That word could be prudent.
Wrong place for the layout. Apparently.
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Rip Ride Rockit Closing September 2025 - Replacement To Be Announced
- Thread starter EagleScout610
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I know people on IU have been speculating and hoping for ghostbusters. Does the Ghostbusters IP have any chance for any kind of permanent addition in the future at all? I mean they bought the theme park rights back from Sony.
DarkMetroid567
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A spike?? There’s nothing Universal could do that’s more fast and furious than building Top Thrill 3…
lazyboy97o
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That’s not the only type of coaster with a spike.
DarkMetroid567
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correct but I thought it was funny
999th Happy Haunt
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wouldn’t even be the only coaster in UOR with a spike haha
Cmdr_Crimson
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I wonder if it would dominate the skyline as a bigger better B&M. Kind of like Hollywood Dream.
BrianLo
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On the positive side, its gives F&F an ongoing presence and gives executives the ok sign to let go of Supercharged.
Animaniac93-98
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Mixed results aside, there's been steady investment in USF over the past several years. We've had:
Bourne
Villain Con / Minion Land
Dreamworks
New afternoon parade
New night time show
and now HRRR replacement
+ Pokemon rumors for Springfield
The only thing new at Islands so far this decade has been Velocicoaster, and it's starting to feel like that park is getting neglected when it has so much potential and room for improvement.
Bourne
Villain Con / Minion Land
Dreamworks
New afternoon parade
New night time show
and now HRRR replacement
+ Pokemon rumors for Springfield
The only thing new at Islands so far this decade has been Velocicoaster, and it's starting to feel like that park is getting neglected when it has so much potential and room for improvement.
DarkMetroid567
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Yeah, this is the ultimate concern with Epic in the long-term, I guess. Much like EPCOT and DHS and DAK could all use a few more attractions, USF and IOA really feel like they could use a lot.
A lot think we’re somehow going to get Epic, and the Rockit replacement, and a Supercharged replacement, and a Luigi’s Mansion expansion, and a Lost Continent replacement/Zelda, and Pokemon, and a Black Lagoon expansion. I would love for all of that to happen, but at a certain point, Comcast is not gonna have the money.
My take? I don’t think Zelda happens, and I think IoA is largely going to look the same for longer than we expect.
zipadee999
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While true, Islands needs less work overall. The only glaring issues are Lost Continent, the current state of River Adventure, and the empty Toon Lagoon theater. It currently has a much stronger lineup than USF.
Right now USF suffers from a lack of cohesion, lack of a standout thesis attraction, Supercharged, an aging Simpsons land, the empty Fear Factor theater, numerous low-quality screen attractions, and a poor quality coaster.
Thus far the only announced change is the replacement of the low-quality coaster. This is still nowhere near enough of a change overall. The park could use more attractions to begin with, and it doesn’t help that a great portion of them are very low quality and/or unpopular. Attractions like Fallon, Supercharged, Simpsons, and Minion Blast are all of poor quality, unpopular, and objectively worse than what they replaced. All of them take up valuable park real estate. USF is very landlocked and lacks much room to expand, making things even more pressing.
It’s a big problem when the largest show-building in the entire park (the one taking up the most real estate) is home to what is widely considered the worst, most unpopular attraction.
Currently the only standout attractions to me in the whole park are Mummy, MIB, and Bourne. Everything else aside from the four I listed above I consider to be passable but far from standout. Escape from Gringotts is vastly inferior to Jaws but the land itself adds enough to the park where I’d consider it a neutral addition. As is the problem with most USF attractions, they are all inferior to what they replaced or at best equal to them.
Disgruntled Walt
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- In the Parks
- No
I really wanted to enjoy RRR when I went on it in 2015, but it was just awful. A spike coaster doesn't excite me though. I want a full-circuit roller coaster to replace this.
I've yet to see a spike coaster that could fulfill all three of those criteria.
Cmdr_Crimson
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If they were going with a Ghostbusters theme they should call it "Ghostbusters Coastergeist"
bwr827
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Hagrid’s has a spike.
Disgruntled Walt
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- In the Parks
- No
True, but I wouldn't necessarily call that a "spike coaster." If it's like that, then I'm all for it!
No bueno. Lost Continent desperately needs replacing. Even if IOA is considered the superior park, you still can't have an entire dead land like that.
TheDisneyParksfanC8
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Universal made a mistake by closing this way too early. Imagine the outcry if Disney pulled a similar move.
BrianLo
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Hopefully they rip it out entirely and start over. I think this is their harmonious, the ride system really doesn’t work as conceived. Most certainly the resort doesn’t need it twice.
But a certain piece of me is worried a Knight Bus attraction is low bearing fruit to them.