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Gabe1

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Songbird76 said:
No, it wasn't Trek...because I was talking to the little girl about her favorite character. She was in tears and I was trying to distract her so I asked her who her favorite character was from the movie and she said Chewbacca. That's definitely star wars and not star trek.
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The studios opened May 1, 1989 and Star Tours opened December 15, 1989 Disney pushed the schedule up to open the studios to beat Universal to their grand opening and so attractions like Star Tours came online just after the Grand Opening.

Universal Studios Orlando opened June 7, 1990
 
StarWarsGirl

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Songbird76 said:
Well, I haven't been to Universal since 2010, but if you're not a Harry Potter fan, I can't say you'd be missing much. We went in 2001 on our honeymoon and it was ok, but not great. One thing we noticed was how much different the customer service is from Disney. At Disney, everyone was friendly and did everything they could to make our trip special. At Universal, the waits were longer, we were herded like cattle, and the people working there had very little patience with the guests. Now with the Harry Potter part, since I'm a huge fan, there was lots to see, but they didn't plan it very well and all the shops were too small and you couldn't get into the Harry Potter part of the park at all until later in the afternoon because it filled to capacity as soon as the gates opened and they had to turn people away. I also remember there being a distinct lack of food venues open and we ended up having to leave the park to eat. Granted, my kids were both picky eaters, but it was way worse at UNI than it was at Disney. We didn't really see much of the rest of the park besides WWoHP because the kids were too little to ride most of the rides other than Dr. Seuss. It was SO not worth the money we paid to get in. We decided to skip it this trip as the kids are still a bit young for most things, including WWoHP, and there's not much else that interests us. That being said, I've been told that a lot of people who aren't Harry Potter fans LOVE the WWoHP ....they have amazing roller coasters if you are a coaster person (I'm not), and the theming is amazing even if you aren't familiar with the series. The amount of detail is staggering and obvious, even to someone who isn't a fan. So you might want to give it a chance just once and see if it's worth it. I plan to go back in a few years when the kids are old enough and have read the rest of the HP books. I haven't seen the new expansion and I'm a pretty die hard fan, so I've got to see it at least once...just not this trip because it would be wasted, waiting in lines with the kids who wouldn't be able to go on the rides and they'd have zero fun.
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I plan to eventually do Uni, but probably not until I move to the area. Right now, it's just too expensive, especially since I have a WDW AP. For now, we go to Hershey Park for the big stuff about once per year.
 
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StarWarsGirl95 said:
I wasn't allowed to watch Sponge Bob as a kid. My mom found it annoying.
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That is how I was with my DD and Barney. My Mom was so upset with me when I told my DD we had enough episodes of Barney in a row to pick something else she left, went to Sams Club and came back with an all in one small TV/VHS television set for her room. While I found that move annoying I was secretly overjoyed that DD could watch Barney in her room and I didn't have to listen to it. Ultimately a WinWin.
 
Goofyernmost

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Gabe1 said:
I can honestly say I held the same opinion of Uni too and my family had never been. I landed at the Portofino which I just loved for a National School Board conference. I had the room so they tagged along. We were going to all meet up in Disney when my conference was over but the bonus was 4 days at Uni. They absolutely loved Uni. I only got to be with them in parks at night but I was impressed and we usually tack on a few days at the beginning of our trips now. I can see more days being had at Uni until Disney gets their house in order.

You don't necessarily have to know the movie to enjoy the rides. My kids at that point didn't see Men in Black but it being similar, their opinion better than Buzz at the MK, it is just as competitive. One of our families favorite attractions is Splash Mountain but they had not seen Song of the South yet it is an amazing attraction. Same with Dinosaur, Mr. Toad but they still liked them.
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With the exception of the real old animated films, I never saw any of the movies that Disney had in the parks. I didn't know that 20K was based on a real movie until I got there. Even many of the ones based on the old cartoons were foreign to me. My family was not into many movies, especially my Father. If Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Abbott and Costello weren't in them, he wasn't interested at all. Because of that I have never really been able to understand the IP argument. It never mattered where the idea came from for me, all that mattered was did I enjoy it. Having a detail knowledge of the whole story line has never been important to me. It was always, did I think it was funny, informative or just creative. Why did so many people get Figment fever when they had never laid eyes on the character?
StarWarsGirl95 said:
Meh. I just really have no desire, especially with all the Harry Potter stuff. I honestly would skip the Potter stuff because it holds such low appeal for me. Uni as a whole just doesn't carry the same appeal as Disney. The film-themed stuff doesn't, and just overall, the appeal doesn't hold. Especially not for what it would cost us. We looked into it several years ago, going to Uni for a few days after Hilton Head instead of Disney, and it was easily an extra $1000. Non Disney parks wise, I'm more inclined to go see Kings Dominion in VA and Bush Gardens in Williamsburg than Uni. Although seeing as how I want to move there eventually, I'm sure I'll eventually see Uni, though it will never carry the same emotional attachment for me as WDW. No place can and no place will.
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I'm kind of surprised by that outlook. You strike me as a person that always wants to learn things and have an open mind with the ability to absorb new ideas and experiences. I have been going to Uni since it opened. Not every trip, in fact, I'd say not much more then 10% of them included a day in Uni, however, I always enjoyed it. I think the only reason that I stayed away was because of the lines. They made Disney look like a walk in the park. Uni was small back then with no IOA, but, the shows were absolutely awesome (and still are). I could tell you horror stories about how well Uni was able to hide queue lines back then. You would be in the queue thinking that you were very close and all of a sudden you would make a hidden turn and it would make you gasp when you saw how many people were still ahead of you. But, if you wanted to see something that was the only way. They don't seem to be doing that anymore. Or at least the last time I was there.

I hope that at some point you do go and, please, don't go with the preconceived notion that there is nothing there that you would like. You will be depriving yourself of some really quality stuff. Not all of it, but, enough to make the trip worthwhile. I have gone all those time without the benefit of anything Potter, so that is not a game changer for me. The last time I was there Potter was there as well, but, that was before I lost weight and came about a quarter of an inch away from fitting in the restraints, otherwise I would have tried it out. That was without ever seeing a Potter movie or reading a single book about it. Next trip I will be giving it a try since my waistline is 10 inches smaller then it was back then.
 
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Figgy1

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Goofyernmost said:
With the exception of the real old animated films, I never saw any of the movies that Disney had in the parks. I didn't know that 20K was based on a real movie until I got there. Even many of the ones based on the old cartoons were foreign to me. My family was not into many movies, especially my Father. If Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Abbott and Costello weren't in them, he wasn't interested at all. Because of that I have never really been able to understand the IP argument. It never mattered where the idea came from for me, all that mattered was did I enjoy it. Having a detail knowledge of the whole story line has never been important to me. It was always, did I think it was funny, informative or just creative. Why did so many people get Figment fever when they had never laid eyes on the character?

I'm kind of surprised by that outlook. You strike me as a person that always wants to learn things and have an open mind with the ability to absorb new ideas and experiences. I have been going to Uni since it opened. Not every trip, in fact, I'd say not much more then 10% of them included a day in Uni, however, I always enjoyed it. I think the only reason that I stayed away was because of the lines. They made Disney look like a walk in the park. Uni was small back then with no IOA, but, the shows were absolutely awesome (and still are). I could tell you horror stories about how well Uni was able to hide queue lines back then. You would be in the queue thinking that you were very close and all of a sudden you would make a hidden turn and it would make you gasp when you saw how many people were still ahead of you. But, if you wanted to see something that was the only way. They don't seem to be doing that anymore. Or at least the last time I was there.

I hope that at some point you do go and, please, don't go with the preconceived notion that there is nothing there that you would like. You will be depriving yourself of some really quality stuff. Not all of it, but, enough to make the trip worthwhile. I have gone all those time without the benefit of anything Potter, so that is not a game changer for me. The last time I was there Potter was there as well, but, that was before I lost weight and came about a quarter of an inch away from fitting in the restraints, otherwise I would have tried it out. That was without ever seeing a Potter movie or reading a single book about it. Next trip I will be giving it a try since my waistline is 10 inches smaller then it was back then.
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Congrats on the weight loss!
 
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Songbird76 said:
Well it had to be prior to 2010 then, because there certainly wasn't anything there when we were. I had to send my husband out to the car to get a bag of doritos for DS to eat at Akershus because he wouldn't touch the pizza. And he wouldn't eat the nuggets and fries at Pinocchio haus because they weren't from McDonalds. He lived on chips and ice cream during the day and we took him out of the parks every day to get both kids McDonalds for dinner.
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I was responding to your EVER part of your post cause there was lots and lots of McD's on property for a while. But there was during your trip of 2010 and still is the full service McD's restaurant on property at WDW likely you just were unaware that it was tucked away over there. Depending on what month you visited in the full service McD's closed in April 2010.
 

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