I get attacked every time I mention cost cutting, but damn, it's become really obvious, and I don't know how the apologists are going to continue to deny this is happening....
The apologists nonsense is exhausting, man. I've listed my personal gripes on plenty of occasions:
- F&F? Bad
- Fallon? Bad
- Fully losing park maps? Bad
- Chucky queue video audio being inaudible/lack of captions for all queue videos? Bad
- Queue videos not starting for HHN largely until October annually? Bad
- Costume botches at HHN (Depths of Fear, Giant Chucky head, etc.)? Bad
- Not announcing holiday dates until last minute and never (?) announcing the USF/IOA firework details? Bad
- Lack of show options in the parks? Bad
- Treatment of TMs during COVID? Horrendous
- Treatment of TMs post-Hurricane? Bad
- Universal Great Movie Escape? Laughably bad.
- TM pay? A joke.
- VBay opening rollout? Baaaad
- HRRR? Needs to go.
I can go on and on and have expressed these opinions (and more) in the past ad nauseam. Just because myself and a handful of others disagree on certain things/complaints doesn't make us apologists who do nothing, but blindly defend the resort. I thoroughly explain my takes, so reducing it to being a blind apologist is just frustrating. There's not a single person on here that doesn't have complaints about the parks and hasn't verbalized them.
This may come as a shock, but I actually don't like this decision either. I have my assumptions as to why (a new wave of staffing in EU starts around this/next week & it's the slow season, extend the usual slow season late starts to cut out opening leadership while people are moved around/hired to fill in gaps), but it doesn't mean it isn't poorly planned/managed.
I don't know how Universal gets away with this while Disney gets called out at every chance. It's in bad enough shape that it does make me worry about Epic opening. If they can't get the service right, this is going to be 4 out of 4 park opening failures in Orlando.
Where does Universal get away with anything lol? Pretty much every thread leads to Uni getting called out about things. This thread is literally pages of Uni
not getting away with things.