Theme Park Rangers Radar: Minion Blast tips, Friendship Boat updates, Good Gravy
In this week’s Theme Park Rangers Radar, we’re getting acclimated to Universal Orlando’s new Minion Land, catching up with Peppa Pig and making plans to ride a gravy boat in Indiana. Honest.
Radar is a weekly fact-finding mission about Central Florida attractions. It appears on OrlandoSentinel.com on Wednesdays.
Blaster bits
In the lead-up to Friday’s grand opening of Minion Land at Universal Studios, theme park visitors had some access to its centerpiece, Illumination’s Villain-Con Minion Blast. The new attraction puts participants on a moving sidewalk and arms them with blasters to aim at animated targets on enormous screens.
There’s a definite video game vibe to it, and like other regular-size games, the more you play, the more you’ll learn about how to achieve a high score.
Rather than ride-queue-repeat all day, I reached out to some theme park website owners who I knew had been making the minion circuit for their best tips.
But first, the basics: Each room is themed to a Vicious 6 villain; blasters have two triggers, one that has unlimited virtual ammo and one that’s more powerful but not nearly as plentiful; options can be adjusted (and top scores found) on the official Universal Orlando app.
