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Theme Park Review: Minion Mayhem Universal Orlando

Gru walking in the Universal Orlando Parade.

What is the Minion Mayhem Ride at Universal?

Revised 4/2021

Dear Polite Traveler,

Minion Mayhem 3-D ride is an adventure—a very funny, sweet adventure.  It begins once you enter the queue with videos and trivia on raised screens.  An informational video about our “safety” goggles—our 3-D glasses—greet us as we enter the building.  It’s hilarious. (video)

Note: Follow CDC and park guidelines when visiting.  Always wear your face mask when in public.   

Most Universal rides revolve around some sort of story.  For this ride, we humans are to be trained to be minions—yea us.  After our informational video, we enter another room.  Here, we watch a video about the process of our transformation into banana-craving minions.  The video screen is huge, so it appears as a “window” of Gru’s control room.  This contributes to the feeling of actually being in the same room with Gru, his daughters, and some of his minions.  Once our orientation is finished, we enter the room where we will all become minions. 



We are securely seated in a theater in front of a huge screen.  Once the movie begins, our seats move according to the 3-D movie.  The seats are secured to the floor but move up and down tipping this way and that.  The effect is quite realistic. 

The story is exciting and yet very heartwarming.  We first become minions and begin our training, but things go very wrong quite quickly.  Our new love for bananas causes a rift in the machinery.  Not to go into the entire adventure.  Nevertheless, I can say that it was an amazing ride that ends with an incredibly happy family gathering. 

I enjoyed it so much that I rode it twice even though before our visit to Universal Orlando, I wasn’t even a fan of the movie.  That is no longer the case, as I fell in love with the characters via the ride. 

I recommend this ride for everyone, especially those with children.  Although I didn’t have any and there were plenty of others without children as well.  

The only negative could be motion sickness.  The movie is in 3-D, which makes some nauseous.  The seats move, which is another motion sickness trigger.  I have problems with motion sickness, but the slight problem I had with the ride wasn’t much at all.  In fact, I couldn’t wait to do it again!

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