Marvel
super hero island, located at Islands of adventure is straight out of a comic book, the streets are
filled with comic print characters and places themed by the marvel world buildings, heroes and villains I have admired from an early age. I'm a
comic book geek yes and what I love about super hero island is that it's
aimed at all different ages and also levels of fandom. The rides are
amazing and being a huge marvel fan I'm always a little overwhelmed by
it all. My favourite thing about this area (as with seuss landing) is
that everywhere you stand there is an amazing backdrop for family
photos (the photos to me are one of the most important parts of our
family holidays).
Universal studios and Islands of adventure are joined together but are seperate
parks, if you buy a flex ticket for the parks then you can go in either
along with many other attractions that I will list at the end of the
post. Thanks to Visit Orlando We had park to park tickets and on the morning we were heading
there we were all really excited. As with everything in Orlando the
parking is very clear so no need to panic about where you are going. There is a $15 charge though as with all the parks for the day. It's a bit of a walk from the car park to the park but when you are as
excited as we were, that time flew by and we soon reached our destination.
As I said in the previous post when we arrived at Islands of adventure we went straight to Seuss landing but after we had had our fill of Seussian delights we moved on to my other big love, Marvel. The boys were desperate to meet Spider-man and the other characters and Mrs M was really looking forward to going on the Spider-man ride with Seth as he had thrown a mini strop last year and she didn't get a chance to go on, she loved it though and i think it was worth the wait.
The streets were filled with super hero fans of all ages all with big smiles, it would be virtually impossible to be miserable here. While Mrs M and Seth were queuing me and Opeie went off to meet Captain America and then we did a parent swap which is a great thing that the parks do if you have a child that is to small for the rides. It means that you both get to ride without having to queue twice, very handy. The ride was amazing and straight after we got to meet Spider-Man. Seth being the mini detective he is, commented after that the tone of his voice sounded different from their last encounter and was convinced it was a different spider-man but we convinced him he may just be tired or have a cold keeping his faith in his beloved hero.
While we had been in the queue waiting to meet the Cap a lady had commented on Opeie being 'a little heartbreaker' and while me and Seth were on a ride Opeie did what he does best and continued to woo the ladies with his handsome face and gentlemanly charm, this time a couple of marvels finest heroines!
And then it was time for us to move over to Universal studios which as i said is located next to Islands of adventure. The heroes had important places to be so it was great timing really. Super hero island was amazing but if I'm honest we were all still over excited from Seuss Landing
Today Opeie has been really excited about getting to wear a new T-shirt. I'm always so jealous of the great T'shirts that we find for him. He's my little super hero accessory. I'm still on the hunt for matching T-shirts for us all this summer so watch this space.
The weather was pants yesterday which pretty much threw a spanner in the works for going out anywhere, plus Mrs M had had an awful night with Opeie and id got up with him quite early so we were both shattered. So a day in the house it was. We asked Seth what he wanted to play and he said Lego so off we went to play closing his bedroom door behind us (Mrs M cant stand the noise of the Lego being rummaged through).
Ive been trying to get hold of the Jokers Funhouse for Seth's imaginext collection but they just keep going for crazy money on eBay and you cant buy them anywhere in the UK so i decided that instead i was going to build one out of Lego for him. I thought maybe i would regret my decision but i really enjoyed it and Seth was really chuffed with the outcome.
I made it in the style of the imaginext one as it appeals to younger children, i had a look at the Jokers funhouse kit that was released recently and although it looks great i wanted Seth to have something that was a one off. I love Lego its such a great toy that never loses its appeal because there is so much you can do with it. The kits are great and i do love to snap up as many as i can but my heart is really in designing our own things. Seth always seems more satisfied when we have built something ourselves
I made the Ha's lift up so that Seth could get his little hands in from both sides. I get so carried away when I'm building something, Mrs M always says Ive got loads of patience but playing with Lego is one of my favourite things to do with the boys.
After i had finished making it i decided that it looked a bit grim without any characters, the only Official DC villain we had was Catwoman so i got rummaging again through the Minifigure boxes and managed to pull together a Mad Hatter(luckily i had a leprechaun), Killer Croc (although he was a bit rubbish), Poison Ivy and Manbat(i used the werewolf). I was a bit gutted i couldnt manage a Joker but oh well Seth will be happy when he see's them in the morning, they did kind of make the build.
Putting in the checked floors to the rooms really added to the funhouse and made it look a lot more like somewhere the Joker would hang out. I am now planning on building a batcave next as i think Seth will really like that plus there will be somewhere for his batman minifigure to live, so keep a look at for that one.
Seth got really excited towards the end of the build as while he was rummaging he found a small brick with playing cards on he could barely catch his breath, bless him. I found some Lego money so i decided to have the villains round a table of cash, playing cards, knives and guns. (probably not suitable for children but luckily Seth's not aggressive).
I wanted to get my Seth and Opeie minfigures involved in the action so while Opeie talked to other members of his tactical assault team Seth kept a look out through his binoculars on the riot van. Any moment now they will be storming the Funhouse and making their arrests.
If your interested in seeing more of the build then please check out my YouTube video that was made by my very beautiful lady earlier this evening. Now i better start thinking about that Batcave.
Since i started the Super Hero Squad collection and wrote my First Post i have found myself really obsessing about certain packs of them, at the moment its the Captain America and Avengers Movie sets as i don't have any of them. These have only moved in to first place of my must have list today as i had a delivery this morning and now finally own the Amazing Spider-man movie sets that were pretty much dominating my eBay searching over the last few weeks.
I'm still surprised I'm so into these as Ive never really been that interested in smaller action figures but its still the fact of the variety of characters you can actually get. Plus Opeie really loves playing with Seth's ones that arn't boxed away. I think when i wrote my Second Post was when my obsessing was at its worst. i was literally searching eBay 10 times a day for 'Super hero squad' in hope that a rare find would pop up for 99p or something. I think this was mainly fueled by the fact that Mrs M had managed to find 4 hulk boxes and won them in one lot for 99p. yes she's a legend!
Since i wrote the Third Post my compulsive behavior has died down a little but this in only because were saving for a holiday and other things. Most of my items are brought with money i make on eBay selling unwanted bits around the house so its not to bad, i very rarely use our money. Both me and Mrs M are Hoarders so there's always something to get rid of.
Seeing the film made me want to get hold of them even more, these will be great toys to own in years to come and Ive managed to get quite a collection together so far.
I'm sure there will be many many more Super Hero squad posts as I'm always looking to bulk out my collection. i cant wait for Opeie to start really getting into all the other characters so i can explain who they all are, but then again there's always the chance he wont be as excited about them as Seth was when i first introduced them to him. Time will tell on that one i guess. It does work in our favour that he always wants to get involved in what were doing though. and he's desperate to get into some super hero costumes. Plus so far he's Spider-Man and Hulk crazy so it should keep me in the toy purchasing for at least a few more years.
