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Can I vote for the Hot Fuzz Stuntacular? Or the Mr. Bean Experience?

I don't understand the thinking that talking about these rumors too early somehow risks killing the project.

It's silly to act like COVID didn't dampen the Runaway Railway opening. By the time it opened on March 4, 2020, COVID was dominating the daily news cycle, conventions in Orlando had begun to be canceled, and international travel had already slowed considerably. Sure, people were still in the...

I was talking about Galaxy's Edge before Rise was available, when the only ride was Falcon. It was nice to know that I was going to get a full experience in the land with manageable waits when I'm flying all the way from Chicago for it. The Rise system was totally worse being a day-of lottery...

Someone who pays for a single-day ticket to USH and spends the entire day waiting for Mario Kart isn't going home happy either. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I'm fine with a virtual queue system if it allows me the freedom to go enjoy other things in the park instead of spending all day in line...

So was the March 10th opening date ever a real plan or just a guess based on the potential marketing that was presented as fact via a game of telephone?

I'll put this way: I was confident enough to book a trip around Presidents Day to specifically to see this land, but I'm not booking anything that isn't refundable. (I may be media but Universal does not invite me to anything.)

And? Why shouldn't people dismiss your criticism if they don't agree with it?

SeaWorld's VP of rides and engineering Jonathan Smith was very insistent when he talked to me and other reporters at IAAPA that the movement in the restraints sets this apart from stand-ups that B&M used to make. Here's his exact quote: “This is not a stand-up roller coaster, it is a surfing...

I agree. Distant sightlines are a obnoxious debate among theme park fans. Like when people complained about being able to see the Cosmic Rewind show building from World Showcase in Epcot. Something like this being visible from a vantage point far outside the land does not impact the guest...

Because if we're being honest, very few people will care. Even the people complaining about it will still go to SNW if it doesn't affect your experience inside the land. I'm not saying it wouldn't be worth covering or sprucing up to some degree. At the same time, there's no way you can...

Well at least it'll be an open Intamin coaster, unlike Xcelerator. If you go back to that guy's original tweet, he said it was an unconfirmed rumor, so he was clearly not confident in the information to begin with and was setting up an excuse if it ended up being wrong. He can't have it both ways.

Ah, well, thank you for clearing that up. Mighty good fessing there. Quality fessing. I could imagine it being necessary for a while longer compared to Hollywood Hogsmeade. No clue if the SNW's overall capacity might be lower, but the ride capacity likely is. It's not hard to envision demand...

FWIW, the Disney Dish podcast said on its most recent episode that SNW is opening on March 10. I'm suspicious that this is a case where an educated guess has been presented as a fact too many times to distinguish its origin. It could still end up being right too, but guessing correctly isn't...

Not to plug my own reporting, but I now have the police report on Buzzy. Key takeaways: -Disney didn't report the theft. Orange County Sheriff's Office heard rumors of it on Nov. 26, 2018, called Disney, and Disney confirmed it had been stolen at least a week earlier -The scene was then...

I don't really have a professional opinion on it. As a fan of the film, yeah, it has some intriguing possibilities. They could also skimp on any water fountains in the queue in the name of immersion. To put my journalist hat back on, I'd be very surprised if, beyond Nintendo, Universal...

Sorry to pop in on Inside Universal's board, but I saw the site was being linked to on here and wanted to answer this question myself. If you've seen my post in the MuppetVision thread, this will largely be the same. I'm John Gregory, owner and operator of Orlando Rising. I started reporting...

No problem at all, your question was direct and appropriate. Part of the reason I started doing this is because of all the reporting that amounts to just rumors and speculation, with sites not naming a source or correcting their mistakes when their initial reporting ends up being wrong. I...

Sorry to pop in on Inside Universal's board, but I saw the site was being linked to on here and wanted to answer this question myself. I'm John Gregory, owner and operator of Orlando Rising. I started reporting on Orlando tourism and theme parks for the site in April 2018, when it was a...