UUOP#354 - Focus on Islands of Adventure : Batman & Superman Rides That Nearly Were
Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast
Lee Mallaby
4.6 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On this episode we discuss two of the attractions that would have been part of Marvel Superhero Island, had it been based on DC Comics.
The two attractions would have been the Batwing and a Superman 3D ride.
Thanks to Theme Park University for the information.
You can find the Batwing post HERE
and
The Superman ride post HERE
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| 0:00.0 | We discussed two of the DC comics attractions that nearly came to Universal Orlando |
| 0:04.4 | as we focus on Islands of Adventure on episode 354 of the unofficial Universal Orlando podcast. Hey, everyone, I'm your host. I am Lee Wayne. |
| 0:28.1 | And joining me is Tracy Kyle, aka Catwoman. |
| 0:33.3 | Meow! |
| 0:35.5 | Darren and Chris are here again this week. |
| 0:38.3 | Still adventuring. |
| 0:39.6 | Now, I know we said a couple of weeks ago that we said we were going to continue our look |
| 0:43.7 | into the attractions at Marvel Superhero Islands. |
| 0:46.3 | We covered Hulk and Stormforce Acceletron on 352. |
| 0:50.9 | And then the plan was to do Spider-Man and Doctor Doom this week. |
| 0:55.3 | But with Darren and Chris not being here, |
| 0:56.7 | and I know they really want to be interested, |
| 0:59.0 | they really want to be a part of that show. |
| 1:02.0 | So we're going to do something sort of staying in that realm, |
| 1:05.7 | but a little bit different. |
| 1:07.6 | And that was to talk about two of the attractions |
| 1:10.1 | that nearly came to Islands of Adventure |
| 1:13.1 | when Marvel Superhero Island wasn't going to be Marvel Superhero Island |
| 1:16.8 | it was going to be I don't know if you think they had a name for it |
| 1:19.6 | DC Island or whatever it was Gotham in Gotham City and Metropolis |
| 1:23.5 | Yeah |
| 1:24.1 | And those two attractions were namely the Batwing and an untitled Superman 3D ride. |
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