Theme Park Essay

            I have been to many theme parks through out my lifetime. Some theme parks were a lot better than others. I won’t mention the ones I hated like Epcot back in the day. One of my personal favorites and the most recent one I have visited was Universal Studios, not the Islands of Adventure. Universal was my favorite because you could become part of your favorite movies. The shows were always interesting and sometimes pretty entertaining.

            One of my favorite rides of all time is the Terminator 2 ride into the future. Basically if you’ve ever seen the movie terminator 2 it’s almost like a sequel and probably should been because T3 sucked. Anyway you first are in line watching a bunch of Cyberdyne adds or commercials on their latest technological advances then all of sudden the video fed is broken by Jon Conner and Sarah Conner. Anyway the whole point of the ride is that it takes through time while battling T-1000 and at the end, the Terminator destroys skynet. The whole ride was very interactive which why I believe its still their and hopefully won’t be replaced.

            Another ride that’s probably the most interactive ride I know of is the Men In Black Alien attack. The line you wait in is built like the men in black building with all sorts of interesting objects from the movie. Then the ride has you taking a built in laser tag gun and shooting aliens while gaining points. The whole time you’re competing with the cart next to you for the highest score.

            The shows at Universal are pretty entertaining and sometimes interactive if you become selected for it. One of my favorites is the make up and special effects show. The show is about all the secrets used in horror movies. Usually theirs a funny guy and theirs a serious guy. The guy is always cracking mediocre jokes and squirting the audience with fake blood. Then they pick an audience member that they setup to scare the crap out of while taking a picture of it.

            All in all I enjoy Universal Studios every time I go. You really ride the movies or at least you interact with the movies. Hopefully they won’t take the good rides away and replace them with something that falls short of the prior ride.  All Universal needs to do are lower the souvenir  prices and it would almost be a prefect park.