Universal Epic Universe (South Expansion Complex) - Opens May 22 2025

drew81 · Wednesday at 9:13 PM

What are the odds Epic Phase 2 will be started before Tropical Americas is done?

DarkMetroid567 · Wednesday at 9:18 PM

drew81 said:
What are the odds Epic Phase 2 will be started before Tropical Americas is done?

If you count the Celestial Park restaurants, it already has.

But in all seriousness, it’s anyone’s guess. It greatly depends on how the park opens, Comcast’s cash flow post-opening, and how the suits in charge feel like reacting. It is not particularly hard to start a project before 2027 — but we’ll see if they want to. Historically, though, most Universal (and Disney) parks have not gotten major expansions so soon after opening.

mkt · Wednesday at 9:23 PM

Stripes said:
2) Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment: In true Universal fashion, the queue and pre-show are much better than the ride itself. The ride is not bad but it will probably take people multiple ride throughs to fully understand what is going on amidst the chaotic and convoluted plot. The profile of the vehicles needs to be fixed because you see too much of the backstage. (8 out of 10)

Agree on the chaos - disagree on the plot.

Also, remember that during TM previews, they're still fine tuning things. Maybe share those notes via the QR codes that they'll likely have all over the park.

ToTBellHop · Wednesday at 9:29 PM

Berk is great except for its AWFUL sight lines. Disney would never hear the end of it with these sight lines.

Streetway Again · Wednesday at 9:37 PM

ToTBellHop said:
Berk is great except for its AWFUL sight lines. Disney would never hear the end of it with these sight lines.

Describe! I’ve seen that, but I’m curious about what they fully mean

James Alucobond · Wednesday at 10:38 PM

Streetway Again said:
Describe! I’ve seen that, but I’m curious about what they fully mean

I mean, even in some of the concept art, the ugly painted Untrainable Dragon building and the backs of some of the Celestial Park structures are shown encroaching. There's also no way Stardust Racers doesn't muck up one side of the land.

BrianLo · Thursday at 2:23 AM

lazyboy97o said:
People were confused because Universal described Hogsmead as “a theme park inside a theme park”.

Universal: putting the Universe back into the park, the park back into the theme park, the theme park back into the water park, the water park back into the theme park, the theme park back into the theme park.

Tom Morrow · Thursday at 2:29 AM

Apparently you don't just see the back of other parts of the park in Berk, you can see outside of the park completely from ground level. It seems that Universal doesn't know how to design a land that fully immerses you with no bad sightlines unless there are tall walls on all four sides (Diagon Alley, Super Nintendo World, Paris).

There are other ways to do it. Galaxy's Edge is like 95% free of sightlines of any other part of the park or outside world, and a lot of that was accomplished just by building a tall brim with trees on top of it. I don't understand why only two of the four lands completely immerse you when that was the entire point of the park and the whole portal concept.

I'm trying not to be too negative before I see it for myself, but I was hoping for glowing feedback, not a mixed bag.

Orange is the new Red · Thursday at 3:49 AM

Tom Morrow said:
Apparently you don't just see the back of other parts of the park in Berk, you can see outside of the park completely from ground level. It seems that Universal doesn't know how to design a land that fully immerses you with no bad sightlines unless there are tall walls on all four sides (Diagon Alley, Super Nintendo World, Paris).

There are other ways to do it. Galaxy's Edge is like 95% free of sightlines of any other part of the park or outside world, and a lot of that was accomplished just by building a tall brim with trees on top of it. I don't understand why only two of the four lands completely immerse you when that was the entire point of the park and the whole portal concept.

I'm trying not to be too negative before I see it for myself, but I was hoping for glowing feedback, not a mixed bag.

You are just critically thinking which is something that is missing around here.

Try not to do it too much, the locals here despise it.

European1992 · Thursday at 5:34 AM

HP ride has to be the best ride ever created to get me hyped again, as these reviews so far have only been doing the opposite, sadly.

DCBaker · Thursday at 6:32 AM

1-day tickets are now available for all guests:

Availability starts on June 1 - here's a look at prices for June and July:

earlthesquirrellover23 · Thursday at 8:09 AM

Orange is the new Red said:
I’m sure the 2 B hotel had nothing to do with that. Lol. Most expensive park ever. lol. Just like Universal has 4 theme parks. We all know Uni uses wonky #’s.

Even if the hotel cost 2 billion dollars (it didn't) it would still be the 2nd most expensive theme park ever built and the most expensive theme park ever built not in China (first is Universal Beijing).