All things Universal Studios Hollywood

[mickEblu]

Glad to hear you and your family had a good time @mickEblu!

Thank you sir!

 

[1HAPPYGHOSTHOST]

Thanks! We took him on Jurassic World. He actually came around and wanted to go on it. He wasnt so pleased with the drop though lol. I’m proud of him. I didn’t ride anything like that until I was like 12.

I am glad he enjoyed it given how you were worried how he would handle it. Glad you had a fun day at the park and got to get some rides after all this time.

 

[SuddenStorm]

I wish I knew the internet forum names of the people I know in real life. You only find out how smart or incredibly dumb people are in places Iike this.

Funny story, a couple years ago I learned that a friend of mine in real life also posts here somewhat regularly. We had no idea who the other person was on this forum.

 

[fctiger]

The original ride was fantastic, especially before they let the animatronics rot away.

Even then I'd much rather go on a half broken Jurassic Park River Adventure than "Jurassic World The Ride".

The story on that one is great and I love how they are trying to evacuate you. The tension at the ending is top notch. Love the idea of the animals breaking through this industrial facility where they shouldn't be.

Now it's just visiting Dinosaurs in their natural habitat as the finale.

Universal truly is a Disney competitor, they both make terrible rethemes/updates of great rides that never needed them in the first place.

Funny thing is I ridden the original JP ride in both Osaka and Orlando, but never once in USH, which is a 40 minute drive for me lol. I thought 'some day'! Oh well.

 

[Sailor310]

Funny story, a couple years ago I learned that a friend of mine in real life also posts here somewhat regularly. We had no idea who the other person was on this forum.

I generally try to keep a low profile on the internet, but I share enough life history here that I always wonder if someone who knew me could guess.

 

[upsidown]

Park hours have USH opening at 9 AM this Wednesday-Sunday. 10 AM Monday-Thursday the following week (26th-29th). Did the park always open at 9 on those days or was that changed? I noticed all of those 9 AM days are listed as sold out.

 

[Darkbeer1]

 

[Tamandua]

The old King Kong experience was so much better than the thing they have now.

 

[Darkbeer1]

The old King Kong experience was so much better than the thing they have now.

Another Bob Gurr creation.

 

[CaptinEO]

King Kong 360 3D is OK, but they ruin the experience by showing the making of the movie before you enter, and then Peter Jackson showing you how to put on 3D glasses. They don't take the story or set up seriously at all.

The setup should be a tour guide saying "what is this place?"? Instead they give up the entire element of surprise.

Imagine if before "Earthquake" they had shown you a bunch of footage of how they make fake earthquakes. Ruins the fun.

 

[Californian Elitist]

Tourists, especially foreigners, LOVE Kong. Showing the making of Kong is a good thing, given it's a tour of the studio and guests want to know how films are made. It makes sense for the ride.

 

[Tamandua]

I'm not a fan of theme parks trying to blend an immersive experience with a behind-the-scenes element as well. Like at Hollywood Studios when you go into star tours and see the cool exterior set has a bunch of fake movie set decor on the other side to justify putting it in the movie studio park. Either be a backstage tour or an immersive on stage experience, but don't blend them. That ruins it.

 

[Californian Elitist]

I'm not a fan of theme parks trying to blend an immersive experience with a behind-the-scenes element as well. Like at Hollywood Studios when you go into star tours and see the cool exterior set has a bunch of fake movie set decor on the other side to justify putting it in the movie studio park. Either be a backstage tour or an immersive on stage experience, but don't blend them. That ruins it.

I feel such an experience (not whatever fake stuff is going on at Hollywood Studios) is a given at USH. It's not a typical Los Angeles movie studio tour, like Warner Bros or Paramount where you are just taken around different sets. USH is a theme park that was designed with this in mind, combining film and television with the amusement factor.

 

[CaptinEO]

I'm not a fan of theme parks trying to blend an immersive experience with a behind-the-scenes element as well. Like at Hollywood Studios when you go into star tours and see the cool exterior set has a bunch of fake movie set decor on the other side to justify putting it in the movie studio park. Either be a backstage tour or an immersive on stage experience, but don't blend them. That ruins it.

This is how I feel too.

 

[Tamandua]

I feel such an experience (not whatever fake stuff is going on at Hollywood Studios) is a given at USH. It's not a typical Los Angeles movie studio tour, like Warner Bros or Paramount where you are just taken around different sets. USH is a theme park that was designed with this in mind, combining film and television with the amusement factor.

USH has struggled with this as well. They've gone back and forth over the years from "Ride the movies" to "See how the movies are made." Often they are stuck somewhere in between. They need someone in charge to unify the overall vision of their park. It's such a hodge podge of different things.

 

[Californian Elitist]

USH has struggled with this as well. They've gone back and forth over the years from "Ride the movies" to "See how the movies are made." Often they are stuck somewhere in between. They need someone in charge to unify the overall vision of their park. It's such a hodge podge of different things.

I agree with this.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

Universal's problem in my opinion is a lack of what I would call Legacy Attractions. They don't really have a lot of stuff to begin with, but they need more recognition of their classics aside from the tram tour and less weird stuff from other studios such as The Simpsons, which was never a good ride but didn't age well at all since Disney now owns it. The Mummy should become a Universal Monsters attraction. I'm not sure why Waterworld is the most "classic" movie to feature an attraction there.

Now there's Super Mario Land, which some people love, but it's not movies or TV, or Universal.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Jeez, this thing is broken already?

 

[SevenSevens]

It has been nothing but downhill at Universal since they got rid of the Battlestar Galactica drive through.

 

[DavidDL]

..Now there's Super Mario Land, which some people love, but it's not movies or TV, or Universal.

I think the reason for it (aside financially, of course) is that Illumination animation are the ones doing the new Super Mario Bros. movie. Since Universal owns them, they're likely just getting a head start on the synergy between the park and the movie when it releases. I've even heard that there's concept art for a Citywalk version of the Nintendo NY store (maybe something has changed with COVID, though).