Comments on: The fight for Universal Studios’ identity: Why the Florida theme park must define itself over the next decade https://orlandoinformer.com/2013/the-fight-for-universal-studios-florida-identity/ #1 Universal Orlando vacation planning website Wed, 16 May 2018 03:25:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: andrew marcou https://orlandoinformer.com/2013/the-fight-for-universal-studios-florida-identity/#comment-2312 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 07:26:23 +0000 https://orlandoinformer.com/wpold/?p=57126#comment-2312 So…this article is perfect. One thing uni needs..that billion plus dollar makeover we all want. Uni is generic, cheap looking, and haphazardly laid out.

Why didnt they build the Springfield moutain behind fast food blvd? Visually that land is dead. Seems obvious that theyre missing that classic Springfield sign to fill that dead space above the land.

Why doesnt uni utilize screen wrapping technology to hide their ugly show buildings (fj building, amongst others)? There is an entire skyscraper that mimics the color of the sky in real time, effectively making the building vanish by covering it w durable lcd mesh. Seems like an obvious solution for the theme park solution, to me!

Cut the studio theme waaay back. People dont want to see ugly blacktop streets on their vacation, or huge metal buildings w a cheap facade slapped over it (despicable me). People want tier 1 theming where they forget where theyre at…uni is just missing that.

And can we move the backlot? Somewhere offsite? That space has to be easily relocatable, or movable underground. The park needs a lagoon expansion to the east for balance, then lets head backstage (after its gutted), bulldoze the theater next to diagon, and push back to that unused land. There ya go!

Overall, I think a mokey could run that place better. And yes im being harsh. Theyre moving into the fully imetsive stage w diagon alley, lets keep that going! Much love uni 🙂 you can do it…soo much potential if it were just ran by someone else.

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By: KevyB https://orlandoinformer.com/2013/the-fight-for-universal-studios-florida-identity/#comment-2311 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:09:22 +0000 https://orlandoinformer.com/wpold/?p=57126#comment-2311 Springfield can – and should – spread. Forget Springfield (and Men in Black). It’s Springfield and then Krustyland featuring The Simpsons Ride and The Treehouse of Horror (they can just theme it to one of the thousand stories they’ve had instead of aliens)! Nobody cares about the Men in Black movies anymore. And then when they build the dreadful Lord of the Rings stuff over where Toon Lagoon is, they can move Dudley and Popeye over and plop them on either side of the Treehouse of Horror. Dudley’s track can be rethemed inside Mt Krustmore, which is featured in The Simpsons Ride and on the Krustyland map. Popeye can be rethemed to Itchy & Scratchy extremely easily as there’s not a whole bunch making that ride Popeyeish.

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By: NickCorjay https://orlandoinformer.com/2013/the-fight-for-universal-studios-florida-identity/#comment-2310 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:38:38 +0000 https://orlandoinformer.com/wpold/?p=57126#comment-2310 Your MK (FL and TL) analogy is a little off in comparison to what you are talking about. WWoHP and Springfield are highly themed lands based on one IP. Fantasyland and Tomorrowland ARE hodgepodges of rides and shops (even FLE to an extent), which is exactly what you were arguing against. I get the point, but the analogy simply doesn’t work.

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