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Sgt Pepper said:
massive queues. Might be because the Universal leg of the holiday strayed into September?
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Labour Day weekend, one of the few "bank holidays" that the American's get.
WASTID said:
Velocicoaster wins for the best coaster at those parks for me now. Thought it was tremendous
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Yeah, its cracking.
Wasn't a fan of the Hulk (mentioned in the same post earlier) - far to shakey now, needs a re-track
 
fireballs said:
Cheers, we're at surfside.
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The shuttle buses from Universal stop at Surfside before Dockside. Just over the road from each other.
PTR said:
Labour Day weekend, one of the few "bank holidays" that the American's get.

Yeah, its cracking.
Wasn't a fan of the Hulk (mentioned in the same post earlier) - far to shakey now, needs a re-track
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Labor Day was the day we transitioned from Disney to Universal, didn’t notice anywhere more busy than any other day tbh (surprisingly).
 
Sgt Pepper said:
Labor Day was the day we transitioned from Disney to Universal, didn’t notice anywhere more busy than any other day tbh (surprisingly).
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Its the whole weekend really though, so from Friday to Tuesday would have been busy, I expect.
We did 2 weeks with that in the middle a few years back, and it was mega for about 3 days.
Then IIRC we had Storm Urma the next day, and then 3 days where I've never seen the parks so quiet afterwards.
 
PTR said:
Its the whole weekend really though, so from Friday to Tuesday would have been busy, I expect.
We did 2 weeks with that in the middle a few years back, and it was mega for about 3 days.
Then IIRC we had Storm Urma the next day, and then 3 days where I've never seen the parks so quiet afterwards.
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Honestly can’t say I noticed much difference to be honest mate, all the parks were very busy throughout - it was just some of the bigger thrill rides at our Universal leg which were unexpectedly quiet with not huge wait times. We did Epic on the Tuesday straight after Labor Day and it was rammed, but Stardust (imo easily the best ride there) often had queue times of less than 30 mins throughout the day and sometimes as little as 15 or less. Harry Potter, Mario and others on the other hand were mental, HP especially which had upto 3 hours at one point. It was the same in Islands of Adventure with the likes of Hulk and Velocicoaster having equally short queue times, while Hagrid’s ride again was often 2 hours. The Disney parks the week before had much bigger queue times for their thrill rides, but in terms of people wandering about the parks it wasn’t that noticeably different in terms of busyness. I put the Disney queues down to the fact there are generally less thrill rides per park in them. Dudley’s Rick Saw Falls in IoA was the biggest queues in that park, maybe because you get soaked to death and everybody was roasting alive :lol:. We did Popeye rapids and then Dudley’s one after the other, I may as well have been dunked in one of the lakes but it was that hot it was lovely tbh.
 
I was in the second from last seat on Velocacoaster when I went on . Don’t even know why they give you a seat as my fat arse was in mid air for 95% of the time.
Booked to go back in Sept next year so looking forward to Epic .
 
Nero the dog said:
The coasters in Disney aren’t at the extreme end of the scale. Guardians is fast and brilliant, but there’s no big drops or loops. Same for Tron.
I would say Rock & roller,and Everest are more “extreme” than those 2 and they are pretty tame by Universal standards. The most extreme ride Disney ever had was the original Mission Space, they eventually had to dial it back because too many people were ill, and nobody would go on it.
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That Mission Space is horrible - I thought I was going to have a panic attack. When you are closed in the screen comes really close to your face and the seat is nigh on impossible to sit straight when you are tall. And that’s before it starts to move!!
 
I’d give the Tower of Terror a shout just for the pre show . I always seem to come off with massive motion sickness though🤢 . First time we went in 2004 our lasses dad come off it pissing him self laughing saying it was just like when the cage trips out coming up from the pit’ 🤣
 
Gene Hunt said:
That Mission Space is horrible - I thought I was going to have a panic attack. When you are closed in the screen comes really close to your face and the seat is nigh on impossible to sit straight when you are tall. And that’s before it starts to move!!
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It was awful wasn't it? I had to lie down afterwards and my back was in a bad way for days. No way I'm going on that again.
 
BMX Bandit said:
If I wait longer gotta pay for both kids into park :lol:
Oh hang on. I have to pay both now. Ignore that.
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Paying for 3 sets of Disney and universal tickets for young kids at almost full price almost broke my soul.
Best part of 5 grand just for tickets. Fs.
 
PTR said:
Paying for 3 sets of Disney and universal tickets for young kids at almost full price almost broke my soul.
Best part of 5 grand just for tickets. Fs.
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I keep saying they’re too little for universal at minute. :lol: I reckon holiday we do universal we won’t do Disney. Probably universal , sea world Busch and gator land.
 
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