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Skull Island: Reign of Kong - General Discussion

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Mad Dog said:
The best one, as I mentioned before, is that Universal should learn from Disney the right way to do screens.
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Yeah, Disney has a bunch of screen attractions that outdo Spider Man... which opened in 1999. And yes, I am being sarcastic.
 
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Mad Dog said:
Nope, Universal has said it's not based off of the movie....But there are similarities, unofficially of course.
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Was Jackson involved? I can't remember.
 
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scott_walker said:
Was Jackson involved? I can't remember.
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They say no - I think
 
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scott_walker said:
Was Jackson involved? I can't remember.
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That's a really good question. Is there and IMDB page for SI: RoK? I cannot remember if I ever asked if he was seen on property. I don't even know if WETA did the CGI.

Checked, no IMDB and WETA only shows 360. It has to be WETA as recreating the entire film footage would have cost a zillion dollars.
 
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Duh, I didn't know it was a Universal Picture! It appears that contractually, Universal can use whatever it wants with the film's content.
 
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So it's happened.
Kong has soft opened.
What a trip.
 
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scott_walker said:
Was Jackson involved? I can't remember.
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USA Today says Jackson helped initially. How much and how far into development, they're not saying.
 
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Yikes. whylightbulb over at a certain "other" site just unleashed a whole bunch of negative comments about the current state of Universal Creative and how "good enough" will be the goal going forward for other Universal attractions. This comes as quite a shock to me given the success they've been having and the massive amount of money Comcast has been investing. Obviously, take everything with a grain of salt but the picture he paints is depressing indeed. :-(
 
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SpatulaShack said:
Yikes. whylightbulb over at a certain "other" site just unleashed a whole bunch of negative comments about the current state of Universal Creative and how "good enough" will be the goal going forward for other Universal attractions. This comes as quite a shock to me given the success they've been having and the massive amount of money Comcast has been investing. Obviously, take everything with a grain of salt but the picture he paints is depressing indeed. :-(
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He has been railing about cutbacks and low budgets at Universal for YEARS. His last pronouncement back when Kong started construction was that Volcano Bay's budget had been hacked to shreads. Does it look like VB has suffered cutbacks? Don't take him seriously, please.
 
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Teebin said:
He has been railing about cutbacks and low budgets at Universal for YEARS. His last pronouncement back when Kong started construction was that Volcano Bay's budget had been hacked to shreads. Does it look like VB has suffered cutbacks? Don't take him seriously, please.
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That makes me feel better. It's a shame because I remember him back when he was singing Universal Creative's praises during both FJ and Gringotts construction. I wonder what happened that made him change into someone with a vendetta.
 
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Whylightbulb is a good guy and actually worked on the projects. He confronted Eddie Sotto on the rose colored recollections at WDI by reminding Eddie of his screaming echoing through the halls with the politics and budget cuts.

He will not hold back. And tbh, I have no idea how to tell how much VBs budget has been cut, but I doubt he would make it up.
 
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SpatulaShack said:
That makes me feel better. It's a shame because I remember him back when he was singing Universal Creative's praises during both FJ and Gringotts construction. I wonder what happened that made him change into someone with a vendetta.
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He was not singing their praises during Gringotts...
 
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SpatulaShack said:
That makes me feel better. It's a shame because I remember him back when he was singing Universal Creative's praises during both FJ and Gringotts construction. I wonder what happened that made him change into someone with a vendetta.
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He started most of it late in Diagon's construction. Perhaps the company that he works for was sent packing as I have reported previously regarding the Diagon project? (that is someone elses idea, but a possibility.) Just because a major idea might have been cut from a project doesn't mean they didn't come up with something else to replace it, even with something more expensive.
 
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Whylightbulb's criticisms are largely my own. First two scenes don't work. Not entirely because they are "screenz" but also because they do too much too quickly. A ride needs to build to its climax. How many times does Splash Mountain do a fakeout of the big drop? 4 or 5? Even Mansion, how long before you actually see ghosts?

Two rooms of physical sets, maybe some simple AAs, would do a better job of priming guests for the tunnel (which is the main event). Build a sense of foreboding, then let all hell break loose.
 
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Schmosby said:
Sigh could we not start a turf war?
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I wanna be Biggie! I wanna be... oh wait.
 
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testtrack321 said:
USA Today says Jackson helped initially. How much and how far into development, they're not saying.
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I guess the initial help could have been more to do with The USH version.
 
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SeventyOne said:
Whylightbulb's criticisms are largely my own. First two scenes don't work. Not entirely because they are "screenz" but also because they do too much too quickly. A ride needs to build to its climax. How many times does Splash Mountain do a fakeout of the big drop? 4 or 5? Even Mansion, how long before you actually see ghosts?

Two rooms of physical sets, maybe some simple AAs, would do a better job of priming guests for the tunnel (which is the main event). Build a sense of foreboding, then let all hell break loose.
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And I see the merits of these points. But I believe the queue is intended as part of the attraction and foreboding. Is it inconsistent and fractured when dissected, yeah probably and that is too bad. However, I have NEVER concentrated on the plot of an attraction. I believe the show seems short because it is too compelling for its own good. The 360 part could go on for an additional 5 minutes and no one would complain. But, it doesn't.
 
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I haven't ridden yet, but my thoughts so far is that it's a very good attraction, but with a very poor/disjointed story. I'm thinking it will probably rank around #5 on my top 10 (below Spidey, Gringotts, FJ, and Transformers), although that's just a pure guess, I'll see for sure when I actually ride it.
 
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Waited three hours today before giving up. Ride seems unlikely to resume before park close, at least not for long.
 
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SpatulaShack said:
Yikes. whylightbulb over at a certain "other" site just unleashed a whole bunch of negative comments about the current state of Universal Creative and how "good enough" will be the goal going forward for other Universal attractions. This comes as quite a shock to me given the success they've been having and the massive amount of money Comcast has been investing. Obviously, take everything with a grain of salt but the picture he paints is depressing indeed. :-(
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He's a source. It's important to find inputs from many to find a wholistic perspective. I take his inputs and the inputs of others and UC is definitely interesting and making choices right now. Personally, I think they're punting on both coasts to 2020.
 
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