Shut out during the pandemic, Wisconsin woman recreates Universal rides on social media

ORLANDO, Fla. — Mandy Slaback has been going to Universal Orlando almost every year since she was 10. When the resort shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Janesville, Wisconsin, resident didn’t know when she would be able to visit again, so she decided to bring the parks home. Using her degree in broadcasting and film, Slaback, 24, put her production skills and love for Universal to work by making videos recreating some of the resort’s most popular rides. Her projects created a theme park COVID time capsule viewed hundreds of thousands of times across social media. Her latest video, a m...