Wicked experiences coming to USH

[Clive]

Universal Studios Hollywood is a tourist park that cannot and does not support a single, discrete vacation. Walt Disney World is made up of tourist parks/is a tourist resort that can and does support a single, discrete vacation. That's the distinction. They're both still tourist parks. If the grand majority of your audience base is made up of tourists, you are going to cater primarily to tourists, which makes you a tourist park. It is what puts Universal Studios Hollywood in a unique and somewhat awkward position, as most single parks are regional parks that primarily serve locals.

Anyway, @AlexanderMBush had the right idea in moving this discussion to the State of USH - What's Next thread, should anyone want to continue it over there. We should get back to the Wicked activations Universal has implemented in the Hollywood park.

 

[HHN Maddux]

A Wicked thread, let's see what's going on-

 

[Jerroddragon]

Yeah

This is amazing, wish we got these in the states

 

[Southerncoasterer]

Wow

 

[Freak]

It just occured to me that this ride system would be perfect for a Wicked ride, if they had any interest in bringing it in a big way to the parks:



A musical-savy ride system based on a musical IP. Makes sense, right?

 

[Rideguy70]

Just an update of some new Wicked merch in the parks.

 

[AlexanderMBush]

With Singapore having it additionally--would actually like to go back to the point of them having difficulties in casting a lookalike for Elphaba and Glinda.

Depositing a small bit of speculation; maybe they simply just...can't afford it right now? With the focus of this year being on USH60 and HHN for seasonal events; a small part of me wonders if they had decided to lay low on their bets for USH while letting Orlando focus more on it.

I understand if this is a dumb thing, but I wonder on this a bit more. Especially if/when we come back to discussion of Wicked experiences if they try to do something for Part 2.

 

[Jerroddragon]

With Singapore having it additionally--would actually like to go back to the point of them having difficulties in casting a lookalike for Elphaba and Glinda.

Depositing a small bit of speculation; maybe they simply just...can't afford it right now? With the focus of this year being on USH60 and HHN for seasonal events; a small part of me wonders if they had decided to lay low on their bets for USH while letting Orlando focus more on it.

I understand if this is a dumb thing, but I wonder on this a bit more. Especially if/when we come back to discussion of Wicked experiences if they try to do something for Part 2.

It feels that way to me

USH feels to me like its off the spotlight we had out moment with SNW but thats over and the park is fine but for the most part doesn't feel that packed mostly and the lines kinda show this because we lost two big shows and really has not affected lines to go much higher.

But yeah them investing an entire event for Singapore but not Hollywood to me is insane....like if they can get actors so can we and hopefully next year they do more. But beyond that I keep telling USH fans 2030's might be when we finally get the spotlight but for now they are happy with a park that 70% of the time closes at 6 PM.