Universal's Epic Universe General News & Discussion

[Mad Dog]

GAMBIT over here wanting to rename the park EPIC I ACCIDENTALLY FELL ASLEEP UNIVERSE with those ride selections!

I jest because it's true. This park is in dire need of some 'simple-but-long' rides that are low on thrills and easy for anyone to ride both in wait time and duration. Just imagine if this park had been built with a Captain Cacao universal-train-of-sorts (A PEOPLE MOVER, one could say) that traveled through all portals in the back of each land, not stopping at any of them but showing individual little scenes in between each portal as a snippet for something not found inside... A 'duna-duna-duna' segment of Mario land showing Luigi lost in the underground, an extra look at Ygor in the catacombs preparing the experiments for riders about to come in, the background of some ministry offices trying to ignore the muggle onlookers, some dragons nesting in caves under berk, etc. This is where screens would be welcome because it's not about advanced levels of immersion, it's about simplicity for the rides' sake!
ahhhh... to dream

Definitely needs a high capacity family dark ride. Capacity, even once the tech is fixed, will be a problem. Too many real
low capacity attractions, in a park with a small number of D/E ticket, high capacity, rides.

 

[GA-MBIT]

Epic isn't quite at DHS levels of "Oops, All E-Tickets!", but it's certainly on the scale.

At the very least, every ride in the park is being hit with enough traffic to make every ride feel like a D/E. That honestly might be even worse. So when you spend 70 minutes in line for Yoshi or Werewolf, it stings even more. Because despite that wait, you aren't getting Rise, Tower, M&M, or Slinky, you're riding something considerably shorter and less engaging. There's that capacity problem again.

 

[Stonecoldfreak1]

Was leaving Cinemark last night and found this in the freestyle machine. Weird, but the thing that makes it super weird is that this was in Texas.

 

[Mad Dog]

Epic isn't quite at DHS levels of "Oops, All E-Tickets!", but it's certainly on the scale.

At the very least, every ride in the park is being hit with enough traffic to make every ride feel like a D/E. That honestly might be even worse. So when you spend 70 minutes in line for Yoshi or Werewolf, it stings even more. Because despite that wait, you aren't getting Rise, Tower, M&M, or Slinky, you're riding something considerably shorter and less engaging. There's that capacity problem again.

yeah. Lots of Epic C ticket rides have D/E ticket waits. Nice that Epic has two large theater shows, but DHS has Mermaid, Indiana Jones,
Beauty & the Beast, Frozen, Villains and Fantasmic....plus all those real D/E tickets. And DHS still gets crowded with long lines. What was UC
thinking when they designed all these low capacity C ticket Epic attractions. I don't see how they'll ever be able to handle crowds in the 30,000
plus numbers.