Ichabod Crane
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No, the ride’s system is similar to Shanghai Pirates, but the overall premise and plot of the ride is essentially what Jaws was with the shark swapped out for Gil Man
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DHS Monster Inc Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios
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DarkMetroid567
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There’s apparently a near-zero percent chance it happens, unfortunately. The concept sounded very cool.
Ichabod Crane
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Yeah, no haha, it’s absolutely still in the plans
Moth
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Okay good I was about to call Universal and ask them if I can play the Creature in the ride to cut on the budget for it to happen
earlthesquirrellover23
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I have high doubts it will happen still, even if that is true (I haven't heard anything about it in a long time myself so I'm not too sure it is still in the plans). The history of post-opening phase 2 expansion rides actually getting built is not long because it really never happens. By the time they actually get around to building that phase 2 expansion they have new ideas or other niches they need to fulfill with the new rides. Hence why we never got things like the original Avengers E-Ticket, Helicoptours, the JP jeep ride, Great Muppet Movie Ride, Beastly Kingdom, etc.
Ichabod Crane
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The only wrench that could be thrown in the Creature ride’s chances of happening this decade (aside from Epic being some massive bomb that destroys the parks budgets) is if they opt to give Potter a second ride first instead after adding the Luigi’s Mansion expansion
Literally yeah lmao
It s a nah to anyone seeing it as a spiritual successor to Jaws and it is not really that similar to pirates ride tech unless you have a very very loose interpretation of that ride system similarity.
I have seen the creature plans.
And I was most excited about it in the original plans until Theater came in...and then theater went out for Wolf.
I have seen the creature plans.
And I was most excited about it in the original plans until Theater came in...and then theater went out for Wolf.
Ichabod Crane
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We saw two extremely different plans then.
DarkMetroid567
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This is generally also my prediction. I don’t doubt the plans for Creature are still around but I was under the impression from people on Inside Universal that they’ve been dormant and that the expansion plot has been eyed for other purposes.
Plans for Luigi’s Mansion definitely exist and ready to be acted upon. I just think EU’s opening, like all theme parks that came before it, will be slow, and Universal will get cold feet. I wouldn’t fault them for it, building rides is expensive! IoA is still largely identical to how it opened, ignoring the huge Lost Continent-sized hole that is Potter.
Yes, we did. Ha.
I think that one will largely depend on if Super Mario 3 movie does well and goes Luigi's Mansion with it.
The park will definitely benefit from an interactive dark ride of that nature with low height requirement. A Secret Life of Pets meets Haunted Mansion/Mystic manor if you will.
Ichabod Crane
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Hey at least we’ve seen the same Luigi’s Mansion plans! Haha
That's one that has not changed!
Ichabod Crane
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I tend to think Epic’s opening will go much better than IOA’s did. Nintendo alone is a bigger draw than anything IOA had at opening and Universal’s parks in terms of awareness and perception are in a much different place today than they were back in 1999. This is also the first major domestic theme park that will be opening in the social media/influencer era so even in that regard the hype for Epic is just on a completely different level than IOA’s ever reached.
TLDR - Barring some unforseen external financial issues whether it be within Comcast or the country as a whole (recession) I don’t expect Epic to put anything even remotely close to the financial strain on Universal parks that IOA did.
TLDR - Barring some unforseen external financial issues whether it be within Comcast or the country as a whole (recession) I don’t expect Epic to put anything even remotely close to the financial strain on Universal parks that IOA did.
Comcast, even with their misteps, enjoy operating the parks.
When comcast aquired the parks, it was the first time Universal and its theme parks were ever soley owned by one company.
So it has been different and in many ways good for the theme parks.
They also just got near 9 billion coming in form the Hulu severence.
DarkMetroid567
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Agree that EU should open much, much better than IoA did. But I would expect EU to easily clear an $8 billion cost (Universal Beijing was $7 billion for a smaller park with much lower labor costs) and inevitably Comcast will discover, like Disney, that it is much harder to balance three theme parks than two.
No.
Welll they also discovered that hotels are a great ROI. Hence another reason.
Comcast wanted all this badly, because they bought the land back that was by Lockheed Martin that was sold by Vivendi Universal Years ago.