yes, a mighty tough act to beat.
I do, however, especially like IOA's impossible and fantastical light tower)
yes, a mighty tough act to beat.
I really appreciate your quick assessment of DAK(beauty) and TDS(grandeur) layouts/grounds/fronts ..... that sums up those two nicely.
(And after seeing your screen emblem I also appreciate that you didn't rip me a new one after I called Uni Studios archways, the park's icon, lousy.
That's OK Frankie they are building you a new home down the road
Why would it do that? Besides the fact that it's a land in a family theme park, have you seen the films? They're firmly PG by today's standards.
hence, like I said not rated R.........thus, still within bounds. It's fair and good to go. I hope to see the area taken to the same serious level as attractions we know like Alien Encounter, ToT, Kong Skull Island, Dinosaur, Everest, Journey To Center Of Earth. If it's Monster Inc Laugh floor vibe then I'm done.
I got some bits and pieces years back.........they looked too cheesy to enjoy the full film. Considering all genres and themes classic horror doesn't interest me. But Epic's land will be done exceptionally well, in color of course and fully built out realistic-looking sets and it's the area I'm looking forward to the most. I foresee first class place setting there.
Why can't they make it a land similar to HHN. Have that type of attractions. Make it dark and scary. Not everything has to be family friendly.
Knockturn alley?
Because HHN is a hard ticket event with content that day guests would consider inappropriate. If some of the things seen at HHN were placed in a regular attraction, the longest line in the park would be guest services. So yes, everything in a Universal park has to be family friendly. There are also levels to "dark and scary;" you can give something those characteristics without creating a furor, but it can be a difficult line to straddle. The "scariest" attraction in Orlando is in a Disney park, but possibly not for much longer.
It doesn't need to be that level but more like what Extraterrestrial was. You don't need to gore but some jump scares. Not everything needs to be for the whole family. This obsession with riding things together has really weird to me.
What you experienced was not HHN or even HHN lite. They put together something for the fans and actors so all their hard work would not go to waste never to be seen. It was appreciated but I didn't pay beyond park admission so I liked the effort in rough times. It showed they care what people think
They did it with Walking Dead at Hollywood and the responses tended to either be "it's not scary enough" or "THIS IS WAY TOO SCARY!1!!". And now it's permanently closed.
No it was a house that was built (they start when this year's event ends so rather than just tear it down they skeleton staffed it. Currently there are 10 houses, 5 scare zones and roaming scare actors. Much more intense than anything in those houses. They were a display of scenic design and placesetting more than anything.
No, Universal's haunted houses are not a "stupid waste of effort." They are wonderfully detailed, award-winning walkthrough attractions with hard-working actors who take a lot of crap from unappreciative guests. During HHN, the park is packed with people each evening who want to to see these houses, accounting for a large chunk of Universal's annual profit. They opened those houses during the day in 2020 because HHN was cancelled and they wanted to do something for the event's fans. If you hated it so much, I question the wisdom of asking for something scary from Universal, because that is exactly how Universal does scary.
