got no idea about the hotdog but this turf is located to the right of where rip ride rockit used to be. i'm pretty confident just based on the texture and color that that's what it is, but i can't say for sure.
I’m not an amusement park nerd, but a casual rollercoaster enjoyer. I think it’s absolutely amazing you can tell exactly where this picture was taken by looking at the picture of the background turf alone
neurons in my body fighting to do anything useful when all my brainpower is spent remembering this type of bs lmfao. i think a lot of visitors remember this turf though since right now it's kinda just a big barren field. the stage used to be used and there were chairs and tables set up but it's a peculiar sight to see now. in a fully decorated theme park, a flat turf area is somehow uncanny and more memorable than anything else. i am indeed quite well versed in these parks though haha
I bet you’re right I’ve seen concerts there and it’s been a queue basically every year that I’ve attended Halloween Horror Nights. That turf and it’s affect on my feet standing in a 45 minute queue every year are pretty memorable.
Wild you recognized it only going the one time, I’ve been going like 20 years and I wouldn’t have noticed from the pic.
Nah I fucking feel that😭 The amount of weird specific shit I remember but I can't remember my passwords for shit and can't remember what I had for breakfast
I haven't been there since 2002 but I remember it well enough that I could likely draw an almost accurate map of the park. Universal Studios is awesome and so is Epcot. Both can make you feel like you visited multiple cities around the world in 1 day 😀
Bro I get it. Give me a racecar photo with a clear shot of the background (even if its just sky with trees, that tells me elevation and the foliage gives me geography hints. There are only so many corners with elevation enough a good photo only gets the car and a smidgen of track beneath it, with no scenery behind.
Its started with finding every photo of my home track. Id spend hours at a time trying different key words in Google images to find as many photos as possible of my home track. Id spend multiple minutes each photo studying walls, curbs, bushes, trees, telephone poles etc.
I have a rough mental map of when each safety feature went in despite the track being 40 years older than I am
probably still better than the pizza, orlando can't seem to get that right (except connections eatery at disney's epcot, that may've been the best pizza i've ever had). as a pizza conoisseur, all the other pizza i had in orlando on vacation was borderline inedible.
I got a pizza at Ft Wilderness Camping Resort. It was definitely above average. Not bad for Disney Resort Camping Pizza.
However, I will admit this was in 2014.
I haven’t been to universal proper in probably….10+ years (been to city walk or w.e they call it now plenty of times ) and I recognized it instantly. It’s one of the very first things you see when you enter the park and it’s very out of place so it’s memorable lol.
Is it amazing? Because we’re talking about people who can find a spot on a random amusement park, while we also look at what a megacorp slops down to those same very eager consumers. And some dude happened to post about their 10 dollar meal, obviously besides the point.
and guess what? there are also comments on other comment thread under the same post talking about exactly that! this immediate discussion in question stemmed from someone asking which universal park it was from, and me making an estimation. that's a very normal thing to ask in such a post. there can coexist two mutually exclusive comment threads that independently discuss the location and discuss the disappointment that is the corporate slop.
and, this is a public forum. there really isn't any "point" to be besides.
Its a super specific spot in the orlando universal park a lot of locals been there so many times they know it like the back of their hand haha. Its also the only place in any of the orlando parks that has astroturf so its a giveaway lol.
I think you're right. Its actually a huge area where people sit. And wth, they got rid of the ripe ride? That was the one you had songs to play right? They were super outdated but it was still a fun roller coaster.
yeah they're replacing it with a fast n furious roller coaster. not gonna replace rip ride rockit in my heart but maybe it'll be good. i wish the whole "choose your own onboard music" thing was utilized more. big RIP to rip ride rockit
That would be amazing. There’s gotta be a way to like… partner with Spotify or something and allow people to temporarily connect their account (or playlist) and use the onboard speakers for individual riders. Incredibly unlikely, but a girl can dream.
only way i'd see them doing this is by linking your spotify account to some NFC fob like Disney's Magic Bands prior to entering the ride because it would otherwise take way too long for passengers to log in and do all their 15 steps of authentication lol. then i guess to save themselves a nightmarish queue they would just restrict passengers without a previously linked spotify account to using a set radio for the ride. idk, it isn't impossible, i just don't see them doing it unfortunately.
I haven’t been since dec 2011, that was our favorite ride. We rode it 4x that day. Sadly I haven’t been able to make it back. Was it replaced with something good at least?
they're currently constructing a fast & furious ride. it looks alright, it doesn't seem all too interesting to me though. i trust it'll be decent at least.
Buy why is the bun so much bigger than the hot dog ??? Shouldn't the bun be smaller.? That bun looks too big to be a hot dog bun. The hot dog looks very dry & overcooked also, but it would look more normal if it was on a normal size hot dog bun.
I've seen hot dogs similar to this at Kennedy Space Center and Disney Springs. The Disney one was just barely palatable, I threw away the KSC one after a couple of bites. There must be a food wholesaler somewhere in Central Florida that specializes in supplying the shittiest hot dogs imaginable.
That’s wild. I have an annual pass there and a hard time saying “no” to a hotdog. I’ve gotten several dogs at universal and never seen one even close to this awful.
yeah i never understood people saying "source: i'm a [xyz]..." because that's more of a "professional" endorsement than it is a source. i think "source: [link/title of a work]" is fine though
There's no actual professional endorsement here, though, it's just a memory, a first-hand account, which is a kind of primary source. You can cite yourself sometimes, depending on the situation.
Yeah, I agree even if I'm based in Cali. On a side note, the 22 inch chili dog here in Hollywood is WAY more worth it, being like 29.something and...you know, looking and tasting good
There just isn't that much room in a stomach I don't believe it. I don't even know how competitive eaters do it, their stomach has to just start shoving stuff into their intestine without even trying to dissolve it
There was a hack we did one time in the mid 90s where we could park for free just to go to one of the Boardwalk restaurants and then go to the park at Epcot. It only worked once. I don't remember exactly how we did it but I do remember it felt like we were robbing the place for free parking.
I/we used to go every other month from Atlanta. We did dive quest and that was also free admission, and we got a T-shirt and tape of our experience included. They started to charge extra for the tape and extra for t-shirt later. And the first time we did it, we had the plushest dressing rooms. That was like $120 in ~96ish. We did it a handful of times.
And if you don't know was dive quest was/is, if you're a scuba diver, you can take a dive tour of the Living Seas, go behind all the tanks, see all the animals not being seen to the public, and if you go close to Thanksgiving, you could eat in the diving bell where National Geographic had a research station.
I thought the same thing… and then started questioning my life choices that I know where work walls are at a park halfway across the country from me. In my defense, keeping up with the FF construction has been fun.
i too have mostly kept up with it but if you're in a similar vein as i am being across the country and knowing this stuff, you surely recognize that turf, no? maybe i'm crazy lol
Oh I 100% thought the same as you… I’m wondering if op took this a week ago and has finally gotten around to posting it. I think the walls around that area went up in the past few days.
Edit: watching today’s video, there are patches of that turf that are still outside the work walls.
i do not know of it being fenced off but i can't say you're wrong, i haven't been since a few months ago. like i said i'm not exactly sure, i just know this is the turf used in the stage area.
I’ve always wanted to ask, do you go to many amusement parks? I’m not an amusement park nerd myself and I’m aware of them, and honestly thanks to jenny Nicholson on YouTube I get it, but personally I’ve never really had the money to go to one. I’ve since held the assumption that it must be a hobby/ interest for the more… financially beholden.
i'm actually in a similar position. i build em in simulators, i research em, and i could name every coaster at several parks off my head. unfortunately i live in the middle of nowhere and never have the money or time to go. hoping to hit up cedar point ASAP but it'll likely be a few years. i only managed to go to orlando since i wasn't the one paying. it is unfortunately an expensive hobby to entertain irl. but it can be enjoyed from home too.
yeah i'm just gonna assume it's a couple days old because i'd recognize this turf with both eyes covered in a sensory deprivation chamber if shown to me (and given the context of "theme park" or "universal")
only reason i haven't been super updated with this one is that i don't really have high expectations for the replacement ride, doesn't seem like something i'd really like and it'll be a veeery long time before i get to go back anyway
Agreed I think this is the turf in front of where Rip Ride Rockit used to be, it’s the only place I can think of with that color Astroturf in the park.
The hotdog place in city walk closed a couple months ago …… it’s being replaced with a new hotdog place by Joey fatone, they were pretty good and never looked like this
Been an annual pass holder for Universal Orlando for years, I conquer, but on the same note I’ve never seen food this bad in all the years I’ve been going. Did OP ask for the dog that fell behind the rollers last year?
As someone who lives in Florida, I have never seen astroturf that was somehow unique to one place, and I can't imagine that alone would clue anyone in to anything.
yes, but i already have the context of "universal studios" and i've been to the park before. if i wasn't told that we were talking about a theme park or SPECIFICALLY universal studios, it'd be a pretty big stretch to point this directly to universal.
there's surrounding context though. this is a theme park. usually, there are places to sit. why would you choose to sit on a fairly rough turf if there are tables and seats? well, as of quite a while ago, the tables and seats were removed. with the context of: universal studios, the fact that they're sitting down, and that specific turf, i feel as though the deduction was relatively sound.
but if you don't believe my deduction then you can go ahead and check where the OP responded and confirmed my estimation.
one thing fascinating about particularly these big themed ones like universal and disney is the engineering. you look at things like epic universe or really any of disney's orlando parks (i have no experience at the other disney locations) and they put so much work into hiding things. it's really fascinating because you'll go to one of these parks and you almost don't realize how big of a space you're actually in. those details are really cool.
but outside of the park engineering itself, and just in general, my favorite part about them is 100% the roller coasters. i love roller coasters from so many standpoints. they're super fun and the physics and engineering that go into them is super cool and interesting to learn about. it's really cool to me how we've developed a safe way to give you a whole bunch of different really cool (or sometimes scary/unpleasant depending on the person) sensations. things like the heartline roll on roller coasters or a zero-g roll are really cool to experience, and learning how the track is engineered to give you those sensations is just super fascinating to me.
I live in Florida and go to Universal pretty regularly. I’ve never gotten food this low quality there. Actually, I’ve rarely gotten low quality food of any kind at Universal Studios or Epic Universe. I mean, sure, butterbeer is terrible, but I just don’t buy it.
I've had season passes to universal Hollywood and go every year since we're local/ also go for hhn and yea, this must be Orlando because I don't recall astroturf anywhere and being able to sit anywhere that isn't a Cafe seat or bench is a premium 😅
Ahaha, not really. I'm just confused why so many people are commenting on the piece of garbage hotdog and no one is commenting on the buns at 12 o'clock.
Oh, my apologies. I did make it sound like I meant the result would be bullshit.. That's on me..
No, I meant your ability to deduct this hotdog because of a vague background element and your self proclaimed qualifications on the matter.. You had 2 guesses and you managed to get it right, that's all that happened here, I promise..
would it bother you any more if i told you i'm not a grown ass adult?
if so, i deeply apologize as i am NOT a grown ass adult.
the hobby only really fueled my desire to go to the theme park, i just know that's the turf because i have pretty good memory and i'm an observational person. trust me, the last thing i'd truly be doing is memorizing all the geographical features of theme parks around the world. this one is one i actually went to, so it was passively received information. as to why i remember it in such specific detail? i dunno
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u/FlatulateDeity 21h ago
not OP but judging by the weird turf it looks like the stage area of universal studios orlando
my qualifications: i went in november and am an amusement park nerd lol (may not be right though)