Disney Playing catch up with Universal... Potter Disney's biggest mistake in 20 years...

lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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seascape said:
What has been refuted? There is no new ride based on marvel characters at universal nor is one being built now. That is a fact.

Any new ride would have to be approved. No one has ever proven anything I said was wrong. Disney has the right and obligation to protect the characters and make sure they are treated the same around the world. Therefore since the entire world with the lone exception of the eastern United States will be under complete Disney control they can make sure Universal does nothing that harm that.

I still say and have said from the start that the 2 companies will work something out and it will involve a new contract. Only the uni fans here think uni can do whatever they want and any and all contract disputes or questions will be resolved unis way. Must be nice to always be right and get everything you want. I know I don't get everything I want and I don't think I would enjoy life if I did.
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Voice of Disney sanity said:
The problem with your theory is that if Disney denies UO approval to build an attraction without a just cause, UNI can and most likely will take it into binding arbitration and if Disney didn't have a damn good reason for the denial they will most likely lose and that would be HIGHLY embarrassing for them.
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Doubt there would be any embarrassment because arbitration arguments and decisions are not public, which is why it is so often desired.
 
CinematicFusion

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"Escape From Gringotts" Is the New Banking Crisis"
Motley Fool
There's a crisis of confidence at the star attraction of the otherwise-brilliant Diagon Alley expansion at Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA ) (NASDAQ: CMCSK ) Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Florida this week. The new section of the park opened on Tuesday, but for the third day in a row, it's facing a pronounced outage.

Comcast took a gamble here with this thrill ride set in a goblin-manned banking institution. It was "too big to fail," but it's failing. A lot. Does any of this sound familiar? Let's hope that Universal Orlando gets the bugs fixed faster than our own global banking crisis a few years ago.
 
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TubaGeek

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CinematicFusion said:
yeah...sorry about that. Thought it was a good story for the thread. I've fixed the overly bold and large font. :)
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It's not inaccurate, but it's a good example of sensationalist journalism. Generally, if you can work a major theme park into the title of the article, you're gonna get more clicks.

As has been said countless times before: it's a new ride system and it has to work out the kinks. That's not to say that Uni didn't push themselves too early to open the ride, but it's a matter of a weeks, if not days, till the ride is consistantly working and all this hubbub dies down.
 
ABQ

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TubaGeek said:
It's not inaccurate, but it's a good example of sensationalist journalism. Generally, if you can work a major theme park into the title of the article, you're gonna get more clicks.

As has been said countless times before: it's a new ride system and it has to work out the kinks. That's not to say that Uni didn't push themselves too early to open the ride, but it's a matter of a weeks, if not days, till the ride is consistantly working and all this hubbub dies down.
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I hope you are correct in that they get it all worked out, if only so those who spent hard earned cash to enter DA get to ride it. However, if it's still experiencing outages, and by all accounts, some of these have been rather long, not just 3 minute reboots and restarts, then I do hope some of the folks who have been ripping 7DMT for all it's horrible 101's do the same.
Granted, Escape from Gringotts is infinitely more complicated than the 7DMT and therefore, prone to more mishaps. But the point is, if either ride is open the public, it should be functioning properly. Each of these rides would have been returned and covered by lemon laws if they were automobiles.
 
marni1971

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Spaceship Earth was faulty for weeks after opening.

So was the UOE.

Imagination v1 never worked as it should.

Most of Disneyland had issues.

As did Universal Orlando. And The Smiler. And Thirteen. The list goes on.

And So does Gringotts. It opened too early. It wasn't ready until the end of this month. Like Forbidden Journey it is having a lot of problems, but look how the latter ended up. Renowned as one of the worlds premiere park attractions.
 
K

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marni1971 said:
Spaceship Earth was faulty for weeks after opening.

So was the UOE.

Imagination v1 never worked as it should.

Most of Disneyland had issues.

As did Universal Orlando. And The Smiler. And Thirteen. The list goes on.

And So does Gringotts. It opened too early. It wasn't ready until the end of this month. Like Forbidden Journey it is having a lot of problems, but look how the latter ended up. Renowned as one of the worlds premiere park attractions.
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I don't think anybody who has paid attention to Universal this decade is worrying about it, really. They'll keep working on it until it's perfect.
 
TalkingHead

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marni1971 said:
And So does Gringotts. It opened too early. It wasn't ready until the end of this month. Like Forbidden Journey it is having a lot of problems, but look how the latter ended up. Renowned as one of the worlds premiere park attractions.
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It's pretty clear that once they have the bugs worked out, it's going to be an outstanding ride with good capacity.

For now, the downtime and capacity are killing the waits. An hour without moving in a line is pretty brutal. Not sure how people stomached standing there for 2-3 hours yesterday without the ride running.

What I don't understand is why management didn't put a sign up at the entrance to the ride saying something along the lines of "We apologize but Escape from Gringotts is operating at reduced capacity" -- just something to explain to the masses why the lines are so long. It would at least let your average guest know that a 6-hour line isn't by design.
 
BigTxEars

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Opening the advanced rides of today is bound to have some bugs to work out. 7DMT had them and now HP 2.0 does as well. No big deal and certainly to be expected. Uni and Disney are great at working out the bugs and getting the rides up and running again. My co worker was at Uni in May, I was at WDW in June. FJ broke down for close to an hour with his sorry butt on it, we had issues with 7DMT in June. Neither of us were bent out of shape about it, it happens :)
 
drew81

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marni1971 said:
Spaceship Earth was faulty for weeks after opening.

So was the UOE.

Imagination v1 never worked as it should.

Most of Disneyland had issues.

As did Universal Orlando. And The Smiler. And Thirteen. The list goes on.

And So does Gringotts. It opened too early. It wasn't ready until the end of this month. Like Forbidden Journey it is having a lot of problems, but look how the latter ended up. Renowned as one of the worlds premiere park attractions.
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I wouldn't be surprised if this^^^^^^ was in the new Jurassic World film script. It's kind of in the same vein as:
John Hammond: All major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked.
Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but John, if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.
 
PrincessNelly_NJ

PrincessNelly_NJ

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CinematicFusion said:
"Escape From Gringotts" Is the New Banking Crisis"
Montley Fool
There's a crisis of confidence at the star attraction of the otherwise-brilliant Diagon Alley expansion at Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA ) (NASDAQ: CMCSK ) Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Florida this week. The new section of the park opened on Tuesday, but for the third day in a row, it's facing a pronounced outage.

Comcast took a gamble here with this thrill ride set in a goblin-manned banking institution. It was "too big to fail," but it's failing. A lot. Does any of this sound familiar? Let's hope that Universal Orlando gets the bugs fixed faster than our own global banking crisis a few years ago.
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Isnt this the same guy who just wrote that Comcast is gonna crush Disney?
 
FrankLapidus

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seascape said:
So universal wants to build it. They don't need Disney approval. So that means if it's not built you are wrong. And if it is built but only with a new contract you will admit I'm right, that Disney needed to approve it and they got something for it.
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There isn't going to be a new contract any time soon, forget this little fantasy and move on.

Or just stop posting about it. Either option works just fine.
 
Tony Perkis

Tony Perkis

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CinematicFusion said:
"Escape From Gringotts" Is the New Banking Crisis"
Motley Fool
There's a crisis of confidence at the star attraction of the otherwise-brilliant Diagon Alley expansion at Comcast's (NASDAQ: CMCSA ) (NASDAQ: CMCSK ) Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Florida this week. The new section of the park opened on Tuesday, but for the third day in a row, it's facing a pronounced outage.

Comcast took a gamble here with this thrill ride set in a goblin-manned banking institution. It was "too big to fail," but it's failing. A lot. Does any of this sound familiar? Let's hope that Universal Orlando gets the bugs fixed faster than our own global banking crisis a few years ago.
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What the hell is fool.com?
 

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