Enough for at least two more attractions, one of them major... both are already planned for. :thumbs:
Volcano Bay Construction & Preview Discussion
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Enough for at least two more attractions, one of them major... both are already planned for. :thumbs:
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The third theme park/water theme park verbiage is confusing. They just need to up the ante on the whole water park experience and I think that they will, especially the new Universal that's an expert on revenue-adding experiences. There's plenty they can do that's already out there in water parks across the country, like Express, dining, beverage, cabanas, etc, and even more they can innovate themselves.
Awesome... I really hope this park pushes Disney to add to TL or BB, but somehow, I really doubt that will happen knowing how they operate of late. :bang:
Disney's Animal Kingdom (1998)
Disney's California Adventure (2001)
Those were about the same time as IOA.
They are about to extend the water taxi loading platform in City Walk to add a spot for Sapphire; i guess we will find out if they plan on making a dedicated Water Park loading dock when we see if they add one, or two stations. lol.
^ When are the water taxis busy with people? Beginning and end of the day? I never saw them busy.
When I stayed at the resorts, they were never really busy. The most crowded I've seen them was right after the parks close.
It generally seemed the Royal Pacific's was the busiest & Portofino's the least, & Hard Rock in between,when I go. There were times that there were only a few of us on the Portofino boat, but I nearly always saw the Royal Pacific pretty crowded. Different type of clientele I would guess. They usually ran extra boats at opening, closing & around dinner time, and the boats were usually busy at those times.. And if there was an event, like a private corporate party at one of the resorts, they added boats. But, I go during off season, so it may be different during peak seasons.
I'm hoping it has at LEAST as many as Blizzard Beach. Typhoon has too few attractions and it gets crowded with ridiculous wait times.
The more big attractions, the better.
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Also, this closeup of the concept art from BehindtheThrills shows water slides that will not be completely themed into the volcano and have supports and their tubes showing almost like Aquatica. I can see these slides being the ones that are moved here from Wetn Wild, just repainted. You guys think so?
No Because it's concept art. It's purposed has been served.
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When Disney announced Avatar, Frozen, RoL, and the Tree show Diagon Alley wasn't open. Avatar announcement Transformers wasn't open. It's really easy to compare what's announced today to what was announced years ago.
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Thank you for the clarification!
The way I see it, Universal should just expand the "resort boat dock" that they have at CityWalk to include a place where guests can take a Water Taxi to Volcano Bay. The walk from City Walk to Volcano Bay is quite a walk. One thing that could work would be if they expanded the resort walkway that Royal Pacific and Cabana Bay are located on to have a shuttle run from CityWalk to Volcano Bay. Just another way for people to get to the park.
Honestly I don't even know what you are trying to say here. It was a simple point of everything announced is opening by sometime in 2017... which everything Disney has announced is also opening by.
Disney builds at a frustratingly slower speed and they build less frequent as obvious by now. I'm not saying anything other than Disney had nothing to announce because it already IS announced.
I wish they would have a Pteranodon flyers for adults. It would be way easier than buying a beer for kid's dads in order to ride it.
https://youtu.be/EO1HU89naGU
https://youtu.be/EO1HU89naGU
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I do appreciate DIsney and Sea World announcing things before they are built. Universal drives me crazy with the crap.
I wish they would have a Pteranodon flyers for adults. It would be way easier than buying a beer for kid's dads in order to ride it.
https://youtu.be/EO1HU89naGU
Good to see you back posting. Haven't heard from you since Duff's bar in September.......... Some things never change. The Cardinals are still in first place. LOL
Also Aquatica around 2009-2010.
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The problem with water parks: they have a random de facto closing time most Summer afternoons. Thunder within 5 miles, the park suddenly shuts down for all intents and purposes, but can't really schedule extra boats (or buses) around that.
I don't care how next generation this park is, if parking is problematic, locals will stay away. And it will need locals for at least its first half decade to stay afloat.
I can assure you , this would be the deal for us. We don't have time to having parking hazards to a water park that is a thousand miles away because they were to cheap to build a parking structure.
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