So, I’ve just caught up with this thread, and at the risk of adding nothing substantive to the conversation other than my personal opinion, let me say this: I don’t like being down on attractions well before they’ve opened (much less been announced), but this has all the makings of a show/ride I can’t imagine ever finding compelling or worth my time. I can take or leave Fallon, I have no attachment - intellectual or emotional - to NBC as a brand and/or their cavalcade of stars, I have no burning desire to fly over the skyscrapers of New York City, and if I want to do a 3D show or ride, I can do Despicable Me or Shrek (read: the two attractions immediately preceding this one geographically in the park, basically a block away), or I can go do T2, or Gringotts, or Transformers, or... you get the picture. What is going to be distinctive about this experience (aside from the subject matter) that sets it apart from what we already get from those other attractions?
I honestly can’t see why anybody would be excited for this, or why the higher-ups are apparently mandating that it happen (outside of the obvious brand synergy component). The bottom line is this: Universal is trading an attraction I did every visit - Twister - for an attraction that I probably won’t do more than once, and I find that really disappointing.
I’m trying to see a silver lining, here! I want to believe something good could come of this, but I just can’t see anything exciting coming from yet another 3D-based attraction built around an IP that doesn’t have any real justification for being in a (primarily movie-inspired) theme park. Somebody talk me off the ledge!
