IckyMickey
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- Sep 22, 2006
Day 4 Tues 12/22, Islands of Adventure - Part 6
After the Accelatron we headed over to Doctor Doom’s Fearfall – which rockets you 150’ into the air. Like I said, I don’t really like heights and will skip the Giant Drop at Great America – 20 stories – 227 feet, but this one didn’t look so bad. DS13 didn’t want to ride it – he said he felt a little dizzy from the last ride, but I’m not sure if it was the height on this ride. So we let him sit it out and then decided he really should have rode it with us. So we rode, it and it was fun. It shoots you up and you are off your seat at the top (a fun scare) when it starts to come back down, and then shoots you up only one more time. Like Tower of Terror, but not as many times or as high. So we got off, found DS13, made him ride it, (you leave your bags right in your room) and he was like “that’s all it was?” yup, mom knows best.
We then rode Spiderman. This was our 1st 3D ride we ever went on – back in 2001 – and loved it so we were excited to go on it again. It was pretty much a walk on with our express pass, otherwise the wait was 60 minutes. As we were waiting to get on, we saw this man try to get his small son on that we all knew wasn’t tall enough to ride. The worker measured for clarity and said no, but they could do a child swap. The man just got really angry and stormed out. He waited an hour, why didn’t he just child swap instead of leaving? I felt bad for the older kid who had to leave then too.
We looked around Toon Lagoon as we passed through recreating a few pictures we did way back in 2001.
Our Polish last name begins with "Pogo" so DH needed a picture. We are Mr. Pogo, Mrs. Pogo, Pogo, and Little Pogo.
Another throwback, hope you don't mind!
Last throwback to 2001! DS19 on DH's shoulders wouldn't look like this. lol
We got into the Jurassic Park area but never made it back to the Discovery Center. DS13 wasn’t feeling like an explorer.
They did decide to do the Jurassic Park River Adventure. We had done it at US-Hollywood and hadn’t really gotten wet, but the people coming out of this ride were soaked! I wasn’t too excited about getting drenched and we had our bags (I left my cheap poncho in the room, and the locker rental was $4!) I sent them on in – they walked on the ride with their express passes otherwise the wait was 45 minutes - and then second guessed myself. Right after they went in, two people took off some pretty nice ponchos and threw them on the top of the garbage. If I had any guts, I would have grabbed one and found them in line. Instead I tried to get my nerve up to grab one and run into the line – until a CM cleaning up garbage walked by and shoved the m down deep. Decision made for me. I decided to head across the entrance and get a soda refill since DS13 was complaining about being thirsty. Well, it took as long for me to get a refill as it did for them to ride – about 15 minutes! OMG – every person in line in front of me was ordering about 5 items each – turkey legs, pretzels, and hot dogs – oh my! I got my $1.06 refill and walked over to the exit and they were coming towards me laughing and soaked, so I was ok with missing it. DS19 said they were front heavy since all 3 were sitting in the front. Lol They all had fun but DH said the animatronics are getting old, but DS13 thought it was great.
Since they were wet, we headed over to Dudley Do-Right’s Ripsaw Falls and they express passed it again – DH said it was still about 15 minutes or so to get on the ride, but the regular wait was over an hour. I found some ground to sit on and got out my camera ready to take a picture if I could actually spot them. I did! So I got a good spot at the railing and took a few action shots. They came out drenched again and had a lot of fun. DH thought it was almost the same ride as Splash Mountain, but still fun.
After the Accelatron we headed over to Doctor Doom’s Fearfall – which rockets you 150’ into the air. Like I said, I don’t really like heights and will skip the Giant Drop at Great America – 20 stories – 227 feet, but this one didn’t look so bad. DS13 didn’t want to ride it – he said he felt a little dizzy from the last ride, but I’m not sure if it was the height on this ride. So we let him sit it out and then decided he really should have rode it with us. So we rode, it and it was fun. It shoots you up and you are off your seat at the top (a fun scare) when it starts to come back down, and then shoots you up only one more time. Like Tower of Terror, but not as many times or as high. So we got off, found DS13, made him ride it, (you leave your bags right in your room) and he was like “that’s all it was?” yup, mom knows best.
We then rode Spiderman. This was our 1st 3D ride we ever went on – back in 2001 – and loved it so we were excited to go on it again. It was pretty much a walk on with our express pass, otherwise the wait was 60 minutes. As we were waiting to get on, we saw this man try to get his small son on that we all knew wasn’t tall enough to ride. The worker measured for clarity and said no, but they could do a child swap. The man just got really angry and stormed out. He waited an hour, why didn’t he just child swap instead of leaving? I felt bad for the older kid who had to leave then too.
We looked around Toon Lagoon as we passed through recreating a few pictures we did way back in 2001.
Our Polish last name begins with "Pogo" so DH needed a picture. We are Mr. Pogo, Mrs. Pogo, Pogo, and Little Pogo.
Another throwback, hope you don't mind!
Last throwback to 2001! DS19 on DH's shoulders wouldn't look like this. lol
We got into the Jurassic Park area but never made it back to the Discovery Center. DS13 wasn’t feeling like an explorer.
They did decide to do the Jurassic Park River Adventure. We had done it at US-Hollywood and hadn’t really gotten wet, but the people coming out of this ride were soaked! I wasn’t too excited about getting drenched and we had our bags (I left my cheap poncho in the room, and the locker rental was $4!) I sent them on in – they walked on the ride with their express passes otherwise the wait was 45 minutes - and then second guessed myself. Right after they went in, two people took off some pretty nice ponchos and threw them on the top of the garbage. If I had any guts, I would have grabbed one and found them in line. Instead I tried to get my nerve up to grab one and run into the line – until a CM cleaning up garbage walked by and shoved the m down deep. Decision made for me. I decided to head across the entrance and get a soda refill since DS13 was complaining about being thirsty. Well, it took as long for me to get a refill as it did for them to ride – about 15 minutes! OMG – every person in line in front of me was ordering about 5 items each – turkey legs, pretzels, and hot dogs – oh my! I got my $1.06 refill and walked over to the exit and they were coming towards me laughing and soaked, so I was ok with missing it. DS19 said they were front heavy since all 3 were sitting in the front. Lol They all had fun but DH said the animatronics are getting old, but DS13 thought it was great.
Since they were wet, we headed over to Dudley Do-Right’s Ripsaw Falls and they express passed it again – DH said it was still about 15 minutes or so to get on the ride, but the regular wait was over an hour. I found some ground to sit on and got out my camera ready to take a picture if I could actually spot them. I did! So I got a good spot at the railing and took a few action shots. They came out drenched again and had a lot of fun. DH thought it was almost the same ride as Splash Mountain, but still fun.