Universal's Epic Universe General News & Discussion

[nikem3]

Do any of the roller coasters have loops or upside down parts? I feel like I haven't seen a single picture of a roller coaster with a loop or barrel roll. Maybe I haven't paid close enough attention though...

 

[Loki]

Do any of the roller coasters have loops or upside down parts? I feel like I haven't seen a single picture of a roller coaster with a loop or barrel roll. Maybe I haven't paid close enough attention though...

There's at least one barrel roll on Starfall racers (see animation)

 

[Ken96]

"Battle at..." sounds really clunky to me for some reason.

Is that really the leading contender?

That's bizarre. And even more of a tacit acknowledgment that the Paris setting is pretty nonsensical.

They trademarked “Ministry of Magic” and that’s the rumored name.

I just can’t fathom walking through a portal and a Parisian arch to enter Paris, surrounded by French stores into a land whose name doesn’t acknowledge France.

But as was said earlier, Potter locations are waaaay easier to market.

 

[Alicia]

I don’t know if Ministry of Magic was the original name for the land back in 2019. But I believe it will be now.

It may not be just to minimize Fantastic Beasts in marketing. It may also be a way to promote the main draw for the land even by simply saying the name of the land.

Because there’s going to be some confusion about what this land offers, and the quickest and easiest way to tell people there’s going to be a Harry Potter ride as the main attraction is to name the land after it.

If the land name was something from Fantastic Beasts, you’d have to then spend time also explaining, but wait there’s more Potter too!

 

[Cup_Of_Coffee]

I don’t know if Ministry of Magic was the original name for the land back in 2019. But I believe it will be now.

It may not be just to minimize Fantastic Beasts in marketing. It may also be a way to promote the main draw for the land even by simply saying the name of the land.

Because there’s going to be some confusion about what this land offers, and the quickest and easiest way to tell people there’s going to be a Harry Potter ride as the main attraction is to name the land after it.

If the land name was something from Fantastic Beasts, you’d have to then spend time also explaining, but wait there’s more Potter too!

At worst, if it’s called Ministry of Magic, confused guests will ask TM’s where it is and they’ll be properly directed. Won’t be a problem.

 

[Alicia]

At worst, if it’s called Ministry of Magic, confused guests will ask TM’s where it is and they’ll be properly directed. Won’t be a problem.

The hidden Diagon Alley effect.

 

[Ken96]

I don’t know if Ministry of Magic was the original name for the land back in 2019. But I believe it will be now.

It may not be just to minimize Fantastic Beasts in marketing. It may also be a way to promote the main draw for the land even by simply saying the name of the land.

Because there’s going to be some confusion about what this land offers, and the quickest and easiest way to tell people there’s going to be a Harry Potter ride as the main attraction is to name the land after it.

If the land name was something from Fantastic Beasts, you’d have to then spend time also explaining, but wait there’s more Potter too!

Somehow it always just makes sense when you say it. It’s going to forever bother me, but please know that I completely understand the reasoning you gave. I’m so curious to see how this all shakes out!

 

[Nick]

Summer is miserable, and word has gone out that it's not the best season to visit Orlando.

Overheard a family at USF talking about how much they were enjoying their trip now compared to when they last came in the summer because "crowds were about the same, the weather is nice, and people don't smell like ----"

 

[NotPennysBoat]

It’s the heat in the summer that gets me more than the crowds. Or maybe if the crowds were smaller and there was less time waiting in the heat, it wouldn’t be as bad?

 

[Mad Dog]

Summer crowds at the Orlando resorts have been in decline for the past 6 or 7 years. It's still busy in the parks, but nowhere as busy as it used to be. Crowds are more evened out over the year now. Short of a few weeks here and there, there's really no dead seasons anymore. The problem with summer though, besides the heat and rain, is that the parks still charge premium prices for their on site hotels.

 

[Crypt Keeper]

Epic Universe opens next year.....

 

[saint.piss]

Epic Universe opens next year.....

Feels really jarring to be this close to the park opening I can't wait

 

[GAcoaster]

Feels really jarring to be this close to the park opening I can't wait

Imagine the simultaneous excitement and horror on the parts of the construction teams and marketing teams as they really ramp up to make all this happen. There's so much to do, so much that could go wrong, and so little time left to see if a multi-billion dollar investment is the huge success it should be, or Universal Escape II: The Escapening

 

[saint.piss]

 

[Loki]

True is technically opening next year. But that is still a little under two years away from this point. And the amount of work they have done in just a year should reassure anyone that that they are on schedule.

 

[Disneyhead]

Thousands of CM costumes to design. Dockside has at least 25 different uniforms, and they match but are different than Surfside's.

We entered "Crunch Time" six months ago. Stella Luna is already taking reservations for 12 months and 3 weeks away.

 

[PerceptiveCoot]

I'm certain the park will be "done" by the end of this year, but I'm hoping it's ready when it's ready. It would be nice to see a major domestic theme park open without any capacity or technical issues for once.

 

[Mad Dog]

Just about every major new Disney or Universal D/E ticket has had issues during their first three months, often longer. I'm sure that'll happen to multiple attractions with an entire new park debuting, especially with so much high tech, much of it new, involved. Best way to avoid that scenario is to stay away during the first three or four or five months. I know I will.

 

[PerceptiveCoot]

Just about every major new Disney or Universal D/E ticket has had issues during their first three months, often longer. I'm sure that'll happen to multiple attractions with an entire new park debuting, especially with so much high tech, much of it new, involved. Best way to avoid that scenario is to stay away during the first three or four or five months. I know I will.

Or alternatively, have a longer and more robust test and adjust period. I don't think such problems are endemic to Universal attractions, they're just endemic because of the time constraints and timelines placed on them. That's what makes the difference between an opening like Hagrids/Gringotts and the relatively issue-free opening of Velocicoaster.

 

[Mad Dog]

Or alternatively, have a longer and more robust test and adjust period. I don't think such problems are endemic to Universal attractions, they're just endemic because of the time constraints and timelines placed on them. That's what makes the difference between an opening like Hagrids/Gringotts and the relatively issue-free opening of Velocicoaster.

They're certainly not endemic to Universal. But the reality is they happen to just about every park now with the higher tech involved, even more seemingly simple coasters. It's really unrealistic to expect it not to be fairly widespread when Epic opens.