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Fast & Furious- Supercharged details officially released
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FlordIAN
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Okay, I stand corrected, but still there are too many motion simulators at Universal Parks, Hollywood, I understand why, but there is little excuse for the Florida park to have as many simulators, especially when NBCU just bought 426 acres of land close to the current Universal Orlando property
brb1006
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Maybe once Shrek finally closes it could be a turning point for Universal and its attractions. Especially after the plan for Secrets life of pets is supposed to be a trackless ride.
Disneyhead'71
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Universal will be building 30+ attractions over the next decade.
Thanks phoenicians
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Roughly how many of those are Orlando? I'd think a good amount due to the new park?
Disneyhead'71
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All of them. We're looking at about 10 for the existing parks and the goal is to open the new park with around 22 attractions.
Horizons '83
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- In the Parks
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I guess I didn't realize how deep Comcast's pockets were but that is a lofty goal, one that I'm glad they are acting on. Nothing like healthy competition to make Orlando even better.
In the next 4 years WDW will overhaul 8 rides/attractions and add 8 more rides/attractions. Depending how you define 'new', one could say WDW is on track to add 16 attractions in 4 years... a pace on par with 30+ in 10 years.
Media conglomerates... start your engines!!
Actually they don't... at all. But if this is a problem for you, make sure you skip Indiana Jones if you ever head west. It totally sucks and stuff because its layout is the same as Dinosaur's. [/s]
Land has nothing to do with it. You're making it sound like Universal built a bunch of traditional simulators in tiny buildings, when in fact they have some of the largest indoor attractions ever built.
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brb1006
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Maybe they might finally give some representation to other Illumination IPs besides Minions/Despicable Me.
Thanks phoenicians
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Are we sure that some of those overhauls (stitch, imagination, dino) are going to be in the next 4 years? Still a significant number though.
Anyway as for this project I'm not really sold on this ride system. I thought it was just ok for kong but doesn't really work with F&F at all imo.
Disney may have stagnated for the better part of a decade, but I don't feel that they are playing "catch up" to Universal - they still never had to. And for the next several years I feel that both WDW and UNI have a fair amount of new stuff coming. It's going to get really interesting.
JustInTime
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Any LOTR in there??
JustInTime
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We went to IOA/USF in September. Literally screens in every ride. So many that it took away from rides like Potter where screens are used well. We had a group of 7 and all hated Kong the most. So bummed to see how similar this is to everything else. Im hoping the new potter stuff shakes it up.
I wasn't even counting Dino or Imagination!
8 overhauls: Stitch, Speedway, UoE, Circle of Life, Gran Fiesta, TGMR, and at least two of these three: Mermaid, BatB, Indy.
8 new: TRON Cycle, MK Theater, UK, Rat, Slinky Dog Dash, ASwS, Falcon, Battle Escape
There's a good handful more rumored, but they're not as confirmed or they're 5-6 years out, which include Dino, Imagination, Tiki Room, something at the Seas, some sort of upgrade to Living with the Land, a mysterious thing happening north of Kali, a new show replacing Flights of Wonder, and a Pandora addition. And a new night parade at MK, and a new day parade, and a new or upgraded fireworks at MK, and the Illuminations overhaul, and a final disposition of Star Tours and Launch Bay, and the movie upgrades in the World Showcase pavilions, and a new Epcot spine and Innoventions overhaul (whatever that turns out to be).
FlordIAN
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Personally, if Universal really wants to seriously compete with Disney, they need more rides that have that "wow" factor, the last few new attractions at Universal Orlando's two parks (with the exceptions of Gringotts, Forbidden Journey, Spiderman's update and the Incredible Hulk's update) haven't really done anything for me in that department.
Disneyhead'71
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That rumor has surfaced again. Along with Bond and Star Trek.Any LOTR in there??
JustInTime
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Those are all super logical to me. So exciting. Hopefully some Zelda, too!
FlordIAN
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I do believe Zelda is included in the NintendoLand plans, and LOTR should go in the former area known as the Lost Continent, as quite frankly Universal is not doing anything with it
Disneyhead'71
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The Island of Berk would be a nice fit for Lost Continent.
Or maybe Christmas Island with Mr. Crumpit Bobsleds on the Seuss side, a Rudolph dark ride, and a Frosty the Snowman hosted Musical Revue show.