This Month In Universal Orlando History - September
Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast
Lee Mallaby
4.6 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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On this bonus episode, we bring you a look at what happened in Universal Orlando history in the month of September.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Welcome to another this month in Universal Orlando History, brought to you by the unofficial Universal Orlando podcast. |
| 0:07.4 | So it's September 1st, I'm Tracy. Let's take a look at what happened this month in Universal Orlando history. |
| 0:14.2 | So back in 1999, the first on-site Universal Orlando Hotel opened, and that was the Lowe's Portofino Bay Hotel, |
| 0:22.2 | which I still haven't stayed at. Thanks, Lee. Yeah, one day. Now, a closure next, |
| 0:28.6 | as back in September 1st, 2003, the Wild Wild Wild West, Stunture, Universal Studios, Florida |
| 0:33.9 | closed. Another closure next, the duelling, non-duelling roller coaster inside the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Hogsmead, Dragon Challenge closed. Another closure next, the dueling, non-dueling roller coaster |
| 0:38.0 | inside the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Hogsmead, Dragon Challenge closed in September |
| 0:42.2 | 4th, 2017. And on September 5th, 2015, the street outer food truck, hip-hop show |
| 0:49.1 | debuted at Universal Studios Florida. Yeah, I think we may have walked past that once, and I don't think we stopped. |
| 0:58.6 | Moving on, September the 5th, 2015, same day, so the beat builders make their first performance |
| 1:05.2 | at Universal Studios, Florida. |
| 1:07.3 | They are awesome. |
| 1:08.8 | And on the same day the street show Sing It began on the side streets of New York. |
| 1:13.8 | An opening day, traction closure is up next when on September 8th, 2002, Universal Studios, Florida's confrontation closed. |
| 1:21.7 | We missed it by two years. Whoa, gutted. Yeah, it's a bit of a downer. |
| 1:28.8 | A bit of a bummer, this one, isn't it? |
| 1:30.4 | Back on September 8th, 2015, |
| 1:33.3 | disaster, a major motion picture starring you, |
| 1:36.2 | closed at Universal Studios, Florida, |
| 1:37.9 | to be replaced by, well, |
| 1:40.2 | we all know, |
| 1:41.7 | Lee's favourite. |
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