Universal Studios Park Coming to Texas and HHN Haunt Opening in Vegas
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IT'S HAPPENING! This may only be... the beginning.
universal is really stepping up its game
Please ohh please build something in the North East! Plenty of smaller, independent parks in the area, but something like this would be so welcome and if Kings Dominion and Busch Gardens Europe can be year round parks, a purpose built park with most attractions indoors could do it too...
This looks like a fun little park. Can we also take a moment to appreciate how beautiful Universal's concept art is - I love Epic Universe's too
Universal does make their theme park concept art beautiful and high quality compared to poorly quality and not-so-great concept art from other theme park companies.
What would be fantastic idea is to open more smaller parks all with its own immersive theming. So if you want to visit Jurassic Park you go to the Arizona location, you want to visit a universal Monsters land you visit the New Orleans location. If you want to see them all you go to FL or CA. This gives families multiple destinations to plan vacations.
That's what I was thinking
Not to mention as air travel becomes increasingly frustrating, having parks within driving distance can be a way to protect the company against complications and downturns in airline travel. If Universal can figure out how to make these parks work north of I-40, it might not take many installations to effectively have the entire country within a day's drive. Perhaps one near Seattle or Portland, one in Pennsylvania or New York, and one in the Midwest. Denver and and a mid-Atlantic location might make sense as well, especially if the northeast location is in New York or New England. LA, Orlando, and DFW will serve a substantial portion of the country as it is.
Maybe having a central entry area and 2 immersive themed lands, but think one IP for the entire park could be very limiting as people not interested in that brand will be less likely to attend. Though I do think a few brands like Harry Potter, Nintendo, and Jurassic Park/World have plenty of th units to design an entire park out of.
I like the idea of having sort of "mini Disney" parks in more regional markets, but I would also try to attract some older audiences with coasters and the like. I would especially target underserved areas like Seattle, Portland, Memphis, and Denver, but I would stay away from places with well-established regional amusement parks like Ohio and the mid-Atlantic.
Great idea, but I would go with like 3 lands per park. You need the variety and it needs to be a full day experience. You want people from that region to be AP and frequent visitors in order for the park to be successful.
i could see the horror nights attraction going over pretty well. they’d just have to spice it up with something new every so often
This is incredible. Universal has already shown with Singapore, that they can build a great small park packed with value. Not only is it a big break from Universals trend of following Disney, but it finally brings parks to Central US, which I think is massively underserved. It makes a lot more sense to me than building a 4th park in Florida. It will be very interesting to see how Disney responds to this.
Universal surprising us with a one two punch
It really seems like Universal wants to gradually take the world by storm. It's clear that Disney is floundering with their parks, and it would be fascinating to see what Universal can come up with.
😂 This isn't a park in Vegas, and if history is any indication, year round haunts never work. . This may have hope because it's at area 15. That is what saves This
@@alucard2010 I wasn't even talking about the Vegas attraction thing. The Horror Nights are the least of my concern because I am a big scaredy cat.
@@alucard2010 same reason the monsters themed land in Epic Universe will succeed. It already has an audience. Even if Epic Universe never existed, they could put this somewhere near Universal Orlando and still draw a crowd.
Where Legoland Discovery Center exists in Dallas used to be a monter themed restaurant very similar to Rainforest Cafe, store, and even interactive characters. It opened as Jekyll and Hyde Club, later renamed Eerie World Cafe. It failed because the food was terrible and there was little reason to revisit. That’s why you really need a healthy tourism area to thrive on if you risk boring locals. Rainforest Cafe, which existed in the same shopping center as Eerie World Cafe has been there since 1997, and is successful because the food is ok, and there is a never ending supply of children who would be more interested in animals than monsters.
Universal really is looking to take Disney down a notch (as if they didn’t already, at least imo ofc 👍)
It is like Disney has just given up. Nothing new, five years to build TRON (Which is a copy of the existing one), just nothing original out of Disney.
I’ve never been more excited about their future. I didn’t visit Universal parks till after the golden age, when amazing experiences like Jaws, Back To The Future and Kongfrontation were already things of the past, but after getting lost in the 2000s with their overreliance on screen based attractions, I am more than a little excited to see them steal Disney’s theme park crown, and that’s coming from one of the biggest Disney theme park fans.
@@robstravelsadventures Disney has literally opened new attractions, hotels, restaurants, experiences etc. every single year.
IT LOOKS LIKE A DREAMWORKS THEME PARK!
Our Australian Park Dreamworld has lost it's license for Dreamworks, with all the theming being removed this year, they have announced at the end of last year. Our loss is the rest of the world's gain. No question that Universal's will be a massive step up, but I'll still miss the Dreamworks Experience here.
I do think in terms of IPs for mini parks they most likely won't touch (or if they do won't be as extensive) IPs that are earmarked for the main parks. Why go to Orlando when I can go to Texas, Chicago, etc.?
Universal is going to deliver a devastating blow to Disney, and I love it.
This reminds me of when Disney planned a few out of the box type theme parks when Eisner was in charge. Disney Quest in multiple cities and that interesting traveling Barge theme park.
I think the mini-park (someday parks?) sounds fantastic! Maybe it's because I have a lot of small kids, but I think making a park geared more towards the littles is a great way to get them primed and excited for the bigger universal parks, versus having Disney as the only option when they're under a certain age. If the offerings are varied enough, I would even plan a trip to Texas just for this. (But I'm a theme park collector and I'll travel just about anywhere to see a unique ride so maybe it's just me, lol.)
It’s funny to consider this a mini park because it looks to be bigger than the Hollywood one(It’s only 43 acres after the Super Nintendo World expansion). Sure Hollywood states that it’s 500 acres but most of it is just the studio lot.
That’s a good point! I only called it a mini-park because that’s how Alecia referenced this and the other possible projects, but I also just took it to mean not a full scale resort and not necessarily a small (or underdone) park. Either way it’ll be great to see what ends up coming to fruition!
@@jamierusovick-smith6422same.
@@Emplordxiii The 90 acres number being thrown around could be the full size of the entire property they purchased, not just the park. There's going to be a hotel as well. If the park were 90s acres, that would be only slightly smaller than the Orlando parks, which doesn't appear to be what they're aiming for.
This is a very smart move. I think it will do great
As a Dallas area resident and HUGE Universal fan, I can't wait to see how things take shape. I'm not wild about the "kid-centric" aspect however, it means they're testing the waters and this could lead to more offerings in the future... which is very exciting!
I am SO here for this! And praying Universal buy back Port Aventura World again!
I think PortAventura is already great as is, but would love to see some TLC for the already existing lands. But I'd be so happy to see Universal retheme and remove everything except red force from ferrari land!
I wonder what they’d keep, what they’d retheme, and what they’d tear down and build from the ground up.
@@WMFilms25 hopefully they’d add some lands like Harry Potter & Jurassic!
Not gonna lie, that was an shocking but welcoming surprise. I was also hoping that they build an indoor Family Fun center, but this is even better. So, I'm crossing my fingers that they build one outside of the greater Los Angless area like Riverside or Victorville.
Calling it now... SHREK 4D IS BACK!!
Wonder if kids zone will clone some of these rides? Also, the video announcement said secret life of pets also! If they get secret life of pets but Florida doesn't--ouch!
This is amazing news that Universal Parks & Resorts is building another theme park in Texas. I read that this theme park will be a kids friendly theme park compared to the massive ones in the United States and around the world. I might plan on visiting the theme park when I have the money to travel to Texas and book a hotel to stay.
OMG UNIVERSAL IS COMING TO TEXAS!
Man…. Universal is really changing the game.
As for the Vegas haunted house thing... Good luck with that. Eli Roth spent $10 million creating the Goretorium right on the Vegas Strip and it didn't last a year. Yeah, it was Eli Roth, who sucks and few people know him, but it was located right in the midst of things, perfect for the LA crowd that fills the Strip on weekends. While Area15 is an interesting idea, it's in a warehouse district on the wrong side of the freeway. So people will actually have to know that it exists.
That said, the press release says, "The attraction will be continuously updated to encompass new films and franchises." which is a euphemism for "We will transfer HHN sets here after USH is done with them so we can get more mileage out of them!" (The PR also mentions "original merchandise" which is totally code for "So if you went to HHN, you'll still want to come buy different stuff!) So it should be fairly cheap to run. They also can have limited hours, possibly even limited to the weekend, so they aren't paying actors to scare a dozen people an hour. Also, this thing will probably be like the Great Movie Escape and have a bar, and I'm sure Area51 can use another.
This one will be interesting.
Omg imagine the possibilities!!! 😱🤩 This is the best theme park news I’ve heard since the announcement of Galaxy’s Edge! The demise of the Disney Store hit way harder than imagined. Living in Ohio, we’d go there to get our quick Disney fix in between trips. Now that’s gone, and it’s way too expensive and crowded to make the trip to Florida as often. With small new parks like this, it gives us opportunities to travel to new places (for theme parks) while making it much more manageable on our pockets. I’m sooo excited! This is an excellent idea! I’m going to go ahead and manifest one of these coming to Ohio - specifically the Sandusky area near Cedar Point. I know the weather isn’t great year round, but we do already have theme park tourism. A girl could dream 😂🙏🏽
We need a park in Indianapolis!
I think Universal is being very smart to split the demographics and build a park catering to families with young kids, while keeping other parks more focused on tweens and up. Sometimes mixing the demographics creates a less enjoyable experience for all and also dilutes a park’s appeal.
As long as they’re smart and don’t over saturate the market, this sounds like an amazing idea and they might be a safer bet than building huge parks like they usually do. A Nintendo mini-park seems unlikely because it’s 3rd party, but an Illumination, Jurassic Park, or even (dare I say it) a Retro park (JAWS, BTTF, Kong) seem possible. They might be looking to spread out their growing list of IP’s beyond their Bi-coastal main theme parks and with them acquiring more in the future (Warner Bros Discovery maybe?) who knows what else they could do.
Retro park, yes!!!!! Fantastic idea!
I feel like the expansion to this one will be Illumination.
@@austinreed7343 yay, more minions 😑
A lot of information in 4 minutes wow 🤯😵💫
Well well, turns out not everything is bigger in Texas. 😂
It's a start. If it really pops off, there will be more.
Finally, a new texas park
Oh, Frisco is only a few hours from me. Nice.
I can already imagine the idea of New York City having some form of theme park near it or at least near it like Newark. If it’s themed around either Universal Monsters or even Jurassic Park/World that’s be even better!
Maybe universal should take over part of the very empty American Dream mall, and build a indoor mini universal studios. The place is already a entertainment hub.
I think is this is gonna trigger Disney to do something similar I feel like they’ve been looking into Texas property for awhile now …
Also may give six flags a run for they’re money … or make them wanna step up the game
I was not expecting this announcement, but it’s certainly exciting. I’d love to see if we get an actual Jurassic Park/Jurassic World theme park somewhere in the country.
Doubtful, but if it ever happened, the most appropriate location would be Hawaii, where the movies were filmed. There's also a distinct lack of theme parks there.
I kinda love how Universal stole Disney's thunder... less than 24 hours after Disney made all their customer friendly announcements of roll backs of old policies, Universal steels the news cycle with this. I wonder if it was on purpose (Universal had the announcement ready and was just waiting for the right time) or if it was all coincidence...
Texas needs a major theme park with thrills for adults & lots of things for kids & families also. Universal needs to make this a full size park. Millions of Texans would go all the time including myself. There is so many people in Texas & no major theme park other then Six Flags. If Disney came in with a full size park it would blow away this mini park Universal is building. I want Universal to make this place expand & do a full park instead of just a kiddie park.
I gotta, gotta, GOTTA believe that Comcast is going to buy Area 15 ... And be advised, there is a second Area 15 under development in Orlando.
Okay, I’m ridiculously excited about year-round HHN! 😮
I really like the TX park idea. There’s just not much for young families at the Orlando and Hollywood parks and this would give young families a piece of universal. I’m confused why so many complain about it being a kiddy park? Almost all of universal Orlando and Hollywood is for teens and adults. There’s virtually nothing for young families. Now with two babies my option is Disney…no thanks! I would go to the TX park over Disney for sure.
I remember when I received that email about this from the CEO earlier today. It gave me excitement
Universal is so smart!!! These sound amazing!
So basically this is the first time in years that universal is building a new theme park resort in the States and a Halloween horror nights theme park cool! 😊
Oh! Interesting about PortAventura. Is Universal getting into the theme park buying business? Because I can't imagine they don't have any interest in SeaWorld Orlando. They situated Epic Universe as close as they could get to SWO property. If they build Better-Than-Legoland, they will have a Universal park in every SeaWorld state. Does having an existing park make things easier when you buy another in that state? (I honestly don't know, but might as well get the rumor mill churning...)
Makes you wonder that if the rumors of Comcast wanting to Buy Warner Bros. Discovery are true and if some how SeaWorld goes bankrupt and gets sold to Comcast/Universal, SeaWorld could become Discovery Parks or keep the SeaWorld name and have it be based on Discovery
The only reason they bought PortAventura is because they have no interest in building a European park from scratch. You won't see them buying other parks in the US. Epic Universe is situated where it is because that's the large plot of land closest to their existing parks. SeaWorld just happens to be in the same area.
NO WAY HHN EVEN ON NEW YEARS AND 4 OF JULY DOSE THAT MEAN 4 OF JULY IS PURGE THEME
if so help me god
I know there were questions about whether Disney would open a park in Texas and if that would take away vacation travelers from visiting FL/CA parks but be disappointing if it didn't feature a lot of the same attractions..........I feel like Universal could be much better positioned to do something like this without taking away from those who want to visit (mostly) Orlando, as they're going to go see other stuff anyway. In short, this is going to be a good regional park concept
I know it's not one-to-one, but I hope they basically just copy and paste the Shrek/Trolls sections of this concept art into the Kidzone land in Universal Studios Florida.
All have to say is, Look out, Six Flags!
one thing is for sure. the future is bright for theme park fans and its community
It would be cool to see a camp Cretaceous Dino’s and characters even a fun little roller coaster
Leaving Disney in the dust!
RIP Disney.
Universal is actually going back to buy PortAventura. Please let this happen.
I remembered with they wanted to bring some classic IP attractions over there when it was universal Mediterranea.
Universal needs to put something Army of the Dead-related in the Vegas location, it only feels right.
Also, wouldn’t it be amazing if Universal just decided to build a full-on Jurassic Park one day?
Today, one of my friends in Houston forward me a Houston news - “H.E.B.” came to Frisco
last year And Universal Studio theme park come to Frisco this year!”. So, I no longer have
to explain to them Frisco is a small town in DFW metro area and closer to Plano.
( Some friends don’t even know Plano.)
This “Universal Studio theme park possibly come to Frisco” news has already brought Frisco
to Texas state stage, U.S.A stage and world stage because even the other planned Universal
Studio horror theme park is in World famous Las Vegas Strip. Every city having Universal
Studio theme park is in world stage except Frisco!
I live in Vegas and I’m hoping a universal theme park will come someday. But I am happy because this is a start!
Holy shoot! Jurassic world camp Cretaceous in the universal parks?! Bring it on!
They mentioned minions as meetable characters so I think they are going to have a ride.
Disney's America outside Houston please!
I live in the Dallas suburbs, I got news of this today, not sure how I feel. On one hand, this could provide a good source of job opportunities and fun attraction for families, on the other, this concept art looks very... kid friendly. This looks mostly catered to a younger children group who will be taken there by parents. Could be great for the area or could be terrible, we'll see.
Better than the teen daycare center your wishing for.
Impossible to be bad for the area. Only positive can come out of it such as economic benefits and a boost in tourism and introduction to International routes and destinations
The press release says it's catered to families with children, so being kid-friendly is the whole idea. This isn't a full-size park with thrill rides. More like Universal's answer to LegoLand.
Almost all of universal Orlando and Hollywood is geared towards age 10+. There’s only one or two attractions for young families. Having a park for the younger kids allows more families to visit and provides options for everyone not just teens and adults. Not all families want to go to Disney or wait 10 years before making it to universal and making it worthwhile.
Exciting news!!
wow universal studios are really striving rn, compared to disney they are really doing well with satisfying their customers and catering for all
Meanwhile at Disney's: Tron..! :-D
Opening 7 years later after being announced 🤣🤣 while Universal Studios built Universal Studios Beijing, Super Nintendo World in Osaka at US Japan, Velsocoaster and Hagrid in US Orlando and Super Nintendo World in Universal Hollywood during the same amount of time as one coaster for Disney.
@@avarice.karmageddon 😄yes
Damn universal is on a roll! Disney better sleep with one.. no two eyes open
Can we get a Jurassic Park Hotel?
We will have to see how long the quality maintains with this haunted house. This has Disney Quest vibes.
We know Universal can create a good haunted house. Keeping a permanent one properly staffed will be the challenge.
I believe that this Universal Studio theme park is a game changer.
It can make Collin county to be the center of DFW metro and
Frisco/Legacy-west/west-Mckinney/west-Allen /east-colony become
the new center of DFW metro because of Universal Studio’s high brand.
High Interest rate slows the real estate market of Collin county
( actually, the whole country ) and makes values downward. This high
brand world class Theme park is going to bring California buyers
( especially Bay Area ) And world buyers focus on the real estate of
Collin county.
In Collin county, $600,000- 1 millions needs to get high interest rate loan
If it is purchased by Texans. However, to most Bay Area buyers, they
Have cash for that amount. This high brand, world class theme park will get
Their attention and put money here.
Please come to missouri
My only wonder with this is just how immersive are they going to make this mini-theme park. Are they looking to spend a lot and charge a lot to draw in folks outside of Texas? Will the cost and price represent a desire for a steady stream of locals? I think there’s definitely a happy medium there that I hope they’re aiming for so it’s still a high quality product but, won’t force locals to dig too deep to be able to visit it.
I hope they have own power plant in texas since Texas can't keep the lights on
In 2/7 Frisco city meeting, someone asked city of Frisco to do crime analysis
on the potential kids-theme park. This is my opinion:
Can 3-9 years kids without gun make lots of crime? You can’t use
Other adults big theme park’s crime rate applied to this small kids park.
However, if this land build apartments or condos ( due to Frisco has no
More lands, I doubt that it will build bigger single family homes here.)
The crime rate will be different! Especially, in Texas, people can bring gun.
What! Why Texas? 😳
All that Universal has to do, is put a Harry Potter land in any park, and it'll be a guaranteed success.
As long as Vegas hires professional scare actors and not random people off the strip.
It’s an amazing concept, but I’m afraid they are going after the local amusement parks with this concept if they plan for several across the country. Those local family parks being originally that we don’t see with a universal or a Disney park. So if they shut down because of they don’t have the Comcast money to compete that would heart breaking.
Omg finally!!
WOOOOOOOO
I concur.
yesss the Vegas horror house could be great
Come buy up Great Adventure from Six Flags, please.
Hopefully one of those mini parks comes up to the PNW
we need a purely jurassic one
What exactly is Universal's iconic brand of humor?
Say goodbye disney
Well I'll be
Universal beat Disney to it
AGAIN
They should’ve gone to Houston it would’ve been amazing & Houston final had a theme park!!! To fill the Astro world gap
Watch out Disney your starting to get out done by Universal. Lol
Honestly I hope they don't buy port aventura,it's already a great theme park
Disney really caught with their trousers down, aren’t they?
taking my God Nephew maybe Neices but if this boring im Running out lol
Stop with in accurate info. HHN is not coming to Vegas. It's a horror experience . With shops, restaurants and a few houses.
Gawd I hate the phrase "family focused", like families with elementary-school kids are the only "families" out there. But I'm sure that's a direct plea for the Disney set, who apparently thinks once someone likes roller coasters they no longer belong to a family unit. But it's younger kids who will be the focus. I'm sure this is Universal entering the Legoland market before Disney does. Disney keeps trying to replicate Disney Springs "with attractions" but Universal is looking at the actual market instead of trying to build another overpriced mall. This will probably become a crowded market in the next decade because these parks really only require theming, characters and flat rides. In other words, they cost a fraction of Epic Universe but they will still sell all kinds of merch and food and will be seen as more of a destination than Disney Springs Branson!
So nobody get their hopes up for Harry Potter or Nintendo. They probably wouldn't get these companies to agree to it, but I doubt Universal would even want to. They have to share profits with those IPs. Which is why these probably won't be just DreamWorks properties because there's still money to be made from the Minions. Way more than ANY DreamWorks property, and why would they ignore the far-more-famous Universal name anyhow?
This new theme park is how I wish Super Nintendo World was instead.
Texas is random but ok
its the 2nd most populated state and growing fast, not random like rhode island or something like that
They don't open a universal or other theme parks in Dallas Tx or TX because of the lawsuits by visitors or cost of damage to theme parks due to the tornadoes in TexasJ.
DUUUUUUUUUUDE
another water park....
I hope the consider a Hawaii location. We need a Hawaiian roller coaster ride
F disney. Go go go universal
You couldn't pay me to go to Texas. Yuck.
ok, we're fine with you not coming here. don't have to be rude
Consider it a plus that Yankee ticks will stay away then.
Stay your ass where you are at then.
Eeeeesh, the transcript may read family, but honestly, The Texas "Park" looks like a kids land that will feature flat rides. Ugh, I'm not excited, sorry. I hope it falls apart like every proposed plan to do something with the parking lot formerly known as Astroworld. Texas can't catch a break for parks
It's probably comparable to something like Sesame Place or Legoland parks. It is meant for smaller children and families for sure!
@@ParkStopPresents 97 acres is sooooo small. 🦐 Shrimp Universal
lol! try growing up and living in hawaii which has 0 theme parks. (the closest being 5.5 hour flight away) you guys have one of the best six flags parks in the world.. a sea world, another six flags park and are currently building cotaland. add this on and i really dont feel sorry for you. cry me a river mate
@@moylen8260 Hawaii has natural beauty, Texas has natural ugly. It's why we love covering everything we can with concrete. We'll show up if it's got A/C, and only if it's got A/C.
@@Dontmakemerun uh i love Texas forests on over to the desert rugged. Nice beaches near Mexico. Rolling farm land out in bfe. City slicker.