- Dec 24, 2015
- 875
- 1,522
Using your logic, Universal wouldn't have opened two parks within 10 years in the 90s, Disney wouldn't have opened two parks in that same time frame, Universal wouldn't be eyeing two or three parks in Beijing.Be realistic, building a new park costs a ton of money. There is grading the land, infrastructure, designing the park, building it, parking, a hotel or 2. So, realistically (and as mentioned before), this park won't be 100% filled and finished when it opens (like every theme park in the world). I'm sure what is being build will be amazing and give you enough for a decently filled day when it's crowded. The amount you get out of it difference on how deep you want to dive in the experience but I think it will be 60% (at best) when comparing it to USF or IOA.
So over the years Universal likely will fill in the empty lots, tweak their rides and add and replace rides at USF and IOA. All this to keep guests coming back to all parks.
Taking all this in account it's ignorant to even think about yet another park. Will it one day be there, probably, will I still be alive when it opens? Probably not.
I'm not saying you don't have some accuracies in your post: it's a lot of time and investment to build a theme park. It's also possible they have an unfinished Fantastic Worlds. It's also possible that they don't build a fourth park soon. But to suggest we're ignorant for suggesting it's possible they are eyeing land for future development soon after Fantastic Worlds is factually inaccurate.
It's really a matter of red light (stop) and green light (go)...
1) Fantastic Worlds is considered a "finished park" - green light
2) IOA/USF/FW have good average attendance (let's say, 9-10 million) - green light
3) Comcast continues to see profit from their investment in theme parks - green light
4) The global economy is doing well and tourism is still booming - green light
Now, even if they have the green light, you can suggest it takes time... But I don't think anyone is suggesting this is for sure going to be built immediately after FW. The most people are suggesting is they have the land, capital, ability, to possibly build within ten years 2033 - 2035). Is that for sure? No... Just that it's possible... Possibly planned, factually possible.