The Future of Lost Continent

[ChrisFL]

I agree, but to be fair, Avatar made billions of dollars at the box office with its movies... its the reason why Disney wanted it at their parks, and still want to build more lands (cough Paris)
Wicked preformed great, Wicked for Good however won't even make what the first movie grossed, it's a couple hundred million behind the first movie... and that one didn't even reach a billion.

I bet Wicked gets more merch sales tho

 

[UPSguy]

I bet Wicked gets more merch sales tho

Oh 1000%!
I've been told Pandora- The World of Avatar moves such little merch, its one of the worst preforming areas in any WDW park

 

[HandsomePete]

I agree, but to be fair, Avatar made billions of dollars at the box office with its movies... its the reason why Disney wanted it at their parks, and still want to build more lands (cough Paris)
Wicked preformed great, Wicked for Good however won't even make what the first movie grossed, it's a couple hundred million behind the first movie... and that one didn't even reach a billion.

Box office figures need to be taken with some nuance:
1) WFG faced a lot better competition than the original - Zootopia 2, Avatar, and FNAF versus Moana 2, Sonic, and Mufasa.
2) Wicked does basically nothing in China where Avatar and Zootopia crush it.
3) This is probably lost on FL people, but the weather has been awful in the Northeast so far this winter. The two snowstorms where I live were on a Friday and Saturday evening… I struggle to drag myself to the grocery store, let alone the movie theater that’s only one metro stop away.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

I see Wicked as sort of Universal's Avatar Land.

Whether or not the IP continues to be popular (or people remember), the land will become a major draw from a visual perspective.

It's been on Broadway and touring for 20 years, what are you talking about "will continue to be"?

*edit*

My dad put on the movie so we were discussing things and I realized I should probably share the Broadway World financials page for the Broadway show. Wicked is a popculture staple that's just been recently validated in the form of a movie. Successful movie musicals are VERY hard to do and have laregly been a bust since the 1960s.

WICKED Broadway Grosses

View all the grosses for WICKED on our complete WICKED box office report including tickets sold, revenue & more...

www.broadwayworld.com

 

[Henny]

Wicked is a quintessential musical with iconic characters and songs that have been in the American and global imagination for more than two decades. A fad it's not.

 

[BensExoticFlorida]

I'm a little late but I did some digging into the Notice of Commencement that some people incorrectly reported to be for Lost Continent. As others here figured, it does in fact appear to be support areas for the new RRR replacement coaster. But the provided property description confirms it's not Lost Continent as I discuss:

 

[yankeetrex]

Both Domestic and Internationally historically. I never was comparing Jurassic World Rebirth to Wicked domestically. Domestically Rebirth had a ton against it and still was the biggest movie of the summer(Stitch came out in the spring), i doubt it would have made 480 million domestically like wicked did. However If rebirth had premium large format screens for longer then a week, an IMAX run AT ALL, and a better received predecessor we'd possibly be looking at another billion dollar + movie in the franchise.

My statements have always been about comparing the two franchises overall historically and the future prospects of popularity in the parks for the future. I'm all for a WIzard of Oz land with walking characters from wicked, but a Shiz themed land with little to do with the original Wizard will feel too much like potter 2.0 and won't have universal appeal.

If I'm wrong I will gladly own up to it, but comparing the longevity of something like Jurassic World to Wicked is just really off to me.

Checking back in on this debate, its not looking great for wicked for good. Would they still want to commit an entire land to this?

 

[Brian G.]

Checking back in on this debate, its not looking great for wicked for good. Would they still want to commit an entire land to this?

I suggest reading the past 10-15 pages. It’s been discussed to death.

 

[Alicia]

Pretty sure the folks who I tend to believe are still saying Pokemon, so I am sticking with Pokemon.

It's probably just Pokemon, yall.

 

[Tobias]

I suggest reading the past 10-15 pages. It’s been discussed to death.

And in all honesty, the sheer fact that Universal has given the green light to work on attractions for Wicked makes a lot of the hemming and hawing rather pointless. Obviously, they wanna' make stuff for it, so whatever their personal requirements for being able to do so is being met. That's all that matters.