FIELD GUIDE 06 / 18
Universal Orlando · Orlando, Florida
Islands of Adventure
“the adventure begins at the lighthouse”
Eight islands around one lagoon — a lighthouse lights the way from a Seussian curl of streets to Hogwarts' spires, past a green launch coaster and a pair of very tall wooden gates.
- Mapped
- 28 experiences
- Headliners
- 5
- Queue scan
- 28 eligible names
- Opened
- May 28, 1999
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1 known closure or retirement record is omitted from the public guide and map. Current day-of downtime is hidden by default and can be revealed in the guide.
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the pharos lighthouse still sweeps its beam every night — follow it in
Showing all 28 listed attractions
8 Single Rider listings Audited Varies by day
Port of Entry
1| Experience | Minutes | Level | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Pharos Lighthouse Headliner The beacon at the harbor — adventure's front door since 1999. | — | — | — |
Seuss Landing
6| Experience | Minutes | Level | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Cat in the Hat Thing One and Thing Two, witnessed from a couch. | — | — | — |
| Caro-Seuss-el A carousel of creatures who never existed. | — | — | — |
| One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Follow the song or get squirted. Those are the rules. | — | — | — |
| The High in the Sky Seuss Trolley Train Ride! A trolley tour over a land with no straight lines. | — | — | — |
| If I Ran The Zoo A playground zoo of creatures that don't exist. | — | — | — |
| Oh! The Stories You'll Hear! Seuss characters bring familiar rhymes and stories to life. | — | — | — |
The Lost Continent
1| Experience | Minutes | Level | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mystic Fountain A talking fountain trades jokes, riddles, and surprise splashes with passersby. | — | — | — |
Hogsmeade
8| Experience | Minutes | Level | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey Headliner Flight over Hogwarts by enchanted bench. | — | — | — |
| Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure Headliner Seven launches on a flying motorbike, sidecar optional. | — | — | — |
| Flight of the Hippogriff Bow first. Then ride. | — | — | — |
| Hogwarts Express — Hogsmeade Station The return platform to London (park-to-park ticket required). | — | — | — |
| Ollivanders — Hogsmeade The wand does the choosing here too. | — | — | — |
| Frog Choir Hogwarts students harmonize with their deep-voiced frogs. | — | — | — |
| Triwizard Spirit Rally Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students display their tournament traditions. | — | — | — |
| Hogwarts Always Projection and music celebrate a year at Hogwarts Castle after dark. | — | — | — |
Jurassic Park
4| Experience | Minutes | Level | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jurassic World VelociCoaster Headliner A 155-ft top hat, an 80° drop, and raptors at eye level. | — | — | — |
| Pteranodon Flyers A dangling glide — adults need to borrow a child to board. | — | — | — |
| Camp Jurassic Nets, caves, and dino-footprint puddles. | — | — | — |
| Jurassic Park Discovery Center Watch a raptor hatch in the lobby. | — | — | — |
Skull Island
1| Experience | Minutes | Level | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skull Island: Reign of Kong A truck, a wall, and everything on the wrong side of it. | — | — | — |
Toon Lagoon
3| Experience | Minutes | Level | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges The wettest raft ride in Florida, by design. | — | — | — |
| Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls A log flume through a sawmill, mountie included. | — | — | — |
| Me Ship, The Olive Popeye's boat — the water cannons aim at the barges below. | — | — | — |
Marvel Super Hero Island
4| Experience | Minutes | Level | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Incredible Hulk Coaster Headliner Gamma-launch uphill, then everything goes green. | — | — | — |
| The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man The 3D dark ride every other 3D dark ride copies. | — | — | — |
| Doctor Doom's Fearfall Doom shoots you up 150 feet. For science. | — | — | — |
| Storm Force Accelatron Teacups, but make it mutant. | — | — | — |
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FIELD NOTES
What makes this park itself.
The 1999 park that still out-themes parks built last year: every island is a hard cut — Seussian curves to Hogsmeade snow to Jurassic jungle — and the lagoon stitches it all together.
VelociCoaster and Hagrid's are the best one-two coaster punch in Florida. Do Hagrid's at open or at dusk; do Velo twice, once up front and once in the back row for the top hat.
The field map makes the lagoon ring explicit: every island keeps its own color and landmark while bridges reveal the route between hard thematic cuts.
- opened
- May 28, 1999
- islands
- Eight, one lagoon
- the icon
- The Pharos Lighthouse
- my headliners
- VelociCoaster · Hagrid's · Hulk