Monday, October 4, 2010

Universal’s Island and its adventures

                             Universal’s Island and its adventures



Universal Islands of adventure is an amusement park located in Florida which was opened in May 28, 1999. It is designed with the theme to provide journey of exploration with thrills and adventures. The visitors need to depart from the main port to see six islands. Each has its own theme to attract guests and the unique feature is emphasizing on adventure.


It is not limited itself to universal’s own library like universal studio. So the park consists of other characters from rival studio as well that includes cat in the hat, Harry potter, Popeye the sailor man and spider man.



Legions of kids and parents love to read Dr. Suess books and the characters of this story are very favourite to all readers especially kids. Normally, kids would love to see or buy the toys and dolls which resemble their favourite cartoon characters. These characters are actually born from stories in books or television shows or in movies. Like this, the characters in Suess book also famous and thus universal islands of adventure has designed Suess landing where you could find your favourite characters with thrill coasters like The Hulk and the razzle-dazzle special effects.



The lost continent is actually refers to three specific legends namely the legend of Atlantis, the legend of Sinbad and the legend of Merlin. In this, the keeper led guest to the temple of Poseidon, where the evil god appears and take the guest to the new home. Since some guests were not felt satisfied, the universal has made some enhancement to attract and satisfy the visitors.


Another attraction adventure event in Universal Island is Jurassic park. It is famous and likely attracted every one all over the world. At first, the theme was developed and released as movie. Since it received very good welcome not only in America but also every part of the world, the universal island has designed the same theme in the island of adventure.

At first there will be quiet and calm environment which led you suddenly into the scary atmosphere of sights, sounds and touch. While you are about to come out of this thrill, the dinosaur would appear in front of you with its gigantic physic and lunged forward to bite your head by screaming with its own voice.

Guests are saying that it is a mixture of fantasy with original touch which makes them to stay true to the theme of the movie.


Apart from this adventure and thrill characters you could also see some of the famous cartoon characters at Toon lagoon like Betty boop and Popeye.


In Marvel super hero island, you could enjoy thrilling rides and met with some of the Marvel characters like Wolverine, spider man and also some villains such as Hobgoblin, kingpin etc.





                                  UNIVERSAL STUDIO FLORIDA


Every one of us love experience adventures thrills, rides. You could enjoy all these naturally only in thick forest or in jungles. But do you think it is possible? No. Because we don’t have enough security if we enter forest for enjoying such activities. That’s why, Florida has designed an amusement park called Universal studio in Orlando which is a working film and television studio with both theme and amusement park in which you could enjoy adventures and thrills.


If you are planning for vacation over there, you could get better idea by visiting their website. But it is always frustrated to stand in the queue by wasting time to get the ticket. So you could get Universal studio ticket by booking it online. You could also get some offers and discounts on buying E-ticket.


All attraction in this park is developed with the real characters of the hit Hollywood movies and television channels. It actually consists of many theme and amusement parks. One among them is the Simpson’s ride.  Here once you get your vehicle in, you will embark on to wild, over-the-top ride through the park by floating, flying and moreover crashing your way via krustyland’s kiddie attractions. The overall park is wild and hilarious with stunt shows, thrill rides and you could also see some of your favourite characters related to this TV series. Believe, your kids would love it and ask for once more!


Another attractive theme is Revenge of the mummy, in which you will scream for your Mummy. With its inky darkness, creepy scarabs and unique coaster ride, you will get wild, frenetic and kinetic sensation. It does include high speed launches with startling drop outs and in of the seat which makes you feel out of control. This ride is one among the best theme park attractions and your mind would ask for the ride one more time. That’s sure.

With moving seats and 4D enhancements, Sherk 4D impressed many people visiting universal studio. Here 4D refers to 3D. Yes, you are still need to wear OV goggles which specially developed with an added dimension tickler. This sherk 4D would make your seats move away from your place vertically and horizontally in order to draw the guests into the remarkable 3D landscapes.


  Another interesting attraction is Men in black alien attack. Alien attack is nothing but a spinning, laser shooting dark ride which is actually designed based on the theme, Men in alien, a movie released in 1997.



The famous and another most entertaining ride at universal studio Florida is Jimmy Neutrons Nicktoon Blast. It is a simulator ride which replaced the fantastic world of hanna-barbera in which some changes were made to re-invent with this theme.





                                      Universal Island of adventures


In Orlando, We have many theme parks and Amusement parks with adventure rides that are related to theme of the Hollywood movies and famous television serials and cartoon stories. It is the best place for the people who love thrill and excitement. We have many entertainment activities that include sea world, Aquatica Park, busch garden, beach etc.


Duelling dragons are huge, pair roller coaster in the universal studios ‘Islands of adventure’ and it is located in the wizarding world of Harry potter area. Actually, it is believed that dragons are gigantic animal which would secrete fire through its mouth to protect themselves from enemies. History and today science research on it are saying that it was living million and million of years ago. It does not exist today. But the theme of this dragon roller coaster is based on this animal where the two dragons biding each other with one side being Chinese fire ball and the other Hungarian horn tail. This is the only ride which is duelling inverted roller coaster in the world.

It features a layout in which the two trains share adjacent lift hills, but then slanting two completely unique courses. The ride was constructed by Bollinger and Mabillard of Switzerland. It was opened on May 28th, 1999 and was located first in the Lost continent area with the name, Fire and Ice.


Every corner of Universal Islands of Adventure is filled with thrill and adventure rides to impress guests. All are depicting different themes based on the famous movies. Like that another important thrill ride is ‘The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad’ which is constructed based on the story of the film ‘The Eighth voyage of Sinbad’. To make the people understand the theme of every ride, the amusement park has kept the original film names to the rides.

This show is amazing and exciting one with stunt shows and the special effects would give nice glimpse for the audience and would make you to involve deeper into the theme.


Another adventurous ride at Universal Island of adventures is the incredible hulk roller coaster. As the name depicts, it is really incredible with its terrifying and exhilarating ride. It is gigantic in size, which the track would look like train track and the train travel on it would dives and twist through the course track. It is best example for the original roller coaster that provides real thrill and excitement.

Another thriller show is adventurous spider man’s show and is favourite super man for every one all over the world regardless of age. So if you want to see the incredible and amazing adventurous activities of the spider man as you see in the movie, you could visit the Spider man Area in the Universal studio.





                                 Orlando Sea world



In Orlando, apart from universal studio and islands of adventure, we also have sea world which is marine-based zoological park owned by sea world park and entertainment. They are subsidiary of the black stone group. It is a large entertainment park combined with Discovery cove and the Aquatica Park devoted to Earth’s ocean and the array of life reside them.

In 2009, it received nearly around 5.8 million guests which make it as the seventh largest amusement park in the United States.


Here, in sea world you could find dolphin, turtles, manatees, alligators etc. Some of the fish variety like dolphins would do dancing for the music played. Even it will enter into the circle rings and come out of the water to dance on the floor. The shows will held based on the timings so it is advisable to visit the sea world with proper planning.


Here you also have Shamu’s happy harbor in which the kids could play in the water area and other rides like a net climb structure, killer whale mascot etc.

The newest section of the park is the water front which resembles a sea side Mediterranean that consist of shops, restaurants and the park’s iconic sky tower ride.


In order to make it possible for the guests to visit, the sea world has designed website for its own purpose which provides you information about the sea world. You could also book the tickets through online ticket booking facility which is easy and convenient as well. Some times, say during seasonal time and vacation periods, they would also offer discounts for the tickets which are available only for online reservations.


Busch combo special tickets would allow you to take ticket of any combination of sea world, aquatica park or busch garden which provide you with unlimited admission for 14 consecutive days. So you could save your money and visit the places without hurry.

 You will get fantastic benefits and savings for sea world tickets, if you buy it as packages that includes the tickets for Busch Combo and Aquatica Park.  For three parks, it costs $149 for adults and $139 for kids. But if you book via online, you could get ticket for $109. So that you could save nearly $40 per head.

Aquatica water park is also part of the sea world amusement park which would give you close animal experience, waters from serene to extreme with wide sandy beaches.
It’s a good place to relax yourself during vacations and your kids would love it.

This Aquatica Park successfully captures the real meaning of an aquatic paradise with over million gallons of water, million pounds of sand with more than 83000 square feet of beach. It is a fantastic place to visit with your family and friends to have real fun with water, animals and trees.



                            Ticket information about theme parks in Orlando


Universal studios ticket

During vacation period, everyone would like to go for some entertaining places with their family and friends to relax and fresh up. That’s why, in Florida we have many amusement park and theme parks which is designed to entertain people all over the world. In Orlando, there is Universal Studios which consists of theme park as well as amusement park in which you could enjoy riding over roller coasters and have fun with others parks which is designed based on the Hollywood themes.

In order to get into the Universal studio, you could get the ticket right over there or else through online reservation facility. Instead of collecting ticket directly at the park counter, if you book through online it will be reasonable.

There are many packages available along with online booking in which you could book for park, restaurants and hotels as well. For adults they are charging $149 and $139 for child. But if you book through online, they are charging only $109 for both.

Island of adventure ticket


Island of adventure is another amusement park in Florida which consists of many rides and thrill shows namely Seuss landing, the lost continent, Toon Lagoon, Marvel super hero Island etc. All these are designed based on the famous themes of Hollywood movies. Every one regardless of age would love to go again and again once they visit this place.

The details of the rides, shows, its timings and tickets are available in their website. You could have a look and get idea about which place to visit. You could save money if you book ticket via online. There are packages which includes the hotels to stay, restaurants for dining etc.

Each park inside ‘Island of Adventure’ is differing from each other so the ticket rate may vary. You could select the combination of park you want to visit.

Sea world ticket


Sea world is another amazing and exciting theme park in Florida in which you could find Aquatica Park, duelling dragons, incredible hulk coaster and also the adventure of spider man.


Here also you could book tickets online as well as in the park counter directly. But online booking is always easy and convenient. You no need to wait and stand in the queue because most probably during weekends it will be very crowd. So to avoid such circumstances, online booking is always recommended.

Nowadays, the offers are given to the employees working in corporate and other companies in order to make publicity about the theme park. Also you could save your money up to $40 when you book through online or by using discount coupons. You could also take special combo busch tickets and packages based on the combinations you like.






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