BrianLo
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The shoes used to be reversed. Stop building spinners and give us some quality again.
I much prefer this current era and execs like the monetization.
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DAK 'Encanto' and 'Indiana Jones'-themed experiences at Animal Kingdom
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The shoes used to be reversed. Stop building spinners and give us some quality again.
I much prefer this current era and execs like the monetization.
eddie104
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I’m not excusing anything and even agree with you about Jurassic needing a huge refurb.
Universal Creative leadership admitted that Fast and Furious shouldn’t have never been built.
You must not follow their parks like I do. All this information is very much public.
Disstevefan1
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Universal does a lot of “destroy and replace”. I my view, what was the replacement; are we getting something better in replacement.
F&F was the worst destroy and replacement ever done by Universal. They destroyed Disaster! I loved the subway with the exploding tanker and the food! That was always great no matter how many times you saw it.
Universal destroyed two attractions for the failed F&F; that monsters stage show and Disaster! For that. Very bad!
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UNCgolf
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While I think USF is a pretty bad park right now (other than Diagon Alley), it's probably significantly worse for people who visited/remember the 1990s version.
Most of current USF is a downgrade from what was there 30 years ago, so it fares especially badly in comparison. It's similar to the former Future World at EPCOT in that regard.
Most of current USF is a downgrade from what was there 30 years ago, so it fares especially badly in comparison. It's similar to the former Future World at EPCOT in that regard.
IMDREW
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When we saw that banshee animatronic in Singapore I thought it only natural for a trail at DAK through caverns leading to the creature, but it never came. I think a lot of people would visit the park to see that and it could be a very fast build.
flyerjab
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One idea I thought of instantly when Tropical Americas was first mentioned was changing the Finding Nemo show to an Encanto show. I don’t know how overall popular the movie was, but I do know that the music from that movie was very well liked.
With the change to a Tropical Americas land, having a random Nemo theater show place between Asia and Tropical Americas seems odd to me. I would rather this get changed and included into the Tropical Americas land instead.
eddie104
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Not liking the attraction lineup doesn’t make it bad park in essence.
A lot of people use nostalgia as a way to justify not liking something. But I can only name a few problem areas and they can be fixed in time.
Gremlin Gus
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I think the only issue with changing the Finding Nemo show to an Encanto show is that there would be an "oversaturation" of Encanto content in a land that's themed to the tropical regions of the Americas. I could see them maybe doing an Encanto show there if they want to save money rather than demolishing it, though I would like to see the Finding Nemo show get replaced with an Up ride as the space is there to do it (though I doubt it'll be an E or maybe a D ticket attraction) and there is a rumored Up ride coming to Tokyo Disneyland, so there's that. I guess the other possible IP I could going there is maybe Coco or Emperor's New Groove as either stage shows or attractions, but I'd like to see Up the most imo.
Fox&Hound
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Yes but the Up ride is literally a swings ride from a local amusement park or state fair. It is nothing special. Up should have a moving theatre ride that makes you feel like you are lifting up in the air and moving back and forth.
Edit- I do think parks need more rides and A/B tickets at that but it is disappointing that Up’s first ride is so basic. Maybe with a little more theming it would seem better but the theming in the concept art is pretty bare.
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Gremlin Gus
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I was talking about the Tokyo Disneyland rumor of the ride, not the Disneyland Paris one. Though I agree with what you said with it being a moving theatre ride.
TheMaxRebo
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Probably never happen but maybe they could do a stage show of Raya and the Last Dragon. While in a fictional land it is inspired by Southeast Asia so could connect it to the Asia part of AK and then could finally have Dragons represented like on the park logo
MrHappy
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Just got back from 2 days USF, 3 days IoA. Flew in from CT. We chose not to give Disney our money this year, rather, take advantage of pre-Epic deals.
There are definitely some pros and cons comparing to Disney. But as an admitted pixie duster, I was impressed. USF’s front was a little wonky, but Minion “land” is a nice strip. Dreamwork land was nice too.
Whatever they do to Rip Ride, I’m sure will further add cohesion and energy.
Disney better stop with the silly summertime discounts and get a clue.
Disney Analyst
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The parks bones are still good, but the lineup inside is pretty … lacklustre.
If Fallon, F&F, Minions (both of them) all closed tomorrow, I don’t think any tears would be shed.
UNCgolf
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The park was better then in reasons beyond just the attraction lineup (although the attraction lineup was significantly better, the current attraction lineup at USF is lackluster at best). It's easily the worst park out any of the Universal or Disney parks in Orlando, even though Diagon Alley is fantastic.
Most of what's good about the park today (again, Diagon Alley aside) are the underlying bones from when it actually was a good park. You honestly might be the first person I've heard suggest that the current version of USF doesn't need a major overhaul.
And no, it has nothing to do with nostalgia. That's a cop out argument -- basically boils down to "I don't want to accept that someone could think differently than I do for legitimate reasons, so I'll just dismiss their opinion out of hand".
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eddie104
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Because there a lot of things to like about the park’s current design that don’t necessarily need a full overhaul but maybe a few touch ups here and there.
I can go into extreme detail about what I do to “improve” the main campus but rather not.
Anyways this is not the USO thread I won’t be replying further concerning that topic.
I actually agree with you but we all know F&F is a horrible attraction. Fallon and Minion are popular and get good guest scores.
Not saying they don’t need replacements but I don’t think they are leaving anytime soon.
Mr. Sullivan
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USF isn’t horrible not but I do think it’s comfortably last place of the 7 Disney/Uni parks. It’s a in a bad state at the moment. Not even the attractions only, the park itself is not in good shape.
RosR9
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I’m surprised they haven’t torn down Nemo and put the Moana ride there. One random ocean experience traded for another. Is there room behind Nemo for an expansion for the Moana ride and they could make a mini Oceana land?
threvester
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you hear the songs on the attraction and then again in a show.......no thanks...1 encanto thing is more than enough
Gremlin Gus
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Not really, there isn't too much space there to make it a mini-land of sorts. Though I can see Disney maybe considering the Northern Expansion plot as an Oceania land as there is the space to do it and there is three big IP's that do fit Oceania well enough (Moana, Lilo and Stitch, and Finding Nemo)
Disstevefan1
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While I agree with most of this post, what Disney did to Future world, specifically trading the fountain of nations for that ugly planter with broken ground lighting and the stupid rust finish all over the place is the worst in my opinion.