My vote s is it's closing earlier than planned as a cost cutting measure. As I guessed in May, the parks were slow in June. Some of the entertainment shows at USF, that I had jotted down the show times from the Universal web site for the days of my trip, ended up cutting back the number of shows some of the days we were there. Kind of angered me since I showed up according to the earlier posted schedule to find out the late afternoon shows were cut. Anyway....
As you all know, I've been one of the most vocal critics of Supercharged since it's been open. But I was only able to catch a ride or two during the past few years since Alene refused to ride it, she disliked it immensely. Soooo, it was towards the end of the June vacation with the girls, and I decided we would ride it since I had basically run out of fresh stuff for the girls to experience. Alene wasn't going to say no to the girls, so away we went. It was mid afternoon, a time of day when the park is generally most crowded, even on a slow day. Well, we saw no one else in the queue, and by the time we got to the first preview room there were only two other people there. I felt bad for the TM's doing both preview shows since there was only six guests to perform their spiel for. When we got to the ride itself there were only a small handful of people waiting to board an empty bus. We totaled less than a dozen guests. The bus sat there for a number of minutes. I'm guessing they were waiting for more guests to show up. Finally, three people showed up and they put them on the bus (Note: they only run one bus now, not the two co joined like in the first couple years of the attraction). So the very small group finally sets off on the journey. Of course, the ride was terrible. I had tried slapstick humor as a way to enjoy the ride in its early days, but it's so bad that didn't work for me either.
Sooo, finally the ride ends. I asked Layla if she liked the ride. She said no. I asked Scarlett what she thought of the attraction. Amazingly, she said she 'liked' it. I was shocked
. Supercharged has 'a fan' after all.