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My top 5! (All pics from RCDB) 1 The Hulk-Islands of Adventure 2 Nemesis-Alton Towers 3 The Ultimate-Lightwater Valley 4 Shiekra-Busch Gardens Tampa 5 Magnum Force-Flamingoland (RIP)

So when i went on msn today this came up in the window and I thought I'd have a look. Every ride bar 1 is in a different country to me so I can't really judge if it's accurate or not, but I just thought I'd post it... http://travel.uk.msn.com/familyholidays/photogallery.aspx?cp-documentid=4717847

^ hahaha, only just noticed that

Last batch of photos.. Magic Kingdom... Bye Bye Florida! I had an amazing time! (The end!) So we headed out of Magic Kingdom, and America as a whole... Thanks to TPR, I found this REALLY funny! And SHOPPING! (for my girlfriend.. of course) Cute little ducks! FOOD! So we were pretty much done with Magic Kingdom, but a couple more things to do.. oh thank god. Longest line all day! First EVER time on small world! The lines were all really short today! Haunted mansion time! This is where we realised we were nearly done with Magic Kingdom These things are SOOOO good! Me with the 'nice, arty' photograph view! My attempt at a 'nice, arty' photograph! I had to say goodbye to the most awesome ride in the world. Last ride on spash mountain We got put near the front this time, it wasn't as fun Back into frontierland to use our BTM fastpasses! Hmmm, Deja Vu of my other magic kingdom TR? We thought we may as well do pirates on our way out of adventureland. The jungle cruise was ok, but probably would have been better if our guide wasn't as annoying as hell! wooo 5 minutes. We then walked back over the park to adventureland to try and get our jungle cruise credit. It was a fun ride, nothing on Men in black though. Hello buzz! There was only a 10 minute wait for buzz lightyear compared to 50 minutes last time so we rode it. I took this photo of the tomorrowland transit authority thing to make up for the bad shot last time! We made the long walk over to space mountain to make the most of the early morning short lines. I liked this shot of Splash mountain. Then we grabbed some fastpasses for later. We headed over to BTM amd rode it without a line, very fun ride! Fine by me! No line.. wooo! And once again staright for Splash Mountain... Yes.. once again we went straight for frontierland.. Anyway, here we are on main street USA, and its starting to brighten up! Here we are! Note the ambulance and stuff on the left hand side, a cast member had been run over and was being stretchered away. Destination: Magic Kingdom! (on a very gloomy day...) Anyway.. enough of that, onto Walt disney world! Our neighbours for the holiday had set a racoon trap the night before and we woke up to find this little crittier outside our pool!

Blizzard beach (sorry this took me a while to post)... Magic Kingdom tomorrow! Sorry I didn't get many photos, but I didn't wanna get my camera wet.. This thing was a lifesaver today Summit Plumment was AMAZING! I really like the story of Blizzard beach We didn't end up staying to 7... Blizzard Beach today! And its very hot!

yeah, at that point I did, I popped in again after blizzard beach (the next day) and did some more, but didn't take any photos.

HUGE disney day.... Byebye EPCOT, I had a great day today! Illuminations was a really beautiful show! As night fell we at dinner in morocco! Just like being at home! We wandered around the world for a bit, and arrived in the UK I don't like how its only the front cars of the monorail that have this design.. Awww pretty Test track was reeeally fun, soo fast!! Test track had a 110 minute queue, so this became my first use of the single rider line, in my life! Straight to mission space, 60 minute queue. Very fun ride, sooo realistic! Oh yeah, it's wierd flower show thingy.. Golf Ball. Time for EPCOT (god Im getting tired) Bye Bye MGM Time to head out Very fun ride, if a bit headbangy! Time to head back to the Rock n' roller coaster I still think they should have kept this as the park's icon... The tour was fun! Backlot Tour time! The show was really amazing! theres Herbie! There was a show starting, and a castmember randomly gave us fastpasses for it, so we went in! Hey.. we're back in new york.. It's the cars from cars!! WOW!! Lunchtime!!! We headed towards the other side of the park where I met this cool dinosaur thingy.. The ride was soooooo good! And the line turned out to be more like 40 minutes! The inside doesnt look as cool with a camera flash! And the queueline was really nice.. I don't care though, I want to go on this ride sooo much! Time to hit the 70 minute line.. We grabbed a fastpass for Rock n Roller coaster Before we hit the tower of terror.. Actually.. theres better things to do! YAY! High school musical! What's that I see down there? These things were everywhere... Hmmm, crowds look quite heavy... And onto MGM we go! I don't think I'd ever get bored of this ride! the line had got big, glad we got fastpasses! We headed back to EE Hello disney people!! But it turned out to be really cool! At first I thought it looked quite boring. I wasn't sure what to expect from this.. These crazy people were really cool to watch! And a credit! This was a fun little coaster! Dino-rama time! Next up, It's tough to be a bug! I found this REALLY scary compared to what I expected! The ride was ok, a bit short, but the drop was really fun. After we'd done everest, we headed to the Kali river rapids I couldn't resist! The queue started to get a bit longer, but we rode it one more time! It was ok though as the queueline is awesome! Such a great ride! But for now we made the most of the short line and rode it 3 times. The wait had the potential to get huge so we got some fastpasses for later. I've been wanting to come on this ride since I saw construction starting! After running all the way through animal kingdom, we got HERE!! Pretty tree of life Our day started at animal kingdom, really looking forward to this place.

big disney day coming up next Animal Kingdom, MGM studios AND epcot!! might take me a while.

nahh i didnt get on cat in the hat, line was HUGE whenever we saw it Spiderman was really really great though!

its 11 o clock now and im tired, so I'll post the rest of the photos tomorrow! Thanks for the comments!

Universal Studios... Bye Bye Universal Orlando! We had a great time! 60 mins for Dudley Do rights?? we may as well, it was boiling! And spiderman was bloody brilliant!! Doctor doom was just as..meh.. as before.. The Hulk was just as awesome as before! We had an afternoon to kill so we headed over to Islands of adventure to get some joyrides in Marvel superhero island. This was cool! not as good as goofy though! Credit time! This really is a beautiful park. But the fact we met the doc and marty more than made up for it!! Such a shame I missed out on this by a couple of weeks We decided to walk back round to back to the future. And then onto Earthquake. The show at the beginning was great, the ride though, wansn't amazing.. Next we headed to Jaws, this ride was really fun, if a little outdated. It was a really fun ride, so much better than crappy British shooters! Men in black had no queue at all! That's where were headed next! This was an amazing ride, so much more than I expected it to be. The line wasn't long so we rode twice. So instead we headed straight for the mummy. As soon as we got in, the queues we already getting big for Jimmy Neutron and Shrek. We thought we'd give them a miss, as theres pleanty of 4D things at Disney, and my dad doesnt really like them. It's Mardi Gra season. We didn't visit on a saturday, however. Here we are at Universal Studios, a place that turned out to be one of my favourite parks in florida.

Busch Gardens.... It was a real shame, I missed out on Kumba, Gwazi etc. But I had a good morning all the same. Now, when we got back on the train, it started to POUR with rain, like really really pour down. We took refuge in a cafe, but 2 hours later it hadn't stopped, they even closed some rides. We decided there was no point, and went back Another really great coaster. We caught the little train over to Montu. After riding Oblivion at Alton Towers about 100000000000 times, this blew me away! This is an absolutley amazing Roller coaster. We went straight to Sheikra! 3 times on the front row in 30 minutes! Busch was an odd day, I barely got any photos (because of reason you will find out) We started by seeing the really cool band!

I'm not sure :/ I hate smiling in photos, I think I look silly haha!! there are more photos where I look happy coming! promise!

yeah, Ive got Busch Gardens, Universal, MASSIVE disney day (MGM, epcot, Animal Kingdom), Blizzard Beach, Magic Kingdom

Islands of Adventure... Bye Islands of Adventure! Thanks for a fun day! It looked really fun. It's a shame we didn't get to see more of this area. And it didn't look like it was gonna stop soon, so we made a run for the exit. Just after we got the two great Dueling Dragons credits, it started POURING down! After Lunch we headed to the Lost Continent. Oh well, Lunchtime! Okay, now im rediculously wet! Popeye was another 5 minutes! Stop getting us you bastards!! We got SOAKED! Still 5 minutes for dudley Do rights!! We made the most of the nice weather and headed back to toon lagoon. SKLOOSSH!! That was awesome! More pretty dinosaurs Pretty dinosaur Here we go! (it started getting warmer, yaaayy!!) Oh well, Time for the river Adventure! Credit I couldn't get Me with cool dinosaur thingy RAWWRR!! Did I scare you? We ventured into Jurassic Park instead. Dudley Do rights, 5 minute queue? It was a bit too cold at that point! It decided to fix itself when we arrived in Toon Lagoon! Dr. Doom next, quite fun! Unfortnately my camera gave in working at this point. We rode hulk again, and spiderman (brilliant), but I couldn't get any shots There it is! The Hulk! 30 minute line, and worth every second! AMAZING roller coaster. Sooo excited! Here we are at a park that I had been wanting to come to forever!

Thanks for the comments guys. Yeah, new york was so amazing, I felt so wierd beign there after seeing all the pictures! IOA pictures coming in a bit!

Magic Kingdom... Really fun day! IOA coming up next. Bye Bye Magic Kingdom! We took one more ride on BTM before we left. 60 minutes... no thanks! Into adventureland for Jungle Cruise. Yes I know I used this photo before but I forgot to take another! SM was fun, nowhere near Paris's, but I enjoyed it all the same! On our way back to space mountain we did the tomorrowland train thingy.. (bad photo) Aww how pretty! wheeeeeeeeeeeee Actually, this was a really fun little coaster. Credit!!!! This area was a nice little surprise that I didn't know existed. Foooood time!! This was really fun. Just a shame I didn't experience it in it's original glory! Oh well, we got some fastpasses and headed for other rides! Ok, maybe not! This is where the short lines ended, 70 minutes!!!!!! Space Mountain time! Into Tomorrowland we go... Ooo, and look! No line! On our way to Tomorrowland, we stopped at Philharmagic. It was amazing! I actually really liked this haunted house, maybe not as good as the paris phantom manor, but still really fun. Yayyy, yet another walk on ride! Oh well, the queue was non existant! Pirates.. I really liked the mist effect at the beginning, but I prefer the Paris one to this one by a lot.. Across to Adventureland! It was good.. Just didn't match up to the one in Paris... Big Thunder Mountain time! I loved this ride so much! We got a fastpass for later, just incase. Turned out that the que stayed at 10 minutes for most of the day! Nobody riding!!! We headed straight to Splash Mountain... This place is sooo cool!!! Aawww!! It's a shame there was a big line to meet them Visiting on Easter Sunday WAS a good idea! I was SO excited to be here!!

Seaworld... Bye Seaworld, thanks for a fun afternoon! Up early tomorrow for Magic Kingdom! One credit i missed out on Ooohh there they are! I don't see any flamingos.. The view was just as good around the back, without heaving crowds! OMG!! look at that queue!!! So we thought we'd go to dolphin cove. They didn't do much.... We headed over to the stingrays.. Something we didn't ride that day.. But I thought this ride was really worth the wait, great fun, awesome themeing, and not too wet! Hmm, a not so great 55 minute queue for Jorney to Atlantis.. RRAAWWWRRRR This ride is awesome! First ride, Kraken, and when its 2pm, boiling hot and a B&M has a five minute queue, everythings good! Here we are at Seaworld! Wooo, coaster in sight!! So we headed out of cold New York and arrived in sunny Florida...

Oops, sorry this post was an accident.

So this was my first time in the USA, I went with my girlffriend and my parents. We had 4 days in New York, then 8 days in Orlando, it was awesome!! I took quite a few photos, and im really bored right now, so prepare for a BIG photo TR! I know its not Theme park related, but I'll start with New York. And I'll end the whistlestop tour of New York with us and the easter bunny! Next up, Seaworld!! Ice Skating at Rockefeller Centre. Cute Squirrel! Central park. Me with the Chrysler. (sp?) Amazing view. I was so excited to go to the top of this! Flatiron, one of my favourite bulidings. Us at Pier 17. We caught the Staten Island ferry at around 10am. Hmmmm, not seen a picture of this before... Day 2! I was proud of this picture Time for dinner! Are we at Universal already!? This thing was really cool OMG! I didn't know Toys R Us hade a ferris Wheel! Us (me looking reeeallly happy) in Times square, about to go into Toys R us! Times square! Inside Macy's. Pretty girrafe things! We made our way to the empire state buliding, and macys, it looks creepy in the mist! So the weather started to clear up and we made our way into the city. When I got off the bus this is what i saw, it felt so wierd/cool to be here! At least the hotel rooms really nice! So we arrive in NYC, and its hammering down with rain, great welcome to the US!

I'll be in Florida from this satruday to next sunday can't wait.Will defiently be going to busch. My friend who went the same time in 2004 said the crowds werent TOO bad the whole time he was there, and busch was noting compared to IOA etc.

We got the 5 park orlando flexitickets, and the 7 day walt disney world premium tickets.

So on tuesday I'm coming to America for the first time (cannot wait!!) Im spending wednesday, thursday and friday in new york, then flying to Orlando on saturday morning. Now I'm only in Florida for 8 days and I want to make the most out of it. Me and my girlfriend have planned it out like this, so really what I'm asking is if this is a good plan to make the most of this amazing place!! Saturday (arrive around 2.30pm): Spend the afternoon in seaworld Sunday: Magic Kingdom and MGM Studios Monday: Islands of Adventure Tuesday: Busch Gardens Wednesday: Animal Kingdom and Epcot (Illumnations) Thursday: Blizzard Beach Friday: Universal Studios Saturday: Magic Kingdom (Leave around 2pm) Thanks in Advance!

thanks a lot

Hey, I live in the UK (next to flamingoland ), and I'm planning a trip to America soon for all the parks, (including Florida etc.) and I'm just wondering when the holidays are in America (Florida especially) so I can work out when the least busy days will be , are they the same as the UK, and do they differ by state? I was thinking April time possibly... Thanks!