replacing two bad attractions is a great start for the studios park. but it’s gotta just be a start.
Reasonably I think it’s fair to say Universal only has three classic attractions left at Studios: Mummy, MIB and ET. And as far as we know, those are all safe for a long time forward.
The problem is that a Fast and Furious coaster and whatever they do with the corpse of Supercharged aren’t going to fill all the holes they poked in that park over the last decade or so.
Fallon isn’t great and frankly Minion Blast is embarrassing. San Fran in its entirety needs a redo, and Diagon is overdue for a new addition (but really, where else can you go with Potter?).
Springfield is a when and not if, and the neighboring Animal Actors has to be used for something eventually. Dreamworks Land had potential to be something really neat, but even that feels so underbaked and hollow due to the pre-Epic cuts. Hollywood thankfully remains pretty unscathed- hopefully Bourne is updated to something more timeless eventually, but it’s not that pressing.
You just can’t compare Lost Continent’s tiny two minute walk through to the massive emptiness that is USF currently. LC is prime space, I’m glad they’re doing something with it. People are just so desperate for something groundbreaking and innovative to come to the home park again. I’m not convinced the F&F coaster will do that, and who knows what they’ll do with the Supercharged space.
Gringotts has its fans, but to a lot of people the last truly great ride built there was Mummy two decades ago. Studios needs immense help. The sad part is I think Universal knows it- all the merch and branding for the park is just reminding you of all the cool stuff that isn’t there anymore.