Photo TR: Universal/IOA in 4 hours

What started out as a routine work day ended up kinda cool. Enjoy these pictures.

Ice is now heading back into it's lair.

Ice is my favorite side. Especially in the back seat. The front seat is a must as well.

Up and up, up the lift go Fire and Ice. This coaster has the best and most entertaining ride ops as well. I like em so much I ended up married to a former one.

Ahhhh! My favorite coaster at IOA. The Dueling Dragons. Another B&M with intense forces.

Poseidon's Fury is getting a make over for HHN. This will be a haunted area in a little over a month.

Who do we have to pay off to get a donkey banner in front of Mythos. If Theme Park Insider can do it, we should be able to as well.

"PS2 is better!" "No X-box is better!"

Even after six years these two guys are still fighting.

I can't get enough of Hulk pictures, sorry.

The crazy launch into the Zero-G section of the ride. The Hulk is one of the few rides that make me see white during its first half. Make sure you are hydrated before riding this one.

The ride ops for The Hulk are the strictist (Probably in the world) when it comes to bringing on loose items. They have even recently banned waist packs. Don't even think about bringing a video camera in here.

Why wait 15mins for the Hulk when you can get an Express Pass. Though it takes 15mins to get an annual Pass to work with one of these things. Universal really needs to address this problem.

The neat splashing effect during the Hulk.

What's that lurking over the tops of the Port of Entry?

I know some people on this site will love the all you can eat all day for $19.99 deal. This does not include Mythos though.

After riding the Mummy twice I headed over to IOA. (Universal is really great I just felt like going to IOA) WOW! What a long line getting into IOA.

Im on the front row on the far left. Yes, this part of the ride is fun, all the effects were working today.

Is it me, or did they put the spewing chunks logo beside the wrong heading? Unless fog effects make you barf.

Ahhh, The Mummy. I love this ride. You get some great airtime, in the dark, on this one.

Why would anyone spend $60 to come here to waste time watching a TV show pilot is beyond me.

The big decision of the day is always what park to go to first, this time I pick Universal.

The Long Walk (well not from the Spiderman section it isn't) into the parks.

Who need trams when you have these cool moving sidewalks.

The theming is incredible here, even the Coke machines are Universal themed.

It is sad when the park attendents start to remember your name, I guess I come here too much. At least I get free parking.

Woot! After a short drive I made it.

Hooray, I finished early, and I am only about 45mins from Universal. I have to admit I was tempted to go to BGT today, but its about 20 miles further than Universal.

My Grand Company Car while at Wal-mart. This one is a loaner, the BMW is still in the shop.

One of the stores I stopped by for work. At least that silly dog in that recent movie is no where to be seen.

Mickey can still be seen by the recently closed "Official Disney Welcome Center" in Ocala, Florida

A little after dawn driving south on 1-75 heading down to Ocala. Boy was it early.

Ok more stuff! Sorry I just got a new camera.

The best sign in all of IOA. I ended up riding the Dragons 8 times today.

Great pictures. It looked really busy in the picture to get into the park. Were the queues huge. Was that really the waiting time for the Hulk? 15mins? I waited 45, but I think when queue for the hulk, it goes in quite quickly.

I might be going on the Hulk next year. (My sister rode it, and she liked it!)

More pictures!!

On my way back home I noticed they had taken down Mickey...awwwww! sniff

But that's OK. Its the typical Florida afternoon weather coming from the southwest.

Me making faces because The Hulk has been closed over an hour. Also I never noticed the IOA1999 written on the booth on the right hand side before.

Got to be one of the best dark rides ever.

NOW GET OUT!

Welcome to Dr. Doom's Tower! All Hail Dr. Doom!

Poor Leopold. This is probably my favorite ride safety demo video.

It leads right into the single rider's line for Dr. Doom Fearfall.

Where does this secret door lead to you ask?

IOA's DDR machine, Where is KrakenKing?

Great pictures. It looked really busy in the picture to get into the park. Were the queues huge. Was that really the waiting time for the Hulk? 15mins? I waited 45, but I think when queue for the hulk, it goes in quite quickly.

Actually the line getting into the park was the longest wait I had all day. Most everything was a walk on. Yeah Hulk was a 15min wait. DDs was a walk on, maybe 5 mins.

Great Pix!

You touched on a lot of interesting things going on:

- Trying to be more like a movie studio and showing pilots

- All you can eat pass catching on

- HHN Maze Construction

Nice!

Is it me, or did they put the spewing chunks logo beside the wrong heading? Unless fog effects make you barf.

Ha!! I never noticed that. Its funny I havent, because I always laugh about the puking guy every time we pass that sign. Looks like they got 3 of the pics messed up, the seisure dude, foggy lungs dude and puking dude. I wonder how that got overlooked??

Im itching to go to IOA, I really want to go sunday... It really depends on my practice schedule and the pending rains from Katarina!!

[edit] Oh yea, I forgot.. about a month ago, we got asked (well, Dyneshia got asked) to taste test some pumkin seeds that the park was planning to sell soon. That took up about an hour of our time and we only got 6 universal dollars for it (their version of minimum wage). It was a huge waste of time. I wonder how many people were jumping at the chance to see that pilot? Seems like a good ol' fashion waste of time... well, so is twister and earthquake.. anyways.....

^ Yeah thats true. I actually might have if I had more time. But for people who have never been to either of the parks, it would be crazy to go see a TV show, but again, as Elissa pointed out, it is a movie studio.

LoLz! Hmm, maybe next time you go you'll get a pic of me playing PSMO or some other crazy song on the DDR machine... UGH! IoA needs In The Groove or In The Groove 2! Much better music

Oh I forgot to post the current Mythos menu, though the type is small.

The Current Mythos Menu

Nice pics. I still don't get how you did that in four hours.

Am I the only one who had pictures missing?

Nice pics. I still don't get how you did that in four hours.

I did it from 10:30 to 2:30. The lines for the rides were short (plus I did use single rider lines). And I only went to a few sections of the parks. Plus I know all the short cuts heh.

Am I the only one who had pictures missing?

Sometimes you have to reload the page. Or just try it a little later in the day.

I wanna go 2 IOA now...Lol! Great TR

Great TR. I really enjoyed the photos.

I haven't been down to Florida in 9 years.

I've done that much in 4 hours by myself too

Also, I don't see my favorite pork plantain nachos on Mythos menu...oh well.