lazyboy97o
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They say in the video that the land ties to all of the movies. They intentionally didn’t anchor it to any specific set of movies so they can pick and choose.
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Universal Epic Universe (South Expansion Complex) - Opens 2025
- Thread starter Bob Harlem
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Hmm, we're booked September 2025, but you have me re-thinking that!
ToTBellHop
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The hotel rates are scarier than Monsters Unchained will be...
Haha, I booked a couple of months ago, after seeing a post from someone who mentioned the prices were likely to just continue going up. We're staying at the Royal Pacific, and I didn't think the prices were bad at all when I booked, especially considering Express Pass, although I'm sure EP won't be able to be used for EU for quite some time. Maybe unless staying at Epic Universe resorts...
Weather_Lady
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I booked RPR for August 2025, months ago. Rates for our room and dates have increased $200/night since - and I'm sure will be way more in the months to come.
Even when we visited during President's Day week a couple of years ago, I booked HRH a year ahead and they'd doubled the rack rates by the time we arrived.
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Ah, surge pricing. Made popular decades ago by Disney for their Broadway shows, and now an industry standard.
Uni fans used to relying on discounts are going to have sticker shock with EU. Even if they settle for USF ticket at a discount, all the rooms, even the cheap ones, will be at rack with no discounts.
I would guess.
Disneyhead'71
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There will be AP discounts. But no promotional discounts.
This year is the year to take advantage of promotional discounts. The summer numbers are soft, so they have already rolled out some promotional deals.
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Disneyhead'71
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"Bob!?! We're gonna need a bigger boat."
trr1
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https://x.com/bioreconstruct
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Aerial photo of the Epic Universe logo placed above the portal into the park.
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Aerial photo of the Epic Universe logo placed above the portal into the park.
Sorcerer Mickey
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Just think back to 2020 when we were looking at an empty lot wondering if this was still happening.
trr1
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Start of a Thread with aerial overviews of Universal's Epic Universe construction. You are welcome to save these out for personal use as a Screensaver slide show, or as Desktop wallpaper. This is a look back at Jan 22, 2021
At right in this aerial photo is work so far for a toll plaza to enter day guest parking of Epic Universe. Steel frame and a concrete block building so far.At left, draining water patterns can be seen from a just-ended heavy rain.
Aerial photo of the construction of the Epic Universe day guest parking toll plaza. Traffic to flow left to right.
Aerial look at development of the toll plaza for day guest parking at Epic Universe. Arrow as the traffic flow.Vehicles at right are exiting from one of the parking sections now in use by construction team. This will also be day guest exit from that section.
Aerial look at a section of Epic Universe day guest parking being refreshed.Note the difference in lines. Top left portion is Herringbone style, like in a shopping plaza.New lines in traditional theme park style. The section at top of the photo redone like this weeks ago.
Aerial look at current roof development for Celestial Carousel in
Sorcerer Mickey
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This is amazing. Thanks!
brb1006
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Meanwhile, it took 5 years for Epcot's development to be complete.
Disneyhead'71
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You know those movies where the big bully kid gets punched in the mouth?
Sorcerer Mickey
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And four years between announcing the Splash Mountain redo and the newer versions' opening date. It will be six years between EU's announcement and opening date. Likely less, depending on when next year it opens. And that's not counting one year lost of productivity because of COVID. The original opening date was four years after its announcement (2023).
lazyboy97o
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Announcements tell you absolutely nothing. Epic Universe had been in development for years when it was announced.
Sorcerer Mickey
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Of course it was. Universal Creative doesn't dream up a new theme park on Monday night and announce it on Tuesday morning. Announcements tell you when the concept is more or less set in stone and ready to move into active development**. This doesn't change anything about my original statement.
**Except when Disney prefaces a D23 announcement with "so we've been thinking about building something behind Thunder Mountain..."
lazyboy97o
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Your view of what announcements signify is not at all true. An announcement is not a phase of design, it does not tell you any of that. When a project moves into active development is never actually tied to the concept being locked down.
Sorcerer Mickey
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A creative team says "this is what we want to do" and the big brass gives them a stamp of approval. They share with the public and to shareholders. What happens next? Are you saying active development can start before a concept is locked down?
Obviously, a concept can change over time slightly because of elements out of ones' control (like COVID). So let's not factor for that.
lazyboy97o
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Do you remember when everyone expected Hagrid’s to be a Mack Inverted Powered Coaster? That didn’t come out of nowhere nor was it a false leak. The project started “active development” as an Inverted Powered Coaster and it changed to the motorbike coaster. Changing a ride system is a huge change. It’s a major component of the basic concept in which pretty much everything is designed.
Epic Universe received building permits for things not being built and you don’t get much more into active development than submitting drawings for approval.
So yes, concepts do change after “active development” starts.