KidZone Replacement Rumors & Speculation (Pt 2)

[JoeCamel]

The Ice Age exploration concept was drawn up around 2012! A DreamWorks Animation exploration concept was drawn up around 2013/2014. This has been going on FOREVER!

Walls are up and demo has begun right?
Just checking to be sure......

 

[Alicia]

Walls are up and demo has begun right?
Just checking to be sure......

12 days to go

 

[Parkscope Joe]

Walls are up and demo has begun right?
Just checking to be sure......

A long 12 days….

 

[Cup_Of_Coffee]

A long 12 days….

Enough time to change their minds!

 

[DodgsonHere]

I’m most eager to see what land E.T. and Animal Actors are assigned to once KidZone closes. Can’t be World Expo since Springfield took up most of it’s real estate, so maybe Hollywood? Is Central Park a land?

 

[UniversalRBLX]

I’m most eager to see what land E.T. and Animal Actors are assigned to once KidZone closes. Can’t be World Expo since Springfield took up most of it’s real estate, so maybe Hollywood? Is Central Park a land?

Central Park is not a land but I would just absorb them into Hollywood for the time being. In the blue sky forum, I mentioned how Universal should move the entrance to ET to where the current NBC Media Center is, which would be in a much more prominent location and not stick out like a sore thumb.

 

[GA-MBIT]

Central Park is not a land but I would just absorb them into Hollywood for the time being. In the blue sky forum, I mentioned how Universal should move the entrance to ET to where the current NBC Media Center is, which would be in a much more prominent location and not stick out like a sore thumb.

I always hear this idea thrown around. How feasible is it out of blue sky? Would the current queue connect well enough, and is the work they do in that space currently important enough for them to keep? Honestly asking!

 

[Alicia]

I always hear this idea thrown around. How feasible is it out of blue sky? Would the current queue connect well enough, and is the work they do in that space currently important enough for them to keep? Honestly asking!

It doesn't work because it cuts off backstage access to several TM areas, including retail loading for SpongeBob StorePants and quick service deliveries for KidZone Pizza Co., both of which are remaining open. It's also break area space for multiple locations.

You'd have to devise a flyover bridge-style queue to make it work... And considering even when they developed the Super Nintendo World plans for KidZone they still left the current entrance for ET, with just a skinny walkway on the right of the giant multi-story Nintendo land, tells you that even when blocking the entrance to ET they STILL wouldn't reroute the queue.

 

[UniversalRBLX]

It doesn't work because it cuts off backstage access to several TM areas, including retail loading for SpongeBob StorePants and quick service deliveries for KidZone Pizza Co., both of which are remaining open. It's also break area space for multiple locations.

You'd have to devise a flyover bridge-style queue to make it work... And considering even when they developed the Super Nintendo World plans for KidZone they still left the current entrance for ET, with just a skinny walkway on the right of the giant multi-story Nintendo land, tells you that even when blocking the entrance to ET they STILL wouldn't reroute the queue.

Well with the current setup it makes things tricky, but not impossible. Kidzone Pizza is only open during HHN nowadays and you don't need direct access to Spongebob throughout the day. It's a bit of trek, but manageable.

 

[TheCodeMan95]

When KZ was going to be Nintendo, wasn't ET going to be absorbed by Hollywood? I'd assume that will happen now. Animal Actors and ET both kinda fit well into Hollywood anyway!

 

[PerceptiveCoot]

Walls are up and demo has begun right?
Just checking to be sure......

No need. Kidzone Curse is like the Poltergeist, it'll just implode itself.

 

[HHN Maddux]

It doesn't work because it cuts off backstage access to several TM areas, including retail loading for SpongeBob StorePants and quick service deliveries for KidZone Pizza Co., both of which are remaining open. It's also break area space for multiple locations.

You'd have to devise a flyover bridge-style queue to make it work... And considering even when they developed the Super Nintendo World plans for KidZone they still left the current entrance for ET, with just a skinny walkway on the right of the giant multi-story Nintendo land, tells you that even when blocking the entrance to ET they STILL wouldn't reroute the queue.

Welcome to Super Nintendo World, there's a secret path leading into a bonus level, E.T. Adventure!

 

[Alicia]

Two things:

1. You can absord ET and Animal Actors into Hollywood without moving the entrance to ET
2. You can rename the entire Kids area to have mini-lands for DreamWorks within it still.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

Two things:

1. You can absord ET and Animal Actors into Hollywood without moving the entrance to ET
2. You can rename the entire Kids area to have mini-lands for DreamWorks within it still.

It can still be called KidZone! Who knows!

 

[shiekra38]

Two things:

1. You can absord ET and Animal Actors into Hollywood without moving the entrance to ET
2. You can rename the entire Kids area to have mini-lands for DreamWorks within it still.

Reboot ET as a Dreamworks animated film so it's thematically consistent with the area

 

[Alicia]

It can still be called KidZone! Who knows!

Exactly. (But maybe drop the “Woody Woodpecker’s”)

 

[PerceptiveCoot]

Exactly. (But maybe drop the “Woody Woodpecker’s”)

Woody's Roundup! (of relevant intellectual properties...)

 

[SpatulaShack]

Exactly. (But maybe drop the “Woody Woodpecker’s”)

I REALLY hope Universal's marketing department recognizes opening a "new land" with the same name as the land its replacing is a pretty terrible idea. I highly doubt they're sticking with "Kidzone" as a name especially given the dated feel the name itself carries. It screams "1990's" and is quite frankly WAY too literal. There is zero benefit in keeping it.

 

[DodgsonHere]

Exactly. (But maybe drop the “Woody Woodpecker’s”)

That’s rough. I never liked the name KidZone, and I was hoping a Dreamworks overlay would come with a totally new name. Seuss Landing does not have to include anything else in it’s name to indicate to me that it’s the area for younger kids in Islands.

 

[GA-MBIT]

I will say I think I'll kinda miss having Woody as a pseudo park mascot, but maybe that's just my nostalgia for the Gamecube Universal game talking!

Does anyone know how early they started phasing him out? Must've been Pre-Potter 2000s somewhere, he appeared in 90s promotional materials but it definitely feels like they moved away from that marketing angle pretty quickly.