Disney doesn't have many single rider lines because they promote the family experience. They don't want to make you ride a ride with someone who is not in your party when at all possible.
Test Track and Everest are the only 2 single rider lines worth it anyway. You wait longer than standby with Rock n Roller Coaster.
It seems designed to avoid it. Most of the dueling is side by side and not passes/near misses. The only one of those seems to be at the front when they swoop past each other at the midpoint out front, but they built a barrier between the tracks.
No. This is a very specific universe that they had planned a whole series of movies around. It hasn't worked, which made me surprised that they'd plan a theme park land around it but it seems like they might have something here.
Yes, the Dark Universe movie plan went disastrously wrong for all kinds of reasons, but this idea for Epic looks like a brilliant way of taking Universal Horror back to it's roots - the gothic mansion looks incredible in the concept video, probably looking forward to this land than any other to be honest - though I think the HP ride will likely be the best, from what I've heard of it.
Ohmygosh we’re SO excited for Dark Universe & a “monster” themed land!
They need to tear down Fear Factor and remake JAWS!!
I still think that the Fear Factor area will still be used for a HP extension, there were rumours of a broomstick flight simulator but those plans haven't emerged, maybe that or something new - would love to see the Weasley's Burrow home brought to life somewhere.
As someone who visited WDW during the standby-only days (that is, in the years before Fastpass, and in the COVID era), I actually love the idea of Epic Universe being standby-only for its first year or so. I hope that's how it plays out.
I can see why Universal would want to give it a try as a theme park. Universal was known for horror movies, so it makes sense they would want to build a land around something that was their speciality.
It's really not too bad compared to other parks there. IoA currently has 16 (not counting play structures or Pteradon Flyers as have to be with a kid to ride) and Studios has 13 plus a couple shows. (could add half a point or so for Hogwarts Express to each park if wanted but again not available to absolutely everyone.
For those of us who grew up on Disney movies and theme park experiences, that is true. What Disney should be VERY worried about is the generation growing up where Disney movies are no longer the must-do, everyone-sees-them events they used to be, and where Disney theme park vacations (due to rising prices, declining quality, or a combination of the two) are no longer an annual family tradition. Universal seems poised to become the Orlando vacation of choice for many people where today's kids are going to build their nostalgia, and where they'll want to take their own kids in coming decades.
It's even funnier when you think about how at opening, Epic is going to have more rides than what current day Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom have. Not combined but when looking at each park - HS has 9 and AK has 7.
