Andrew25
Well-Known Member
As much as we want Disney do more at WDW right now, I think Disney thinks its cheaper for Disney to do nothing and as the defending champ, play "rope a dope" and hope Universal punches themselves out.
Epic Universe will be a creative masterpiece, and finally convince all the nay-sayers that Universal Creative can create anything Imagineering can.
Universal Operations team however will find a way to bungle everything with how they run the parks and cause the potential success of Epic Universe (and the overall resort package) to be not as great. Universal at the moment can barely keep their restaurants open late, tend to have inconsistent hours, keep the parks closed early, and while there's been a decline in CM training... Universal's training remains poor.
Staffing for UOR is also a major concern for me as the resort still feels very understaffed at its current state. How they plan on supporting 3 additional resort hotels and a massive theme park is beyond me. I'm sure they'll throw every body into EU and the newer hotels... but what happens at the current parks? Currently their doing a lot of operational changes that require less staffing and/or reduced hours.
I hope I'm proven wrong, but my biggest fear with Epic Universe is how the overall resort responds to increased demand/interest, not what WDW does.