Will have a longer post after our trip, but after my third visit to Epic (first in May 2025 preview, second late September, and now 4/12/2026) there’s no way I’d pay to upgrade my AP (as an out of tower) . Until there is 1, if not 2, expansion build outs, this park can barely handle the current capacity restraints. MK, BatM, DK, and Werewolf were consistently 60-75+ minutes, with DK and BatM being closer to 100-110 all day.
Such a beautiful park. Berk is fantastic. Darkmoor + Frankenstein Manor is great (Werewolf was a big miss).
SNW, as much as I hate to say it, was a miss. Severely under built, when talking about capacity. MK is fine, but I feel like a slow moving AR ride wasn’t the tech for an IP based around racing. DKMM is just an absolute disaster. No other way to put it. At least when HMCMBA had its issues, the ride was top notch when it was up and running. DK is FUN! But not 100+ minutes fun. I get off DKMM and have the same feeling as when I get off Tron (that was it???). One bathroom in the entire land? No one at Universal Creative chimed in when this was drawn up? Finally, did we really need the expansion pad between SNW and DU? Should’ve just built out SNW and added another ride. The land is just wayyy too small/crammed.. and that’s at our CURRENT lower capacity levels
Harry Potter land is the worst of the 3 (Diagon and Hogsmeade). There’s just not much to do here if you don’t want to a) wait nearly 2 hours for BatM, b) wait for the show that has its own set of technicals difficulties at times. I know the expansion pad will help , but as is currently constructed, there’s a LOT of empty space here.
All in all, beautiful layout and design, but it’s just severely underbuilt to handle the capacity that Universal execs want to get to. There’s no way, unless they’re ok with getting bombarded by negative reviews for the insane wait times. (Express passes were $300 on Sunday!!!)