Attendance drop in the parks... I wonder why

L.C. Clench

L.C. Clench

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Disneyhead'71 said:
Universal has never been like any Six Flags. Particularly in the early days. Six Flags, even Texas, are all about off the shelf flats and coasters. Universal never had anything like
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And I'm pretty sure that Six Flags didn't have anything like

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Just think. It took Disney 15 plus years to have an animatronic "speak" to you like ET did.
 
21stamps

21stamps

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L.C. Clench said:
Just think. It took Disney 15 plus years to have an animatronic "speak" to you like ET did.
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I don't understand why people are so fixated on comparing the 2. I love both, in their own right. What I didn't love was Disney's MGM Studios. No one in my family really did. We would do MK, Epcot, River Country, Universal. So I'll compare MGM to Uni, and it pales in comparison, but not WDW as a whole. MK and Universal are just so different.
 
Otterhead

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On the topic of reduced attendance, the news over the last few days will most definitely affect attendance, I'd imagine.

Beyond entire countries no longer able to visit, news today is that Trump is considering making every single visitor from overseas give up their cellphone contacts and get interviewed about what websites they visit regularly. I imagine that will affect a lot of people's decision whether to vacation here.
 
Otterhead

Otterhead

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L.C. Clench said:
I don't think Disney has ever gotten any of theirs to work enough to even do that.
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Very funny. The E.T. "talking" was a very easy, cheap trick: a garbled computer generated voice that sort of sounded vaguely like E.T. and would phonetically pronounce the name you gave the employee at the entrance. It was a mediocre animatronic that was broken half the time. Compared to the new generation of AAs in use at WDW, not exactly impressive.
 
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drizgirl

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Otterhead said:
Very funny. The E.T. "talking" was a very easy, cheap trick: a garbled computer generated voice that sort of sounded vaguely like E.T. and would phonetically pronounce the name you gave the employee at the entrance. It was a mediocre animatronic that was broken half the time. Compared to the new generation of AAs in use at WDW, not exactly impressive.
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But does it matter if Disney has great AA's if they only work half of the time?
 
Disneyhead'71

Disneyhead'71

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Otterhead said:
Very funny. The E.T. "talking" was a very easy, cheap trick: a garbled computer generated voice that sort of sounded vaguely like E.T. and would phonetically pronounce the name you gave the employee at the entrance. It was a mediocre animatronic that was broken half the time. Compared to the new generation of AAs in use at WDW, not exactly impressive.
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Actually, the lady who originally did ET's voice for the movie recorded over 5,000 names for the attraction.
 
Otterhead

Otterhead

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Disneyhead'71 said:
Actually, the lady who originally did ET's voice for the movie recorded over 5,000 names for the attraction.
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She must have been awfully tired the day she 'recorded' my name and that of my family -- I remember we all got a big laugh out of how badly E.T. mangled our very ordinary names. If they were actually recorded, she does a great job of sounding like a Speak-and-Spell.
 
Disneyhead'71

Disneyhead'71

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Otterhead said:
She must have been awfully tired the day she 'recorded' my name and that of my family -- I remember we all got a big laugh out of how badly E.T. mangled our very ordinary names. If they were actually recorded, she does a great job of sounding like a Speak-and-Spell.
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Stevin McNamera, my Synclavier Tapeless Studio instructor from Full Sail was hired to transpose all the names after they were recorded. The lady was well into her 80s when she recorded the names, and they all needed to be raise one half step to match the pitch from the movie.

The garbled quality has more to do with lack of maintenance on the playback system.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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thomas998 said:
Unless I'm missing something in the areas that made up the original Universal, I don't see them as being anything close to Disney like back then. The only area that has Disney like consistency in its immersive continuity is Potter world. Outside of that you could maybe say it all looked like a movie lot or fake city but neither of those things are what I would call immersive since you could get the same feel walking down the sidewalk of any number of cities in the US.

I suspect you may be comparing early Universal to a six flags that you are familiar with. I'm comparing it to the Six Flags over Texas which until its recent decline from lack of funding was probably the most immersive of all the Six Flag parks. I know some of the other Six Flags parks have pretty much zero immersion and are just parks with rides and no theme... The one in Texas had themes and held them together fairly well from one area to the next... though today a lot of that has been pushed aside for the sake of cutting costs.
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Nope, I'm talking about things like terminator II, ET, Alfred Hitchcock (current Shrek location I believe), Can't remember the name now, but, in the place where Despicable currently lives, Back to the Future, Twister, King Kong, Jaws, Earthquake and others that I don't remember specifically, but, existed at the time. Yes, they had a Hollywood sort of street, with a bone yard and all. But, it was still very, very Disney like especially when you consider that Disney had copied their ideas from Universal Hollywood. So if anything were different from what I said it would be that Disney was very Universal like! And a swamp thing area that also contained a building copy of the Bates Motel where Men in Black currently is located.

How can we be expected to see that you were specifically comparing it to a Six Flags in Texas. I'll have to take your word for it, because I have never been there nor do I plan to go there (if it currently exists). However, when compared to any other Six Flags, there is no comparison other then they are sometimes called Amusement Parks.
 

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