universal studios raise the price of their annual pass do what you wanna do you need like a hacksaw
to get through that chicken not too many people venture back here not for the faint of heart
you're a survivor right now yeah well my friends we are back at Universal it's kind of a mad house
right now the parking situation was kind of a disaster we have a lot to cover annual passes
for universal studios have increased we're gonna go over the new pricing there's a bunch of new
updates with the construction of the new minions attraction we're gonna try some new food and but
first off we're gonna go see the new batman which i'm really excited about Robert pattinson is the
new batman the movie is three hours long back in my day if i was watching this on vhs you'd have to
put in two different vhs's because this would be such a long movie a three hour long movie let's uh
let's hope they pull it off uh so we just finished watching uh the new batman movie oh boy so we just
uh finished that one i'm a big batman fan so i i enjoyed it but it felt like the longest movie of
my entire life it's a three hour long run time but it felt like four to five hours the score and the
sound design insane i mean like oscar-worthy great cinematography it was super dark pg-13 but it felt
like an r-rated movie don't bring your kids to this it's like almost like saw meets zodiac me
batman very dark not very uplifting and fun but it's uh it was really cool to finally see like
batman be a detective i thought robert pattinson did a fine job it was just so long and some of the
characters kind of got um i don't know like alfred i feel like he needed more character development
and they just kind of like cut stuff i think for the sake of time now if you remember i was talking
about an earlier video so like 2019 there was a guest that talked to me while i was at work at
disney he was like working on the sets he was like oh yes i'm not going to spoil this for you but
he was like oh yeah so this cameo is going to be in it we're working on this set and this happens
and this is like 2019 and that stuff happens in the movie so kind of low-key disappointed
that it got spoiled for me like what two to three years ago i think i'll do like an eight out of ten
i think it's not for everyone i think it's for a very select you it's just if you go in it's
not your marvel type of superhero movie time to go into universal go get some new food we're probably
gonna go to one of my favorite restaurants here at universal see some updates so let's go we're
walking to seawalk right now they have a poster up for the secrets of dumbledore the new fantastic
beasts hogwarts right there so we have a bunch of new merchandise so here's all the new merchandise
for the secrets of dumbledore what do we have here that's cool it's a hogshead glass we look at 17
for that then they have a hogshead short seat shirt you're looking at thirty dollars
for this got the snowfall happening then you have some little baby nifflers i'm not seeing a price
on this but they're here there's like a brown one a little black one and then this is like a
sleeveless a sleeveless short sleeve shirt it's very odd it's got fantastic beasts on it with a
bunch of uh newt scamander's creatures that he has where to find them newt scamander you're
looking at 35 for that we have another one over here it's another short sleeve super lightweight
thin material fantastic beast i don't know which creature that is it looks like a spider monkey
or something and kind of the same design of the other one where to find them but it's a dollar
cheaper it's 34. then for 30 they have the main little niffler oh look you can even store stuff
in this pouch i was really hoping there'd be like some gold coins or something down there
and then they have a bendable bow tuckle kind of creepy so if you're cosplaying here at the park
you put them on your shoulder he's pretty cheap he's only 15 he's got like little wires inside
of his arm then we have a plush one down here he looks so sad and confused that's how we all
feel about the fantastic beast film series sad and confused but there's no price on this little guy
he's not very bendable his legs are a little bendable so you can put him on your shoulder
but i think that's everything new for the new fantastic beasts movie all right now all the new
merchandise is inside the universal studio's main citywalk gift shop uh here we go in the universal
studios we go i'm guessing the universal nighttime show isn't happening right now we can kind of see
that the water level has been dropped down and they have maintenance workers out there working on
the uh fountains i wonder what's going on i hope it's a really cool nighttime show it's the closest
thing you can get to world of color right now our dinner reservation isn't until 4 30. we need some
good snacking so we're going to one of my favorite little places that's the louise quick service
and they got the meatball sub they got rid of the lanyards for the mardi gras festival so they were
placed with the gift cards so it's time to refill our old gift card and you just can't refill it
with the deal where you pay 120 for 150 worth of credit but you have to buy a whole new gift card
which i find is strange why can't i just reload it on the old gift card that i have meatball
texas toast slider sandwich with the spicy marinara sauce remember this thing was so good
well i like these just finished quite disappointing it was so good last time
like incredible and this now this is a six out of ten very mediocre it went from something great to
this again like i say first two weeks of any food festival or the best and then the food quality
kind of goes downhill that's uh what happened this little meatball slider now st patrick's day
is happening soon so it's all decked out at irish imports with all the saint patrick's day garland
for all your irish imports they have it here universal all right the next little stop of
the day to get some food is we're going to go to the food truck right outside the family ride
right before you head into san francisco this is where the food truck is going to be
all right this actually looks really good so i got the chicken biscuit with red eye gravy
it's going to be a crispy chicken thigh red eye gravy it's supposed to come with garlic pickles
but yet i took those nasty things off it comes on a buttermilk biscuit with a side of apple
cider slaw but i cut it in half i don't think i can eat it with my hands because it's too messy
i cut it in half i know it's chicken thigh and it's kind of a darker meat but
it looks like straight up uh as my uncle used to say it looks like gray mammal meat oh
there's no seasoning or any flavor to that chicken at all the biscuit kind of tastes like one of
those homemade pillsbury biscuits so you can make the gravy slime i don't like this when it comes to
chicken biscuit you got to have a perfect biscuit and this is not a perfect biscuit if it's a cold
biscuit you need like a warm biscuit no warm gravy with some wonderful chicken this is not it
no way jose trying to cut the chicken the knife okay
it's not cutting
what what is this what is this made out of
oh my god okay well you need like a hacksaw to get through that chicken highly disappointed
i think i'll do a 3.5 out of 10 on this thing all right now we got the mac and cheese from
the food cart like we did last time but we got a different sauce this time so we got the
nashville hot chicken mac and cheese creamy white cheddar mac and cheese topped with crispy
chicken bites tossed in golden barbecue sauce with green onions mac and cheese some chicken there oh
mac and cheese is fine i don't taste too much of the white cheddar i'm just tasting a lot of just
the noodle um and the chicken that's on that is better than the chicken that was on that biscuit
i think i'll do like a 6.5 i think it's a lot better than that chicken biscuit but it's not
like a 10 out of 10 like no mad lounge lobster mac and cheese right it's a step above like quick
service mac and cheese here at universal all right so we just finished men in black alien
attack alice and i we are very competitive when it comes to these like shooter game i got the
highest score i've ever gotten 900 000 but i would like to congratulate you uh what was your score
999 99999 you maxed it out you galactic defender okay so i guess from now on i have to refer to
allison as agent a as she uh she maxed it out in the men in black training facility it's been a
long time since i've seen this they have this sign actually spinning in front of kids though it's
been a while i hopped into the universal monsters tribute store there's something new here it says
take your phone take your own photo here game the qr code so up here it says look here with
some creepy hands we'll stand right here next to wolf man and then it'll take a photo of you
and then for thirty five dollars per person and get your own monster caricature because they have
a cartoon that's right here drawing so you can sit right there on the bench and they'll draw
you i also added some stickers to show you where you can have a photo op i like that they're like
creature feet like long creepy nails you can stand right here and they get a nice little photo with
the mummy in the back all right now the mummy is still down it probably won't open until like
august or september uh we peek through the cracks we can see they're still working on it i believe
they're going to put like a kind of extended q and like a covering for a queue for the outside
all right jamil it's your first time here at mardi gras you loved the tribute store last year
i'm excited to see your reaction for this year we'll see all right for the tribute store this is
new they added mardi gras painted on the door here this wasn't here when it first opened i'm guessing
people just didn't know what this was they just saw like this facade so they had to add this so
people knew this was the mardi gras tribute store yeah what yeah where's the jazz musicians or
mardi gras for you well the only good thing is i did hear louis armstrong playing in the gates when
i came through the door so that kind of lifted my spirits but i don't see no pictures of my my folks
this year i want to know more about him i feel like he can become like the new earl the squirrel
of mardi gras like what is his story this cute little firefly i didn't notice this before they
have a crate here from the universal legacy store now the saga continues with this plate now opening
day they had fake food on it and then somebody took the fake food now it looks like they've
put a rag on it and um the plate is no longer glued down i have many questions stumped on
this easter egg who is rita and where is that from this box is labeled crust dreams they're
all labeled a little differently you like that stream oh no that's pretty sad never notice this
box too this box has a bunch of skeletons in it i don't know what's going on with jamia right now
do what you wanna do what you wanna dave a hat right here is this the caretaker's hack now i love
the size difference on this chair a full grown man looks like he's like two years old sitting
in a booster seat now if you look hidden up here they have spongebob's pineapple that he lives in
they have a cake for dr seuss and then they have bowling pins from the flintstones can buy the
mardi gras space print i have a t-shirt of this this is gonna be a 30 bucks wouldn't be a tribute
store without visiting your friend man that dead squirrel in here yeah he's uh right up there
he's a space squirrel he's a prize for a fried space for him all right so we do have one photo
here for you who's this guy down here that's charlie parker that's your bird charlie parker so
charlie park yarber is the greatest alto saxophonist beebop in the history of jazz
music and the reason why he got his name the way the story goes is that they were on the road one
day down in the south and the car hit a chicken and of course they wanted to keep going so charlie
parker said nah man get out so he went out got the chicken went and skinned it and fried it up
and ate chicken and then hence that's the story charlie yarber parker he's a country boy from
kansas city kansas so he knew how to skin a chick i only do this for you brother because normally
you have my kiss good night desserts before i go to bed that's my that's kind of like my um
tradition but jamil got king's cake i really don't need stuff like this when the sun's out
but i'ma do it because i can't like a vampire oh i can't stop once i start i can't stop one one's too
many a thousand is not enough it's amazing it's amazing tastes just like king's cake tastes like
king cake funnel cake fried dough any carnival treat you've ever had it's a must it's a nice
oh my god this is amazing oh this is so good oh there we go
that's great i love when parents do that for their kids they like they dress them up as like
in the cast member costumes and go meet the cast members or like the performers dressing
them up as the performers i love when families do that two astronauts just walking around so
i think they're pretending that's like where they blast off
now we're gonna pop into the prop shop real quick like always if you ever wanted your own
lockers from earl the squirrel from the tribute store from last year for 250 bucks
you can get this locker cut out who's budmo earl is my co-pilot a little squirrel sticker
a little squirrel some sunglasses now the new star has been unveiled here uh it's for for bill
davis bill davis used to be like the president kind of like universal studios so they gave
him a star i heard nothing but wonderful things about this guy and how he treated his employees
and then we hopped into the universe studios gift shop these are filing folders
never seen a theme park sell filing folders but it's of this wonderful artwork of diagon alley
there's hermione fixing harry's glasses we're looking at 15 for some filing folders and then a
brand new puzzle of the quibbler how many pieces thousand pieces oh my gosh it's gonna be uh 25
now they have all the different plushes from the harry potter films and i guess now velociraptors
are canon now over here where shark 40 was they removed the promotional stuff for like
peacock in the current shows and behind them it was all these like retro posters
i'm going to show a couple pictures right now cool it's like a time capsule being uncovered
now they've removed all the signs remember there's like shrek and fiona kissy
there's like rain damage now where the signs used to be for shrek
oh they're looking kind of rough then over here it's just uh yeah they ripped everything off the
whole facade for shrek that's just a bunch of like large concrete cinder blocks with these two giant
gaping holes for brent's birthday i'm taking him to the world's best theme park restaurant
mythos now um the other day there was like somebody climbing up here
this is why we can't have nice things but uh let's go and admit those i love this food here let's get
to our table i like over here to kind of have a little uh chair for timeout and now it's time for
one of my favorite appetizers of all time so we have the semolina crusted calamari tender calamari
flash fried served with spanish chorizo aioli marinara with a charred lemon perfection tender
juicy calamari our chorizo aioli is life changing now again calamari 10 out of 10. it's a mask it
is time for our entrees now i got the mythos signature lamb burger hand packed ground lamb
grilled onion shredded lettuce fresh tomato feta olive aioli served the french fries and i did the
up charge to the parmesan fries so it has like olive oil on them with parmesan oh let's go oh
my god the feta aioli is what does it all right we finished the burger as always 10 out of 10.
it's a nice flavorful lamb and then it's the feta olive aioli that makes it incredible i love that
place so much it's pretty affordable you get a decent burger you're inside out of the heat and
it's in the middle of islands of adventure so uh we're gonna go ride some rides and do some more
exploring all right we just got off hagrid's um interesting it like broke down while we were on
it so the entire time is just kind of like we're slowly moving and we like speed up a little bit
and then slowly move so it took like i don't know a little over five minutes to get through the ride
all right this set is a hundred and seventy five dollars it's a jurassic park and transformers
collab so the t-rex turns into a tyrannocon wreck and then it turns into autobot jeep why is it a
hundred and seventy five dollars though like it's pretty cool don't get me wrong it turns into a
transformer but 175 dollars i love the lighting package of the velocity there it goes so good now
over at the games here they finally have jurassic world prizes and then a wonderful little mr
dna snuggle pillow we're going to hop into camp jurassic for a little bit we're climbing up the
ropes course pretty good this way oh my god one of the cool things that universal did that one of
the team members told me about is they did like capture the flag for men in black they hit like
a certain number of guests coming through so as a reward they got to play capture the flag here at
camp jurassic that's so cool oh man all right here we go we're venturing back down i take another
video i'll do a whole video about camp jurassic it's really cool there's a lot of cool details
not too many people venture back here not for the faint of heart you're a survivor right now yeah
we're uh we're heading out of islands of adventure right now let's go home and talk
about the increase of the annual passes and my thoughts about that all right so guys we're back
at home let's talk about the price increase of the universal studios annual pass now each annual pass
went up 50 so every single different tier went up 50 whole dollars now that is only for out of state
in-state annual passes for florida residents are still the exact same price at universal studios
but if you're out of state each one went up 50 now i'm not super upset about the price increase
right everything is going up in price because look how much gas is costing and the price of food so i
understand why it went up now i'm not as upset as if disney increased the annual price amount
which pretty sure they are because universal is such a great value for an annual pass after my
in-state discount and my like renewal discount i think it's like over a little over 500 for the
top tier universal annual pass now with a top tier annual pass you get a holiday hornets ticket which
is normally like a hundred and something dollars you get express after 4 p.m which is kind of like
lightning lane or fast pass so that's included i also get valet parking i get preferred parking
which is normally 50 to 60 depending on time of the year that's included i can go any single day
of the year i get sometimes they have like annual passholder early admission there's a lot of great
benefits to the universal annual pass now when it comes to the disney annual pass right it's like a
thousand dollars i'm blocked out of a bunch of dates i can't park hop until after 2 p.m i have
to make the park reservation standard parking the value of a disney annual pass is not the
value of a universal annual pass right because you know you're still paying this insane amount
of money entertainment isn't back shows aren't back like it's not back to how it used to be
universal studios on the other hand is back to how it used to be and they are rocking it with
entertainment and mardi gras and they're spending a ton of money in the parks compared to what i've
witnessed at disney so 50 honestly isn't too bad let me know down in your comments if you're a
disney annual household or universal annual pass holder how do you feel about the prices going up
for the annual pass there's still a great deal but 50 isn't that bad building multiple rides
right now they're building a third theme park i did get something new for the shelf as you know
the background is kind of like a bunch of little easter eggs to pass videos a little inside jokes
with you guys so i got this in the mail today it's the dumpster fire vinyl collection with the
this is fine dog this box is great okay so right we got the table turned over it's just all going
to crap you got like a knife in the wall and then over here let it burn and the reason i got this is
because this is kind of the current state of how every single theme park employee feels right now
the little this is fine dog just trying to get through their day all the employees and they're
just you know going to work on the dumpster fire this is fine so we're putting this little guy up
here in honor of all theme park employees i think the office is finally starting to come together
some more stuff i would add and everything but i'm like with how it's turning out so guys if
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i tried i tried sorry brent