USF Project?

[JungleSkip]

Okay, MIB is glowing away anytime soon. Direct your #melt and attention elsewhere.

Isn't*

 

[yankees13]

I brought the up in another thread, but is Harry Potter still a big enough property that will bring people to the parks? It doesn't have a lasting appeal like Star Wars or Marvel does. I think it might be overkill at this point. It's been 6 years since the last movie and Fantatic Beasts wasn't exactly a smash hit. People move on to other things.

 

[JungleSkip]

It doesn't have a lasting appeal like Star Wars or Marvel does.

 

[Joel]

It's good to see Universal meeting Disney's wake up from their deep slumber, with added ambitious expansions, instead of resting on their post Potter laurels.

I'm glad they're moving forward more quickly than before, I just don't think they were sleeping. I think they were focusing on room capacity due to increased attendance/future projects, but now Disney's projects have kickstarted the attraction phase.

 

[jrn14]

HE SAID "GLOWING AWAY" it's a trap... it's still closing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Ok I'll stop ..... For real this time....

 

[Joel]

I brought the up in another thread, but is Harry Potter still a big enough property that will bring people to the parks? It doesn't have a lasting appeal like Star Wars or Marvel does. I think it might be overkill at this point. It's been 6 years since the last movie and Fantatic Beasts wasn't exactly a smash hit. People move on to other things.

This has been debated before with actual statistics about all of them; they're all huge properties with more than enough followings for each, end of story.

 

[Porkchop]

I brought the up in another thread, but is Harry Potter still a big enough property that will bring people to the parks? It doesn't have a lasting appeal like Star Wars or Marvel does. I think it might be overkill at this point. It's been 6 years since the last movie and Fantatic Beasts wasn't exactly a smash hit. People move on to other things.

I disagree. The kids that read those books, in 1997 - are having kids now. They will read them and watch the movies with them, and those groups will be vacationing to uni for the next few decades.

I was 10 in 1997, we've brought my son who is 9 to universal the last 3 years, and haven't been to Disney since 2013. (we were huge Disney people before that)......my sons reading Sorcerers stone as we speak, with Hedwig next to him and his interactive wand in his hand. HP has huge staying power imo.

 

[captainmoch]

I mean... I think its gotta be MIB/Mummy/T2 if FFL is something different and E.T. is confirmed staying. (I hope it's T2...)

 

[Blue]

I brought the up in another thread, but is Harry Potter still a big enough property that will bring people to the parks? It doesn't have a lasting appeal like Star Wars or Marvel does. I think it might be overkill at this point. It's been 6 years since the last movie and Fantatic Beasts wasn't exactly a smash hit. People move on to other things.

It's definitely in the same league as Star Wars and Marvel. Star Wars and Marvel have just been around a lot longer but give it time and Harry Potter will feel just as timeless (it already is to some people).

 

[Alicia]

I mean... I think its gotta be MIB/Mummy/T2 if FFL is something different and E.T. is confirmed staying. (I hope it's T2...)

ET is not confirmed to be staying, just hasn't been included in the existing Nintendo plans.

NOTHING IS SAFE! Time to freak out. :dance:

 

[EllTee]

No #melt here.

Just thought the discussion was entering dangerous territory using definitive language like 'since we are losing MIB'.

 

[ReelJustice]

Since I messed up on the previous page.

WE ARE NOT LOSING MEN IN BLACK

(at least not imminently.)

 

[Mr. EPCOT]

Sadly yes

MOD NOTE: It wasn't.

Lol, *narrator voice*: “But it wasn’t.”

 

[@gentPerry]

Mummy seems like the likely 'classic'

 

[JungleSkip]

NOTHING IS SAFE! Time to freak out. :dance:

As I've said countless times, if it was built before Potter, just assume it's going to close in the next decade.

 

[EllTee]

As I've said countless times, if it was built before Potter, just assume it's going to close in the next decade.

Take HRRR - big hunk a junk. Soz in advance to the HRRR fans.

 

[UNIrd]

As I've said countless times, if it was built before Potter, just assume it's going to close in the next decade.

Bye Rockit..

 

[Imperius]

As I've said countless times, if it was built before Potter, just assume it's going to close in the next decade.

Really don't have an issue with this. I don't see anything wrong with replacing rides and think Disney should do it more often.

 

[GadgetGuru]

Mummy feels the most dated at this point. Especially with Fallon making the NY section of the park all shiny.

But more importantly, a Mummy replacement could act as counter-programming to Nintendo. If you put a new ride at MIB, people would have to pass Nintendo to get to the MIB ride. That isn't helping crowd control at that part of the park. A new ride at Mummy would push crowds down Animation Courtyard to bypass the path to Nintendo altogether.

 

[Mad Dog]

I'm glad they're moving forward more quickly than before, I just don't think they were sleeping. I think they were focusing on room capacity due to increased attendance/future projects, but now Disney's projects have kickstarted the attraction phase.

I was referring to Disney's slumber. Universal has been pretty wide awake for the past 7 -8 years.