*crosses fingers for Mount Crumpit to finally come off the drawing board*
I'm with Legacy - give me that Mount Crumpit coaster
I would actually love this idea (with the proviso that it's happening in a world where USF is getting continued work to correct its weaknesses).
The notion of modern Universal trying its hand at a Matterhorn-style "mountain" coaster would sound pretty exciting to me.
USF is getting a Rockit replacement in a couple years and probably a Supercharged overlay, what are you all talking about
To correct a decade of subpar decisions (that's my subjective editorializing) at USF is going to take a lot more than swapping one unthemed coaster for another unthemed coaster and one simulator for another simulator (even if it happens to be BACK TO THE FUTURE, which I'd be happy about).
The people who want it to get a large scale, ground up dark ride on par with or better than Pets over at USH.
It hasn't happened in USF since 2000 when MIB opened.
25+ years since the park opened a physical/AA-driven dark ride experience, during which the park has also
lost many such experiences.
replacing two bad attractions is a great start for the studios park. but it’s gotta just be a start.
Make no mistake: what they're doing to replace HRRR is good for the park. If the Supercharged ride system is themed to a better IP, that will be good for the park (marginally, but still). But there are other things that need to be on the table that would be orders of magnitude more beneficial to the park's lineup.
So I also hope this is just a start... of a plan that can be achieved on some kind of reasonable, medium-term timetable.
If they demolish everything (assuming Mythos is safe), I will have mixed feelings. I love the ambiance of Lost Continent so much and the temple of Poseidon is beautiful. I remember seeing for the first time back in 1999 and just being impressed. Plus, it remains a great place to sit down and just enjoy the sound of the water, the background music, and the view. However, I never loved the actual attraction. It was okay but kind of a letdown after such an impressive entrance. I always felt that the vortex would have made an awesome entrance to the boarding station for the actual ride.
I was a huge Poseidon's Fury defender (I think it offered a unique attraction experience with a ton of atmosphere, and I wish more parks had something akin to it), but setting aside our differences there, I agree about the ambiance of Lost Continent. It's one of the areas that first comes to mind when I think about IOA, because of the beautiful marriage of design and music. It has (or had) one of the best "vibes" at the entire resort.