Tram tours

Today we had the weirdest Universal Studios studio tram tour ever. We live in SoCal and have Universal Studios Annual Passes. We had relatives in town & decided to go. We have been on, between all of us, probably over 50 tram tours.

In our car, we saw someone pull the emergency cord. They dropped their cellphone outside the tram. They couldn't get out to get it but the guide said someone would pick it up & have it for them at the end of the ride. As we rode away I watched the phone almost get run over by the tram. Interesting and odd.

Then the ride got annoying. The emergency cord was pulled twice after that because someone had to go to the bathroom, really? Finally our annoyed guide had us stop in the middle of Wisteria lane so someone could pee. So the guy runs back to the tram after he's done using one if the active/real houses on the lot. Then we see a mom holding the hand of her kid walking out to the house too. Really? They decide to go after the other person & not at the same time? So we were holding up all the trams, and had to leave them behind. Very annoyed.

Then we saw new buildings, castle like, on the backlot set. That was cool. The guide said he couldn't say what movie it was but he hinted the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Neat.

So out of our whole tram experiences, this was most definitely the most odd and interesting. Never seen any of the 3 things above happen before, and they all happen on the same tour. Go figure.