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I just spent the last couple of hours reading your TR and am so enjoying it!!! First off, I love your goodie bags that you give out to the flight attendants. I know that I've read about you doing this on other trips but I think I might have to copy you and do this on my upcoming trip with my daughter in August! I'm glad that the crew appreciates this little gesture so much! I've never stayed on property at US because one day is all we usually do at this park, but I do like the room and your view! My dd and I are going to Disney in August, and to IOA for a day since she is a BIG Harry Potter fan, so we're just going to take the Mears shuttle from Pop Century over to Universal. Maybe some day we might stay on property. Glad you enjoyed the Harry Potter Land so much! That's basically the reason that we're going to IOA BTW, I loved the Shrek donkey interaction. Hopefully someday we'll get back to US to experience that! Can't wait to hear about Mythos since we have a ressie for lunch there on our upcoming trip!
As a Harry Potter fan too, I loved your description of the ride and seeing the pic's from inside and outside the castle! I'd love to see it all myself and maybe get a want too!
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Oh gosh! The pictures are so great!!!! I am freaking out a bit about the spiders!!!
That picture of you that Luke got where you were so excited....it just made me giggle!!! Then I showed Allen all of the pictures and he thought you described yourself very well! "Muggle in Paradise"!!!
Was there anything in the greenhouse besides plants?
I can't wait to finally get to experience this myself......hopefully soon!
Great update Cam!!
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OMG, I don't know a thing about Harry Potter or this Forbiden Journey, however you have me wanting to ride it.....like NOW! I love seeing the excitment on your face. So glad it was super awesome!!
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BEST. UPDATE. EVER!!!! I seeing all the pictures from inside the castle. And I can just feel your excitement when you were describing Forbidden Journey.
WOW...that was one crazy line for Forbidden Journey! You looked so excited!! I'm glad you enjoyed the ride and it was worth the wait. But a big Spider spitting on you..... It must have been a fantastic ride to make that not matter so much. Can't wait to hear more.
You are seriously making me want to go ride Forbiden Journey!
It truly is a most incredible ride!
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Doesn't the on-site head-of-the-line pass apply to Forbidden Journey? Guess not! The detailing in Hogwarts (inside and out) looks amazing. I know I couldn't manage the ride, but would love to go through the queue sometime. Is there a chicken exit? So, Cam, did you like the ride? The photos Luke got of you are priceless.
Hope the AP workshop went well. I keep thinking you're going to an Annual Pass workshop!
The Express Pass for US resort guests does not apply to Forbidden Journey at IoA or Rip Ride Rockit at US. Sort of a bummer! But I really didn't mind the wait!. You can walk through the castle and take a chicken exit. The AP workshop went very well, but it does mean I've got quite a bit of planning and preparing to do before school starts. An Annual Pass workshop would be !
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I love the pictures! The castle looks amazing and all of the details...they really did a wonderful job!
The best ride ever?!?! Now I really want to go!
I was enthralled by all the details that gave the guests the feeling that we were in Hogsmeade and Hogswart. US!
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Cam, this is cruel and inhumane punishment, you know, for those of us who are dying to go but haven't had a chance yet!!!!! I'm so glad you enjoyed your ride of the Forbidden Journey!!! And so glad that Luke loves you enough to notice your excitement and want to capture it on film - because it definitely came across.
Stefanie was a trooper to hang out with you all and let her Mom and Dad enjoy the ride.
And I'm glad to hear you didn't experience too much motion-sickness...I passed that info on to Kevin. He said then it'll probably make him really sick!
Also - I forgot to tell you how cute you look with your new pixie cut!
Can't wait for the next update!!!!
for the compliment about my pixie cut. I'm still loving it. As I was writing this morning, I thought of both you (because you want to get to WWoHP so badly) and Kevin (because of his motion sickness). You will it! And he'll probably get sick. I have more to say about it in a later update for this day.
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Oh My Gosh! You look so excited! I really love your reports and vicariously enjoying vacationing with you and your family. THanks for taking us along.
Glad you are enjoying our adventures and my over-the-top excitement about this particular part.
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That ride sounds amazing! And the theming in that entire section is just wonderful! I think I sometimes get spoiled by Disney's attention to detail that I just expect it everywhere else! How nice to see that the folks at Universal have created this amazingly detailed place!
I have a question about the queue and the lockers. Do you get in line first and then when you reach the lockers you get out of line to put your stuff away and then get back into the line there? I sort of assumed that we needed to put our stuff in lockers before we got into the line.
When the line has snaked around outside, it does get a little frantic at the lockers has folks must get out of line and put their stuff in the lockers and then get back in line. But the design is to start here, put your stuff up and then enter the line, which we saw later in the day.
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While that line looks atrocious, I am pretty sure I would have been willing to wait in it all day for that ride as well!!!
We really did keep moving at a slow, but steady pace so the wait was not unbearable.
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I can practically feel your excitement coming through the computer screen! Glad you loved the ride!
While I'm not really into HP, my DH, DSes and MIL are, so I know they're going to love Forbidden Journey. I love a thrill, so I think I will like it too, I just won't have as much of an appreciation for all the details!
For those who are into HP, the details will make the ride exceptional but it's still a great ride for any one who loves the thrill sort of ride.
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Sounds like a thrilling experience! So glad you enjoyed the ride so much.
Thrilling, indeed!
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Thanks so much for sharing - I'm working even harder on getting DH to agree to going to Universal sometime this vacation! So proud of you for channeling your "inner-Ron" and facing those spiders!!
Hope you had a great seminar - glad you are back!!!
Seminar was great unlike the spiders, but I just kept telling myself the ride was going to move past them. And thank goodness it did.
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Ok, I'm all caught up!
I'm loving your Trip Report and I'm so excited I caught it near the beginning. I love the idea of the goodie bags for the airplane.
We did Universal/IOA in 2008 and I liked it. I wouldn't go down just to go there, but it was good. I also wouldn't do Disney before Universal because it would just be too much culture shock.
I haven't seen or read any of the Harry Potters (I know, I know!) but I love reading about the WWoHP. I showed my brother (who's a big fan) some pictures and he thought it was the actual castle!
I can't wait to read more
We thought the same thing -- US before Disney or we'd never be happy with US. And that plan did work for us. The castle does look very authentic.
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What a fabulous update Cam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Great update, and awesome pictures as well; thanks!
Thanks!
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Awesome pictures! love the excited look on your face!
Luke showed me the picture after he took it and asked if I'd share it with you all. I told him you all would totally get my excitement! Part of the reason I love PP!
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OMG your pictures are awesome!!!! I would so like to see it all in person. I am not so sure about the ride SPIDERS!!!!! I hate them even though I now they are not real I don't know if I would be able to deal with them.
The look of excitement on your face is just priceless. You look like a little kid at Christmas .
I did feel like a kid at Christmas, only one with achy joints. Stefanie's advice for me on the spiders was "Just close your eyes, Mom. They won't know you can't see them."
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Your pictures are awesome! What a great update!!!....more please?
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Been lurking in your TR but had to come forward and say WOW!!!! It just keeps getting better and better!! Therefore I say - on with the show!!
Stefanie's advice for me on the spiders was "Just close your eyes, Mom. They won't know you can't see them."
OMG - Stefanie's advice is just about the best I've ever heard! I will be using this in the future. I figure that should work with ghosts, monsters and any other creepy thing I can think of!!
OMG - Stefanie's advice is just about the best I've ever heard! I will be using this in the future. I figure that should work with ghosts, monsters and any other creepy thing I can think of!!
Her logic may be off, but she sure did make me smile and forget I had been scared.
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BTW, I loved the Shrek donkey interaction. Hopefully someday we'll get back to US to experience that! Can't wait to hear about Mythos since we have a ressie for lunch there on our upcoming trip!
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seeing all the pictures from inside the castle. And I can just feel your excitement when you were describing Forbidden Journey.
The photos Luke got of you are priceless. 
The AP workshop went very well, but it does mean I've got quite a bit of planning and preparing to do before school starts. An Annual Pass workshop would be 
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I'm so glad you enjoyed your ride of the Forbidden Journey!!!
And so glad that Luke loves you enough to notice your excitement and want to capture it on film - because it definitely came across. 
for the compliment about my pixie cut. I'm still loving it. 
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