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Intresting Universal Trip Report
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Tom Morrow
Well-Known Member
Rejected? No, not really. Most leave Disney for personal reasons, not because they were fired for their job performance.
Then you aren't looking hard enough at Disney and are looking too hard at Universal.
Lee
Adventurer
Oooohhh, yeah!
I loves me some SAW!
:sohappy:
Yes...I want to play a game...
Saw? Nah...Saw isn't "torture ", not at all. Good ol' horror is all it is.
August Underground...that there's some torture .
SleepingMonk
Well-Known Member
I don't think that's the case.
I've only been to Universal maybe twenty times at most, and I've seen horrible behavior from staff almost every trip.
I've been to Disney well over a hundred times and I've never seen anything even close from cast members.
I'm not bashing Universal at all, we love the Portofino, the rides, and the perks for resort guests. But the actual park staff always disappoints.
Pumbas Nakasak
Heading for the great escape.
Well that conclusive then Universal is staffed by rejects, and Disney is operated by salt of the earth humanitarians.
Utter twaddle.
EpcotServo
Well-Known Member
:lol: :sohappy:
SirGoofy
Member
:lol:
You know this is the same problem with people who say the parks are in great shape, when they so obviously are not. People just put the blinders on to anything and everything that could be wrong at Disney.
There are plenty of cast members who are lazy and don't do what they are supposed to. But people just say, "Oh it's Disney," and completely erase it from their memory.
Have I seen bad employees at Uni? Heck yea. Have I worked with bad employees at Disney? You better believe I have.
hack2112
Active Member
I have trust in the all-mighty Uni A&D to do a good job with the concept, but it'll be very hard.Oooohhh, yeah!
I loves me some SAW!
:sohappy:
Yes...I want to play a game...
Saw? Nah...Saw isn't "torture ", not at all. Good ol' horror is all it is.
August Underground...that there's some torture .
Victim Scareactor:"Help me escape!"
Guest walking through in conga line completely destroying illusion of isolation that Saw prides itself on:"No. Now excuse me as I move to the next scene safely without a giant contraption on my head."
And repeat.
Plus, all I'll think about when I go through the house is Britney Spears, See-Saw, and "Richard" in a box.
ChrisFL
Premium Member
Too true. I sometimes think about doing a photoshoot of all of the problem areas that need work, and there's a lot of them. Take the TTA/Peoplemover and look around at all of the dirty spots along the track and on the attractions that haven't been touched in a long time.
SleepingMonk
Well-Known Member
Those are my personal experiences, nothing more and nothing less.
Several people seem to be taking my statements much too personally.
I can only assume they have friends or family employed at Universal, causing a bit of bias.
Once again, I never said Disney nor it's employees are perfect. I simply said they are both a rung or two up the ladder from Universal.
That's the problem. A lot of hardcore fans here don't want to admit this about Universal. It scares them.
What's funny about this is someone did that about a year or so ago and everyone on here just ripped the person to shreads for it. Its like if you come on here and you mention there are maintenance issues at Disney, people are in denial about it. But if someone provides photographic proof, they get accused of just being negative. It's a no win scenario.
Actually, Disney didn't even do it first. Far from it! Log flume attractions had been around for decades before Splash Mountain was even a glimmer in any Imagineer's eye. In fact, Splash Mountain actually bears a striking similarity to the log flume ride at Knott's Berry Farm. That ride opened about 20 years before Splash Mountain did. I remember someone on here posting one time that they had ridden it and commented on what an "obvious rip-off" it was of Splash Mountain. When someone pointed out that Knotts' ride came first...by about 20 years, the person suddenly focused on how the rides were so much different from each other. Funny how when Disney does something, it's always okay. But if Universal, Knott's or any other theme park does the exact same thing, people easily find fault in it.
Agree wholeheartedly!! And I agree that Dudley Do Right blows away Splash Mountain. Not even close!
marsrunner
New Member
I don't know about that. The physical ride itself (the drops and whatnot) are far FAR better on Dudley Do-Right, but the show scenes, themeing, music and story are far better on Splash, especially when everything is working. :lookaroun That's part of why I prefer the DL version of Splash over the WDW one. Yeah, the AAs are all (or mostly all, not sure of that) exiles from America Sings, but at least they were all (or again at least a vast majority of them) working this February, when right after WDW Splash reopened from its refurb in January quite a few of the AAs weren't working very well.
Now, you want to talk about blowing an attraction out of the water...Popeye and Bluto really blows Kali River Rapids out of the water. Of course, its the best rafting ride I've ever been on, though I'd give the edge in themeing to Grizzly River Run at DCA.
Pumbas Nakasak
Heading for the great escape.
I dont think anyone is taking anything personally, they may be perhaps questioning the orthodoxy of the "facts" that support the foundation of your opinion, rather than you having that opinion in the first place.
I visit Universal for 3 - 4 days every trip and enjoy it as much as Disney, Ill be honest and state that I prefer the HRH to almost any Disney resort (except perhaps the Poly) but thats definitely a taste issue rather than service or appearance.
I do find it odd that people get so wound up over multi national corporate operated entertainment attractions.
hack2112
Active Member
I didn't mean the first ever. I know better than that. I just meant it was one of the first with a really good theme.
Back on the topic of last year's HHN, those scarezones were amazing. If I had one more day to go, I would have only done shows and scarezones.
Also, getting beat up in Doomsday was definitely a highlight of the trip.
SirGoofy
Member
86, I usually see eye-to-eye with you on a lot, but I can't agree with you at all. The drop is better on Dudley, but in no way is the rest of the ride better than Splash.
Almost every CM I know at Disney have season passes for Universal so it can't be all bad.
hack2112
Active Member
Actually, I have a friend that works at WDW that has never been to UOR. I've been trying to get him to go for a while now...
SleepingMonk
Well-Known Member
Whew, again I never said it was all bad. In fact I said we go to Universal, enjoy the resorts and actually like several things they have to offer.
What I did say was that in my personal experience the staff at Universal are of lesser quality than the staff at Disney.
Void where prohibited, all rights reserved, not responsible for the content of this post, all staff members are created equal, amen.