The fact you called him "Walk Disney" really sums up the whole post. As I said before, this is a cheaper park designed for young families, it's not a full blown theme park. Universal says this, the locals knows, why are fans having such a problem with this?
“Walk Disney”… …that brings up a good point. The amount of strollers at WDW is insane! You go to Disneyland, not so many. You go to any other international Disney park, and you don’t see any. Perhaps this is a park trying to go back to a world where children are expected to walk everywhere. They get tired/cranky, they go home. This isn’t intended to be an all day all week experience.
Then you'd have a significantly more expensive day ticket and at that point folks go "well we'll just go to the regular park then". Sesame starts in the $37 price range, Peppa & Legoland FL start around $30. I worked at Sesame Place, it really is a different scale and scope designed for kids.
A local town would host a festival twice a year. On certain days, admission was free, and one day in particular, you could purchase an unlimited carnival ride wristband. After COVID, this stopped. Fewer people went, and I even heard people admit that it would be cheaper just going to Six Flags. They were right. The cost of carnival tickets made the few hours of fun just as expensive and we never went back.
I hope Shrek's presence in this park leads to the IP getting a fully fledged ride at USF, perhaps as a phase 2 of DreamWorks that replaces Springfield.
You are absolutely not allowed to suggest such a thing. Everyone will dogpile on you and argue that it's not a popular enough IP and that it going in Springfield would be the worst thing ever
The current DreamWorks Land is a joke. It looks very temporary. I think with Disney owning Fox, there’s a contractual ending for Springfield. DreamWorks Land can remain open while they replace Springfield with a Frisco clone. Once finished, they can tear up the current/temporary KidZone dreamworks land, and use that as a phase 2, keeping ET and the Animal Actors stage show as part of the new land.
The Legoland parks are undoubtedly meant for kids. Yet they have enough coasters and indoor attractions to give adults plenty to do in a day as well. It's not like the model doesn't exist for "One Step Above Sesame Place".
That’s the problem. I didn’t experience anything at Sesame Street or Legoland. I mean, Legoland I eventually road three things and saw one show, but as an adult, that’s disappointing because you paid to be there. I know people who literally live right behind the new Peppa Pig Park, and they don’t take their grand child because they have to pay for admission for all of them, even though the adults are mostly just going to sit there bored, while their kid plays.
So there is at least hope this park can get some more unique offerings to draw in non-locals.
They’re hoping to receive a lot of tourism from next years FIFA cup. Although, I just spoke with some people who have concerns that there won’t be as much tourism due to the new cost of expensive travel visas, and fear of arrests and deportations simply because they spoke a different language.
I gotta say, I really think SpongeBob was the one IP here that young adults are the most connected to and I think them not doing a Krusty Krab or even a simple Sponge dark ride is going to hurt in that area a bit. A sit down or quick service Krusty Krab would undoubtedly print money even if the food is awful. I still fail to understand how SpongeBob is just constantly getting shafted in the theme park department
I figured the reason they wouldn’t have a Wizarding World was licensing reasons, and budget, but then they announced Bikini Bottom. I knew that this was specifically for young millennials/older gen z to have more of a reason to go, and at the same time, introduce them to an IP they cherished when they were young. Everyone wins.
The Krusty Krab was what adults seemed to desire the most within this land. However, a real Krusty Krab burger has no beef. “Where’s the beef?!?”
Also...its Texas is there not a burger joint?
The funny thing is as someone who travels to Texas alot...the food should be good. Like I've rarely had bad food in Texas, so hope most the food is leveled up
And I think that’s going to be a big issue. We already discussed here the legalities involving defaming beef, as well as authentic Texas BBQ, but the only way to have a beef burger would be if they did something truly offensive and had Sandy supply the meat for them. Sandy is pretty offensive IMO. Negative Texas stereotypes with a nails on chalkboard voice.
I just saw Bad Guys 2, another DreamWorks film, where Mr Wolf pretends to be Texan. “My people are not a costume.” But Mr Shark portrays a negative Italian American stereotype too, but it’s so short it’s not a big issue. Mr Wolf’s Texas accent, though twangy, is not as torturing to hear, unlike Sandy’s. Most of the people in Frisco and surrounding areas are either not Texan, or first generation (still children.) They have to make the tough decision on whether to eat a burger at In N Out or Whataburger, and people are watching and judging you the entire time!
We live in a universe where the most immersive SpongeBob ride is at the tackiest casino in Vegas.
I can think of another, but I fear political backlash
Texas is hot and my god, I hope they have shade. Thats also what themeing can help with is having building blocking the sun when your waiting in line and hope this isn't another Epic Universe park design where its mostly flat with not much blocking the sun because....it is not fun to stand in the heat in Texas
They can only have so many misters and fans, but I remember how dumb Toy Story Land was, with its lack of shade. They literally had a backyard play area where everything was huge. Where did all those giant grass blades go from the Honey I Shrunk the Playground? And when they replaced A Bugs Land, where did all that shading go? The giant clovers and such?
Trollsfest has at least some fake leave awnings. The hotel and surrounding buildings crest afternoon shade, which the park would be at its hottest, as the sun sets on the outside western park. Buildings on the eastern part of the park seem to cast some shading depending on time of day. High noon is where the regular ride line canopies help, and the belief is that you’re supposed to get wet in Minions, as well as all the other splash pads. But most adults don’t want to get wet, and don’t want their children getting wet either, due to issues on the ride home, or blisters, which I guess some people get.
It also gets incredibly cold in Texas too… …and rains. Frisco faces the same snowmageddon, hail and wind storms and tornadoes as everyone else in DFW does. The push for outdoor third spaces, and outdoor shopping centers is a dumb one, but developers don’t know any better. Probably explains why people here with modern stucco houses have mold issues. I asked my folks when I was a kid why they don’t build those, and they told me it was too humid here, which causes mold.
I'm slightly concerned that the general public is going to have incorrect expectations for this, considering that people on this site who basically know everything about it still had the wrong expectations lol
Well that’s there fault. These are probably the same people who walk into EPCOT wondering where the rides are (since nothing is outdoors) and also wonder where the Harry Potter Land in Magic Kingdom is. I mean, I’m no better. I went to EuroDisney thinking Space Mountain was a simple kiddie coaster, and Indiana Jones Temple of Peril was an indoor Dinosaur/Countdown to Extinction clone.
Word on the street is the local government wouldn’t allow indoor rides.
I screen capturesd a Facebook response the Mayor did in regarding this question from when this limitation was first announced. Frisco currently has a mall with a carousel and train, and no one considers those “dark rides.”
I'm genuinely curious to see how the food looks for this park. That's something that they can easily inject a good bit of theming into.
Little kids, remember? Theming will be difficult. I imagine a lot of fried chicken tenders and cheese pizza everywhere. Hopefully the chicken nuggets at Jurassic World will be dino shaped. Selling Tex Mex in the Puss in Boots land will be easy, even if I think it’s supposed to be a Spanish village, but even as a young Texan, I hated it. Didn’t like BBQ either. It wasn’t until I was an adult when I finally could appreciate it. Kids are picky eaters, and even now, when asked about spice level, my intolerance is so embarrassing that I tell staff to pretend I’m Canadian and make the spice bland enough that a northerner could tolerate it.