Depends on how you define success.Is how successful a movie is a predictor of how successful a land based off of it would be?
Is how successful a movie is a predictor of how successful a land based off of it would be?
Can’t really look at it at a land level because there’s not a big enough sample size and it all comes down to budget. Swap the budgets for Toy Story and Star Wars Lands and see what comes back.Is how successful a movie is a predictor of how successful a land based off of it would be?
Can’t really look at it at a land level because there’s not a big enough sample size and it all comes down to budget. Swap the budgets for Toy Story and Star Wars Lands and see what comes back.
At an attraction level, it’s not a 0 correlation but it’s basically zero. Again, the concept and quality of the ride is the primary driver. Take Monsters Inc - if you can’t even get a consistent read on how the franchise “performs” from Laugh Floor to the DCA ride to what could have been a doors coaster, how do you even begin to compare that to another IP. Or something like Space Mountain.
Serious hot take here, but big immersive IP lands are overrated. A park should have 2-3 max. Generic land concepts where you have more flexibility at an attraction level work just as well.
See I disagree on the last take. An entire park of them like EU seems special, but I don't believe every park needs to become that. However, it immerses you SO well into the story that someone even unfamiliar with the IP (ahem, me and Potter) can grow to absolutely LOVE the property because of the work they've done in their theme parks. I think they're here to stay, but everything doesn't need a huge land for itself. Some, definitely do however. Nintendo, How To Train Your Dragon, Monsters, Pokemon are among the deserving ones imo. Need something that you can make a mini area out of.Can’t really look at it at a land level because there’s not a big enough sample size and it all comes down to budget. Swap the budgets for Toy Story and Star Wars Lands and see what comes back.
At an attraction level, it’s not a 0 correlation but it’s basically zero. Again, the concept and quality of the ride is the primary driver. Take Monsters Inc - if you can’t even get a consistent read on how the franchise “performs” from Laugh Floor to the DCA ride to what could have been a doors coaster, how do you even begin to compare that to another IP. Or something like Space Mountain.
Serious hot take here, but big immersive IP lands are overrated. A park should have 2-3 max. Generic land concepts where you have more flexibility at an attraction level work just as well.
Right - not saying EU is wrong per se but it’s a peculiar box to be stuck in with what you would hope to be a 30, 40, 50 year asset.lol, that’s like the opposite concept of Epic Worlds. The park is nothing but highly themed lands based on IPs.
Right - not saying EU is wrong per se but it’s a peculiar box to be stuck in with what you would hope to be a 30, 40, 50 year asset.
Only immersive lands also flies in the face of how Universal has managed the studios park. Earthquake to F&F, Kong to Mummy, Twister to Fallon, T2 to Bourne, BTTF to Simpsons. Jimmy Neutron to Minions. Whatever it was to Transformers.
I‘ll say Nintendo is timeless. I’ll also say Monsters are timeless. FB is borderline in its rumored form. HTTYD is not timeless. We’ll be explaining to our grandkids what HTTYD was like how our parents explain Woody Woodpecker to our kids.
Serious hot take here, but big immersive IP lands are overrated. A park should have 2-3 max. Generic land concepts where you have more flexibility at an attraction level work just as well.
These are two completely different teams working in two completely different buildings with two different focuses. While Universal is rife with creativity, it’s important to remember that there’s a pretty wide schism between these teams in general, so they shouldn’t be lumped together.I think about the ingenuity and craft they've displayed with creating the WWoHP, the care they've taken with creating Kong and updating JP and the creativity they show every year with their original offerings during HHN, Christmas and Mardi Gras and I start salivating at the possibilities of original lands they could create.
Here's a question, who will add an original (non IP) attraction first, Universal or Disney....This is something I wanted to bring up. All this talk about shuffling this IP here and replacing it with this other IP instead. I can see that's where Universal obviously wants to go with EU but are they that adamant about just not creating something of their own?
I think about the ingenuity and craft they've displayed with creating the WWoHP, the care they've taken with creating Kong and updating JP and the creativity they show every year with their original offerings during HHN, Christmas and Mardi Gras and I start salivating at the possibilities of original lands they could create.
I get IPs are the easier sell but with how volatile they could sometimes be I find it a little weird that they don't want to at least contemplate designing their own land.
Well EU was going to have one and then....well...2020Here's a question, who will add an original (non IP) attraction first, Universal or Disney....
I bet any Universal exec that randomly reads this will grin like the Grinch.I print a lot of personalised back to school items like pencil cases, water bottles, lunch boxes etc.
We don't infringe copyright but we get asked to all the time.
Far away and the 2 most popular requests this season have been for Harry Potter and Nintendo. I'm genuinely astonished at how popular these 2 IPs have been compared to everything else.
Well I sell Avatar pencil cases and we're going bankruptI print a lot of personalised back to school items like pencil cases, water bottles, lunch boxes etc.
We don't infringe copyright but we get asked to all the time.
Far away and the 2 most popular requests this season have been for Harry Potter and Nintendo. I'm genuinely astonished at how popular these 2 IPs have been compared to everything else.
Well I sell Avatar pencil cases and we're going bankrupt
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