Universal's New Park/Site B Blue Sky Thread

[shiekra38]

Seriously, can someone put together a list of actual Universal franchises? Not just "theme park friendly," but every damn movie?

Wikipedia has a great list
Franchise list:
Category:Universal Studios franchises - Wikipedia


Films:
List of Universal Pictures films - Wikipedia



Breakdown of all of the studios:
A Breakdown Of Movie Franchises By Studio -- Vulture

 

[Imperius]

Seriously, can someone put together a list of actual Universal franchises? Not just "theme park friendly," but every damn movie?

List of Universal Pictures films - Wikipedia

 

[Dinoman96]

So when does the Dawn of Netta E-Ticket get the greenlight? :look:

 

[fryoj]

So when does the Dawn of Netta E-Ticket get the greenlight? :look:

Before some of the other ideas that people are floating on here....

 

[zg44]

Sometimes my brain doesn't work - what exactly would we consider a list of "Universal's IPs" ...?

I feel most everything is another company until Universal signs a contract - outside of stuff like the Kong/Jaws/Mummy/Frankenstein stuff.

Seriously, can someone put together a list of actual Universal franchises? Not just "theme park friendly," but every damn movie?

Movies that will have (or have already gotten) multiple releases and have grossed at least $100m domestically in at least 1 movie:

Live Action:
American Pie
Back to the Future
Bourne
Bruce Almighty
Fast and the Furious
Fifty Shades of Grey
Fockers
Hulk (distribution rights to Hulk titled movies from Marvel)
Jaws
Jurassic Park
Mamma Mia
Monsters/Dark Universe (Dracula, Frankenstein, Mummy, Wolfman etc.)
Nutty Professor
Pitch Perfect
Ride Along
Smokey and the Bandit
Snow White and the Huntsman
Split
Ted

Animation:
Boss Baby
Croods
Despicable Me/Minions
Grinch
How to Train Your Dragon
Kung Fu Panda
Madagascar
Secret Life of Pets
Shrek
Sing
Trolls

 

[Legacy]

"Smokey and the Bandit" family launch coaster confirmed!

Jesus Christ, that would be the greatest thing ever!

Hell, just put "Eastbound and Down" as a secret track on RRRocket, and I'd die giggling.


But seriously... does a Snow White and the Huntsman feel like it could be a quality river ride to anyone else?

 

[Nico]

So in summation we have

- An epic boat ride
- That FLOATS (Obviously IT)
- Is DELICIOUSLY obvious
- & TROLLS Disney?

Edit: I read into the Disney thing. Could make it Madagascar now that the licensing is under Universal.

 

[quinnmac000]

Seriously, can someone put together a list of actual Universal franchises? Not just "theme park friendly," but every damn movie?

Everrything Universal has rights to include Ancillary Rights. (of note, some IPs are currently being filmed and developed with expected release dates such as Mortal Engines and the School of Good and Evil)


DreamWorks Animation:
Antz, Bee Movie, Prince of Egypt & Joseph: King of Dreams, Road to El Dorado, Sinbad opcorn:, Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, Shrek & Spinoffs, Monsters Vs. Aliens, How to train your dragon, Rise of the Guardians, Croods, Trolls, Trollhunters, Turbo, Home, The Boss Baby, Captain Underpants, Kong Fu Panda, Wizard of Once

DreamWorks Classic ( to include UPA, Harvey Entertainment/Famous Studio, Golden Books/Gold Key Comics, Big Idea Entertainment, Filmation, Woodland Animations, Tell-Tale Productions, Tribune Media Services, Bullwinkle Studio catalogues) :

Noddy, Voltron, Olivia, Where's Waldo, Felix The Cat, Gerald Mc Boing Boing, Mr Magoo, Fox and Crow, Dick Tracy, Casper & Friends, Richie Rich & Friends, Harvey superheroes (There are too many to list some of note are Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, and The Spirit) Blondie, Bunny, Hot Stuff, Chamber of Chills, Flash Gordon,Harvey Friends, Herman and Catnip, Honey Halfwitch, Lamb Chop's Playing Around, Charlie Horse, Space Family Robinson, Magnus Robot Fighter 4000 AD, The Phantom, Dell Comic Heroes, Gold Key Comic Heroes, Lassie, Sergaent Preston of the Yukon, The Mighty Hercules, King and Odie, The Hunter, Commander McBragg, Go Go Gophers, Klondike Kat, Tennessee Tuxedo and his tales, The beagles, Totter Turtle, Tale of the Wizard of Oz, Family Classics, Smokey The Bear, Jackson Five, Adventures of Pinnochio, The Osmonds, The Daydreamer, Mad Monster Party, The Relucant Dragon, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Friends, Santa Claus and Friends, Peter Cottontail, Veggie Tales, Gumby, Midnight Patrol in the Dream Zone aka Potswoth and Co, Dr Zitbag's Translyvania Pet Shop, Fat Albert, He-Man, She-Ra, Lavender Castle, The Forgotten Toys, Bill The Minder, The Spooks of Bottle Bay, Boo!, Tweenies, Titch, Katie and Orbie, General Mills Cereal Characters, Aesop and Son, Dudley Do Right, Sherman and Mr Peabody, Fractured fairy tales, George of the Jungle, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Super Chicken, Brenda Starr, Broomhilda, Little Orphan Annie, Conrad, Mother Goose and Grimm, Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! and more comic strips.

Universal Pictures:

Beethoven, Curious George, Fast and Furious, Doctor Doolittle, Mortal Engines, Crononauts, Universal Monsters, Egg and Spoon, Gears of War, God of War, Locke and Key, Red Queen, Space Race, Spirit Animals, The School of Good and Evil, The Umbrella Academy, Weird Science, Watch Dogs, Pitch Perfect, Woody Woodpecker, Monster High, Back To the Future, Jurassic Park, Moshi Monsters, Hitchcock films, Nanny McPhee, Hell Boy, The Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright Trilogy, The Producers, Riddick, Peter Pan, blue brothers, Twister, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Waterworld, Babe, Backdraft, Jaws, Dune, King of the Mountain, Metropolis, HP Lovecraft, Invincible, Big it On, Films of John Hughes, To Catch a Mockingbird, Crime of the Century (Time Travel Heist franchise), Out of Africa, Warrior Queen, American Pie, Meet the Parents

Illumination Entertainment:

Sing, Despicable Me, Secret Life of Pets, Dr Seuss, Flanimals, Lockwood & Co, The Night Tourist

Universal Television:

Battlestar Galactica, The Good Place, Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew, Xena, Timeless, American Dreams, The Munsters, Knight Rider, Time Cop, Magnum PI, Miami Vice, Dr Who, Quantam Leap, The A-team, Oregon Trail, Night Gallery, The Brave, Superstore, The Office, Parks and Rec, The Good Place, Brooklyn 99,

Universal Cable Productions:

Bates Motel, The Magicians, Eureka, Metropolis, Warehouse 13, Channel Zero, Mythos, Wild Cards, A Brave New World, Umbrella Academy, Interworld, The Woods, Bushido, Sharknando, 12 monkeys, THE RAVEN CYCLE QUARTET, Nightflyers, Happy!, Blood Drive

NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan (not including their musical acts):

Owari No Seraph, Black Bullet, Arslan Senki, Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis, Drifters, Beserk, Ao No Kanata No Four Rhythm, The Labyrinth of Grisaia: The Cocoon of Caprice, Norn9, Clockwork Planet, Astroboy, Starmyu, Bakumatsu Rock, Chobits, Sukiyaki Western Django, Hellsing, Tenchi Muyou, El Hazard series, High School of the Dead, Fate/Stay series, Black Lagoon Series, Toaru Majutsa No Index, Danganronpa: The Animation, Tokyo Ravens, A Lull in the Sea, Shakugan no Shana, Buso Renkin, Shigurui: Death Frenzy, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Armed Librarians: The Book of Bantorra, Tales of Symphonia series

Universal Pictures International:

Moon Lovers, Hero

Focus Features: (There is a lot more but its really hard to compile and find a comprehensive list of films acquired before the naming of Focus Features)
Scott Pilgrim, Moonrise Kingdom, 9, Baby Driver, Everest, Rush, O Brother Where art Thou?, Italian Job, Brokeback Mountain, The Darkest Hour, Fifty shades, Atomic Blonde, Hail Caeser,

Laika:

Coraline, Paranorman, Box Trolls, Kubo

Universal Animation Studios:

Balto, Land Before Time, Sherlock Homeboy, Tale of Despereaux, Exosquad, The Savage Dragon

Amblin Partners (including Amblin Entertainment, etc):

Ghost in the Shell, Ready Player One, ET, Gremlins, An American Tail, Zorro, Men in Black, Adventures of TinTin, Goonies, Men in Black, Galaxy Quest, Gladiator; Peppa The Pig, Haunting at Hill House

Nintendo (Nintendo fully owns or owns part of the IP) :

Animal Crossing, Brain Age, Chibi Robot, Legendary Starfy, Donkey Kong, Doshin the Giant, Earthbound/Mother, Fire Emblem, F-Zero, Game and Watch, Golden Sun, Kid Icarus, Mario, Super Smash Bros, Kirby, Metroid, Pikmin, Pokemon, Zelda, Star Fox, Xenoblade, Wario, Bayonetta, Splatoon

Legendary:

Pacific Rim, Toho Monsters (Godzilla, etc), Warcraft, Mass Effect, Hot Wheels, Great Wall, Lost in Space, Dune

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment in partnership with many different companies:

Thomas the Train, R. L Stein, Death Race, Twin Peaks, Bob the builder, Attack on Titan, One Piece, Fairy Tail, Dragon Ball Z, Cowboy Bebop

Gkids (in Partnership with Universal):

Ernest and Celestine, Boy and the World, Patema Inverted, Tale of Princess Kaguya, Song of the Sea, April and the Extraordinary World, Phantom Boy, Zarafa, Summer Wars, The Secret of Kells, Nocturna, Welcome to the Space Show

Blumhouse:

Purge, Oculus, Paranormal Activity, Ouija, Five nights at Freddy's

IPs seen in Parks that could expand more:

Shonen Jump, Hello Kitty, Detective Conan, Death Note, Neon Envangelion Genesis, Godzilla, Yokai Watch, Dragon Quest, Harry Potter, Popeye, Betty Boop, Scooby Doo, Spongebob, More original content.

Edit: Added Haunting at Hill House to Amblin, The Raven Cycle Quartet to Universal Cable Productions, added Out of Africa, Night School and Warrior Queen to Universal Pictures.

Things missing from list: Matchbox Pictures, Carnival Films outside Downtown Abbey, and a lot of the reality show stuff as its too numerous to list all. Also missing are films under Universal from their defunct subsidiaries.

 

[Andysol]

But seriously... does a Snow White and the Huntsman feel like it could be a quality river ride to anyone else?

I don’t- I mean, I guess almost anything could be quality if they put the effort and money into it.

I’m going to go out and say I’d prefer it to be Shrek. So much potential and tongue in cheek jabs at Disney they could do with that sarcastic ogre, donkey- and really, all the fairy tale characters.
And a swamp ride lends itself perfectly to it.

 

[zg44]

I don’t- I mean, I guess almost anything could be quality if they put the effort and money into it.

I’m going to go out and say I’d prefer it to be Shrek. So much potential and tongue in cheek jabs at Disney they could do with that sarcastic ogre, donkey- and really, all the fairy tale characters.
And a swamp ride lends itself perfectly to it.

One reason it might be Shrek is that Universal seems to be waiting on the Shrek reboot (possibly for the new park if it's not an actor issue).

I know Disney was concerned about Cameron delaying Avatar sequels to the point where the Pandora Land came out 4 years before the next movie since that hurt public awareness. The original plan was for there to be sequels around 2016-2018 to build awareness around the combined movies-park Avatar enterprise.

Universal won't want to end up in that situation. (Same may end up being true of Kung Fu Panda with respect to Universal Beijing which I'd expect to get a new movie around 2022 or 2023 and worldwide premiere at that park).

 

[Donald Razorduck]

A 4th park with a Dreamworks land seems like a no brainer. I mean just look at the HTTYD ride in the UAE that's on par with what one would expect from Universal at its own park that we have discussed. Here is the Madagascar based dark coaster that wouldn't take too much more plussing


And there's whole host of flats they could theme up.

 

[JungleSkip]

The Dubai DreamWorks rides are all pretty lame, IMO

 

[Donald Razorduck]

The Dubai DreamWorks rides are all pretty lame, IMO

They are geared to kids

That's why Dreamworld went with a B&M family suspended coaster for their area
Madagascar Madness | Dreamworld

Besides the Mack Dragon Gliders uses screenz, a perfect fit for Uni. Just make it 3D. I love 5he idea of the indoor plaza that both ride take a peek at about half through their cycle because of heat, and rain issues in Florida. Dreamworks is all about preteens and especially younger. I'd love to see much more done with the Minions.

Let's not forget Far Far Away in Singapore

there's your castle with a B&M made Madagascar family suspended coasterling in the foreground

 

[JungleSkip]

They are geared to kids

That's why Dreamworld went with a B&M family suspended coaster for their area
Madagascar Madness | Dreamworld

Besides the Mack Dragon Gliders uses screenz, a perfect fit for Uni. Just make it 3D. I love 5he idea of the indoor plaza that both ride take a peek at about half through their cycle because of heat, and rain issues in Florida. Dreamworks is all about preteens and especially younger. I'd love to see much more done with the Minions.

Let's not forget Singapore

File:Faraway land (8023381659).jpg - Wikipedia

You can aim for kids and not be cheap/lame. The Dubai rides just aren't up to Universal standards.

 

[Disneyhead]

So in summation we have

- An epic boat ride
- That FLOATS (Obviously IT)
- Is DELICIOUSLY obvious
- & TROLLS Disney?

Edit: I read into the Disney thing. Could make it Madagascar now that the licensing is under Universal.

I don’t- I mean, I guess almost anything could be quality if they put the effort and money into it.

I’m going to go out and say I’d prefer it to be Shrek. So much potential and tongue in cheek jabs at Disney they could do with that sarcastic ogre, donkey- and really, all the fairy tale characters.
And a swamp ride lends itself perfectly to it.

The boat ride is a MegaE-Ticket family friendly ride into Shrek's Swamp with tons of making fun of Disney.

The ride itself is a no brainer for the new park, given the fate of Shrek at the Studios.

What cracked me up is the ambitious facade and the location in the park.

Remeber though, they are still hammering things out, and playing plug and play with different concepts. They are pretty solid on the IPs they are working with, but where to put them all is the game. A couple of plots at USF/IOA still need filled and a whole newbpark.

 

[Andysol]

DHX Media Puts Itself Up for Sale | Animation Magazine

DHX Media put itself up for sale after a disappointing quarter.

Worth noting that they're perhaps the last large independent owner of children's content: 80% of Peanuts, Teletubbies, Inspector Gadget, Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears, etc. They own one of the largest troves of children's content out there, so it'll be interesting to see whether someone bites.

Comcast or Disney are the two most obvious buyers if they want to add all of that to their animation businesses (and there might be some theme park implications). Dreamworks (now Comcast owned) has a major output deal with DHX that started 2 years ago, so Comcast may want to take DHX Media to prevent others from getting their content, and Universal did just rebrand a kids cable channel. Disney used to own/partner with DIC (one of the precursors to DHX) on Inspector Gadget among other things, but now they'd have a reason to possibly consider going back for DHX for their eventual streaming service.

Maybe Netflix or another streaming service may want it. Either way, will be worth following; the price should be somewhere around $750-900 million for the stock ($1.5 billion including debt).

My Little Pony is one as well.
Peanuts, Cedar Park has, but it's a pretty crappy theme park IP IMO.

Care Bears is ripe for a re-brand

No Chance Disney jumps on this. The shows dont work for them and they are fine w/o. Uni and Dreamworks seem like a good fit though- in particular with all the girl shows.

As for Netflix- that'd be my guess. But Hulu is on the upswing as well, and I'd never discount Amazon.

 

[Scott W.]

The boat ride is a MegaE-Ticket family friendly ride into Shrek's Swamp with tons of making fun of Disney.

The ride itself is a no brainer for the new park, given the fate of Shrek at the Studios.

What cracked me up is the ambitious facade and the location in the park.

Remeber though, they are still hammering things out, and playing plug and play with different concepts. They are pretty solid on the IPs they are working with, but where to put them all is the game. A couple of plots at USF/IOA still need filled and a whole newbpark.

Maybe, they build a castle in Far Far Away land and build Peach's castle in USF and they can claim to have a castle in every one of their parks unlike their neighbours down the road.

 

[AlexanderMBush]

The boat ride is a MegaE-Ticket family friendly ride into Shrek's Swamp with tons of making fun of Disney.

So essentially, it would be taking this scene and putting it on steroids.

 

[Mad Dog]

So essentially, it would be taking this scene and putting it on steroids.

:thumbsup:...You got it!.....,and all those Swamp story book characters that Disney stole over the years, with a humorous twist and slightly different look.

 

[Disneyhead]

So essentially, it would be taking this scene and putting it on steroids.

Haha, First scene after load. Before the drop into the swamp. Or so I've heard.