Wow. I sincerely hope we never hear a story like this involving Universal ever again.
This is the trouble with using your own intellectual property. There's no one else to tell you that's not good enough.
Good point. No way Rowling and/or Warner would have approved the F&F fiasco, let alone for two park's worth. I could see Rowling cringing at viewing the F&F musion scene.....So it's good that UC will have Nintendo looking over their shoulders. And maybe LOR owners too, if that comes to fruition.
i mean if you really think about it, superstar limo was originally supposed to be what drupercharged is today
Hopefully, since the reception to this has been so bad, not just lukewarm, UC and upper management will have learned a lesson. Namely you can't just throw a bad/mediocre attraction at the GP, and they'll accept it just because it's NEW....A Big Fail, but good timing in a perverse way, since the new park is right down the road, and 'perhaps' this will give UC a better perception of what they need to do to make the new park 'special'.
Yes, and what Dave (Disneyhead) is saying, was privately echoed by another prominent Insider from this site a year ago. So, kind of double confirmation, of what sounds like a plausible story.....But the realization really sets in when the lines of people don't show up to see the attraction, book vacations, and give bad guest feedback surveys....Though I'd guess the merch still sells since it's a popular IP.
I had known they were concerned and that they looked at plussing it but decided not too. What I didn't realize was that UC basically gave up and cut the budget. I bought the talking point that the 3D was cut because guests complaints about 3D. Not they they decided on no 3D because they didn't want to put the money into expensive rendering and projection equipment.
I have to believe they will plus that version. But still, SMH.
Can't disagree, but Harry Potter earned those budgets many times over.
