I screamed when I saw it and I'm shaking. IM SO EXCITED AND I JUST CAN'T HIDE IT!!!!!!!!!!!! Could Universal have just revealed what their third park will be? GOD I HOPE SO!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, OK. Now I'm at least cautiously optimistic. Probably just setting myself up for disappointment.
Ladies and gentlemen...your replacement for Kidzone.
Link?
Maybe someone should tell them Maelstrom only had a ride capacity of about 900 people per hour. Even if the ride is open at 9am as rumored instead of 11am that's a daily capacity of 10,800 riders. That should make for a bunch of happy visitors when less than 1/3 of the park visitors in a day can even get on the ride. The "new" guests who are coming just for Frozen would make up about 60% of the daily ride capacity. That's not a problem
Don't forget the meet and greet.Maybe someone should tell them Maelstrom only had a ride capacity of about 900 people per hour. Even if the ride is open at 9am as rumored instead of 11am that's a daily capacity of 10,800 riders. That should make for a bunch of happy visitors when less than 1/3 of the park visitors in a day can even get on the ride. The "new" guests who are coming just for Frozen would make up about 60% of the daily ride capacity. That's not a problem
I'm not belittling interest in video games. I played a fair bit of Smash (always Pikachu) in my day. I'm questioning the specific relevance of the Nintendo brand in today's landscape.
Disney is creating a lot of people like you these days, That's not a good thing for any company to have its most enthusiastic fans become bored with their product.
I'm not butthurt. I honestly don't "get" Nintendo and this crazy reaction to it. I'm not a huge Potter fan but that hype makes sense to me. I can look around pop culture and see "yeah, Potter is going to do gangbusters for Universal." Similarly, I'm not the biggest Star Wars guy but I see the value of the brand because I have eyeballs. My point about Nintendo specifically is that I don't see anywhere near the cultural awareness about that brand as I do with Potter, Star Wars, or Marvel.
Sure that will take up some people's time, but anyone waiting 3 hours to meet Elsa and Anna is still gonna want to ride the ride too. I just find the whole thing very short sighted. They are spending time and money adding capacity to Soarin and TSMM because they are popular but have long lines. Then they go and add what will most likely be a wildly popular ride with the same capacity issues.
Sure have. And I see Marvel (esp. Spider-Man), Batman, Star Wars, Ninja Turtles, Barbie, Disney Princess, Lego, Toy Story, Hello Kitty, Cars, Angry Birds, and on and on. The only heavy Nintendo presence I see is those Amiibo figures.
I suspect this Nintendoland will only have a handful of those characters you mentioned. Better to do a couple right as opposed to a hodgepodge. I'm guessing we get Mario, Pokemon, Donkey Kong and maybe Zelda. If UNI creative knocks this out of the park, it would be a pretty big black eye for Disney when it comes to who executes better.
