i said this somewhere else but In my opinion, if Universal wanted to save money and do a quick new ride they could just leave the theater exactly as it is and just build a walking dead ride around it. make the queue WD related, the store, decorate the theater and add something else instead of the robots in the roof and then have actors play the WD characters.
they could even leave the motorcycle and have Daryl (an actor playing Daryl) ride the motocycle and do something with zombie actors in the stage.
I dont know, they could do whatever they want but I think i would rather have a 3D screen ride than to have an all year haunt.
Im not even a big fan of 3D screen rides to begin with but in this case with the Walking Dead I think it would benefit it.
We have seen Walking dead as a house for more than 3 years already so a year haunt like they did for California would actually be kind of lame.
Besides it would be really cool to have the actors from the show work on the video for the ride. it would be awesome