I apologize for not having read the entire 322 pages, but I figured most of my thoughts on the park layout have probably been covered, however I just wanted to summarize my thoughts so far in case anyone has input.
IF they are going to do things the way I expect, I like this concept as it gives them a lot of options.
Key Points:
- Each land is completely separated and are around the perimeter of the park and that can help with moving TM's around backstage. It can also help with construction not having to move through other lands to get things done.
- It seems they're going to the idea that you have an entry time for each land, like they did for the Wizarding World, but they could also make this a whole ticket experience as well....
- Tickets could be sold for people who only want to experience certain lands, like if they're not interested in Universal Monsters, etc.
- They can much more easily plan staffing and guest flow by having return times for entire lands instead of individual attractions
- Ideally each land would have a number of activities where guests aren't waiting in line...imagine the queues like we see at Volcano Bay or more simply something like Dumbo in WDW but the whole land is your "playground" until your time is called. Places like Super Mario World would be ideal for this.
- It would be easier to predict guests behavior and how long the average guest spends in the land before wanting to go elsewhere
- The central hub can have a variety of things to do in-between times
We've been seeing a lot of systems in order to try to get guests to make reservations, fastpasses, etc. at Disney and similar efforts at Universal. These have had good and ill effects...with some of it feeling like a chore to plan everything unless you're that type of person and feeling forced like you're stuck on a tight schedule.
Universal may have solved one of the more challenging aspects of this if I understand just by the layout of the park and hopefully create a more relaxing and simple process without the need for a lot of extra involvement of things like Disney's new Genie app