As of late, the resort has been lacking (the focus on Potter has left everything else unattended to) and needs some help, especially the Studios. So, I'll start with the park that came first.
Production Central is gone. And in it's place is a new Backlot Area.
We can keep Rip Ride Rock It. It's amazing as is.
A new style of attraction has guests strapped into a car going through simulated stunt track---- both indoors and out. The ride's theme....?
Yeah.
Nearby, there's a nice little high energy, adrenaline pumping stunt show based on none other than:
Also, Nickelodeon Studios is out (as if it already isn't) and rethemed to a Universal Soundstage. It could be used for actual production on Universal films and TV shows. And guests can watch it all happen.
The backlot supports a quick service restaurant and a gift shop.
Every attraction in Hollywood is on it's way out. Lucy--- A Tribute is now a Great Movie Ride style attraction featuring scenes from Universal films scored by the Great John Williams.
The Horror Make Up Show is out, but what replaces it is somewhat of an improvement. I guess it also justifies the closing of Beetlejuice (more on that later.) My friends, I'm referring to a thrilling dark ride based on the Universal Classic Monsters.
You find yourself lost in Dracula's castle, where it seems EVERY monster just happens to be hanging out at that time. The final scene involves an encounter with Dracula himself. Just hope a certain vampire hunter can help you out.
T2: 3D is also gone. But It will be made up for later. In it's place stands a whimsical dark ride through the animated works of legend Don Bluth.
For those unfamiliar with Don Bluth, he did An American Tail, The Land Before Time, the Secret of Nimh, and All Dogs Go to Heaven. So expect to see scenes and characters from those films in this ride.
A highly themed table service eatery featuring Universal film memoribilia and a movie gift shop round out the Hollywood area of the park.
The next area is Woody Woodpecker's Kid Zone. But wait. The Kid Zone and all the attractions within it are gone. In it's bulldozered grounds stands the Hill Valley Area, based on the Back to the Future series.
The flying DeLorean plays host to a spinner attraction, and a unique hoverboard ride is not far away.
But the highlight of this area is Back to the Future: The Ride. Part 2.
Imagine this:
plus this:
FTW.
I'll have muchmuchmuch more on that attraction later.
A replica of Lou's Restaurant from the films and two gift shops, one at the exit to the main attraction and one entitled Blast From the Past, which is from the second film (where Marty gets the sports almanac).
World Expo stays, but with a new theme. It's now Sci Fi City.
Men in Black stays, just because it's such a great ride. I do have other "shooter" attractions planned, but it stays.
And just because it wasn't fair, we get this:
Now Hollywood has nothing.
Remember how I said T2:3D would be avenged? The forsaken spot currently occupied by the Simpsons ride becomes a new simulator based on the Terminator franchise. It'll even retain the name Terminator: Battle Across Time. The exterior will be a bland office building. Home of the satanic, evil, world corrupting Cyberdyne Systems.
Cyberdyne and Transformers shops would be placed at the exit of their respective attractions. And the MIB shops stays.
A restaurant? How 'bout a restaurant located inside a crashed alien mothership?
The whole Amity/San Fransisco deal never worked for me. So I'm separating them. And replacing San Fransisco. But, Amity first.
The popular Jaws attraction remains, but it receives an update and all new... expensive... special effects. New sharks too.
Outside the docks for the Jaws attraction is short musical show featuring various bewildered fisherman who have encountered and attempted to catch the shark. Quint, from the film, makes an appearance in the show as well.
A dockside restaurant and a Jaws shop finishes the smallest area of the park.
I mentioned that San Fransisco is out. In it's place sits an offshoot of the New York area, 30 Rock.
A whole area dedicated to perhaps one of Universal's greatest properties, the NBC television station.
A new Spiderman style attraction is the highlight of the all new area. But what NBC franchise could possibly receive an attraction of such a magnitude?
Dwight's Office Adventure takes you through a post-apocalyptic Scranton, Pennsylvania. Dwight, in his hero form Recyclops, is battling with his now villainous coworkers. Oh yeah, it's all in Dwight's imagination.
This high paced adventure would take the spot currently occupied by Disaster.
But what about the Beetlejuice theater? What could possibly...
A live show featuring famous skits from Saturday Night Live! Guests can even have the chance to get onstage and participate with the actors.
A Dunder Mifflin Company Store as well as a general NBC Store can be found here, as well as a NBC Comissary decorated with NBC schtufff.
The final area of Universal Studios Florida is New York.
Blues Brothers remains, and is here to stay.
The Ghostbusters Spooktacular will be vindicated. Put it this way:
Ghostbusters Spooktacular----Twister----Ghostbusters: The Ride.
The park's second shooter has you battling it out with ghosts alongside the Ghostbusters through the streets of New York. Two teams are sent out to see who can obtain the most PK Points (distributed when you blast a ghost), with the offering of a position at Ghostbusters. That job application they promised is coming pretty slowly...
Anyway, guests will travel in the prototype Ecto-2s (which Winston has no idea where they got the funds to pay for them) equipped with mounted Neutrona wands. The attraction's final scene features an encounter with this guy:
Another old favorite returns to Universal Studios Florida:
But not in it's original incarnation. This ride will be based on the second half of Peter Jackson's King Kong remake, an intense simulator through a New York being tormented by Kong. The pre show is King Kong's escape from the theater, where guests board evacuation vehicles to escape the city before Kong can destroy it. Unfortunately... they are put right in Kong's path. The ride's finale involves Kong (a giant AA) lifting the vehicles and climbing the Empire State Building. Kong is shot down and the vehicle drops, but in his last moments, grabs the vehicles and sets them down as he plunges to the ground below. A creative twist on the classic King Kong story.
A Ghostbusters restaurant and shop create a nice little Ghostbusters mini area. Another New York themed shop, the Empire State Shop, sits near Kongfrontation.
Also, a recreation of this restaurant:
offers a transition from New York to 30 Rock.
(It's from Seinfeld.)
As for the park entertainment, we'll keep the Universal Studios 360. Just... update it.
Also, a daily parade featuring characters from each section of the park performs in the Hollywood area.
So that's one half of the resort's parks. Expect Islands of Adventure soon.
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