Universal Testing Drone Technology

[monothingie]

1. Thank-you for just rephrasing my point, I guess.

2. WRT USO being necessarily an "IP park"... Then what's the reason for EU being almost solely IP driven? That wasn't necessary, no?

Isn't EU by its nature, a park dedicated to going inside the fantasy worlds created by assorted IP such as Nintendo, HTTYD, etc?

 

[MisterPenguin]

Isn't EU by its nature, a park dedicated to going inside the fantasy worlds created by assorted IP such as Nintendo, HTTYD, etc?

It seems that way. But what is it about the theming of the whole park itself would necessitate that?

A 'movie studio' theme would bring about the expectation of being part of the movies. Does a 'celestial theme' also necessitate that?

This is just Universal doing what Disney is doing... making everything IP. Or, to put it as often phrased "crammed into every nook and cranny and shoved down our throats!"

Even Six Flags feels the need to theme a totally unthemed coaster with a flat cut-out of some IP at the entrance and to paint the metal a color evocative of that slapdash IP.

Only our dear Saint Dolly has escaped the IP mandate.

 

[Andrew25]

I'd consider the Monsters land an original land as pretty much everything there will be unique and not follow any sort of linear storytelling told elsewhere.

I can care less about IP or Original concepts... just make a good ride/land.

One of the issues with creating original-based attractions is translating what's actually going on to the general public without pre-existing knowledge. Disney has had the luxury of relying on simple concepts to grasp onto (Pirates, Ghosts) for their original rides.

Not saying it's impossible, just difficult to do properly.

 

[monothingie]

It seems that way. But what is it about the theming of the whole park itself would necessitate that?

A 'movie studio' theme would bring about the expectation of being part of the movies. Does a 'celestial theme' also necessitate that?

This is just Universal doing what Disney is doing... making everything IP. Or, to put it as often phrased "crammed into every nook and cranny and shoved down our throats!"

Even Six Flags feels the need to theme a totally unthemed coaster with a flat cut-out of some IP at the entrance and to paint the metal a color evocative of that slapdash IP.

Only our dear Saint Dolly has escaped the IP mandate.

DAK and EPCOT were created to stand their own without complete dependence on IP.

Epcot did this for quite some time because the way it was originally envisioned made IP insertion difficult to pull off. It was only until they completely stopped caring about the original concept of EPCOT did they start pushing IP in. (Nemo started it, but it was clear when Frozen in Norway was undertaken.)

DAK had IP on day one, but it was made to supplement, not define the park experience, because the park was about the animals first. It was only until later that you had an entire themed land devoted to a specific IP that defined the park experience. (even though the AVATAR insert was done very well). But now you see it in full with the Indiana Jones clone and TBD Ecanto/Coco stuff just mashed together under the "Central/South America" umbrella.