Universal Studios Beijing (Now Open) | Page 4 | Inside Universal Forums
Inside Universal Forums
Inside Universal Forums
  • Home
  • Forums
    New posts Search forums Account Upgrades
  • News
    Universal Studios Hollywood Universal Orlando Universal Studios Japan Universal Studios Singapore Universal Studios Beijing
  • Merchandise
Log in Register
What's new Search

Search

By:
  • New posts
  • Search forums
  • Account Upgrades
Menu
Log in

Register

Install the app
  • Signing up for a Premium Membership is a donation to help Inside Universal maintain costs and offers an ad-free experience on the forum. Learn more about it here.
  • Forums
  • Universal Parks & Resorts
  • Worldwide Universal Parks
  • Universal Studios Beijing
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.

Universal Studios Beijing (Now Open)

  • Thread starter Thread starter HalfGlass
  • Start date Start date Oct 13, 2014
Prev
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • …

    Go to page

  • 91
Next
First Prev 4 of 91

Go to page

Next Last
GadgetGuru

GadgetGuru

Jurassic Ranger
V.I.P. Member
Joined
Dec 2, 2011
Messages
2,461
Age
32
Location
Seattle, WA
  • Aug 6, 2016
  • #61
I'm pretty sure the Time Warner park might be a hoax. The source article (which seems to be down) from Orlando Parks News talks about Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean in the park. That's not happening.

As for the other park, "DreamWorks is responsible for project planning, design and construction. Shimao Group is in charge of investment and operation" (source: Must-visit : 6 large amusement parks in Nanjing_理财_微信公众号大全 That seems really suspicious. If it's true, that means that DWA is trying to be like WDI, despite having no experience doing so. That would make this park really easy to kill.
 
GAcoaster

GAcoaster

Dragon Trainer
Platinum Member
Joined
Nov 30, 2012
Messages
7,345
Location
Orlando
  • Aug 17, 2016
  • #62
This was an interesting article that mentioned Beijing (among other topics) Theme parks develop ‘blockbuster worlds’ based on movie franchises - LA Times

"Universal is borrowing from Islands of Adventure’s single-franchise approach for its new park in Beijing, which will have Hogsmeade, Diagon Alley, Madagascar and Shrek lands when it opens in 2019 or 2020."
 
  • Like
Reactions: Mike S
Mike S

Mike S

Dragon Trainer
Joined
Dec 10, 2015
Messages
6,495
Age
32
Location
Florida
  • Aug 17, 2016
  • #63
GAcoaster said:
This was an interesting article that mentioned Beijing (among other topics) Theme parks develop ‘blockbuster worlds’ based on movie franchises - LA Times

"Universal is borrowing from Islands of Adventure’s single-franchise approach for its new park in Beijing, which will have Hogsmeade, Diagon Alley, Madagascar and Shrek lands when it opens in 2019 or 2020."
Click to expand...
That sounds like the same speculation that came from the concept art.
 
Viator

Viator

Veteran Member
Joined
Nov 23, 2013
Messages
23,411
Location
Seattle, WA!
  • Sep 15, 2016
  • #64
Some words from Steve Burke; CEO of NBCUniversal..

"We'll own 30 or 40 percent of the park. Our partners are on the same schedule to get the park open by 2020," Burke said. "We have full models and drawings. We know what attractions will be there. We've got complete agreement on sort of the way the structure of our arrangement's going to work…We have hundreds of people currently working on the project and look forward to getting it open in a few years."
 
  • Like
Reactions: Mike S
Viator

Viator

Veteran Member
Joined
Nov 23, 2013
Messages
23,411
Location
Seattle, WA!
  • Oct 30, 2016
  • #65
From what It seems like, USB may of finally broken ground.

 
  • Like
Reactions: Nick, Disneyhead and Mike S
quinnmac000

quinnmac000

Dragon Trainer
Joined
May 14, 2014
Messages
6,518
Location
Seoul, Korea
  • Nov 14, 2016
  • #66
Per Spirit, there are major issues. All the unique attractions were cut and replaced with clones, and JW ride got downsized.

More details next week.
 
Viator

Viator

Veteran Member
Joined
Nov 23, 2013
Messages
23,411
Location
Seattle, WA!
  • Nov 14, 2016
  • #67
quinnmac000 said:
Per Spirit, there are major issues. All the unique attractions were cut and replaced with clones, and JW ride got downsized.

More details next week.
Click to expand...

I take any word from WDWMagic with heavy salt.

It's not that they're wrong, as some of them are rather good disney insiders; but there have been a lot of instances that those with Universal information have been very much misses as opposed to the amount of times of hits.
 
UNIrd

UNIrd

Dragon Trainer
V.I.P. Member
Joined
Jul 18, 2008
Messages
7,043
  • Nov 14, 2016
  • #68
quinnmac000 said:
Per Spirit, there are major issues. All the unique attractions were cut and replaced with clones, and JW ride got downsized.

More details next week.
Click to expand...

Giant eyeroll. This better not be a park full of clones.
 
Mad Dog

Mad Dog

Veteran Member
V.I.P. Member
Joined
Jan 30, 2013
Messages
23,865
Location
Pittsburgh area
  • Nov 14, 2016
  • #69
I really don't care. I wouldn't go to China if they paid me.
 
  • Like
Reactions: IAmFloridaBorn and Porkchop
Mike S

Mike S

Dragon Trainer
Joined
Dec 10, 2015
Messages
6,495
Age
32
Location
Florida
  • Nov 14, 2016
  • #70
UOR's reign as the best Uni has to offer anywhere continues?
 
  • Like
Reactions: Mad Dog
quinnmac000

quinnmac000

Dragon Trainer
Joined
May 14, 2014
Messages
6,518
Location
Seoul, Korea
  • Nov 14, 2016
  • #71
Mike S said:
UOR's reign as the best Uni has to offer anywhere continues?
Click to expand...

not for long if everything is a clone of something at another park.
 
  • Like
Reactions: tankart150 and IAmFloridaBorn
Mike S

Mike S

Dragon Trainer
Joined
Dec 10, 2015
Messages
6,495
Age
32
Location
Florida
  • Nov 14, 2016
  • #72
quinnmac000 said:
not for long if everything is a clone of something at another park.
Click to expand...
Soon to be 3 theme parks plus Volcano Bay. It's the best pretty much by default since everything else would just have clones so you might as well go to the biggest one with everything the others have and more. Easier on me too since I'm not missing much. I bet that JW ride makes it here. Also the 3rd park is pretty much guaranteed several unique attractions at least at opening.
 
Hatetofly

Hatetofly

Superstar
Platinum Member
Joined
Mar 16, 2010
Messages
11,127
  • Nov 14, 2016
  • #73
You don't have the largest creative team on the books for a park full of clones. will there be clones of course, but this park will be YHUGE. It's going to have some amazing unique attractions that will dazzle but this park will set itself apart with its scale, tech, and theming.

There are issues, as there always will be in building a brand new park of this size. Factor in its in China and boom logistical nightmare. Disney Shanghai went through numerous challenges forcing Disney to throw loads of money and more importantly resources at it. This caused numerous issues with their domestic parks and slowing down several projects and straining their teams.

Universal isn't willing to slow down its domestic park growth nor is it willing to overpay millions upon millions of labor dollars to do this. Universal knows what they want to do and in their eyes they'd rather delay the park a year like they already have vs rush in and threaten their business plan for the next decade.
 
  • Like
Reactions: JaySalahi, Mike S, Mr. EPCOT and 2 others
GAcoaster

GAcoaster

Dragon Trainer
Platinum Member
Joined
Nov 30, 2012
Messages
7,345
Location
Orlando
  • Nov 15, 2016
  • #74
Even if the park is full of mostly clones, who cares? For 99% of the guests who go to the park they will have no idea they are cloned rides and they will all be new to them.

And, this park (like any park owned partially by outside investors) also gets used as a proving ground for new rides/concepts financed on someone else's dime that can then be cloned (or improved) for the US market.
 
  • Like
Reactions: tankart150 and Mad Dog
Viator

Viator

Veteran Member
Joined
Nov 23, 2013
Messages
23,411
Location
Seattle, WA!
  • Dec 8, 2016
  • #75
The Metro Line is being extended out to the area of Beijing as it's expected to open by 2019.

Universal Studios Beijing construction updates
 
Viator

Viator

Veteran Member
Joined
Nov 23, 2013
Messages
23,411
Location
Seattle, WA!
  • Feb 10, 2017
  • #76
DP, From WXHaowen..

upload_2017-2-10_5-41-40.png
 
  • Like
Reactions: Porkchop, tankart150, Mike S and 1 other person
JungleSkip

JungleSkip

Veteran Member
V.I.P. Member
Joined
Feb 15, 2010
Messages
22,245
Location
The Mushroom Kingdom
  • Feb 10, 2017
  • #77
That certainly looks like a new version of UOR
 
  • Like
Reactions: tankart150 and Mike S
Mr. EPCOT

Mr. EPCOT

Jurassic Ranger
Joined
Nov 8, 2011
Messages
1,667
Location
The Vacation Kingdom of the World
  • Feb 10, 2017
  • #78
Alexshow said:
DP, From WXHaowen..

View attachment 3625
Click to expand...
Wow, I didn't realize there was a whole resort complex on deck like this for Beijing! That looks like two theme parks, a water park, a CityWalk, at least six resorts... and I don't know exactly what that is in the upper right corner there. Looks like maybe something like Disney's Hotel Plaza merged with another CityWalk-type complex and maybe a transit center.

It's fascinating how much of this almost perfectly parallels Universal Orlando, from the sweep of Universal Blvd. to the general flow of the river. The two theme parks, CityWalk, and most of the resorts are all in similar positions, although the Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure-style parks seem to be switched, and a water park (looks like it could even be Volcano Bay if you compare the layout of the wave pool to ours!) wedged in between CityWalk and what would be Royal Pacific here. The hotel roughly in the same position as Cabana Bay even has a main building with a similar layout! Some additional thoughts:

-The layout of the Studios park matches Universal Studios Florida nearly EXACTLY, except flipped horizontally, and, well, a certain area on the south side of the park... But the fact that it matches so perfectly makes me wonder if it's is some kind of placeholder image for an eventual second park, because it even has the show building for Kings Cross even though there doesn't seem to be a friendly route for the Hogwarts Express over to the other park. The only thing that makes me go "hmmmmmmm" is that there are a few extra big show buildings where KidZone would be...

-Still looks like they're not going for any resorts integrated into their parks like the Grand Californian or Hotel MiraCosta, and that really bums me out. It's great from a guest perspective feeling like you're staying inside the park, and it's great from a business perspective getting to charge premium room rates for the premium experience. I feel like there's so much untapped potential for the idea, too, just look at the way MiraCosta is integrated so naturally into the Mediterranean Harbor of DisneySea. Imagine staying at the Leaky Cauldron in Diagon Alley, or an Atlantis-themed resort in the Lost Continent, or the Hilton Isla Nublar in Jurassic World, or a cluster of high-rises integrated into New York or a Fisherman's Wharf-themed hotel in San Francisco. This drives me nuts about the UOR resorts. The Hard Rock Hotel is SO. CLOSE. to USF, it's even right next to the Hollywood section of the park! The Royal Pacific, Sapphire Falls, and Cabana Bay are feet away from IoA. And Cabana Bay doesn't even appear to have a special gate into Volcano Bay, much less be integrated into the park. Cabana Bay could have easily slanted more towards a tiki-theme and they could have really done something special there. This plan doesn't even to seem to have much in the way of hotels with great views of the parks, just the one next to the water park. It's just kind of a strange design philosophy to me.

-Looks to me like the water park is built right up to the river, that's a really cool feature, especially if there is a dock for the water taxi. I also wonder if they'd do anything with that island in the middle of the river right by there.

-I'm very intrigued by the garden-like area wedged in between CityWalk, the Studios park, and the water park. That would be quite a nice, refreshing departure to walk through a more natural park/garden-type space to get to a couple of the parks, instead of just straight endless shops and restaurants.

-Super curious about that complex in the upper right. Looks like the type of place where a local train might come in, but then it doesn't like there'd be anything beyond buses connecting it to the rest of Universal. The colors and shading also doesn't quite match the rest of the plan, and some of it just doesn't really line up, so that makes me wonder if it's from another document just edited in.

Overall, looks like a great evolution of the Universal Orlando plan!
 
  • Like
Reactions: UNIrd
Parkscope Joe

Parkscope Joe

Superstar
Joined
Feb 15, 2012
Messages
18,219
Age
38
  • Feb 10, 2017
  • #79
USF layout is a placeholder and appears to have an early Nintendo layout...
 
  • Like
Reactions: tankart150 and Mike S
Mike S

Mike S

Dragon Trainer
Joined
Dec 10, 2015
Messages
6,495
Age
32
Location
Florida
  • Feb 10, 2017
  • #80
testtrack321 said:
USF layout is a placeholder and appears to have an early Nintendo layout...
Click to expand...
Nvm.
 
Prev
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • …

    Go to page

  • 91
Next
First Prev 4 of 91

Go to page

Next Last
You must log in or register to reply here.
Share:
Facebook X Bluesky LinkedIn Reddit Pinterest Tumblr WhatsApp Email Share Link

Book with our Travel Partners

MEI Travel

Latest posts

  • belloq87
    Disneyland Resort
    • Latest: belloq87
    • 13 minutes ago
    Disneyland Resort
  • Mike S
    What Games Are You Playing?
    • Latest: Mike S
    • 15 minutes ago
    Games, Movies & Sports
  • Bort
    Terrifier (HHN 34)
    • Latest: Bort
    • 20 minutes ago
    Halloween Horror Nights 34
  • L
    Epic Universe Expansion Speculation
    • Latest: Loki
    • 41 minutes ago
    Universal Epic Universe
  • J
    Halloween Horror Nights 34 (UOR) - Speculation & Rumors
    • Latest: Jack Torrence
    • Today at 3:13 PM
    Halloween Horror Nights 34

Share this page

Facebook X Bluesky LinkedIn Reddit Pinterest Tumblr WhatsApp Email Share Link
  • Forums
  • Universal Parks & Resorts
  • Worldwide Universal Parks
  • Universal Studios Beijing
  • Style variation
    System Light Dark
  • Contact us
  • Terms and rules
  • Privacy policy
  • Help
  • Home
  • RSS
Community platform by XenForo® © 2010-2025 XenForo Ltd.
  • This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register.
    By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.
    Accept Learn more…
Back
Top