Let's play being head of Universal Creative...

[OrlLover]

If I was Universal I would…

• Start a huge renovation project across USF and IOA DLP style.
• Close every ride and give them a huge refurbishment in phases.
• Others that are closing like Rip Ride Rocket I would leave alone and the Simpsons I would fix broken effects for the time being.
• Revamp all the menus at every restaurant with poor reviews.
• Plus up existing theming throughout various areas that I can.
• Rebuild the iconic arch at USF and it has a different color when finished.

Now for new things…

• Replace the Simpsons with Pokemon. I mean demolish every thing and start from scratch to get as much as possible.
• Demolish one of the empty stages and build Sing Live.
• Replace Rip Ride Rocket with a Ghostbusters walkthrough attraction. Yes I know it’s gonna be an another coaster but a man can dream.
• Add a dark ride to Dreamworks Land.
• Build Wicked in the previous Lost Continent area. Zelda should go to Epic in my opinion.
• Im mixed on this but I think a slight retheme of Toon Lagoon to SpongeBob would be cool.

 

[UniversalRBLX]

I know the park hasn't officially opened just yet, but it's fun to speculate on the future. Let me be clear, Epic Universe is a solid theme park. With that said, it's not perfect and there's a few things that need to be prioritized. (Number/Ideas on the map/image below are not in order). Obviously, USF improvement should be prioritized.

Significant Priority:

• Additional Dark Universe Capacity - the land unfortunately does not have enough attractions or experiences compared to the other ones. I'd quickly fill in the area between Werewolf and the existing Darkmoor village with some sort of interactive experience. Whether a catacomb walkthrough or special effects driven area.
• Shade Structure at Celestial Park - labeled 3 below, there's an entertainment stage that unfortunately requires guests to be out at the sun to enjoy. I'd add a a structure here similar to Constellation Carousel's to provide shelter.

Moderate Priority:

• Additional Family-Friendly experiences - the park is very family-friendly in theme, but it really only has a handful of decent attractions that the entire family can experience together without fear of motion sickness or getting wet (Yoshi Adventure, Mario Kart*, Cirque Arcanus, Constellation Carousel, The Untrainable Dragon). While I'd love for a 2nd Monsters Dark Ride personally, I think either a family-friendly experience should be added to either Potter's expansion pad or HTTYD (ideas below) before a monsters dark ride.
• Waveswinger at Celestial Park - this isn't a significant priority, but there's a perfect plot at #2 that a wave swinger can fit in perfectly. I'd like the idea of it being themed/dedicated to John Williams' classic scores that change each ride cycle.
• Harry Potter store - something fascinating about Epic Universe is that there isn't the traditional assortment of generic Universal merchandise at the gift shops throughout Epic. Likely, this will change over time and you'll see them slowly replace some of the Epic IPs with standard UOR merch, and they'll likely dedicate a larger area to Potter here (or an entirely different store concept).

The proposed timeline below is just Blue Sky & ambitious. I actually don't think they need to add a new portal anytime soon, I'd rather they flesh out each of them first.

 

[DrStarlander]

I know the park hasn't officially opened just yet, but it's fun to speculate on the future. Let me be clear, Epic Universe is a solid theme park. With that said, it's not perfect and there's a few things that need to be prioritized. (Number/Ideas on the map/image below are not in order). Obviously, USF improvement should be prioritized.

Significant Priority:

• Additional Dark Universe Capacity - the land unfortunately does not have enough attractions or experiences compared to the other ones. I'd quickly fill in the area between Werewolf and the existing Darkmoor village with some sort of interactive experience. Whether a catacomb walkthrough or special effects driven area.
• Shade Structure at Celestial Park - labeled 3 below, there's an entertainment stage that unfortunately requires guests to be out at the sun to enjoy. I'd add a a structure here similar to Constellation Carousel's to provide shelter.

Moderate Priority:

• Additional Family-Friendly experiences - the park is very family-friendly in theme, but it really only has a handful of decent attractions that the entire family can experience together without fear of motion sickness or getting wet (Yoshi Adventure, Mario Kart*, Cirque Arcanus, Constellation Carousel, The Untrainable Dragon). While I'd love for a 2nd Monsters Dark Ride personally, I think either a family-friendly experience should be added to either Potter's expansion pad or HTTYD (ideas below) before a monsters dark ride.
• Waveswinger at Celestial Park - this isn't a significant priority, but there's a perfect plot at #2 that a wave swinger can fit in perfectly. I'd like the idea of it being themed/dedicated to John Williams' classic scores that change each ride cycle.
• Harry Potter store - something fascinating about Epic Universe is that there isn't the traditional assortment of generic Universal merchandise at the gift shops throughout Epic. Likely, this will change over time and you'll see them slowly replace some of the Epic IPs with standard UOR merch, and they'll likely dedicate a larger area to Potter here (or an entirely different store concept).

The proposed timeline below is just Blue Sky & ambitious. I actually don't think they need to add a new portal anytime soon, I'd rather they flesh out each of them first.

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Nice job! As far as another Wizarding World attraction, the flying coach they take from New York in Fantastic Beasts would be a cool inspiration for a scaled-up Peter Pan's Flight style attraction, where you fly from Paris to New York and elsewhere. Since the students from Beauxbatons fly to the Triwizard Tournament in a flying coach, this must be a very French way of magical travel, since it's seen in both movie series, both in the 1920s and 1990s...so a nice way to blur the lines between Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts.

Since they don't need another intense ride, maybe the story is we're joining the students from Beauxbatons on a school trip to New York and a storm creates some low-intensity "peril" by pushing us off-course, causing us to fly over 1920s London along the way.

The exit could drop us out in a new 1920s New York street extension at a NYC Ministry of Magic. (Then, this world would have all three Ministry of Magics seen on film).

Most of all, what I would want is for Universal Creative to resist the temptation to use screens and try to achieve a simulation of reality. Rather, I'd love for the ride to have an old-school charm (like Peter Pan's Flight or it's a small word, etc.) and to have forced perspective models of Paris, New York, etc. that we would fly over...with a whimsical, charming, creative direction. maybe use blacklights/Wildfire paints for a classic dark ride feel They could take inspiration from Golden Books and Mary Blair and the original Harry Potter book cover illustrations to create an imaginative, stylistic look.