yeah, weather impacts both attractions in different ways. the hollywood attraction isn’t (usually) getting dumped on with rain, but the increasing extremity of summers here absolutely damages any outdoor figures.
Future of Jurassic Park River Adventure
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Lightning strikes also can effect outdoor props, especially animatronics. Even an indirect hit can do huge damage.
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Yes I’m aware - but not like here in a constant way, especially with the humidity.
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This might have been mentioned upstream (get it!) but the first Hadrosaur is also missing and the second one just wiggles around rather then jumping out to knock your boat off-course. Been like that for months.
USH's River Adventure also had dire maintenance/upkeep similar to IOA. While the weather in Florida can be difficult to work with, I don't think it's primarily the weather's fault.
Even the indoor animatronics, whether JPRA or other rides, always seem to struggle.
Don’t get me wrong - this is not a question of “if this, then that”. Both things are true. Water ride animatronics are known to have issues due to the nature of the attraction. In Orlando’s case - it’s coupled with hot and humid months.
This ride is a BAD look for Uni. I won’t harp on the ultrasaur being down…but nobody has mentioned the missing dinosaur before the one that knocks you off course (sorry, blanking on the name), the one that knocks you off course + the raptors in the building being locked into their positions as you pass, or the lack of moving trees/branches in the raptor containment area.
I’m the first to defend a place when stuff happens, but there’s literally a marketing blitz for Jurassic June going on…in the time it took to develop the tribute store, they could have/should have checked up on the notoriously hard-to-maintain dinosaurs and made sure they were ready to go. You’d think resources would’ve been focused on that over everything, at least for this month. I try to be sympathetic, but I also feel like if someone on my team didn’t have a major component of a summer marketing campaign ready to go by launch I’d be having a tough conversation.
I will say, on a positive note, the T-Rex finale looked great and the raptor cage was working really well (I think it’s better than the old Hollywood Jeep effect). So it’s not completely useless—just really unfortunate timing for every other issue it’s having.
I’m the first to defend a place when stuff happens, but there’s literally a marketing blitz for Jurassic June going on…in the time it took to develop the tribute store, they could have/should have checked up on the notoriously hard-to-maintain dinosaurs and made sure they were ready to go. You’d think resources would’ve been focused on that over everything, at least for this month. I try to be sympathetic, but I also feel like if someone on my team didn’t have a major component of a summer marketing campaign ready to go by launch I’d be having a tough conversation.
I will say, on a positive note, the T-Rex finale looked great and the raptor cage was working really well (I think it’s better than the old Hollywood Jeep effect). So it’s not completely useless—just really unfortunate timing for every other issue it’s having.
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that's a parasaurolophus, my good man. on the way to hadrosaur cove.
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This whole thread, the retheme idea, and Poseidon Entertainment right now:
Universal can simply give maintenance to River Adventure. They’re not like Disney right now. Besides, JW Dominion wasn’t really that good.
Universal can simply give maintenance to River Adventure. They’re not like Disney right now. Besides, JW Dominion wasn’t really that good.
I mean, every time I look into the matter the more I wonder “when are they going to old yeller it”, because of the damages by Hurricane Ian.
Sounds like maintenance barn door has become just a black tarp in the span of the past few days, and a large amount of paint is increasingly chipping away.
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These type of long-standing issues just always blow my mind a bit. I don't run a theme park and I daresay I have very little insight into the intricacies of running one. Post-COVID, I know that it's hard to source parts and labor for specialized things (having dealt with this myself). I also understand how hard it is to deal with scheduling for something that needs to be up in decent working condition most of the time and have everything lined up for refurbishment if it is not.
In spite of all this, I still occasionally find it baffling that a world class theme park that absolutely has the resources to deal this problem simply does not solve it in the amount of time they've had (and this goes for Disney as well). Yes, sometimes you cannot get things for love or for money (or you're a less resourced company as people are discussing in the Knott's Berry Farm thread). But Universal management allowing the level of decay seen here and shrugging and saying, "People are still paying for this" just surprises me. Sure, if someone comes on a once in lifetime and maybe they don't lose any subsequent business, but eventually you might turn off that second or third trip someone wants to take. I hate relying on this trope, but it's doubly insulting that the parks in Japan typically do not have these issues and it's a poor reflection of US park management.
In spite of all this, I still occasionally find it baffling that a world class theme park that absolutely has the resources to deal this problem simply does not solve it in the amount of time they've had (and this goes for Disney as well). Yes, sometimes you cannot get things for love or for money (or you're a less resourced company as people are discussing in the Knott's Berry Farm thread). But Universal management allowing the level of decay seen here and shrugging and saying, "People are still paying for this" just surprises me. Sure, if someone comes on a once in lifetime and maybe they don't lose any subsequent business, but eventually you might turn off that second or third trip someone wants to take. I hate relying on this trope, but it's doubly insulting that the parks in Japan typically do not have these issues and it's a poor reflection of US park management.
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They need to close this when Epic opens. It’ll look so bad and get poor guest survey results once we see Epic rides/lands. It needs the JW update.
I wonder if they’d possibly do that while also building Zelda along with some general updates to the land and then open both at the same time.
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Or JW can be a 2026 addition in between to keep attendance up at IOA.
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If they were smart they would start by the end of the summer and get it open before they break ground on Zelda.
OR... they could just fix the current ride!
The current ride is fine... just needs maintenance and some touchups. Far cheaper and the JP brand is a hit, no need to go to extremes of a complete revamp.
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Whatever they want, sure! Just do something
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Yeah honestly - if they go for JW I'm fine.
But the popularity of the JP Tribute store also shows how ripe the property still is.
But the popularity of the JP Tribute store also shows how ripe the property still is.
