Universal Orlando Resort (USO, IOA) Discussion Thread

[Usf geekShe turned me into a donkey! I got better...]

So sad

[ChrisFLI teach at the school of donkey!]

So sad

Hello EBAY!!

[tacokingI'm a know-it-all about donkeys!]

Im pissed I won't get any last rides on it (that is if it's closed during HHN which I think it is). I think an update of it would have been better than a new simulator, especially the Simpsons.

[ChrisFLI teach at the school of donkey!]

Dont forget the USH and USJ versions are still open

[tacokingI'm a know-it-all about donkeys!]

Yeah, but it's not like I am going to those parks any time soon. I wanted it to stay open here. So I am a little selfish....

[stingrock23"Excuse me, miss, may I pound my large rooster into your donkey?"]

I knew this was coming, but it still sucks. I'll be there in just over 2 weeks; I was so close. I wonder if any of those could end up at Mousesurplus, or do they strictly deal with Disney stuff?

[okinawaboy11Full Fledged Bi Enthusiast]

Dueling rocket coasters themed to The Fast and the Furious would be sweet!

About a year ago, I participated in a supervisor training program in which we were each given two hours to come up with a new ride for either USF or IOA and then pitch it to a panel of upper management types. Of course, it was just "for fun." Nothing that would ever get built. But it was still the coolest training exersize ever.

Anyway, of the dozen or so people in the program, three pitched almost identical "dueling rocket coasters themed to The Fast And The Furious," and all placed them behind BTTF.

Me, I pitched an indoor swinging ship with a Viking theme between Mythos and the Enchanted Oak, and emphasized how affordable it would be to build.

I won, too. (At least, that part of the program.)

I have no real point. Except maybe that the whole "dueling rocket coasters themed to The Fast and the Furious" thing is a bit pedestrian.

I came up with a different idea...F&F Drifting ride....take something like "the whip" where your car is on a track and at different points it whips around, or drifts for a few seconds on every turn...could make for an interesting ride.

OR, get the drifting coaster from Maurer Söhne

[Jew"It's not small, but it is very 'average.'"]

^^^^^^

More like "Hello USH and/or USJ!" if those attractions are going to stay open.

[cobra_roll06Wee Sweaty Bifkin]

If it is a simpsons ride that takes over what is ging to be the "Storyline"

[Wes.]

^ The basic story is this:

At the start of the ride, Homer goes to his mother's funeral, where he does not express any emotions and is almost entirely unaffected by it. The ride continues to document the next few days of his life, through the first person point-of-view. In these days, he befriends one of his neighbors, Ned Flanders. He aids Ned in dismissing one of his Arab mistresses. Later, the two confront the woman's brother ("the Arab") on a beach and Ned gets cut in the resulting knife fight. Homer afterwards goes back to the beach and shoots the Arab once, in response to the glare of the sun. The Arab is killed, but Homer fires four more times at the dead body.
At the trial, the prosecution focuses on the inability or unwillingness of Homer to cry at his mother's funeral, considered suspect by the authorities. The killing of the Arab apparently is less important than whether Homer is capable of remorse. The argument follows that if Homer is incapable of remorse, he should be considered a dangerous misanthrope and subsequently executed to prevent him from doing it again, and making him an example to those considering murder.
As the ride comes to a close, Homer meets with a chaplain, and is enraged by the chaplain's insistence that he turn to God. The novel ends with Homer recognizing the universe's indifference for humankind. The final lines echo his new realization: "As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself - so like a brother, really - I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."