It’s currently the better of the two Universal Orlando parks when it comes to attractions, with fun and action for the whole family, and a nice diversity of ride styles to boot. It might come up a bit short on the consistency of its aesthetics, but Islands of Adventure more than holds its own when it comes to rides.
Overall the park can’t match the world-building that defined classic Disney theme parks. For example, the Marvel area is just a city block lightly themed to look like the entrance of Manhattan office buildings, with giant cut-outs of ‘90s-era Marvel Comics characters haphazardly placed throughout, and little effort to disguise the ride systems for the Incredible Hulk roller coaster or the Doctor Doom’s Fear Fall drop tower.
ISLAND OF ADVENTURE FULL
If you’re a stickler for careful design and consistent theming in your theme parks, the awkward jumble of Islands of Adventure might stress you out.Īs beautiful as the Hogsmeade portion of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and the Lost Continent are, the rest of Islands of Adventure is full of functional but relatively barebones design. It combines a handful of areas based on popular properties-Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, Marvel Comics (to the eternal consternation of Disney)-with generic adventure-themed areas called Port of Entry and the Lost Continent. Universal’s Islands of Adventure doesn’t have to worry about that, because it was already a mishmash of random stuff to begin with.
Theme parks tend to play fast and loose with their theming over time, squeezing in new areas or rides over the years that may not fit whatever sort of atmosphere the original designers were trying to create.
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