Sing Attraction Orlando Speculation

[Galaxy Defender]

Secret Life of Pets Cancelled for Orlando more likely with early sing reviews...I'm thinking one will be an exclusive at each park with SLOP for Hollywood and SING for Florida.

Speculation on a Sing attraction for Orlando started with this. If it is slated to take the place of SLoP then it certainly deserves it's own thread.

Here is a summary from IMDB:
A pig (Reese Witherspoon), a mouse (Seth MacFarlane), a porcupine (Scarlett Johansson), a gorilla (Taron Egerton), an elephant (Tori Kelly) and other animals gather at a theater for a singing competition.

Release date: December 21, 2016 (USA)

 

[Disneyhead]

I'll sort of repeat what I said in the SLoP thread.

My concern about a "Sing" attraction is that Pop songs have a shelf life of about 5 weeks. Unless they have a way to periodically update the tunes, it's gonna get old fast.

I just hope it's more entertaining than The American Idol Experience.

 

[GAcoaster]

Between song licensing and a format for this attraction, I just don't see it being able to work. I hope if it does happen UC proves me wrong, but I just don't know how it could work as a show or a ride.

Maybe after seeing the movie something would be more obvious that would work as a ride?

 

[Disneyhead]

I really only see this working as an AA show. Country Bears meets The American Idol Experience.

 

[Mad Dog]

With F&F looking not too great, a Sing attraction would just continue a UC losing streak. I could see it as a show replacing Fear Factor, because anything is an improvement over that piece of garbage. But I would hate to see it come in as an attraction instead of SLOP, since the preliminary plans for SLOP look really good.

 

[Disneyhead]

If they do this as a "show" I hope Illumination writes it. Universal's show writing is REALLY bad.

 

[GAcoaster]

Or they bring in an outside company to write it.

 

[Mad Dog]

If they do this as a "show" I hope Illumination writes it. Universal's show writing is REALLY bad.

Yeah, they kind of have the corner on "corny" dialogue. ( except for the Blues Brothers, & the Diagon shows which are excellent)

 

[Galaxy Defender]

If they do this as a "show" I hope Illumination writes it. Universal's show writing is REALLY bad.

Better to use the people that know the material the best. Simpsons is a good example. I seem to remember Disney going back to the original teams when they made Philharmagic.

 

[quinnmac000]

The movie is pretty much the Muppets in a singing contest to save a theater and as the show goes on the performances start out simple and get crazier, wilder, and more grandiose in scale. The movie plays as American Idol meets Broadway. Also for song licensing... though they license 65 songs, there are 7 original songs made for the film so that won't be an issue if Universal used those as well as I'm sure they already paid for those license rights to be used elsewhere after putting in all those billing hours for the lawyers to get all those song rights.

And another hint is Ron Meyer at the after party for Focus/Sing was excited due to the reception of SING and the potential for synergy across NBCUniversal campus.

 

[GadgetGuru]

Oh no. Please, please, no.

It's ideas like this that make me wish that UC always used outside properties. They seem to do much better when they're accountable to somebody else.

 

[Galaxy Defender]

Oh no. Please, please, no.

It's ideas like this that make me wish that UC always used outside properties. They seem to do much better when they're accountable to somebody else.

I agree completely, but for solo attractions Universal seems to be staying in house. New outside IPs seem to be mainly for shopping and full lands now.

 

[Mike S]

Oh no. Please, please, no.

It's ideas like this that make me wish that UC always used outside properties. They seem to do much better when they're accountable to somebody else.

Kong being the only exception so far.

 

[JungleSkip]

I don't see it. Expensive licensing song rights and would lose relevancy too quickly

 

[Parkscope Joe]

I've heard nothing about this, I consider this speculation at best.

 

[Legacy]

Rising Star re-theme!

 

[martymcflyy85]

Worst idea ever. Would rather have SLOP.

 

[TheGentTrent]

I bet the merchandise sales for Pets will greatly outpace those of Sing, which should make the former a no-brainer against the latter.

 

[GadgetGuru]

I bet the merchandise sales for Pets will greatly outpace those of Sing, which should make the former a no-brainer against the latter.

I'm inclined to believe that too. But, it seems like Illumination starts their marketing relatively late compared to other major movies. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't SLoP start heavily marketing super late and then ramped up quickly? Sing could be the same way. In a month, we might not be able to escape the ads + the hype.

 

[IzzyB]

I'm inclined to believe that too. But, it seems like Illumination starts their marketing relatively late compared to other major movies. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't SLoP start heavily marketing super late and then ramped up quickly? Sing could be the same way. In a month, we might not be able to escape the ads + the hype.

Slop seemed to have a marketing effort going for a long time. I remember knowing about the movie like 6 to 9 months before the movie came out.