 On Sunday we headed out to Universal Studios Hollywood for some summer fun. Arriving to the park around lunch-time and staying until the early evening. Despite not arriving when the park opened, we were able to have a great day in the park, enjoy a couple of shows and of course check out the progress on Halloween Horror Nights preparations and Super Nintendo World! Written by Gregg Condon  Welcome to Universal Studios Hollywood!  New mask requirements are now in place, and mask wearing was MUCH higher inside the park than even 2 weeks ago.  A look at the Curious George mazes, in this case, Haunting at Hill House.  What is likely to be Pandoras Box  Not sure what these are? Boo boxes? Wouldn't they have been put in the tent already?   A look at the construction on the far corner of the lot. Likely for new soundstages.   The rumor is they are building new soundstages to free up more room around the lower lot for future theme park expansion.  Now that Bride of Frankenstein Lives has been announced, the façade is definitely coming together.   Outside of Waterworld, some changes have happened to the outside of the "rumored" Halloween Maze.  What was rumored to be Halloween III (with Michael Myers) is now looking like it will be for the new Halloween Kills. Makes way more sense.  In a surprise to most, it's now looking like the maze in Stage 29 will be a return of The Exorcist. With it being in a soundstage, guessing it will be a bit different than it was in 2016.  Let's check out the Studio Tour.  Production schedule, probably for this week, not on Sunday.  A look at the lower lot soundstage area. Will be interesting to see if we start to see any activity over here in the near future.  The Great Outdoors house has been moved behind War of the Worlds. Interesting that they've kept this. Maybe we'll see it on the Terror Tram?  Rumor is the back-drop will be removed. Last week somebody mentioned the Studio Tour host mentioned this will be a parking lot soon. (if that's you, please let us know so we can credit you)  Seems like an odd area for just a "parking lot", so I wouldn't expect that to last long. Unless it's going to be for the Trams and the current tram parking area will be used for something else.  Lets move down to the lower lot and take a look at Super Nintendo World.    Lots more hills being added.    From the Studio Tour    Cheers! (totally didn't even notice the plane when I took this pic, happy birthday random person)   We also checked out a couple of shows, including Kung Fu Panda  And of course Waterworld   Before heading out, we had some ice cream for National Ice Cream Day! Thanks for checking out our update! Things are definitely active around the park! This has been one of the most active parks in the country for years, and it doesn't look like that's slowing down any time soon! Related Videos
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 Over the weekend I made a return trip to Universal Studios Hollywood. It was my first visit since they lifted the reservation requirements for annual passholders so I wasn't sure what to expect. And to be honest, I think it was actually less busy than the opening weekend for the Annual Passholder free month. The park seems to be running very smoothly despite the ongoing capacity restrictions on rides. I felt very comfortable during my entire visit, was able to ride quite a few things and had a great day. Let's head into the park and see what's going on! We've got video and pics for you to enjoy! Written by Gregg Condon  I arrived at the parking structure at about 8:35. So it took me 13 minutes to park, go through CityWalk, Security and the entrance gates. Not too bad!  Lots of photo ops for the 2021 graduates  Having a child who graduated with a bachelors degree in 2020 I feel bad they don't have at least one 2020 photo op for those forgotten graduates  Let's check out what's going on with Super Nintendo World!   I know a lot of people feel this is going to open in 2022, but honestly, given the progress being made, I can't see it. At least not in early 2022.   Will be interesting to see how they dress up this side  Still amazed just how close it is to the buildings on the lower lot  Really do hope they do "something" to cover up the soundstages here    The entrance to the land   Halloween Horror Nights is definitely coming, although no official announcement has been made ... yet  In addition to a few normal locations of mazes, two will be in the lot next to the parking structures   A bit of a zoom here, it says HHN 2020 Wall.   A look from above. Next time we're at the park I'll walk around a bit to see the facade of this.   Back inside the park, the upper lot mazes are taking shape    The rumored Halloween 3.5     A few more quick notes from the park. Rode Mummy, super fun as always. 
  Rode Transformers as well, not a huge fan of this, but it's always fun.  Always forget just how long this queue is  This is new since opening weekend  Some land clearing going on in the far back corner of the lot (beyond the little Europe area). Most likely more soundstages.   Waterworld has resumed shows!  Unfortunately no Sea Plane for our show  But super fun nonetheless  Dongpo is still closed, anybody know if it's reopened at all?  No visible work going on with Toothsome  It looked like iFly was back open  Alright, that's a wrap! Thanks for reading! Cheers! Related Videos
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Universal Studios Update: Taste of Universal, Pets Place, Super Nintendo World - March 22, 20213/22/2021  Over the weekend we made a trip up to Universal Studios Hollywood to take in their Taste of Universal event. We were super excited to get back into the park, try some yummy food and spend a few hours in the park. Since our last visit in February 2020, there's been a lot of stuff going on. Namely the all new Pets Place near the Secret Life of Pets: Off The Leash attraction and construction on Super Nintendo World. So of course we had to check out both. Written by Gregg Condon  Kong has always been the King of Citywalk  The movie theater is back open, but no theater attractions in the park are.  Nothing has changed on the outside of Toothsome since the last time we were at CityWalk  But it is coming soon!  Lots of outside seating available all around CityWalk  Mmm, Donuts  One of our favorite eateries at CityWalk is now open for outdoor dining  NBC Sports Grill looks like it could open at any time  In the meantime, the outside seating area is being used for Antojitos   Vivo is also open for outdoor dining, they don't have as much outdoor space as some of the other eateries however  New store too!  Let's head in to get our taste on!    Bello!  The park looks great, didn't feel too busy at all and had signs and table cleaners everywhere    Lots of space around the park to get pics of things with no people in them       Pets Place looks awesome! Some pics from inside the store are below.  Can't wait for this to open! 
 The virtual queue machines are ready to go as well as the height markers for the attraction!
 Test seat too!   There are even some new additions to Super Silly Fun Land!  The Minion Café is super cute, and we can't wait to try all of the food offerings here.     Unicorn Cupcakes  The Loaded Mac and Cheese was very tasty, would recommend  Gabe from Theme Park Duo got the Meatball Mac and Cheese and said it was very good  Minion Pudding Thing  We of course had to head into Wizarding World. At Three Brooksticks got some Sticky Toffee Pudding and of course Butterbeer
 It was nice to be back in Wizarding World Super Nintendo World Construction The first escalator down to the lower lot was open so we were able to get some pics and video of Super Nintendo World  You can see where Super Nintendo World is in relation to the rest of the Lower Lot   An overview of the entire lower lot   You can see the entry warp pipe in the bottom right corner of this pic. It will be near Transformers.   A zoomed in view of the entry area and warp pipe   A look at the entire land  A different view from Super Silly Funland   A year ago I would have said the stores/restaurants here would be removed for Super Nintendo World. Now, it's obviously not happening. As you can see the walls around the land have been built around the existing buildings.  Oh look, HHN Construction!  One of the HHN Speculation Maps indicates we will get "HHN Lite" here in Hollywood, with two mazes being open during the day. Definitely have some questions about that, namely that these tents get SUPER hot and are not completely dark during the day.  Back to the food. Chicken Chicharrón. This may have been my favorite thing I ate all day.  The Street Tacos were also very good, and not just for "theme park tacos". They were actually really good tacos.  Now that's a pretzel!  If you didn't get a pink donut, did you even go to Springfield?  Hello Kitty!!  Overall we had a great time at Taste of Universal. Many of the food items were pretty much what you can get when the park is open vs specialty food items, but since the park isn't open we were ok with that. The longest lines for the event were at Three Brooksticks and Krusty Burger, which struck us as odd if I'm being honest. But hey, people like those Krusty Burgers! The event runs for the next few weeks. Be sure to check it out! Related Videos
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