My Feet Are Gonna Pizza Flop-Off - 6 Days in 4 Parks! February 2024 TR **NEW** 5/26 x2

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Lots of magical fun in the wizarding World!! During covid, we took our son to Universal Orlando and got to do our own private wand ceremony, which was super cool! Of course he was picky and didn't like the wand that chose him, so he picked out something different!

Such a bummer about your son not being able to get the Slytherin robes. My son is about to turn 15 and that shift from fitting into kid stuff to suddenly needing adult size everything sure does come with a big sticker shock!!! (especially for his hockey and lacrosse equipment--yikes!)

That's really cool that you got a private one! What a special memory.

The adult sizes are KILLING me. It's so much more expensive! We compromised and he is going to get some cheaper robes from Amazon. I told him the ones from the parks look really nice, but they are so thick that they aren't practical to wear in Orlando where we go more often. He ended up with some really cool souvenirs this trip, though, so I think in the end he was happy he didn't spring for the robes.

 

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Day 3 Continued: Monday February 12th

Next, we wanted to go over to ride The Secret Life of Pets. On the way, we checked out some of the atmosphere, including Super Silly Fun Land.

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We spotted Gru out meeting with a Minion.

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The facade for Secret Life of Pets: Off the Leash was pretty cool!

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The queue was a really immersive experience in itself, almost like a walk-through attraction with several animatronics and all of the main characters.

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I took this photo of this TM because it was a really funny moment of our short wait. There was an announcement made that if you were waiting in the kitchen part of the line, say Happy Birthday to TM Elijah if you saw him. We happened to be right in that part of the line so along with everyone else, we said a very enthusiastic Happy Birthday to Elijah!

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There he is, that’s Elijah! Except that he told everyone thank you, but it wasn’t really his birthday, then went through one of the doors to a control room to jokingly fuss at the guy who had made the announcement in the first place. We even saw him again as we exited the ride later on and told him happy birthday again!! Lol

So finally, it was time to actually get on the ride.

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This ride was a really cute dark ride through tons of scenes from the movie, which although it isn’t my favorite kids movie, it was very entertaining nonetheless.

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At the end of the ride, you and your ride partner go to “the groomer” which was very cute.

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Universal is not known for their dark rides that take you into the story like Disney is. The only one I can really think of in Orlando would be Cat in the Hat, and Off the Leash was much superior! We really enjoyed this one a lot.

 

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Day 3 Continued: Monday February 12th

DD loves Gidget, so she wanted to get something Gidget related before we could leave.

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As we left the shop, DH spotted Dracula and Frankenstein wandering around and wanted to go see if he could get a picture with them, so we followed them for a bit. When we got over by them, DH and DD went over to take a photo, but DS didn’t want to go over. Both Dracula and Frankenstein kept encouraging him to go over, so once he finally did, Frankenstein kept staring intimidatingly at him. It was so funny!

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Next we went to do an old favorite, Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem.

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We saw Snowball out talking to people passing by on the street.

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And we also saw Gwen Mallard from Migration out without much of a line, so DD wanted to get a photo.

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Then we spotted Hello Kitty out all dressed up for the Lunar New Year!

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As we walked down the street towards the DreamWorks theater, Beetlejuice was out and bent down talking to a kid. DD said to us, “Who is that?” Well, Beetlejuice heard her and YELLED across the street, “WHO ARE YOU??!! I don’t know who YOU ARE!!!” DD was so embarrassed, but it was honestly hilarious!!! I wish I had been recording!

We continued on to the theater to check out Kung Fu Panda Adventure.

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This was a really cute show! Similar to Shrek 4-D in seat movement and such, but fun to experience a different story.

We shopped a little as we made our way back down to the Lower Lot to use our last two EP entrances. They had these very cute Jurassic Park/World stuffed characters.

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Look at this Blue mini-backpack!

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Once we got to the Lower Lot, we first went on Transformers again using our EP.

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Then the last ride we did was The Mummy for the 3rd time to use our EP there.

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The kids wanted to watch the boats come down at the Jurassic World attraction since we didn’t end up riding it.

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Since DS had ended up not getting his robes, he knew what he wanted instead and that was a Toothless pillow so we stopped to get that before leaving.

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