Well, some of the comments were exaggerating things, but the initial discussion was fair lol
Villain-Con Minion Blast (General Discussion)
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Hey, the marketing stuff was a fine discussion lol. There was just some definite panic in the thread there for a hot minute there from some.
None of those quoted posts come close to a "freakout."
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Me saying I'd be upset if it wasn't open by mid September was a freakout, don't ya know?
Alright - let's move it along. Online text is hard to decipher. We don't need to get into the weeds about this and just focus on the future of Previews.
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First Impressions and New Details from Team Member Previews of Illumination’s Villain-Con Minion Blast Attraction at Universal Studios Florida - WDW News Today
As we reported earlier, Universal Orlando Resort Team Members are testing Villain-Con Minion Blast at Universal Studios Florida today.
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Sounded like a good time untilFirst Impressions and New Details from Team Member Previews of Illumination’s Villain-Con Minion Blast Attraction at Universal Studios Florida - WDW News Today
As we reported earlier, Universal Orlando Resort Team Members are testing Villain-Con Minion Blast at Universal Studios Florida today.
Additionally, the points system is apparently arbitrary. Shooting the same item multiple times results in different amounts of points and sometimes shooting nothing at all still gives you points.
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Yeah I can't tell if that is purposeful because of the amount of kids they anticipate on the ride or if its a malfunction. I like the idea of not having the typical "hit these 5 spots and max out your score" but without that it ends up as much more of a skill game and not sure they want that.
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Man, who would ever do that?
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After multiple ride through I still had trouble figuring which objects give points and which don’t. It felt very random
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It’s very chaotic. There are lots of mini reticles/icons for each persons blaster on the large screens that sort of feel cluttered. There’s a small 1inch size screen on the blaster that shows your running score and reticle before you ride, but even then I had trouble finding mine. It was also a smidge laggy but hey it’s still testing.
You are also packed closer to other people on the walkway than I expected, I had to move around to get other ppl out of my way and shoot. You also can run out of ammo and have to shoot boxes to get more ammo, which can get very annoying
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Interesting!
I'm glad to hear there's at least some physical sets though.
Are there any physical targets? Or are they all on screen?
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Anything you can shoot at and interact with is on the screens. It feels like web slingers with how you interact with the screens. I don’t hate web slingers btw
How do you rank it compared to Shrek and Hitchcock?
I don't think it's fair to compare any of these attractions to each other lol. They're all completely different.
I want to hear opinions as to if this is better, just as good, or much worse compared to previous attractions in the same space
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Hitchcock is before my time I have no idea, but I prefer this over shrek
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Well there’s no incredibly loud and violent “moving seats” so Villain Con automatically wins against shrek.
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