Ten Rides Conquered at Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure.

Facts and figures courtesy of http://www.universalorlando.com/

1. The Incredible Hulk. Zero to forty miles per hour in two seconds followed by a zero-g roll and at least four total inversions. Eek. It makes you just a bit green and just a bit shaky.
2. The Amazing Adventures of Spiderman. A 3-D ride. Incredibly realistic—so much so that I had to close my eyes the first time we plunged four hundred feet towards the sidewalk. The second and third times I left them open. We didn't crash. Spidey saved us.
3. Dr. Doom's Fearfall. Dr Doom is collecting fear to use in combat against the Fantastic Four. He gets it from you by shooting you a hundred and fifty feet into the air, and then plummeting you back towards the ground faster than gravity. A couple more bounces up and down and then he gets your fear and your lunch.
4. Jurassic Park River Adventure. A leisurely ride through friendly, if not cheeky, dinosaurs is disrupted when the boat goes off course into the raptor containment area. Only thing is, the raptors are no longer contained. Just before the T-Rex can eat us all, we are saved (um?) by an eighty-five foot free fall in the dark, culminating in an all-mighty splash and soaking. Lucky it was already raining, otherwise we would have got wet.
5. Popeye and Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges. What was I saying about being wet. Now we are really wet. Great Fun. Can we do it again. For a small fee, you can dry off in a whole body hand-dryer. Why bother? It's still raining.
6. Duelling Dragons. My all time favourite so far, here. Two Roller Coasters are built side by side—Fire and Ice. Super Speedy—up to fifty-five miles an hour (88kms/hr), and they near miss each other three times. Cooler still is that it is a ride in which you hang down rather than riding on. You have to do this in two's, riding the red and blue each time you ride—just to even yourself out.
7. The Cat in the Hat. It was okay. I didn't panic. I am not sure how many of you know about my Cat in the Hat Comes Back phobia. That book freaks me out. All that pink stuff that won't clean up. But this was the original. Just fishes in toilets and balancing crockery. I was okay. Not too scary.
8. Jurassic Park Discovery Centre. Not so much a ride as a ... well ... a centre. We saw a baby dinosaur hatch, played a trivia game, and combined our DNA with a dinosaur to see what would come out. It was warm and dry for a bit.
9. Caro-Seuss-el. The excitment-o-meter didn't actually get far out of the pink on this one, but the fabulous Seuss characters are a hoot, and seeing your boy on a whacky camel thing is even hootier.
10. Poseidon's Fury. Technically a 'show' not a ride. Lots of water and fire and laser effects. Fun enough, but get me out of here. I have rides to ride again!