Universal Orlando Resort Unveils New King Kong Attraction - Polidicks

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCUgjqlcO44[/media] [quote]Today Universal Orlando officially announced Skull Island: Reign of Kong will open in 2016 at Islands of Adventure. Already well under construction adjacent to the existing Jurassic Park area, this new ride will take guests through Skull Island and feature life-sized, face-to-face encounters with King Kong himself.[/quote] [url=http://www.insidethemagic.net/2015/05/king-kong-ride-officially-announced-for-universal-orlando-skull-island-reign-of-kong-set-to-open-in-2016/]Source[/url] [url=http://www.orlandoparksnews.com/2015/04/king-kong-construction-continues-more.html]Photos of the massive attraction under construction[/url]

wait wait wait, what about that awful lost continent area? what are they going to do with that?

I swear to god if this is all CG once you get past the facade...

so those rumors were true, eh? it'll be neat to see if they reference the old kong attraction somewhere in the new one.

[quote]this new ride will take guests through Skull Island and feature [b]life-sized, face-to-face encounters with King Kong himself.[/b][/quote] Oh thank god, this already sounds better than the California attraction built after the fire.

Ah, I see how Universal is making better announcements than Disney. The difference is that Universal starts building stuff and then announces it. That's why they can say 'coming Summer 2016' and stroll past the crowd taking high-fives. The building's already partly there, makes the wait seem smaller. Compare it with Disney who announced Avatar Land in 2011, started building it in 2014 and it's slated to open in 2017. That makes the wait seem a whole lot larger and 'worse'.

Except with Disney they seem to take their time with creating new things unlike Universal who seem to just churn them out

Yea Universal is not as good as disney world. Disney has two things Universal doesn't, Isolation and Immersion. a good example of this is just looking at the entrance of Magic Kingdom and Islands of adventure [url]http://cdn.wdwmagic.com/imgstore/ElementGalleryItems/events/Fullsize/Holidays-at-the-Magic-Kingdom_Full_17449.jpg[/url] When you enter Magic Kingdom, all you see are main street USA and The castle itself at the end of it. There's no extra clutter from the other parts of the park that don't fit the main street/castle style and the person can be isolated and immersed in it. Now look at the entrance to Islands of Adventure: [url]https://www.universalorlando.com/Images/BB_horz_first_tcm13-10012.jpg[/url] At the entrance you can already see 3/4 parts of the park. Cat and the hat, Marvel (Yes marvel, Universal bought theme park rights before Disney bought marvel) , the beginning area, and jurassic park (the big building in the background). clutter from hell. see the difference?

In the announcement game, it's more about marketing than the actual attraction.

[QUOTE=Wii60;47673857]Yea Universal is not as good as disney world. Disney has two things Universal doesn't, Isolation and Immersion. a good example of this is just looking at the entrance of Magic Kingdom and Islands of adventure [url]http://cdn.wdwmagic.com/imgstore/ElementGalleryItems/events/Fullsize/Holidays-at-the-Magic-Kingdom_Full_17449.jpg[/url] When you enter Magic Kingdom, all you see are main street USA and The castle itself at the end of it. There's no extra clutter from the other parts of the park that don't fit the main street/castle style and the person can be isolated and immersed in it. Now look at the entrance to Islands of Adventure: [url]https://www.universalorlando.com/Images/BB_horz_first_tcm13-10012.jpg[/url] At the entrance you can already see 3/4 parts of the park. Cat and the hat, Marvel (Yes marvel, Universal bought theme park rights before Disney bought marvel) , the beginning area, and jurassic park (the big building in the background). clutter from hell. see the difference?[/QUOTE] that's mainly because Disney World has the luxury of having an absolutely ridiculous amount of land (over 40 square miles) meaning they can afford to space out attractions and worlds to keep things isolated Universal on the other hand, has managed to fit two parks in an area about half the size of Epcot, and if you're down on the ground inside one of the lands, you barely see any other stuff from other lands especially with Hogsmeade/Diagon Alley, which are basically completely separate parks from the rest of Universal, where you pretty much won't see a single thing from another part of the park

Sweet, it'll be open in 2016. Hope it will be open when I go :v:.