President Loki
Active Member
Universal Studios Florida Overhaul
Hollywood
The first major change would be to the back, with the pathway to Minions land being gone, instead a new ride would be constructed right there.
- “Universal’s Classic Movie Ride” Headlining dark ride, based on Universal’s classic movies and IPs. Located where Minion Mayhem and Villain Con currently preside.
- The E.T. ride entrance is moved to Hollywood, with its entrance now being next to the Monster Makeup Show.
- The Animal Actors Theater would be used for “Monsters Unleashed!”. An E-Ticket trackless dark ride using a canceled idea for a Monsters dark ride. The ride would focus on entering a drive-in movie where you’re transported to the world of Universal’s classic monsters.
(New) Shrek’s Fairytale Valley
I'm not too happy with Dreamworks land, I find it very cheap, overused on meet and greets and shows, and basically has no flat rides for young children. So basically what everyone complains about is modern Disney. So this is a replacement, with more infrastructure, rides, and themed entertainment.
- A new version of Shrek 4D was added to the land, replacing the Dreamworks Destination building.
- A carousel would be added to the land, with fairy tale creatures "Donkey's Magical Carousel".
- “Fairytale Forest Boat Tours” A C-Ticket tugboat ride, sailing around static figures of popular fairytales. Where the Nuthouse coaster is, and similar to Voyage to the Crystal Grotto at Shanghai Disney.
- A Puss in Boots playground, where the Shrek meet-and-greet is currently.
- “Shrek and the Mystical Adventure” D-Ticket dark ride going through the story of the first Shrek Movie. Located where Kung Fu Panda is now.
(New) Transformers - Metrobase
In between New York and Hollywood would be a new land, based on Transformers. The corridor would be given new attractions and a slight overhaul.
- Transformers would be renamed to “Transformers: Batte for the All Spark” It just sounds better.
- The Minion cafe would be transformed into the “Bumblebee Diner”
- The area around Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit, would be used for “Hyperdrive” an Intamin Mega coaster themed to Transformers.
New York
Enter the new New York area, with rides and attractions themed to New York and the concrete jungle.
- The Jimmy Fallon building would be replaced with “Ghostbusters: Phantom Pursuit” D-Ticket shooting dark ride using the same technology as Mario Kart, with the same goggles, but with a moveable blaster instead of the steering wheel.
- Past that and behind Revenge would be Secret Life of Pets, a cloned version of the C-Ticket dark ride from Hollywood.
- Revenge of the Mummy would be home to a new version of the E-Ticket ride KongFrontation. Utilizing new vehicles meant to be a new and improved version of the predecessor.
(New) Amity Island
Before you call me biased... I 100% am. But Jaws is one of my favorite movies and I love the ride, so of course I'd want to bring it back to Florida. With a new and improved version of the land, with Bruce as the main act.
- The Fast & Furious area would be used for a new Jaws ride. The ride would be new and improved, with new animatronics and a new track.
- The restaurants on the water would be rethemed to Amity Island.
Harry Potter - Diagon Alley
Probably the best-themed land currently in the park, not a lot would be changed or added, except for a new ride. I mainly wanted to add a second one to tackle two major problems I have with the Harry Potter rides. 1, There is a no non-height requirement ride for the wizarding world. Especially with its large percentage of young fans and some who don't enjoy the thrill rides of the lands. 2 is capacity, there's no doubt that Harry Potter is the most popular land in the parks, so adding a ride that could be a capacity eater could greatly help.
- Behind Gringotts and the retail stores, would be an entrance to a new ride “The Wizarding Expo” is a C-Ticket omni-mover dark ride dealing, going through a Wizard expo showcasing magical properties.
(New) M.I.B. Test Facility
The land would be themed as a 50s nuclear town, but that's only the disguise cause secretly it's a testing facility for M.I.B. With the remains of World Expo being transformed into this land.
- The abandoned Fear Factor theater would be transformed into new rides. The first is a koka arm flat ride.
- The second would be a teacup-spinning flat ride with a generator in the middle of the ride.
(New) Hill Valley
One of the major things I've been asking for is Back to the Future to come back to the parks, mostly as a launch coaster. I love the three movies and the Delorean is probably up there with the dream cars I want to own.
- The Kang & Kodos ride would be rethemed to BTTF, with the vehicles themed to the Delorean.
- The Krusty’s food court would be rethemed to Lou’s Cafe.
- A 35 ft freefall drop tower would be added to the Science Institute.
- A new simulator would be added called “Hill Valley Transport” traveling through time, with new variations added for re-rideability.
- “Back to the Future: Changing History” An Intamin Blitz would be added, with dark ride scenes and the coaster would go 88 mph, breaking a record for Orlando’s coasters.
Conclusion
That would be my version of overhauling Universal Studios Florida. It's probably the Universal park that's in the biggest mess, and all the recent expansions since Diagon Alley have been cheap and more often then not rethemes. Villain Con and Dreamworks land are examples of this, and I don't even need to mention how infamously bad Super Charged is.