Universal Studios

3D Shows, 4D shows and Marilyn

Everything was ready for our next day's trip to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. The tickets were arranged through a friend of Meghana and Mahesh who got us the tickets for $60 for two theme parks. So we packed our backpacks, got ready for our adventure.

Universal studios is one of the most famous theme parks in orlando along with disney and MGM studios. It is also one of the major movie production companies including the famous Shrek , spiderman and Twisters. It is said that universal studios has better shows but is argued upon by MGM enthusiasts.




One thing was never understood by me. They say Universal but their symbol is earth. Never understood the logic behind it. Anyways, the entrance to Universal was breathtaking. Not just because it was scenic but because of the people around!!. As we had the tickets beforehand, we easily got through.

Once we entered, we came to know that there is no fast-pass system in Univrsal. It was technically there but would cost us $35 which seemed ridiculous. So we decided to visit the shows by careful planning and also by reading the map.

The Universal studios has shows arranged in a circular fashion. There were few good shows like Shrek-4D, Twister etc. We decided to start with Twister.

The twister was disappointing. The twister turned out to be a small fart!!. Seriously it was just sound and visual effects.. And the organiser announced that everybody survived the twister.

The next one was the revenge of the mummy!! This was an awesome ride. The wait was what terrified us. Also we were asked to keep all our bags at a locker which had a finger-print scanner!! Thought it was kinda overkill but did so anyways.

We skipped all the toon stuff and opted to go for Jaws, Terminator, Shrek and MIB.

The Jaws was a cool one in which we were taken in a boat and the sharks would attack the boat. Was pretty neat and thrillinig.


Looking at all those sharks trying to take a byte out of us really hungry. Thanks to Meghana (Thanks a lot to you da) who had packed an excellent vegetable biryaani for us. Now I know why the sharks were trying to bite at the backpacks!!

After the food, we gave a cool visit to MIB. In this, we had to shoot the aliens with a laser gun. Shaggy ended up shooting the people sitting behind him. No wonder his was the least count of aliens killed!!










Entrence to MIB headquarters







So after escaping enduring twister, escaping the jaws, killing the aliens, we needed some hope!! Then came Marilyn. This Marilyn Monroe look alike was roaming around and ppl were taking pics with her. As soon as shaggy saw her, he threw his camera and ran to her.



He could never the same again.. Thunderbolt had struck!!

Shrek came to the rescue..

The queue for shrek was a huge one. The timing was also coinciding with a parade. But we were in the queue and we could only see few big ones from inside a complex.

Shrek was the ultimate show. As advertised, it is a 4D show with the fourth dimension being motion and sensation. As the scenes progress, the seats also move making it one hell of a show. Hmm.. I wonder what will be the state if more stimulating movies are shown? :)

Thinking all these, we left Universal studios at 6 pm and entered Islands of adventure

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