An 'Attraction' Every Year?
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I'm still in the no phase two camp personally...
And plaza is an attraction.
And plaza is an attraction.
How is that practical? How would you access that?
Hogwarts Express, pathway, Studio Tour drop off, or CityWalk entrance. Any one or all of those.
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How exactly would a Hogwarts Express work going from the high elevation of where our Hogwarts will be, aaaaaaall the way down to Falls Lake??? That's just so impractical...and a studio tour drop off or plain pathway would NOT work, wouldn't make sense for the world of Potter, and Hogwarts Express is such a big part of Phase 2, they wouldn't leave it out. But it's highly impractical...
And why would you access a "falls lake phase 2" through CityWalk...?
Listen, I'm a huge Harry Potter fan. I'm excited for the extra additions in Florida, and I freaked out at the announcement of more Wizarding World movies from today's announcement. You'd think as a Potter geek i'd want a Phase 2 here, close to home. But I do NOT want to see Phase 2 over here. First off, location and layout wise I think it's highly impractical in almost every way.
Second, I don't want such a high saturation of ONE franchise in ONE little park. It works for a two park situation, that's brilliant. But bringing it over here literally will make USH
"The Harry Potter Theme Park*
(*with a few other things)"
And I don't want that...
Hypothetically speaking, I wouldn't mind park expansion into the flat Falls Lake area eventually, that'd be fantastic. But I'd rather see our limited usable land be saved for some other future franchise or attractions. Let's have variety in our little park...
And why would you access a "falls lake phase 2" through CityWalk...?
Listen, I'm a huge Harry Potter fan. I'm excited for the extra additions in Florida, and I freaked out at the announcement of more Wizarding World movies from today's announcement. You'd think as a Potter geek i'd want a Phase 2 here, close to home. But I do NOT want to see Phase 2 over here. First off, location and layout wise I think it's highly impractical in almost every way.
Second, I don't want such a high saturation of ONE franchise in ONE little park. It works for a two park situation, that's brilliant. But bringing it over here literally will make USH
"The Harry Potter Theme Park*
(*with a few other things)"
And I don't want that...
Hypothetically speaking, I wouldn't mind park expansion into the flat Falls Lake area eventually, that'd be fantastic. But I'd rather see our limited usable land be saved for some other future franchise or attractions. Let's have variety in our little park...
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Falls Lake is actually much higher in elevation than most of the back lot. The path of the train could be easy.
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No, it wouldn't be easy... It's close in location, yes, but it is still a steep drive up from falls lake back to the studio tour dock/Gibson...next time you're on the tour, take note of that elevation difference and incline. It would feel odd being in the Hogwarts express and traveling down such a steep road down...yes, they can change the footage inside the Hogwarts express that you're "traveling down a Scottish hillside", but come on...Also, Hogsmeade Station would be in Hogsmeade, not behind Hogwarts...
I'm not saying it's impossible....but i personally think it's highly impractical, and also unnecessary.
Also, it's waaaaaay too early to even talk about this IMO. Fun to guess and dream, but I like being realistic as well
I really would like to see focus put somewhere else after Potter....so many other ways to enhance the park, and I'd love for Falls Lake to be eventual park expansion, but NOT for Potter...
I'm not saying it's impossible....but i personally think it's highly impractical, and also unnecessary.
Also, it's waaaaaay too early to even talk about this IMO. Fun to guess and dream, but I like being realistic as well
I really would like to see focus put somewhere else after Potter....so many other ways to enhance the park, and I'd love for Falls Lake to be eventual park expansion, but NOT for Potter...
Yay
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Lets say that Potter phase 2 will come in 2020. If they do the attraction every year thing that would mean 2017 will bring something not Potter. 2018 will have a non Potter attraction. 2019 will get even another non Potter attraction. You end up getting a lot of non Potter additions before a second round of Potter hits.
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I wouldn't count on phase 2 for USH. The park needs to focus on Phase 1. Focus on Crowds, and the most important.. Focus on the operations of Forbidden Journey.
In my opinion, Phase 2 in our park makes no sense at all. Universal Orlando Resort has more than enough reason to expand the Wizarding World due to the fact that they have 2 widespread parks, whereas we have one small one. Their layout for Phase 2 makes sense, where ours wouldn't. We simply don't have enough room in our park to let one franchise take up half of the room - we aren't a full fledged resort, and there will be several more movies in the making that have potential for a theme park experience.. I don't see why Universal would let Potter snatch that from them.
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The ratio of guests to attraction capacity is very important to theme park operations. What Potter phase one does to attendance will have a major impact on what happens to USH afterwords. If USH only gets a little bit of an attendance increase, most new additions to the park will be replacements of other attractions. If there is a giant attendance boost that results in overcrowding, the park will be forced to expand its borders in order to spread out the crowds. This could be where the Falls Lake area might come into play.
I can't get behind having Hogwarts being the starting location, and having London/Diagon Alley be isolated in the middle of the backlot. That just feels really backwards to me.
Exactly. That's my dilemma I think. Pretty much this.
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Red Carpet's prediction for the next 5 years:
2014: Despicable Me and Fast and Furious
2015: Springfield and more new additions to the Studio Tour
2016: Harry Potter
2017: Jurassic Park becomes Jurassic World
2018:Water World's replacement Edit 9-16-2013: Revenge of the Mummy's replacement
2014: Despicable Me and Fast and Furious
2015: Springfield and more new additions to the Studio Tour
2016: Harry Potter
2017: Jurassic Park becomes Jurassic World
2018:
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I also wouldn't mind seeing a couple of new dinosaur animatronics from the previous or the new film
I won't say a word about Jurassic World's effect on Jurassic Park: The Ride until I see the film for myself.
