UUOP #260 - Focus on Islands of Adventure : Port of Entry
Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast
Lee Mallaby
4.6 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
On this episode we begin our series of podcasts looking in-depth at Islands of Adventure, by going in to Port of Entry.
We are joined by John Smith to discuss the history, backstory and details of the entrance land to the park.
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| 0:00.0 | Covering the Universal Orlando Resort for six years, you are listening to the Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 260 of the Unofficial Universal Orlando podcast. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm your host Tracy and with me I have Lee. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello Ron. |
| 0:28.6 | And I have Darren. |
| 0:29.6 | What's up, Internet? |
| 0:31.6 | How is everybody? |
| 0:32.6 | Good. |
| 0:33.6 | Good? |
| 0:34.6 | Very good. |
| 0:35.6 | Excellent. Right, well we'll go to jump straight into this one, I think. |
| 0:54.8 | Yes. It's quite an excited one. I've been waiting for this for a little while. Now, as we've mentioned a few times recently, we've been planning a series of podcasts looking in-depth at Universal's Islands of Adventure. Over the coming months, we intend to go island by island and discuss each land between ourselves, but we're also going to be inviting fans of the source material to join us and discuss the lands and attractions with some of the |
| 0:59.2 | people behind them. So let's begin. |
| 1:01.7 | Yes, I've got some interesting guests already lined up who've been. A couple you have already |
| 1:06.5 | heard on the show before and some you haven't. One I'm very excited about it. Cool. |
| 1:11.6 | Nice. Well, Universal very excited about. Cool. Nice. |
| 1:12.7 | Well, Universal Orlando added its |
| 1:14.6 | second park, Islands of Adventure to the resort |
| 1:16.6 | in 1999. |
| 1:18.2 | The latest addition to Universal Orlando, |
| 1:20.3 | grand opened on May 28, 1999, |
| 1:22.6 | and debuted a new name for the resort, |
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