crispy
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I was thinking Harry Potter and the Rise of the Resistance.Harry Potter and the Tower of Terror(don't get me wrong, I'm ALL for this! Looks incredible!)
Not to be punny, but this looks epic!!
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Universal Epic Universe (South Expansion Complex) - Opens May 22 2025
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Not to be punny, but this looks epic!!That ride vehicle is straight up ToT/MB lol. Do we know if there's a drop component? Or how this ride vehicle even moves around?
Excited for the ride. The land itself feels underwhelming and not especially magical, outside of the rad fireplace entrance. And only 1 ride? Bummer
Excited for the ride. The land itself feels underwhelming and not especially magical, outside of the rad fireplace entrance. And only 1 ride? Bummer
Toy Story Land?
Brer Oswald
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It’s not trackless. I believe they considered it, looked at Rise’s lack of reliability, and then decided to go a different direction.I was thinking Harry Potter and the Rose of the Resistance.
Surferboy567
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I’m not really sure what this means? The selling point is clearly the battle for the ministry attraction no?
Kamikaze
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The first two things they talk about are a wand shop and butterbeer.
The attraction obviously is the headliner, and not what I was referring to.
Kamikaze
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What exactly did TSL add that is in another WDW park?
Coaster Lover
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- In the Parks
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From what I've been hearing, the vehicles are similar to the Scoop vehicles on Spiderman and Transformers, but with a scissor lift component built into the base to allow up and down motion as well. How quickly it may move up and down (fast enough to give a freefall feeling?), I'm not sure...
It was supposed to have a second ride where you VR ride on a broom, but the Harry Potter store in NYC beat them to it (and I guess Uni wasn't impressed enough with that to move forward with it at Epic... FWIW, the Harry Potter store in NYC already removed their VR attraction, so there must have been some sort of issue...). The pad where that was supposed to go is still open/available, so as soon as they figure out something worthy to put there, I'm sure they will!
Wendy Pleakley
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It's unfortunate the land is based on the Wizarding World movies, which petered out and whose design was closer to the real world than the original films, which really felt like another world.
The attraction looks impressive enough. I assume they got Imelda back to play Umbridge but anyone else will just be stock footage? Kind of hard to do a ride still focused on Harry Potter after the actors have aged out and/or moved on.
The attraction looks impressive enough. I assume they got Imelda back to play Umbridge but anyone else will just be stock footage? Kind of hard to do a ride still focused on Harry Potter after the actors have aged out and/or moved on.
surfsupdon
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But it’s the excitement for the future because the scope and experiences of the original two lands were so wonderful! Hogsmeade and Diagon are so fleshed out and full of amazing thematic elements. Butterbear and wands are just a part of a highly detailed world.
WDW could build an additional Toy Story land over in MK and it wouldn’t be all that exciting to many because of the average original land at DHS. Same with Pandora- trees, greenery, and rock work and we never get to see it after dark anymore.
Surferboy567
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Kamikaze
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If Disney stuck a second Savi's in another park, you'd all cry about it. And Savi's is a FAR better experience than the wand shop.
Fox&Hound
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Yeah, I am so excited for this theme park but the video of the new HP land just does not hit the same. I bet if they had a time machine they would not have themed the new land to Fantastic beasts at all. Aren't they set before Potter? So how are you going into the flu network and then seeing Umbridge? I don't know it just looks...meh. People want to be transported into the world of Harry Potter but I am not sure that FB is a world people are really clamoring to visit, if most even know it at all.
Mike S
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Depends if that new Savi’s was surrounded by a land focused on the Original Trilogy.
Surferboy567
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I assure you people are clamoring for a Ministry of Magic full scale area. Sure, FB doesn’t hit the same spot but the land is gonna do well just on the ministry.
Timelines don’t make sense but that never bothered anyone at Star Tours. I don’t think we need rules because if we get rules you can’t have everything kinda like Galaxy's Edge which I like but it’s hamstrung by timeline rules.
Earlie the Pearlie
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I, and I’m sure many others, prefer the wand shop to Savi’s. Why? I have experienced the wand shop, as it isn’t paywalled. I have never visited Savi’s and probably never will. The wand shop is beloved because it is easier to experience.
Kamikaze
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This is the worst reasoning I've ever seen in my life.
Kamikaze
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Well, in this case, the new shop is surrounded by a land focused on movies that even the most ardent Potter fans can't enjoy.
Mike S
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And yet what they built looks to follow nothing regarding those films actual plot which was the biggest complaint about them. The main ride jumps to the time period people actually care about. In other words, Universal has a better feel for what Potter fans want than Disney has with Star Wars fans.
One thing to remember is that this land was already deep in design when people started to turn on Fantastic Beasts with the second film. They couldn’t throw all of it away so they did what they could to salvage it.