Let’s hope the electrical grid in Texas can handle this :bolt:
Volcano Bay starts at $70 adult and $65 child so that feels right.
The hotel could go either way - Premier level pricing for such a small hotel or Endless Summer style value level. I'm intrigued by a full plan.
Since this is aiming at the "Regional Park" market, I'm thinking slightly a more upscale Cabana Bay with lots of family suites.Knowing that market, it'll likely be a Sapphire Falls level hotel possibly with a club floor. I'd also count on a character breakfast buffet.
Yeah, its gonna be smoll. They have to keep it on the cheaper side so they can charge less and give you an incentive to visit the premiere parks. This park should be a (really excellent) appetizer, not the main course.I think the flagship dark ride + roller coaster is going to be way smaller than everyone is thinking.
I’m willing to bet that this entire park will cost less than Diagon Alley to construct. Diagon Alley was $250M if I recall correctly.
I'm looking over at what Legoland have built down in Winter Haven, but Universal.Since this is aiming at the "Regional Park" market, I'm thinking slightly a more upscale Cabana Bay with lots of family suites.
I think the cost of that ride would be almost the same as the entire park. Lol I think we’ll see some C-ticket level dark rides here. Not quite as elaborate as SLoP but maybe a step above the Fantasyland dark rides.Yeah, its gonna be smoll. They have to keep it on the cheaper side so they can charge less and give you an incentive to visit the premiere parks. This park should be a (really excellent) appetizer, not the main course.
Pls dont put a Beijing Jurassic World Adventure E-ticket in a park like this, lmao.
I think the flagship dark ride + roller coaster is going to be way smaller than everyone is thinking.
I’m willing to bet that this entire park will cost less than Diagon Alley to construct. Diagon Alley was $250M if I recall correctly.
Pandering pool but it seem they have plenty of parking. I hope that is expansion spaceLol the hotel pool shape. Also that’s a significantly different park design than the concept art.
People are far more smarter than you are giving them credit for. They google and youtube everything. Who do you think the fans are of the bloggers lol it surely isn't us that keep their bills paid. . .
Honestly, what is a regular universal park? All the parks they have made have similar IP's but the layouts are different, the attractions are pretty much different so why cant this one be a "regular" universal park. What would make it an Irregular universal park. Just like they market IOA as a thrill park, market VB as a water theme park and how they market the studios as a park to ride the movies, I have no doubt they will place emphasis on the fact that this park is geared toward kids and toddlers the same way sesame place and legoland does.
Of the parks history, harry potter has been apart of it for 10 years or less so it definitely is not what universal parks were built upon. is it popular, yes but not what makes universal Universal. What and who is to say there will by no well themed dark rides as we clearly see large buildings that could house them. Literally every property featured on the bluesky image is based on a movie so really, what are you trying to get at? and for their demographic, i see several thrilling rides that fit the bill. What I don't understand is how we can get on here and make it seem like universal parks always had rides like velocicoaster from their inception so now a new park has to have a potter area and a 200ft coaster. At one point, the most thrilling coaster at studios in orlando was a vekoma roller skater! And that opened 10 years after the park initially opened. Hollywood didn't get a "thrill ride" until 2004.
So again, tell me how this cannot be considered a "regular" universal when it has all the attributes of what a regular universal park opened with but just will be catering to young kids and families?
Of note, seems like..they're aiming at 2025? And the site plans may be showing that the hotel might not be directly next to the park.
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