Discover Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges
Our tips:
- Watch out for the water cannons
- You will get soaked
- Express Pass
Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges
Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges is the river rapids ride in Toon Lagoon at Islands of Adventure. The attraction opened on the same day as the park: 28 May 1999.
The concept
Show-off Bluto has kidnapped Olive Oyl, Popeye's sweetheart. To rescue her, you have to brave wild rapids and get past a 5.5-metre octopus with 3-metre tentacles. Along the way you'll spot bits of classic cartoon humour.
The Experience
You sit with a group in a round raft that spins freely. So you never know who'll get the next wave over them. You laugh, you scream and you get wet. Very wet.
Discover Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges
Watch out for the water cannons
From the play ship Me Ship, The Olive, visitors fire water cannons at the rafts.
You will get soaked
Count on getting wet. A poncho or a change of dry clothes is no unnecessary luxury.
Express Pass
This attraction is part of Universal Express Pass, which lets you skip the regular queue.
Visitor information
You must be at least 1.07 metres (42 inches) tall. Children under 1.22 metres (48 inches) must ride with a supervising companion. With Child Swap, parents don't have to queue twice: one parent rides while the other waits with the child, and then they swap. This attraction is part of Universal Express Pass, which lets you skip the regular queue.
Cooling off in Toon Lagoon
According to Universal, this is an ideal way to cool off in the middle or at the end of the day. Combine the ride with Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls.
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