The new stage is great :thumbs: Plus great added bonus of seating
:thumbs: I am glad the holes are gone, but I agree that the texture/finish on the rock is ugly.
I was there on Friday, sometime around 1 and 2pm, and it was SO packed. I walked towards the WW from the LC side and I was re-routed through the temp bridge to JP where the stand-by line and return-ticket machines were. Well, the return time was for 7pm, so needless to say we decided to leave Islands and headed over to the Studios at that time. Also, apart from this, even the posted wait time for Dragons was 90 minutes, so that alone is enough to scare me away. I am glad I have an AP and can return whenever I want
So, I returned on Saturday night, around 10pm. There was a 30 minute posted wait for FJ, but it was walk-on for me because I went through the single rider queue. Actually, it was probably walk-on for anyone because when I got to the Sorting Hat, my brother and I, plus some lady who also went single rider, we all got to ride together on the same bench because there were no other Muggles around :shrug: Same thing with Dragons, which had a 10-minute posted wait time but was walk-on for both sides :shrug:
Anyhow, back to FJ, this was the first time I saw the new Floo Network effect, and it's definitely an improvement over the stone look. But there's still issues... I mean dead spots on the top part where you can clearly see the fabric/material they are projecting on (just like on Mummy, in the turn-table scene). Also, in the Dementors' soul sucking scene, they had some other people's pics projected. We were three, and they had pics up of two other guys that were definitely not any of us three on that bench :shrug:
Come on, Uni! You're doing so great overall! Get it together on these details!!