Hello Kitty Coming to Universal

[DodgsonHere]

Is this the previous Hello Kitty store location? Memory is failing me. Either way a lot to talk about here with how drastic the signage is. I like the properties they chose to showcase but I’m not sure it fits the Hollywood look.

 

[Casper Gutman]

Is this the previous Hello Kitty store location? Memory is failing me. Either way a lot to talk about here with how drastic the signage is. I like the properties they chose to showcase but I’m not sure it fits the Hollywood look.

That's... unbelievably awful. It absolutely obliterates the theming in one of my favorite parts of the park. It's like there are two Universal teams right now, the ones doing the Minion Cafe and the ones doing this. Think of how garish this is compared to the relatively subdued signage for Bourne, T2, or the makeup show, none of which interferes with the theming in the same way. It's so... desperate.

Universal has really succeeded in making the entry area of the Studios more garish and cheap-looking in the last year or so, which is kind of hard to believe.

Maybe it's temporary?

 

[DodgsonHere]

That's... unbelievably awful. It absolutely obliterates the theming in one of my favorite parts of the park. It's like there are two Universal teams right now, the ones doing the Minion Cafe and the ones doing this. Think of how garish this is compared to the relatively subdued signage for Bourne, T2, or the makeup show, none of which interferes with the theming in the same way. It's so... desperate.

Universal has really succeeded in making the entry area of the Studios more garish and cheap-looking in the last year or so, which is kind of hard to believe.

Maybe it's temporary?

It reeks CityWalk

 

[Casper Gutman]

It reeks CityWalk

That's what I thought it was, at first - CityWalk Hollywood. It also reeks of a frantic reaction to a management mandate to maximize sales from every square foot of retail space, another idea that has helped destroy WDW and that Uni seems to want to adopt,

Imagine doing this on Main Street.

 

[Brian G.]

Is this the previous Hello Kitty store location? Memory is failing me. Either way a lot to talk about here with how drastic the signage is. I like the properties they chose to showcase but I’m not sure it fits the Hollywood look.

It’s the Silver Screen store. Hello Kitty is to the right of it.

 

[AlexanderMBush]

when you can't even have a dedicated VRS store in CityWalk...

 

[Parkscope Joe]

Ok, so like where would this store go in CityWalk then? Anyone find that empty space?

 

[Casper Gutman]

The escape rooms seem destined for replacement sooner rather then later.

Of course, that assumes that Universal needs a UNIVRS store or that a UNIVRS store MUST have that garish signage, neither of which is true at all. A UNIVRS store in the Studios with even moderately thematically appropriate signage? No problem.

 

[TheCodeMan95]

I would be more inclined to be upset about this if there wasn't a statue of Hello Kitty 10 feet away

 

[Legacy]

Wait… Universal owns Felix the Cat?

Why have they not given him to Illumination for a full reboot? My god, talk about an underutilized IP.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

Wait… Universal owns Felix the Cat?

Why have they not given him to Illumination for a full reboot? My god, talk about an underutilized IP.

I mean they attempted a Woody Woodpecker revival but ended up just making it a Brazilian film.

 

[Nico]

I think I need to see a pic of the signs in context of everything else. I know what it’s around, but I’m curious about the clash.

 

[Legacy]

I mean they attempted a Woody Woodpecker revival but ended up just making it a Brazilian film.

Woody is fun but over obnoxious. That doesn’t play as well anymore. Felix is more like an OG Mickey Mouse with a dark innocence to him that works well today. He’s more cynical than annoying, and nowhere close to one-note like a lot of Tex Avery-style characters.

God… I’ve got a dozen reboot ideas for the character is just a few minutes of brainstorming.

 

[Nico]

Woody is fun but over obnoxious. That doesn’t play as well anymore. Felix is more like an OG Mickey Mouse with a dark innocence to him that works well today. He’s more cynical than annoying, and nowhere close to one-note like a lot of Tex Avery-style characters.

God… I’ve got a dozen reboot ideas for the character is just a few minutes of brainstorming.

Your excitement has me going on a deep dive now. I’ve never watched anything with him before.

 

[Jake S]

I honestly thought Felix the Cat was a cartoon invented by a car dealership in Los Angeles. love to learn new things.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

I honestly thought Felix the Cat was a cartoon invented by a car dealership in Los Angeles. love to learn new things.

This is up there with Disney licensing Donald Duck to Uni of Oregon.

 

[Nick]

I would be more inclined to be upset about this if there wasn't a statue of Hello Kitty 10 feet away

They at least made an attempt to have that be in theme with Hollywood though with Hello Kitty’s statue being with a star on the Walk of Fame.

 

[SpatulaShack]

Is this the previous Hello Kitty store location? Memory is failing me. Either way a lot to talk about here with how drastic the signage is. I like the properties they chose to showcase but I’m not sure it fits the Hollywood look.

I mean... this is objectively hideous. Why would they do this to the entrance of the Hollywood section of all places?

 

[Wigglepebbles]

The difference on the Twitter post comments and on the forum…
Looks cool! Hopefully they make some NOPE merch!

 

[TheCodeMan95]

The difference on the Twitter post comments and on the forum…
Looks cool! Hopefully they make some NOPE merch!

I'd love to see some Nope stuff.

Despite how it looks on the outside, I really like a lot of VRS stuff