The menu items at the Stakehouse better not have cutesy, jokey names (if this was Disney, you know they would). Just be a normal menu.
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It feels a little odd to me to be so strongly against puns and jokes for a land based on a franchise in which one of it's most famous films stars Abbot and Costello.
Yes. Theme parks are serious business!
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I swear if you smile in this land.
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I wouldn't expect something like "Uncle Spoopy's Boo-venir Stand" for the rest of the businesses, but something more on the hokey side of Steampunk naming conventions wouldn't be out of the question. Anything you can add an "imus" or "orius" to, haha
Menu Leak:
Dracula's Chicken Bites
Frankenstein's Electric-Fried Chicken Wings
Calamari of the Black Lagoon
Dracula's Chicken Bites
Frankenstein's Electric-Fried Chicken Wings
Calamari of the Black Lagoon
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All drinks have the option to be served in a souvenir Franken-Stein.
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I want this land to feel like the most depressing, 86 episode true crime podcast.
But for real, Universal doesn’t really get super cute with food. The extravagant naming seems to stay within the attraction realm. I couldn’t even tell you if the names of food at Monsters Cafe even referenced the monsters.
But for real, Universal doesn’t really get super cute with food. The extravagant naming seems to stay within the attraction realm. I couldn’t even tell you if the names of food at Monsters Cafe even referenced the monsters.
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“I don’t want this Dracula’s Blood drink, way too on the nose! Just get me a standard Bloody Mary instead”
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A dark and depressing land would actually be pretty unappealing. The target audience for this park is families. It's not HHN where it's mostly adults so you can get away with a lot more.
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Anyone expecting HHN-esque atmosphere is setting themselves up for disappointment. This will be Haunted Mansion/Tower of Terror like in atmosphere/scares.
Okay, I think the pile-on can stop, now, folks.
To be clear: I'm not asking for a "dark and depressing" land. I also don't want a "goofy" land, either. I don't know why that's somehow an unfair desire around here, and I think the implication that I must hate fun, or something, is a wildly inaccurate reading of my position.
To be clear: I'm not asking for a "dark and depressing" land. I also don't want a "goofy" land, either. I don't know why that's somehow an unfair desire around here, and I think the implication that I must hate fun, or something, is a wildly inaccurate reading of my position.
Alpha Centauri Expeditions vs Chester & Hester’s DinoRama. I get it.
Basically. Something minimally kitschy and cheesy.
I don't think that at all precludes the land from also still being "fun."
Every single Universal land is cheesy in some way. Even Jurassic Park, which is a borderline horror movie at times. I'm not sure what you were expecting.
It's not like Disney hasn't pulled the "horror" rug out from under us. Anyone remember Alien Encounter. One of the most fun experiences in the park. But deemed to scary.
Now we're getting into semantics, because I wouldn't consider the JP land at IOA to be cheesy in the way I don't want to see from the Monsters.
Something in the general tonal space of River Adventure would be just fine with me.
There's also Pizza Predatoria, carnival games, a rock climbing wall, and a roller coaster staring Mari-- I mean Chris Pratt.
All of those feel like things you might encounter in a Jurassic Park that had actually opened and thrived as a theme park.
I'm just hoping for a little internal logic and nothing too self-referential, that's all. That doesn't mean things need to be deadly serious.
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