USA - Universal Studios LA

Backlot Tour

This of course is much smaller than the Orlando one with the one added extra that the Movie Backlot Tour (which is a ride) goes round the actual backlots that they're filming in. The rest of the sets though can also be found in Orlando such as:

• Jaws jumping out at you as you drive past

• Various things catching fire, downpouring with water, earthquakes cracking the ground, King Kong and the odd T-Rex grabbing our car and throwing us down a mountain (3d experience) etc.

• We saw Norman Bates putting his mother's body in the trunk of his car, who then realised that we'd seen him and came after us with a knife

• There was an amazing site where a plane had crashed into a house!

• And we had a secret mission from the Fast & Furious Cast who are also projected using very realistic holograms into what looks like thin air (so it feels like they're really there).

The Park

The park includes:

• Harry Potter (Hogwarts & Hogsmead)

• Simpsons with Krustyland Park and a nuclear reactor that explodes every now and then

• Jurassic World complete with a Velocaraptor and Triceratops just wandering around the park, terrifyingly realistic!

• The Mummy (completely different ride to the Orlando version and nowhere near as good)

• Transformers completer with actual transformers wondering around

• Minions, Pets & Kung Fu Panda rides

• Waterworld show with sets that explode with water and fire

• Super Mario Land (which unfortunately is still being built - Gutted)