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Farewell, MGM ne DHS studio archway. You had a good run.

In a parade so lacking in characters, it's definitely an interesting choice to lock 2 precious bodies up in a fairy's sometimes-translucent backside. And I'm hoping that at least some of the route lighting improvements are yet to be switched on. The fixtures speced were... robust.

And ridiculously high-margin.

Those LED panel systems are 100% modular and will almost certainly be in use - in many different configurations - long after this show closes. The production design to me oversells the overall output, oddly enough. It seems like everything else lets the visual design down. The imbalance is...

They got a meatball right down the middle with this one, and bunted. MUCH higher hopes for Mermaid.

Production design is superb, and the LED panel integration (not projection mapping) is very well done. The spatial design intent was obviously purposeful, and could have lent itself to a better and more cohesive story setup as to why we're where we are. The voice of the Magic Mirror, to my...

As I said in the mermaid thread back on the 13th...

Full shot of that beautiful proscenium...

Given the properties under development I've not said too much, but "Villains" as a base creative set isn't easy to work with.

When you see a team of designers fully understand the source material like this group obviously did, it makes the misses like Voyage of the Little Mermaid that much more egregious. That proscenium surround is stunning, and the scrim force to blend live actors, puppets, and media looks to be a...

Our bookings skew so heavily towards Disney I'm sure this isn't an exemplary breakdown, but I've only noticed one or two Universal cancelations in our group for the summer. However, funneling Epic tirekickers into actual bookings was very challenging as well. We didn't have that many more Uni...

Soft and getting softer. The cancelation wave is wild.

Bookings for both properties are definitely soft on our end. We saw a push early last fall with lots of quotes but a much lower than usual booking rate. Over the last 8 weeks or so we've had a very unusual spike in near-travel cancelations, where clients are canceling trips that are 1 to 4...

You aren't going to believe this...

Universal's reliance on stock fixtures versus spec fab is one of the waning areas where Disney maintains an edge. (DL's Haunted Mansion garden shed AI art giftshop notwithstanding)