UUOP #398 - Universal Studios Florida Versus Islands of Adventure
Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast
Lee Mallaby
4.6 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2020
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
On this episode we debate which theme park is better, Universal Studios Florida or Islands of Adventure?
We break the parks down and vote on theming, rides, shows, food and drink, character meets and background music.
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| 0:00.0 | So while the theme parks are closed, I thought it was the best time to debate which of Universal's theme parks is the best one. |
| 0:06.2 | Is it Universal Studios, Florida, or is it Islands of Adventure? |
| 0:08.9 | You are listening to Episode 398 of the unofficial Universal Orlando podcast. Hi everyone. I'm your host, Lee, for this one. We are all in quarantine together, so I am joined by Tracy. |
| 0:33.5 | Anion. I should be in Korea. It's what it means. It doesn't. It means hello. |
| 0:38.3 | Darren. What's up, internet? I'm Chris. Oh, okay. Hold on. I'm taking a math doll. Hey. And of course, because she was here last week and she cannot now leave because she has to be quarantined with us, Jillian. I'm still here. Welcome, everybody. It's time for a debate. This is something I've wanted to do for a while, actually. |
| 0:56.9 | What? |
| 0:57.4 | Oh my God. Welcome, everybody. It's time for a debate. This is something I've wanted to do for a while, actually. |
| 0:56.9 | What? Oh my God. Don't. Oh my God. Please just stop right now. |
| 1:02.9 | So as I said in the intro, we are going to decide which is the best theme part between Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios, Florida. |
| 1:08.3 | But I'm going to break them down into each of their elements. So we're not just going to go, right, which one do you think is the best? I think it's Iowa. Lee, you forgot Volcano Bay here. No, no. No, no. Because that's not a theme park. It is water park. If Universal wants to call it a water theme park, they can. Also, I've already walked around it. Yes. |
| 1:27.9 | So I have broken it down into the elements of theming. |
| 1:31.5 | Rides, shows, food and drink, park music, character meets. |
| 1:36.6 | And if at the end of that we happen to have a tie, I have a secret impromptu tie breaker, |
| 1:42.5 | which I have not put in the show notes, so you guys don't know that one. |
| 1:45.1 | So the idea is I will go around the table, everyone will debate openly the pros and cons for each one, |
| 1:50.6 | and then come up with a decision of which park they think is the best park for each element. |
| 1:56.5 | Okay. |
| 1:57.2 | So the first element we have is theming. |
| 2:03.7 | And I will go to Christopher. |
| 2:04.7 | Perfect. |
| 2:05.5 | All right. |
| 2:06.4 | Theaming. |
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