Universal's Cinematic Celebration Night Show

[shiekra38]

Second hobby of mine to theme parks~ do big backyard productions with electronically rigged fireworks, music etc. There's actually a pyro equivalent fan website to this! Big community

Crazy, I used to do the same in my pool haha....great minds

 

[tielo]

It is looking as if my naysaying might be proven wrong and this may turn out to be a wonderful theatrical event. I await the hard-ass reviews!

I add a metoo to that.

 

[darkridelover]

Pyro tubes have been added to the roof of Mummy at the exact center point of the show. First pic from a couple weeks ago, second pic from Bio today.

 

[brianlo]

I haven’t seen HEA, but as someone who finds a 1/3 of Illuminations to be a waste of time, most of Fantasmic to be blah, and the original World of Color the best nighttime show he’s seen, I can definitely see this ending up as my favorite

I’m a big fan of World of Colour. I think Happily Ever After is probably a tad better, but wouldn’t fault anyone who felt otherwise. So this would have to be among World of Colours best shows, which may be a little inflated. I also have a deep soft spot for Disneyland’s Fantasmic.

Now all that said this deserves one giant wait and see caveat... World of Colour has had multiple iterations and... woof... some are not good (looking at you World of Colour: Celebrate). I actually think the 2016 Christmas version was even better than the original. I bring this up to say tech is 50% of the execution, they still need to competently direct this thing.

Even if they botch the direction though this will still be the first Universal nighttime show actually worthwhile. Which is totally the point and a great step.

I do find it amusing that Universal has now basically first entered the market that Disney seemingly couldn’t get on top of. I’m amazed WoC in some iteration never came to Florida.

 

[JungleSkip]

I bring this up to say tech is 50% of the execution, they still need to competently direct this thing.

Totally agree. I’m glad they’re making all their own animations for this rather than relying on existing clips too.

I do find it amusing that Universal has now basically first entered the market that Disney seemingly couldn’t get on top of. I’m amazed WoC in some iteration never came to Florida.

I think the big issue is there’s nowhere that really makes sense for it

 

[brianlo]

I think the big issue is there’s nowhere that really makes sense for it

Ya... I mean they could have mashed it into the Fantasmic lagoon and perhaps made Florida's version actually good.

 

[Scott W.]

I wonder if Optimus Prime will play a role here.

A highly advanced audio animatronic hiding in plain sight for 5 years.

 

[AlexanderMBush]

From ITM,

 

[Jwhee]

Looks like high level pyro launch from Mummy and low level pyro on the top of the Starbucks/Film Vault building

 

[happy bunny rabbit]

Pyro tubes have been added to the roof of Mummy at the exact center point of the show. First pic from a couple weeks ago, second pic from Bio today.

So that’s why the pyro’s been down.

I wonder if Optimus Prime will play a role here.

A highly advanced audio animatronic hiding in plain sight for 5 years.

“More than meets the eye”

 

[WAJAS]

I wonder if Optimus Prime will play a role here.

A highly advanced audio animatronic hiding in plain sight for 5 years.

For a future show in this location, that would be :x:ing awesome!!!!

 

[amityboattours]

Been thinking about the 19 minute runtime for this show. That is a really nice length of time to change crowds over if you wanted to run the show every 30 minutes, on the hour and half hour.

 

[Ex-dockworker]

Do we think there will be a virtual queue system where you can reserve a showtime or will there be an upcharge like Disney?

 

[AlexanderMBush]

Do we think there will be a virtual queue system where you can reserve a showtime or will there be an upcharge like Disney?

At most, I could see them do something similar to what DCA actually does for WoC, having at a particular time and location, a form of reserve system for a specific portion of a viewing area.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

I do find it amusing that Universal has now basically first entered the market that Disney seemingly couldn’t get on top of. I’m amazed WoC in some iteration never came to Florida.

That was the initial concept behind Rivers of Light but due to some changes in engineering and scope it was downsized a ton.

Do we think there will be a virtual queue system where you can reserve a showtime or will there be an upcharge like Disney?

I mean there's no queue per say. World of Color has FastPass (ShowPass) for show times and locations. I could see them implementing something similar on the app only.

 

[shiekra38]

Been thinking about the 19 minute runtime for this show. That is a really nice length of time to change crowds over if you wanted to run the show every 30 minutes, on the hour and half hour.

I honestly think it will run once per night, and twice during busy season

 

[Disneyhead]

How large, in square feet, is the dedicated viewing area?

 

[Evan]

I honestly think it will run once per night, and twice during busy season

With pyro involved, I agree. One show, maybe two on crazy nights.

 

[AlexanderMBush]

From IU,

 

[darkridelover]

More pyro tubes added just above Starbucks