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Jurassic World: Isla Nublar: Entertainment

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  Dinos on the Loose Some dinosaurs have escaped their paddocks and it's up to you to find them. Guests will search for hidden dinosaurs throughout the land and alert InGen of their locations. Raptor Encounter Located near the Cretaceous Cruise is an "experimental attraction" where guests can encounter dinosaurs. This includes Blue the Velociraptor, baby raptors Tango and Sierra, and Juliet the triceratops. Also appearing here is Beta, Blue's baby seen in Jurassic World: Dominion. Guests can also find three different dinosaur photo ops. This includes a T-Rex with a Jurassic Park jeep, the Spineosaurus with a Jurassic ATV, and the Indominus Rex with a gyrosphere.

Jurassic World: Isla Nublar: Shopping

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  BG - La Boutique des Dinosaurs (The Dinosaurs Store) All things dinosaur are sold here. This is where guests can find dinosaur toys, paleontology kits, and more. BH - Blast from the Past This is another gift shop. Here, guests can find Jurassic Park and Jurassic World souvenirs, amber jewelry, and more. This is built into the Discovery Center. BI - Jurassic Traders After surviving, I mean, attending the Cretaceous Cruise, guests come into this gift shop to see a large collection of Isla Nublar's best gifts. This includes Jurassic apparel, toys, keepsakes, and more to commemorate the time you visited the park.

Jurassic World: Isla Nublar: Dining

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  BC - Le Restaurant Apex ( The Apex Restaurant) Guests come into this restaurant, where Latin American food is sold. In addition, guests can sit in the presence of dinosaur skeletons. BD - Jurassic Cafe Overlooking the lake is a cozy restaurant selling American food. From burgers to pizza and the like, this is the place for a good view of the Flight of the Pteranadons. BE - Hammond's This is a restaurant offering fine European fare, set in the corner of the land. Here, guests can see passing boats on the Cretaceous Cruise and see things from the unopened Jurassic Park. BF - Dino Bites This is a snack stand selling several treats, from pretzels to popcorn to churros. And there's even an ice cream stand built into it.

Jurassic World: Isla Nublar: Attractions

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  17 - Camp Jurassic B-Ticket Any Height Nested at the base of a mountain is where guests can go exploring. Here, they can see a playground, an amber mine, some high-tech labs, and more. 18 - Le Vol des Pteranadons ( Flight of the Pteranadons) C-Ticket Must be 38 in. This flying coaster sends guests around the mountain, the Jurassic aviary, and more in a high-speed adventure. QUEUE: Guests enter the Jurassic World aviary and move past several posters, telling interesting facts about Pteranadons and other flying reptiles. They then go up a ramp to the control station, where a safety video plays. They go into the loading station from there and board the vehicles, which are two-carted, four-seated single-coaster vehicles that are suspended in midair. RIDE EXPERIENCE: The ride begins in the aviary. Here, they fly around the spires, trees, and encounter some Pteranadons on a cliff. They then exit through a hole and leave, going around the mountain and across the lake. After moving aroun...

Jurassic World: Isla Nublar: Overview

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  OVERVIEW: There is a large, high-tech spire with greenery growing on it. On it is the image of a dinosaur, and inside is the tunnel of blue light. This transports guests to a tropical land near a lagoon, where past and present meet. Guests travel to the exotic island of Isla Nublar, where a world 65 million years in the making is. Welcome to Jurassic World, where dinosaurs are seen in real life. This is the realization of John Hammond's (the creator of the original Jurassic Park) dream to create an edutainment park with living, breathing dinosaurs. But even with its beauty, wonder, and advanced technology, danger lurks in every corner. Some dinosaurs are out and on the prowl, and they would like to eat you.....I mean, meet you.

Minion Land: Entertainment

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  AVL Villain Hunt Guests are tasked by the Anti-Villain League to find several villains in Minion Land. They must find out who the villains are, what they stole, and where they hid it in one of five mystery games. Guests can meet Gru and his Minions around the area from time to time.

Minion Land: Shopping

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  Y - Museum Treasury Guests can come into this museum after their heist and find Minion-themed merchandise, as well as some historical items surrounding the yellow ones themselves. Z - Super Silly Store It's super, it's silly. Here is where guests can buy anything from the amusement park, from themed merch to unicorns. AA - La Repaire des Mechants ( The Villains' Lair) Located in a giant building is where guests can find merchandise themed to the villains of the world, from Villain-Con essentials to items themed to the lawbreakers, and even some things for Gru. AB - Minion Mart This store sells all things Minion, from apparel to toys and many more. It also sells merchandise for the Anti-Villain League too.

Minion Land: Dining

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  V - Le Cafe des Minions ( Minion Cafe) In this eatery, guests can find Minion-inspired dishes. In the meantime, they can eat in a colorful setting themed to the Minions, with a few scenes of chaos left over. W - Bake My Day Inspired by the bakery seen in Despicable Me 2, t his place sells pastries, ice cream, cupcakes, and more Minion-themed desserts. X - Evil Snacks This is another snack place, selling European treats, smoothies, and milkshakes.

Minion Land: Attractions

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  13 - Minions: Historical Heist D-Ticket Any Height Guests join the Minions as they attempt to recover a priceless artifact from the World History Museum. This ride serves as a reference to the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony, in which the Minions stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre and then left it floating in la Seine when their submarine sank. QUEUE: Located on the right side of the land is the World History Museum, where the attraction is advertised. It is done in late Victorian style and is an elegant sight. Then, when guests go into the lobby, they go past the desks and then into the storage room. Here, it is revealed that the Museum is opening a new exhibit, featuring the Mona Lisa. Guests also see a smuggled-in television where a young Gru tells the guests his plan. He wants them to help his Minions steal the Mona Lisa, riding on special vehicles to do it. Guests soon board one of three vehicles, sitting up to six people with two rows of three. They climb aboard and pull th...

Minion Land: Overview

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  OVERVIEW: Guests approach a strange-looking portal with supervillain gadgets on it as well as bananas, teddy bears, and.......is that a Minion up there? Yes it is. Guests go through a tunnel of yellow light and immediately find themselves in the world of Illumination's Despicable Me and Minions films. This is another family area. When coming in, guests can see a lot. On the left is Super Silly Fun Land, a childrens' area, while on the right is an exclusive dark ride. Then, guests can walk down Illumination boulevard past shops and restaurants themed to the Minions, heading right towards Gru's House at the end of the street. Interestingly, the Minions themselves have French connection. According to canon, one of the villains that they served was Napoleon Bonaparte. In addition, the Illumination animation company is also located in Paris, as seen in the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Super Nintendo World: Entertainment

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  Key Challenges Guests can collect keys in several mini games. They can hit boxes, snooze timers, and more to gain keys, then face off with Bowser, Jr. in a shadow showdown (must have special bands to do this.) Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach meet near the castle while Rabbid Luigi and Rabbid Peach can be found in the Rabbids base.

Super Nintendo World: Shopping

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S - 1-Up Factory Guests can find a wide selection of Nintendo merchandise in here, from the Mushroom Kingdom and beyond. There is even some Crazy Cap merch here, inspired by the shop seen in Super Mario Odyssey. T - Mario Motors This is the go-to shop for all Mario Kart fans. Here, they can find apparel, toys, and other things from the racing game. U - Beep-O's Battle Supply In the Rabbids base is a quirky gift shop where Beep-O is selling battle supplies. Alongside merchandise themed to the Raving Rabbids games, it also sells merchandise themed to the Mario + Rabbids crossover series.

Super Nintendo World: Dining

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  Q - Toadstool Cafe Guests come into a mushroom house where Chef Toad is cooking up Mushroom Kingdom dishes. This includes sandwiches, desserts, and other things inspired by the games. R - Rabbid Ranch In this place, selling French and American cuisine, guests can come in and sit in an outdoor area filled with Rabbids Mementos. They can even try some unique dishes inspired by the Rabbids themselves.

Super Nintendo World: Attractions

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10 - Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge E-Ticket Must be 40 in. In this augmented reality ride, guests play a real-life version of Mario Kart to gain victory for Team Mario. QUEUE: Located in the back of the area is a black castle, Bowser's Castle. This is where guests enter the attraction. They go into the castle and pass through many rooms, including Bowser's throne room, workshop, trophy vault, and more. Then, they enter a racing room where the equipment of Team Mario is on display. Soon, guests see a video with a Lakitu, where the rules are explained. Aside from a safety spiel, this also explains how to play the game. After this, guests proceed into the loading area, where they grab viziers and sit down on carts. They then put on AR goggles and pull their lap bars down. RIDE EXPERIENCE: The ride vehicles move up to a starting line and begin. They then travel through scenes of several courses from the games, including Mario Circuit, 3DS Piranha Plant Slide, Dolphin Shoals, T...

Super Nintendo World: Overview

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  OVERVIEW: Guests see a portal topped with green pipes and power-ups on top of it. This is their gateway to the world of video games. They go into a green light portal and then go into the warp pipe. They go up escalators and then.......they're in Princess Peach's castle. But that's just coming in. When guests see the place for themselves, it's sure to take their breath away. The whole land is alive with moving objects and everything. It feels like they have just walked into a level on the Super Mario games. From here, guests can race in real-life Mario Kart, try Mushroom Kingdom specialty foods, and ride a Yoshi. What makes this area unique to its foreign counterparts, however, is a different area that has several visual gags, Rabbid stuff, and an exclusive ride to the park. This section, located behind the main one, is themed to the Mario + Rabbids crossover games, making French connection since Ubisoft (the game company who owns Rabbids) is French.

How to Train Your Dragon: Isle of Berk: Entertainment

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  Dragons of Berk There are so many dragons on the island that it's hard to keep track. With their phones, guests can search for dragons and identify them, maybe even learn a thing or too. Plus, they can help Hiccup keep track of all the dragons in Berk. Dragon Interactions Guests can meet Hiccup and Toothless in a pavilion. Here, they can recreate the hand moment from the film, and have their picture taken with this heroic duo. Other Vikings and dragons appear around Berk to fill in the atmosphere.

How to Train Your Dragon: Isle of Berk: Shopping

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  N - Souvenirs de Berk (Berk Souvenirs) This gift shop, located in the village, is where guests can buy merchandise from the films. This also has a fair share of Viking merchandise too. O - Gobber's Blacksmith Shop Also in the village is where Gobber works. Here, he has toys, apparel, and more dragon things for those who want it. P - Dragon Riders Emporium After flying on Hiccup's Wing Gliders, guests come into this Dragon Rider shop. Here, they can see photos taken of them on the ride as well as more keepsakes from Berk.

How to Train Your Dragon: Isle of Berk: Dining

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  K - La Taverne des Vikings  (The Vikings' Tavern) Inside this restaurant is where guests can feast on American and Scandinavian fare. In addition, they will sit in a lavish atmosphere that pays tribute to the seafaring Viking tribes. L - Mead Hall Guests can go inside the Great Hall of Berk, where Norwegian food is sold. As they eat, they can take in the grand architecture of the place and see artwork telling of the past struggles between the Vikings and dragons. M - Dragon Bites This is a small snack stand selling dragon-themed treats, including chocolate dragon tails, Night Fury Croissants, and others.

How to Train Your Dragon: Isle of Berk: Attractions

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  (Each of the attractions in this area are themed to Hiccup and his friends) 4 - Viking Training Camp B-Ticket Any Height Located in the outskirts of the village is a training camp where guests can learn about the many classes of dragons. This includes play areas, interactive exhibits, and even some notes by Fishlegs, to educate more about the dragons. 5 - Le Carrousel des Dragons ( The Dragons Carousel) A-Ticket Any Height Built by Gobber to help younger Vikings learn how to fly dragons, this carousel is where guests can board wooden dragon look-alikes and move around in this merry-go-round. Like the Caro-Suess-El at Universal Islands of Adventure, guests can interact with special features on the dragons to make their eyes move, ears wiggle, and such. 6 - Le Navire Cyclone (The Cyclone Ship) C-Ticket Must be 38 in. Ruffnut and Tuffnut have taken a sunken Viking ship and repurposed it into a swaying machine. This is to help people adjust to waves.....or make them even more dizzy. ...

How to Train Your Dragon: Isle of Berk: Overview

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  OVERVIEW: Guests walk under a rocky spire with a viking-era machine and pass through a tunnel of orange light. On the other side is a place like no other......this is Berk. Here, guests can find a place where dragons and Vikings live together in heartwarming, hilarious harmony. This version of Berk, like the Epic Universe land, is set between the second and third How to Train Your Dragon films. It's the golden age of dragons, and here, guests will see them everywhere (literally, everywhere.) They will also be able to see some places from the films, such as the Mead Hall, the village, and more. This is not 100% what is coming to Epic Universe, but a lot of it is featured there. The best part of this land are the picture-esque views, from the statues of the Vikings in the lagoon, visible from the moment you enter, to the many sights in the village. Who knows? You might even see dragons that you want to take pictures with too......but we'll get to that later. In short, this is o...

Hollywood: Entertainment

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  This is the only area without an interactive game, but guests can find help and services up front so they can enjoy their day and play the games of the six other areas. Live entertainment also plays on the stage in the back of the area, but that varies depending on the time of year. Universal's Cinesational Spectacular As night falls on the resort, the lagoon comes alive with lights, music, and even drones to bring the world of the movies to life like never before. Aside from showcasing the IPs in the park, it also features other IPs, American and French. Characters like Shrek and Fiona, Puss in Booots, Alex and King Julien, the Penguins of Madagascar, Po and Tigress, Woody Woodpecker, Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang, Doc Brown, Charlie Chaplin, Marylin Monroe, and others meet around this area.

Hollywood: Shopping

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  F - Universal Studios Store Located near the entrance of Hollywood is the largest store in the park. Here, guests can come inside and find the biggest collection of the park's best merchandise. G - Les Jewels de Hollywood ( The Jewels of Hollywood) Here is a jewelry shop to make anyone feel like a celebrity. In addition to jewelry, this also sells the park's largest apparel collection. H - The Darkroom This photography shop is where guests can find albums, photos, and other things. Plus, they can take a green screen picture where it looks like they are on a movie poster. I - Le Maison des Films Fracais (The House of French Films) This store tributes the legacy of French films. From the early films of the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries to more modern blockbusters from France and other parts of Europe, this is where to find it. J - Les Classiques ( The classics) This is a store that tributes Universal's classic films, from the monsters of the 1930's to th...

Hollywood: Dining

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  A - Le Cafe D'Universal ( The Universal Cafe) This is a large restaurant with six themed rooms, all themed to different parts of the park and the franchises that inspired them. Here, guests can have a combination of French, European, and American food. (Reservation required) B - Studio Scoops In this ice cream stand, guests can come in and get celebrity-sized ice cream cones, desserts, and more. C - Hollywood Inn Guests can sit in this elegant dining location that recreates the Golden Age of Hollywood. This serves American fare, alongside other European, Asian, and Latin American cuisines. (Reservation required) D - La Bamba Cantina In a recreation of the La Bamba inn, guests can have a fine selection of Mexican food, from tacos to burritos and everything in between. E - Mel's Drive-In Inspired by the 1973 film, American Graffiti, this 50's-style diner is where guests can find old-fashioned hamburgers, milkshakes, and more.

Hollywood: Attractions

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  1 - Le Voyage a Travers Les Films (A Journey through the Movies) E-Ticket Any Height Inspired by the former Great Movie Ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios, this dark ride takes guests through several iconic films, including some French movies. QUEUE: Guests begin by going into a recreation of a French movie theater from the turn of the Twentieth Century. From there, they walk through rooms of film artifacts, posters of movies featured on the ride, and even some signs telling of how the French invented the film industry. It also has signs telling of Universal's history too. Then, guests will enter a Hollywood backlot, where they board a tram vehicle. These trams are small, but they resemble the ones on the Studio Tram Tour in Universal Studios Hollywood. RIDE EXPERIENCE: The ride begins by going under a flashing cinema sign, announcing the ride. The tour guide, an actual person in the front, will introduce themselves and begin the story in the late Nineteenth Century, when fil...

Hollywood: Overview

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  OVERVIEW: When guests come in from CityWalk, they can see a large, Spanish Mission Revival hotel. In front of that is the Universal globe. However, it's unclear what is behind this building, or if there is even a park at all. But, like Disneyland Paris or Universal Studios Beijing, this hotel actually has the entrance into the park. After going through one of two tunnels, there they are. But this is no ordinary entrance. They're arrived in Hollywood itself. Here, they will see recreations of several famous buildings, a Walk of Fame model, and even three different theaters, two of which hold shows while the last of which is a ride. They might even spot a celebrity or two in the area, whether it be someone posing as a famous Hollywood icon or characters from the movies. Then, at the end of the road, guests come across a large lagoon, where nighttime shows play. However, this isn't even the most interesting feature. Surrounding the lagoon are six themed portals with icons an...

Universal Studios Paris: Overview

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  OVERVIEW: Guests come into this park, which is done in a similar style to Universal Epic Universe in Orlando. They travel to the other worlds via portals, and are immersed in them. It involves seven lands that bring fictitious worlds to life like never before. When first entering the park, guests go under the Universal Studios Hotel and enter into Hollywood, which recreates the City of Stars itself. From here, guests go down to a hub where a giant lagoon is, home to nighttime entertainment. Going clockwise around the park, guests first come into How to Train Your Dragon: Isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons live together in a family area. Then, guests go to Super Nintendo World, where guests can play in the world of Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Ubisoft's Raving Rabbids. Then, guests enter another family area, Minion Land, home to Gru and his mischievous Minions. On the right side of the park are more thrilling attractions. Guests come into the dinosaur theme park of Jurassic World...