Secret Life of Pets: Off the Leash (Construction Thread)

[PerceptiveCoot]

Universal Hollywood website confirms that Pets will open with the park on April 16th.



EDIT: Also some new promotional art

 

[Clive]

I'm glad they aren't dragging their feet on debuting the ride. With Simpsons and Despicable Me down, they need this up and running to give the park enough value.

 

[PerceptiveCoot]

Would like to note that many of the preshow and queue elements might not be functioning to comply with COVID-era safety measures.

You can read about some of them in this great preview article from last year!

A Sneak Preview of The Secret Life of Pets-Off the Leash! at Universal Studios Hollywood

Recently, Inside Universal was invited for a hard-hat preview of the newest Universal Studios Hollywood attraction, “The Secret Life of Pets: Off the Leash!”, based off of Illumination Entertainment’s hit franchise of the same name. Unlike many of Universal Creative’s recent attractions, this rid

www.insideuniversal.net

 

[Viator]

Super duper happy to see that they're opening Pets with the park. Can't wait to see what we can of it, especially as an out-of-stater.

 

[Jerroddragon]

Glad we should have video's of this in just a little over a week

Its the first tradition Dark ride since ET (I know people on here disagree with what a Dark ride is) but I mean this is very much a fantasyland style fun little ride and im all here for that

 

[Disneyhead]

It will be interesting to see what the reaction to this will be from the Disney centric sites. It seems like something they would like.

 

[Jerroddragon]

It will be interesting to see what the reaction to this will be from the Disney centric sites. It seems like something they would like.

 

[UniversalRBLX]

It will be interesting to see what the reaction to this will be from the Disney centric sites. It seems like something they would like.

"Should have been trackless"

 

[Tobias]

Now this is wonderful news! It's really crazy how this was all ready to go for TM/Media previews and then...Pand-D. So, I'm quite happy they're not dragging their feet in getting this open with the park.

It will be interesting to see what the reaction to this will be from the Disney centric sites. It seems like something they would like.

It would most certainly seem that way, but even if the ride is honestly good, there will still be those who won't like it solely because it wasn't made by Disney. Naturally they won't explicitly say that because that's the "quiet part", but they'll come up with some run-around reason why they dislike it. (EG, the whole era of "SCREENZ" which was promptly blown apart the moment people started going gaga over FoP. An now that many new Disney rides prominently feature screens, the talk of "SCREENZ" has mysteriously vanished.)

 

[Jerroddragon]

"Should have been trackless"

lol

I thought it was until I saw the Poster.

 

[PerceptiveCoot]

It will be interesting to see what the reaction to this will be from the Disney centric sites. It seems like something they would like.

If I had to guess, there will be hemming and awing over the relatively limited movement of the animatronics (with obligatory references to cheaper entertainment that supposedly approximates the ride, like Chuck-E-Cheese), the inability of the designers to theme the cielings (speaking to the poverty of imagination of today's young designers who can't draw and have depraved aesthetic values), and the incessant need for characters to chime in with dialogue throughout the ride (which...yeah I actually don't like as a trend).

Either way, any valid critiques will likely be couched under a veneer of snobbery and cynicism that makes them intolerable to consider. Such is the course of theme park discussion in the heady days surrounding a new ride's release.

EDIT: Excited for Pets to open though! Let's change the topic...

 

[Michael S]

I went to the taste of universal yesterday, and went inside the pet shop where I heard them running the ride upstairs, and saw some team members training. I also noticed some distance markers in the apartment building queue. We’re getting close.