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There's no hotel at the entrance, and you won't be walking through it unless you're staying there, in which case there's no sense in complaining about having to do so.

No, it really isn't.

The Epic Universe announcement confirmed they were building a new park, which is what they're doing. Specific details were always going to come later. It also came with an opening window, which was missed due to Covid, but we were nonetheless given a reasonable idea of when to expect the...

... you know it's not finished yet, right? Right?

A proper announcement certainly does tell you things. It tells you what sort of experiences they're expecting to build & typically how long you're expected to wait for them to do so. And if the parks don't yet have these basic details locked down, they shouldn't be announcing said projects yet...

They're always trying to reboot the monsters, and usually failing. This land's very name is a legacy of that fact.

Shanghai Pirates can alter the direction the boat is facing, but if it has an actual motion base like Spider-Man, that's news to me (obviously I've never been to Shanghai.)

They're probably referring to the Waterworld show in their other parks. Although people also liked Kongfrontation, and that remake was hardly a classic.

That was the whole premise, Universal themselves not wanting the proposed British park to share the attractions with the other parks. They would have to be crazy to limit themselves in such a fashion. We don't know that the rightsholders would demand LOTR only be built in Britain. We don't...

I don't care how badly the Brits wish for exclusivity, I guarantee that would never stand. Not with an IP that popular. Could a hypothetical British park be the first to get LOTR? Sure. Would it be the only park to get it? Absolutely not. Under no circumstances does Univeral buy the park rights...

A Quiet Place, coming to a loud haunted house near you.

While I would love nothing more than to see HHN increase its number of stage productions to something more befitting of the event's overall size & attendance, they haven't actually had more than two stage shows most years. The times they had three were major outliers, at least in the period...

Not sure how I feel about the houses so far. Some of the concepts are a bit too vague. This is one of the reasons I miss the interactive websites of yesteryear, they provided plenty of detail. Now we probably won't get much of an explanation until the creative team does a podcast or something.

There's been a decent amount of Disney criticism within certain circles of the enthusiast community recently, the sort of people who will visit sites like this, but I think they often fail to see the bigger picture. Disney still has a significantly larger and more rabid consumer base than any of...

Probably not, but they always want more. I also suspect a decently large chunk of the modern event's attendance comes from casuals who are in fact there to see a particular IP.

Not crazy, just too biased to see the situation clearly. Biased Disney fanatics outnumber similar Universal fanatics 10 to 1, and they always have. But I don't expect someone hyperbolic enough to complain about the theming of temporary food stands to realize this. They're food stands, dude...

I haven't been keeping up with the rumors for this year, but rather perplexed by them breaking from recent tradition by not announcing the IPs first. They're typically used to sell the event, as much as us purists tend to prefer the original houses.

This discourse only exists in the minds of insecure Disney fans. Hardly anyone praises everything Universal does and hates on everything Disney does. It simply doesn't happen outside of a very small minority, which is quite insignificant compared to the number of people who do the opposite, and...

You do realize Disney has playgrounds, yes? You make it sound like this is the only activity in the entire park. I'm personally indifferent to the retheme, mainly because it's exactly what we all knew it would be, and I'm going to use the area just as little as I had before. Could they have...

I don't know what you're talking about. The carts will actually jump the track, just like in the game. We've always known this would be a clone of Japan's land. That's kinda what Universal (and now Disney) does, they clone their most lucrative IP lands wholesale. While differentiating them...