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Aquatica cost $50 million, so this will cost $200 million
And what was the cost of typhoon lagoon, the other disney
Yas was at 250 mil
Aquatica cost $50 million, so this will cost $200 million
Who's ready to meet Gru in his Speedo?Based on HTF's late night tweet on the subject, this seems like a good time to bring this thread up to date. The indication is that Wondersea Island is the official name of Universal's new water park, targeted at a 2016 opening. With an indication of an undersea Despicable Me themed attraction, will this be just the first of many themes for the new water park?
Am I the only one who thinks that 200 million for an entire park is really cheap? Even 50 million seems ludicrously cheap. The amount of infrastructure needed to move all that water alone seems like it would take up half of that easily.
Take Atlantis or Aquatica and add in a barge type ride or log flume (hint, hint) and that should hopefully control things a bit better.
Any considerations of where it may be? Wet N' Wild Property?
Yas waterworld pics - http://www.thethemeparkguy.com/park/yas-waterworld/photos
Yas is at 15 hectares, 37 acres.
Typhoon lagoon is 61 acres
Wet N wild is 30 acres
Do they use the current plot of land that WnW resides on? or do they go to the plot on property that is expected to be hotel #5 or cabana bay expansion? Would it be smart of them to buy the village international shopping plaza next door and tear that down along with the terrible put put golf in order to acquire more land?
This is going to be exciting
Honestly if Universal builds a new water park for $200 million, it's going to be a 60-70 acre park so I'd say a different plot with WnW used for something else (CityWalk 2.0? another value resort?)
Universal purchased a lot of land near Wet and Wild.
How neat would it be if the water park went over the street? Build a parking garage on the unpaved parcels to the south, then build a massive expansion where the existing parking lot is.
But I don't think we'll see a stand-alone CityWalk 2.0, if we get another one it would probably be part of another campus.
As I said when this was brought up for the Cabana Bay bridge, I have a feeling this is a test for the WnW property giving them the ability to expand it using the parking area. They could easily build a parking structure to create even more space where the current parking lot is and free up plenty of room, and loosing the Wet N Wild name wouldn't be the worst idea since there are other Wet N Wild properties and they will want to create a unique brand identity.
Universal purchased a lot of land near Wet and Wild.
How neat would it be if the water park went over the street? Build a parking garage on the unpaved parcels to the south, then build a massive expansion where the existing parking lot is.
But I don't think we'll see a stand-alone CityWalk 2.0, if we get another one it would probably be part of another campus.
The property on the side that is currently parking is as big as the property that is currently WnW. What if they build on the parking side first, then connect/remodel the existing waterpark side. After looking at photos of the original parking lots of Universal and how they were transformed into part of IOA, it's obvious they can perform miraculous changes.