I need Scavenger Hunt ideas for USF and IOA!!!!

Universal Orlando: Can anyone give me ideas for a Scavenger Hunt at USF and IOA? I'd like for it to be along the lines of people having to find certain things in the park to have their picture taken with or in front of (they'll be using Digital Cameras).

From Deanna Smith
Posted December 31, 2004 at 11:54 PM
I have been given the task of coordinating a corporate event at Universal Studios for 24 associates. We will be arriving between 11am and 1pm on a Wednesday (1/26) and will have access to either USF or IOA (depending on what each assoc. picks) until approximately 5:30pm. I would like to organize a Scavenger Hunt that we can do for fun/prizes at each park. Each group (of 3-5 people) will have a Digital Camera. I'd like for them to take pictures of themselves in front of landmarks at either park. Or, get a picture of one in the group buying a souvenir, having a drink, etc. Or something like getting a park map or listing of shows. Unfortunately, I've never been to either park, so I don't know what to get them to look for, where to look for them, or how to establish point values (1pt for something easy up to 10 pts for something real hard/embarrassing). Can anyone give me any ideas? Univ. Studios faxed me a Scavenger Hunt they use, but it's not really what I was looking for.. it was more of a question and answer type "hunt". I want something a little more hands on. I'll need to have this completely organized by January 19, so I can get it typed up and mailed out to everyone. Thanks for any help you can give me!

From Kevin Baxter
Posted January 1, 2005 at 9:24 PM
You need to find out-of-the-way, silly stuff that you can't find on the maps. (Like Horton's Egg or the Zax Bypass in Seuss Landing.) If you want simple stuff like that, then plenty here can help you.

It seems like you are looking for more fun things, which is great as they will make for funnier pictures. Here are a few suggestions:

Find the piano that plays Popeye's theme song. Take a pic with one person playing it and one person belting out a tune.

Get a pic of team members on Dudley Do-Right AFTER the drop from the bridge in front. (The challenge lies in knowing when your party is coming down. Similar challenges can be after the drop on the Jurassic Park River Adventure and right under the tugboat that pours water on Popeye & Bluto's.)

Get a pic of a SuperHero spanking or kicking a team member in the butt. (A point for each different SuperHero?)

Get a pic of two teammates holding hands in the front row of one of the Dueling Dragons coasters (in motion), FROM THE FRONT ROW OF THE OTHER ONE! (Major points!)

Have all team members don Thing 1 and 2 wigs and have them get a stranger to take a pic of the group. (There are also Cindy Lou Who wigs, if you really want to embarrass the guys.)

There are multitudes of word balloons in Toon Lagoon. Pick one (I know which would probably be best) and make someone get a pic of them under that specific one.

Get someone to take a picture of the entire team on a rope bridge.

Get a pic of a team member on Pteranodon Flyers. (This ride seats two people and one MUST be a kid, so major points for this. Award points for each different team member.)

Get a stranger to take a pic of the ENTIRE TEAM sitting on Horton's Egg. (Hard to find, and it isn't a big nest!)

Snap a pic of a team member being squirted by the fountain in Lost Continent.

Have a stranger take a pic of the entire team on the cow creature in Seuss Landing.

Take a pic of a teammate picking the nose of the T-Rex near the Watering Hole. (This is challenging because the T-Rex's nose is about 12 feet up.)

Take a pic of teammates being squirted on One Fish Two Fish. (Only good pics will come from the shooter being in the fish ahead of them!)

Get the entire team to wave bye-bye under a sign that says bye-bye. (I think it says bye-bye. I can't find the pic that shows it.)

You should probably have at least this many so teams don't find themselves doing the same things at the same times. And I would go for larger teams, so there will be fewer of them out there running into each other. Plus, the ones where the entire team has to have their pic taken would be more fun with 5 or 6 team members than with 3.

Any more ideas? (Don't be too specific in case anyone there reads this too! Cheaters!)

From steve lee
Posted January 2, 2005 at 9:30 AM
Kevin, are you encouraging people to carry cameras on rollercoasters? Shameful.

From Jason Lester
Posted January 2, 2005 at 1:56 PM
Kevin is going to get the teams kicked out of the park. LOL!

What about a picture in front of everything on the secret trail that includes Plymoth Rock and so on. Some people will know what I'm talking about.

Ask staff members to. They will be happy to tell you where the secret things are. And one picture on each secret beach.

From Robert Niles
Posted January 2, 2005 at 2:47 PM
If you have the ability to send someone to the park in advance, a great idea would be to present the teams with pictures taken in the park, then tell them to go to those same places and take pictures of their team at that same spot.

But since you won't tell them where the pictures were taken, they have to scout the locations themselves. And since *all* team members have to be in the pictures, they'll have to solicit someone else to take the picture for them.

I don't know if that's what you're looking for, but it'd be a fun time, nevertheless.

Also...

I'd second Kevin's suggestion to get pictures at the Zax By-Pass or the Once-ler's House in Seuss Landing. You could come up with some Seuss-like rhymes as clues to lead folks to those often-overlooked sites. Also, suggest getting a picture taken with a dinosaur egg or petting a Triceratops (if that's still open... Anyone?) If you want to get really difficult, ask them to bring back a picture of a donut on a reporter's desk. And let them figure out where that one is.

Other ideas: bring back an "I ate a green eggs and hamwich" sticker, or a picture of their high score on Men in Black (highest score wins).

If you want to post a draft of your game here when you finish it, we'd be happy to proof-read it and offers some final suggestions.

From Joe Lane
Posted January 3, 2005 at 12:57 PM
FYI, Triceratops Discovery Trail closed for good, Robert. They might use the space for the new JP attraction, but I don't see how there's enough space.

From Ben Mills
Posted January 3, 2005 at 3:30 PM
Get a photo of someone actually enjoying themselves on Twister. That ride there would be damn hard.

From Mostly Anonymous
Posted January 5, 2005 at 12:24 PM
In USF they have (had?) a series of photo-op locations where you can take a picture, and thanks to some props and clever use of the background, it looks like you're somewhere else. Silly but fun.

The two I remember were the Kennedy Space Center and Hollywood. Does anyone remember the others? These wouldn't be incredibly difficult, the only challenge would be finding the various photo sites within the park.

Another easy-but-fun one in USF is to take a photo with one of the men in black. The employees who work the ride can be great about being in character.

- Joy

From mark walker
Posted January 8, 2005 at 7:12 AM
Kevin, the sign that says 'bye bye'doesn't say that. It says: The Adventure Lives On...just letting ya know.

From Ben Mills
Posted January 8, 2005 at 7:37 AM
Try to get a character actor standing next to the Jaws shark. The actors don't often head over to that bit of the park, so that should be quite a challenge.

From K Booker
Posted January 8, 2005 at 10:43 PM
Haven't been to that park, but we did a hunt at Disneyland last summer for groups from work - one of the things that made the pics more fun and helped us get to know each other was to have instructions like "the tallest & shortest persons on the team" needed to be in a specific photo at a named location. Or the person with the most tenure in the company must take the photo. Or you must ask a stranger to take the photo of the entire group. This helped us focus on each other and not just locations.

From Dave Bradley
Posted January 9, 2005 at 6:09 PM
Deanna,


Can you send me that FAX that IOA and USF sent to you? Thanks.

From Beth Gibson
Posted February 2, 2005 at 2:14 PM
Kevin Baxter - are all your scavenger hunt suggestions for IOA? I am planning a trip very similar to Deanna's and will probably use some of your ideas. Do you have any more you can offer? Thanks!

From Catalina Bejarano
Posted July 6, 2009 at 2:31 PM
Deanna,

My coworker and I were just given this task by our boss to get a scavanger hunt together by this Friday! I was wondering if you still have yours so I can base our on yours. The ideas of the guys were exactly what I was looking for.
Please respond ASAP to see if you can help us!

THANKS!@

From William Clark
Posted July 6, 2009 at 4:09 PM
I have some ideas!!! Try to find a reasonably priced ladies T-shirt, or a decent milkshake, plush toy, souvenir or any merchandise of halfway acceptable quality. Matter of fact try to find me anything at all at Universal not outrageously overpriced.

If you can do that, well then lunch at Mythos is on me.

From Brady Allen
Posted July 6, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Have them try to be picked to be an extra in a show. Such as disaster or one of the street shows.

From Anthony Murphy
Posted July 6, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Another message that has come back from the dead!

OOOOOHHHH

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