I've said it like twice? maybe this is the third time maximum. Also what Disney has done definitely gets people excited as guest satisfaction has shown. Universal has done some great things but they lack the foresight imo to be a serious contender.
2 of their 3 parks have MAJOR issues with weather which is ridiculous in Florida. The reason that they did that is because outdoor rides are cheap. They cheaped out on the construction and gave the guest a fundamentally worse off experience, full stop. Outside rides can be great to add kinetics, WHEN BALANCED with a respectable amount of capacity that doesn't go down in the rain. Look at Tomorrowland for an example, Astro Orbiter and the Speedway go down but Tron, Space Mountain, Buzz, Carousel of Progress, and People Mover are usually allowed to be open for rain. Rain shuts down all of Isle of Berk except the show, all of Mario except the Mario Kart, and 1/2 of the rides in both Monsters and Celestial Park. TSL, Pandora, Galaxy's Edge, and even Tropical Americas or Monsters do not have these problems. Meanwhile even at Universal's best park (IOA), Jurassic World, Harry Potter, Marvel, Dr Seuss, and Marvel have atleast half of their attractiosn down the second it rains in FLORIDA. There is no excuse to keep making the same mistake and it has definitely led to guest frustration.
This wouldn't be AS bad if there were some serious capacity issues but other than Monsters, most rides capacity is not where it should be as the park was so focused on being different and the next step, it abandons a lot of very high capacity and conventional ride systems. Boat rides and omnimovers are built to be amazing for capacity and can get more people to the fun quicker. I wonder why Universal didn't want ride times to be reasonable unless perhaps to incentivize their overpriced fastpasses of course. Something this big should be able to hold more guests than AK or HS but fails at that.
The park is missing a ton of shade because it was designed with "sweeping vistas" and nice unobstructed views first, which can work when paired with adequate shading/AC. It's stunning theming wise but the seating, shading, and AC are all serious problems.
I also found navigating the park more complicated than it needed to be as you have to enter and exit lands from chokepoints where everyone else is doing the same while a wheel + spoke design imo would have been a much much better option.
I also have the critique with this just being a bunch of random IP hodgepodged together with the loosest story imaginable. There is no combination with them, no flow. These lands could have all been in IOA or UO and made no difference other than improving this parks.
So yeah, I'm not the biggest fan of EU as a park. It's good for what it is and it's a middle tier park for me. I'd rather go to Epcot, AK, MK, over it and depending on the day, HS or IOA.
Especially with the sightlines issues and reports of major animatronics already being broken, I fear this park might end up the ways of Dr Seuss or Jurassic Park, very fast
