty's Smoky Mountain Adventures fame. Erik and I go way back, back to the days of the Haunted Shack, but that's a whole other story. This update is about Florida. We also took a brief tour of SeaWorld, but don't ask me why that's not in this update. Just enjoy these pictures because it takes me forever to organize photos, OK? Halloween Horror Nights Orlando
This was my fourth year at Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando, and I'm admittedly a huge fan of what Universal puts together every single October. The detail and scale of their attractions pretty much beats every single Halloween event out there. Whether it's actually scary or not is something else, which brings me to 2011. Something was a little off this year. The mazes fell generally into three categories: Scary and amazing to look at, amazing to look at but not really scary, and pretty terrible and not scary. Thankfully, only a couple of mazes fell into that last category, but so many fell into the second that I was disappointed. Georgia Aquarium
Landlocked Atlanta is one of the most unlikely places to find the world’s largest aquarium, but that’s where it is, nestled between the World of Coca-Cola and a Legal Sea Foods restaurant. I was actually really hesitant to go because my last photo trip involved an aquarium and I was really hoping to visit the botanical gardens. But crappy weather and a handful of recommendations persuaded me to go the aquarium instead. It was worth it, with the high cost of admission being my only complaint. In fact, it blows every other aquarium I’ve been to out of the water. |
@thegeekticket: @ProgressCityUSA Why is that not happening right now? @thegeekticket: @ProgressCityUSA If only a park would build an attraction based off the upcoming reboot of Third Man on the Mountain, titled The Third Man. @thegeekticket: @ThemePark It's incredibly dated, and I can sum it up as 15 mins of a woman screaming "Mariner!" over and over followed by some explosions. 
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