I see, that makes sense..sort of..I still don't see it flying off the shelf like Potter though.
It definitely won't.
Unless they hold fantasicon at their new convention center located at Hotel 5?
Is this a real life opinion? Because it's extremely misgudied. Star Wars is a merchandise machine. Hell, they basically invtented the "action figure" and movie merchandising to begin with. Star Trek as a pretty strong following with teens, and older folks, but Star Wars is pretty much universal. The merchandise plays to ALL audiences.
Can't really see Star Trek fit in USF, you have all these more or less regular cityscapes, and then you'd have something futuristic ... though on the other hand, I do like the idea of a futuristic city ...
Which will have to have a giant flashing red light on top. Tower of Terror, Everest, Hogwarts... All sit under 200' to avoid this.
I think the key to a Star Trek land/attraction in a park setting is to "transport guests" to the themed environment from the park. There's no real facade that's easily identifiable or could be done on a reasonable scale. I think the best route would be to use either transporters or a shuttle ride system to transport guests into a indoor starebase themed land then have an attraction based on a trip with the Enterprise and also an outdoor alien planed could be tied in with this.
The Las Vegas one had a shuttle system (flight sim) ride to go to Deep Space 9. They had teleporters also IIRC from videos on youtube...never got to see it in person
My problem with Trek is that I don't see what attraction possibilities there are outside of a normal flight simulator...which does not sound interesting in the slightest.
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