How good is Universal Studios Hollywood?

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Originally Posted by readymade

I just wish you didn't have to pay for the theme park just to do the studio tour. My dad is visiting next week. He wanted to do the tour but he isn't into theme parks. Oh well.

Sounds like your dad might like one of the other movie studio tours, the kind where you go to an actual lot and get shown around. I've only been on the Sony one, but it was fascinating; they're at the old MGM lot in Culver City, so it's this great jumble of film history and current tv and movie production.

Here's a Travel Channel page with links to various studio tours.

[John23]

I like the old universal.

-ET ride.

-Back to the future ride.

The old tram ride from the 80's.

Conan the Barbarian stunt show? There was another stunt show, I think an episode of Different Strokes filmed there. Didn't they use to dunk an audience member in water?? I think it was at the east end of the park.

[janelle144]

I plan on going to LA and maybe do a studio tour.

For those with little kids like under 5 going to a kid's museum can be hard for them. My grandsons went to a kid's museum in my city and they like to do just one thing. The parents wanted them to see everything and they got cranky. Being dragged to one thing after another--their attention span is too short and they want to play on the thing they find fun.

My grandson wanted to play in the jumper blow up castle and he went through it like 4 times. His parents got bored watching him do one thing so they took him away from it to another place and he wanted to play there but had to be dragged away from that. He got quite perturbed after that and I couldn't blame him.