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Of course it is. That's a retail store in a major city for NBC themselves. This is a gift shop for a theme park ride.I'm very disappointed in this. The NYC store is way cooler and more interesting.
Of course it is. That's a retail store in a major city for NBC themselves. This is a gift shop for a theme park ride.I'm very disappointed in this. The NYC store is way cooler and more interesting.
It's great when Universal listens to me. If they do the other side (minion store) too, I'm happy. In the end this doesn't take away from the regular viewing area.I don't know if this was mentioned, but there's a balcony above the new restrooms that I've been told is a VIP viewing area for concerts:
Yeah, I stopped by yesterday. It was a little smaller than I had anticipated based on the photos. Still a very decent attraction gift shop though.I think we all forget how small the Twister gift shop was.
I think we all forget how small the Twister gift shop was.
Plus two theaters instead of one to up capacity from a DM type level.This looks noticeably smaller than Aftermath though..
The likely reason that the ride has no large queue and no large gift shop is because they're using up as much space as physically possible by putting a ride in a small building that was meant for shows. They need as much ride room as they can get without totally removing the queue and gift shop aspects of the building. Small queue & small gift shop= more attraction area to work with.
Great to see another ride with mainly unique merchandise.
Could it be that you aren't seeing that stuff because it is no longer on NBC?
I don't know if this was mentioned, but there's a balcony above the new restrooms that I've been told is a VIP viewing area for concerts:
More than anything it may be licensing issues. Just because a show is on NBC doesn't mean they have the rights to sell the products. Especially in a shop that may have specific licensing requirements of its own. While NBC owns the Tonight Show brand, I believe the Jimmy Fallon version of the Tonight Show is partially owned by Lorne Michaels and his production company Broadway Video. They may not want other merchandise being sold in the store competing with the sales of their merchandise that they are getting a cut of.I don't think this is the reason because they still have "The Office" merch in the NYC store when I was there in December. For comparison, the NBC store in NYC is about twice the size of this store, but only a bit more merchandise because the lines for registers take up a lot more space up there.
That sounds more like a legitimate reason.More than anything it may be licensing issues. Just because a show is on NBC doesn't mean they have the rights to sell the products. Especially in a shop that may have specific licensing requirements of its own. While NBC owns the Tonight Show brand, I believe the Jimmy Fallon version of the Tonight Show is partially owned by Lorne Michaels and his production company Broadway Video. They may not want other merchandise being sold in the store competing with the sales of their merchandise that they are getting a cut of.
It was a restroom area before (entrance and exit). Due to a nice attraction (for all of us) they extended the restrooms (for all of us) and added viewing area's on top of it (probably for the whales). I think it's a fair deal (but indeed it took a bit away for the regular crowd) but I envisioned multiple levels where now the empty gray wall is that would thin out the regular area a bit. I hope the wall of the Minion store gets multi level viewing areas.Whoa whoa whoa... you're supposed to take away a previously existing free area and then charge for VIP viewing. You don't add capacity and build a brand new area. They're doing it wrong
It was a restroom area before (entrance and exit). Due to a nice attraction (for all of us) they extended the restrooms (for all of us) and added viewing area's on top of it (probably for the whales). I think it's a fair deal (but indeed it took a bit away for the regular crowd) but I envisioned multiple levels where now the empty gray wall is that would thin out the regular area a bit. I hope the wall of the Minion store gets multi level viewing areas.
How do you know?I believe softs will start during the first 2 weeks of Feb.
I bought a dime bag of info from Skeeter behind the 7-11.How do you know?