My guess
-Woody Retheme
-New show in Barney
-Both playgrounds rethemed
boom. New land to market.
-Woody Retheme
-New show in Barney
-Both playgrounds rethemed
boom. New land to market.
KidZone Replacement Rumors & Speculation (Pt 2)
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Ya this is my guess if everyone is saying keep expectations lower. Leaves room for expansion, also.
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To be honest it doesn’t need to be anything more than just one big cohesive retheme. Adding a new attraction would be awesome however if it’s just another coaster that would be total waste of space.
Preferably, if it's going to be a retheme, i'd like them to retheme everything from Barney forward and then basically demolish Curious George and maybe even go the the Old Parade building if they need to to build an E-ticket family dark ride. The retheme would be a quick change and then the ride would be the big draw to the land down the line.
Could a generic, movie themed kids area work without a big name property tied into it? Kinda like how lost continent was (i know merlin was technically an IP) but something on the lines of a hollywood and movie experience geared to kids?
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Love how we've collectively talked each other down from "NEW LAND!" to "LATERAL RETHEME OF EXISTING FACILITIES TO REPRESENT CURRENTLY MARKETABLE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES FOR PROPER SYNERGISTIC ACTIVATIONS!"
Even a KFP retheme of an existing KidZone attraction with proper theming and a nice nighttime lighting package would be better than anything currently in KidZone.
I really think that they need to. In my opinion, any redo of this land, even if most of the land is just a retheme, absolutely needs an all ages E-ticket dark ride.
While coasters and the simulators is kinda what they do, i've spent spend enough time around the resort to randomly hear what guests are complaining about. Guests mostly seem to like the coasters, but the simulators, at USF especially, drives some guests absolutely nuts. Especially if they have little kids.
If you have little kids, you basically can't do anything at Universal and while guests should do their homework, they also should be able to expect that their kids will be able to at least have a decent time and not one where they basically can't do anything, even ET for some kids.
Generally we don't vacation when kids are out of school, so my view is a bit slanted. But, short of ET, we rarely see more than a handful of people in the land. I'd guess even a mild retheme to more recent
IP's would help to get people back there, and help ease the park's capacity issues.
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IP's would help to get people back there, and help ease the park's capacity issues.
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opcorn:KidZone has been pretty busy from my view ever since the Barney show changed over to DreamWorks and then even more busy once Shrek and Donkey moved over.
I guess that's proof that more relevant IP's, like those, would help the area draw guests.
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People do seem to get a kick out of that Troll sharting glitter.
The land is rarely packed outside of extremely busy times of the year, but it is still far busier on a consistent basis is my point.
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How dare you besmirch God's gift known as Boss Baby....which spawned not 1 but now 3 spinoffs paid for and demanded by netflix.
I think you're right, it allows for something in 2024 *and* after Epic
It is by far their largest expansion space with not a whole lot of substance on it
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Absolutely. Universal can and is competing directly with Disney now. To do this effectively, they absolutely need to build family-friendly dark rides. EU should have included a Fantasyland-style area with three or so such rides, even if it violated the one-IP-per-area rule. Heck, ideally each park should have such an area. Ironically, Universal actually has a surfeit of appropriate properties, a veritable junk drawer full of family-friendly IPs - Dreamworks, Illumination, Aardman, Woody - and popular properties that, while Universal doesn't fully control them, are heavily associated with the resort - Spongebob, Scooby, Seuss, Bullwinkle, etc. That isn't even delving into non-animated IPs that could produce fun dark rides - a slightly spooky Beetlejuice ride could be perfect. Its actually a pretty glaring indictment of Uni that the Minions and Potter don't have an AA-heavy (even simple AAs) dark rides, that Seuss only has one such ride (with a height restriction), and that the Dragon area in EU isn't getting any. They seem to be actively avoiding them.
Also, stop coming up with alternatives for Animal Actors, darn it. Universal isn't going to come up with a more rewatchable show in that space. I know its odd, but the five things I don't want anyone touching in the resort are Spidey, ET, AA, the Make-Up Show, and the Prop Shop, and the last one is already gone. And obviously I, a random message board poster, should be the arbiter of what stays and what goes at the resort.
What's a family friendly dark ride? Cause I used to ride Spiderman with my family when I was a kid
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