20:56 And maybe you can also sneak in a reference to the Jaws ride if you encounter Mer-People because of the scene involving the Shark-Head guy. It's a genius tribute waiting to happen.
If they do the night bus idea, it needs to be a Segway into the main ride, like a transition between worlds like they have on Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. Have one of those absurd waiting rooms they have become that and then lead the guests to the main ride.
I would love that family friendly Harry Potter dark ride idea!! Imagine going through the chamber of secrets or recreating the first film!! I would love there to be one scene through the forbidden forest and seeing a giant Aragon animatronic with spiders overhead. Like just have one frightful scene. Have the kids conquer their fear. Please I love this attraction idea!!
Indeed. A blessing and a curse. Honestly think it puts a cap on how good that park can be. Perhaps with some things being moved to the Epic Universe plot it will open up some areas surrounding USF.
I'm pondering the future of Harry Potter at Universal at all...not it's existence, but with WB's franchise reboot, they may pressure Universal to retheme to the new actors. The initial teaser had the movie version of Hogwarts, but who knows what the extent of the differences will be? 2010 Daniel Radcliffe is immortalized on shopping bags and advertising in perpetuity. New actors will likely have franchise extensions in their contracts for this purpose that weren't even considered when the film series first started...
The stage area that was fear factor will never go anywhere bc of HHN Nightmare Fuel show. That show has grown so much in popularity that it will not go unless they build a new stage area. A new bigger area for that show would be awesome bc every show on every HHN night is completely packed and always filled.
Going to Diagon Alley would be a new experience for me, as I haven't been there yet, but I imagine you'd want something new if you've done it all. Hopefully, the land will get that new ride in 2028 or so.
I would much prefer they use the spaces for Fear Factor, Fast & Furious, and Jimmy Fallon and give them over to beloved, iconic IP's like Jaws, Ghostbusters, Tomb Raider, Back to the Future, Beetlejuice, etc.
You were talking about London footprint being too big for MIB to be eaten by it. But if the rumors are true about Pokémon taking over Simpsons, they could make it a Nintendo themed shop in the front and use the building in the back for the HP ride
Hey, don't diss Bourne Stuntacular. That attraction is pretty amazing, unlike the other crap you listed (DreamWorks... yawn...). Though I agree it isn't driving new visitors to the park.
How about a full welcome to hogwarts ride, the boats, first dinner {with smells!} the sorting hat - each vehicle gets randomly sorted and then at the end you visit that common room
Fear Factor is a huge people eater for HHN, and they've had a lot of capacity problems with HHN in the most recent years because it's so popular, also it's usually during hurricane season so people's trips end up moving and overpopulating the park. I understand their hesitance to get rid of it 😂
You have to trust me: I immediately thought happy and heart warming dark ride. I didn't think of boat. Maybe add some small splashdowns (no wetness) where the story reaches a crescendo. Maybe a Merman hologram crawls in and says "hi" (strike that - not happy!). Maybe the two ships coming out of water from Goblet of Fire??
I honestly believe the 2 rides that jeopardize USF are Minion Mayhem and Transformers. The placement of these rides created a domino effect that caused the park to have an identity crisis and feel disjointed altogether. Minion land should have taken over Kidzone and Transformers should have gone behind New York.
I honestly don’t see the necessity to expand Diagon Alley other than maybe do a night bus ride. Which if that’s the case it’d be better to take down Fast and Furious since it already uses a Bus style ride system. As for Fear Factor Live and possibly even Men and Black I could see both of those areas and possibly some of the back area being used for another IP or land. I’m thinking they could either do a universal IP like Twister and build a land based on Wakita from the first film but have the ride and setting focus more on the recently successful sequel. Or they could have an expansion to Pokémon which will most likely take over the current area where the Simpsons are.
Current rumor is rip rode rocket is being demolished and intamin has already filed permits for that a few weeks ago and we are going to get a fast and furious roller coaster something similar to the Hollywood version but not identical. So hopefully they will make that expansion for Harry Potter sooner than later
Yeah I saw that rumor but it just doesn’t seem like that will happen, that themed ride would not fit in the New York section of the park sweeping through that area and in front of city walk, plus if you had the entrance where the current entrance of rip ride rocket is, then that would be even weirder, I also heard that they could demolish the old entrance and build the new station near the exit of the tribute store on the side, however I think universal might not be looking to do that since that would cost a whole lot more money. The other possibility is the intamin vertical launch model, this could fit well in this area and play a little tribute to rip ride rocket trying to keep the vertical hill but replace it with a launch, and the theme be something studio generic theme. I still see them doing something completely new and not themed to F&F. But yeah no matter what it is rip ride rocket is most likely closing soon, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s closing sometime in December 2025 with them announcing closure in summer 2025 then with construction probably 1 year and half the new ride would be open sometime in 2027
I one hundred percent agree about the family dark ride not sure about a boat ride I think there are better IP’s for that idea but I think it’d be hilarious and just a slap in the face joke to the people who criticised the wizarding Paris to London ministry and have people travel from diagon alley to the French ministry of magic and do a family dark ride based on newt and his animals
In all honesty I kinda would have liked the Harry Potter broomstick ride I mean I’m a huge fan of VR so it would have been a win for me but that’s just my opinion
Yeah once epic universe opens in may 2025 all eyes are on universal studios, as for what’s most likely to happen first is rip ride rocket closing. I would not be surprised if they announced the closing sometime in summer 2025 and the official closing date to be sometime in December 2025, which then gives universal 1 year and half to build whatever the replacement is, and have a new ride open sometime in 2027. Going further it really just depends what the rip ride rocket replacement is, if it’s something F&F related like it was rumored, I would assume the original F&F attraction would close, making room for the Harry Potter attraction. However if the rip ride rocket replacement is something brand new and not themed to F&F then the original ride will most likely still stay open. However even then whichever option it is I don’t see them expanding Harry Potter before dealing with simpsons and men and black. Simpsons is most likely to be replaced before men and black due to the Disney contract, I would not be surprised if they used the cleared land behind the Coca Cola shop, since they built new sprunk hhn tents farther back and it leaves them room to expand back there. Eventually men and black will come to the end of its life cycle and I wouldn’t be surprised whatever replacement it is uses that land if the simpsons land doesn’t use it first. As for the fear factor stage, it was rumored that universal realizes that the hhn show there is super popular and people would get really mad if that show wasn’t around, so as for that stage, most likely they’d build a backstage stage somewhere in universal to host the show before closing the fear factor stage, once it’s closed they’d probably add that plot of land with the men and black replacement to make a bigger land, or use it for Harry Potter depending on if rip ride rockets replacement is F&F or not. As for what’s likely to happen rip ride rocket will be something original, the contract posted a few weeks ago was for an imtamin built ride, possibly the vertical launch model imtamin has, something a little tamer than velsoicoaster, probably generally themed to studio stuff. Yes it was rumored for F&F spinning roller coaster to replace rip ride, but I don’t see universal doing that currently, it doesn’t fit the New York section of the park, and to have a F&F roller coaster sweeping through city walk in the front there doesn’t make sense. But who knows, universal has done some weird stuff, like 2018 vs 2019, 2018 opened a horrible bus ride (F&F) but the next year in 2019 opened up one of the best themed roller coasters ever. Also one last thing is villin con. I think universal is starting to realize that that attraction was a flop, I think they wish they could have done a ride system like Toy Story mania shooting ride, if they did something like that that ride would have been much better, rumors had that concept originally but the building apparently needed major updates if that was going to happen plus the sound stage was to small overall for it, I think for villin con half the stage is still going to be used for hhn but they never built a house in there yet, wouldn’t be surprised if they did next year in 2025 since they don’t like the F&F house location
Hottest of hot takes Epic Universe doesn’t so near the numbers you tubers predict. This isn’t the magic kingdom coming to a barren Orlando. I predict 5 million in 2025. Is anyone here going in September?
Studios is so tiring making these awful recent decisions. I truly can’t wrap my mind around it. Villancon is so bad. Dreamworks very mediocre. It’s time to invest some $$$ into this park!
@@KikiMeowKittyI love Lord of the rings. The only issue is you have to make it with broad appeal. I don't think you can do that in a theme park setting
First of all the Harry Potter ride that was going to go into where fear factor is was not gonna be a VR ride so whoever gave you the information is wrong! It was gonna be a ride like the avatar banshee ride over at Animal Kingdom
Interestingly, the most successful stage show in Universal history still is a 1996 failed movie (Water World) - and it only got built because they actually built it BEFORE the movie came out. Fast and Furious movies have made billions, and so far the attractions are... Wicked could work... making the show or ride engaging seems the harder part.
I honestly don’t get why people like gringotts, like I have never been on a more overrated ride in my life. I genuinely think it’s an D tier attraction. It’s so bad and I feel like if you like it it’s just cause you like Harry Potter. Like can you actually tell me what’s good about this ride except for the queue?
How bout we forget Harry Potter altogether? Ok. So I'm coming off still with the anti-Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling stuff but honestly, you cant remove the world from thr author and she's one of the biggest obstacles. And as you guys mentioned, Fantastic Beasts was a major flop and kind of ruins the themeing when it was all supposed to be themed around Fantastic Beasts. So granted, I mean with the Wicked Part 1 doing well, they could redo Harry Potter with The Land of Oz. But thats also the issue with those parks. You gotta rely on films and TV more than original IP at times sadly.
And this is incorrect. Alicia Stella confirmed that the Fantastic Beasts/Ministry ride mesh was always the plan according to original permits. Also, the movies were not even close to failures as the numbers show otherwise. The main gripe with the last movie is that it wasn’t for children since there was the whole Dumbledore and his ex- Grindelwald.
Considering how much money Universal and Hogwarts Legacy are making, and how excited people are for the new Epic Universe land, I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of people don't give a crap about JKs tweet history. Plus the Hobbit films were disappointments too, but LOTR is still beloved and people want it at the parks.
Universal wouldn't be anywhere near what it is today without Harry Potter in both parks. The Harry Potter series literally turned their theme park division around and made it what it is today. It'll be years and years before anything HP goes away from Universal.
I honestly believe the 2 rides that jeopardize USF are Minion Mayhem and Transformers. The placement of these rides created a domino effect that caused the park to have an identity crisis and feel disjointed altogether. Minion land should have taken over Kidzone and Transformers should have gone behind New York.
Also, I love the idea of leaving fear factor live and MIB alone because I would to replace that not with HP, but i would replace it with Amity Island and bring back JAWS to the park!!!
Hey, the Bourne stunt show is awesome! The rest of those new rides at Studios can go though 😆
fr its good asf
It’s incredible
yes keep Bourne and mummy rest can go
tare down fear factor live mib and make a whole secret life of pet land like Hollywood
The Bourne stuntacular is the best theme park show ever
A Broomstick ride should basically be Flight of Passage for Harry Potter
With almost none of the emotional resonance haha.
As soon as you mentioned that Universal wouldn’t need to expand Diagon Alley if they used the F&F Supercharged plot, I totally agreed with the idea.
My preference would be an escape from Azkaban focused on sirius black.
Yes please
Your cooking with this one
20:56 And maybe you can also sneak in a reference to the Jaws ride if you encounter Mer-People because of the scene involving the Shark-Head guy. It's a genius tribute waiting to happen.
If they do the night bus idea, it needs to be a Segway into the main ride, like a transition between worlds like they have on Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. Have one of those absurd waiting rooms they have become that and then lead the guests to the main ride.
I think a Thestral carriage ride with big set-pieces would work well too. Either that or a ride in the ford anglia around the burrow.
A traditional family dark ride is a great idea. Although I would love another indoor roller coaster the dark ride would be a crowd eater.
Your ideas and analysis is so amazing, I wish they would hire you 🥰
I would love that family friendly Harry Potter dark ride idea!! Imagine going through the chamber of secrets or recreating the first film!! I would love there to be one scene through the forbidden forest and seeing a giant Aragon animatronic with spiders overhead. Like just have one frightful scene. Have the kids conquer their fear. Please I love this attraction idea!!
10:48 that’s a great idea
I think USFs problem with expansion is HHN, there are so many areas that should be used for expansion that are taken up by hhn.
Indeed. A blessing and a curse. Honestly think it puts a cap on how good that park can be. Perhaps with some things being moved to the Epic Universe plot it will open up some areas surrounding USF.
I love the boat ride idea!!!
I'm pondering the future of Harry Potter at Universal at all...not it's existence, but with WB's franchise reboot, they may pressure Universal to retheme to the new actors. The initial teaser had the movie version of Hogwarts, but who knows what the extent of the differences will be? 2010 Daniel Radcliffe is immortalized on shopping bags and advertising in perpetuity. New actors will likely have franchise extensions in their contracts for this purpose that weren't even considered when the film series first started...
studios needs another potter ride like you said. a major outdoor rollercoaster and a modern indoor rollercoaster. a boat ride too.
The stage area that was fear factor will never go anywhere bc of HHN Nightmare Fuel show. That show has grown so much in popularity that it will not go unless they build a new stage area. A new bigger area for that show would be awesome bc every show on every HHN night is completely packed and always filled.
Great video. Hope they give your ride attraction ideas some consideration.
I love hp 4ever❤
Going to Diagon Alley would be a new experience for me, as I haven't been there yet, but I imagine you'd want something new if you've done it all. Hopefully, the land will get that new ride in 2028 or so.
I will NOT abide The Bourne Stuntacular slander!
The best theme park show I’ve ever seen, honestly blew my mind the first time.
you are always spot on. genuinely my favorite theme park channel
Solid idea for an expansion.
I would much prefer they use the spaces for Fear Factor, Fast & Furious, and Jimmy Fallon and give them over to beloved, iconic IP's like Jaws, Ghostbusters, Tomb Raider, Back to the Future, Beetlejuice, etc.
If Universal were to Remove F&F for the Harry Potter Expansion, they should make it into a Boat Ride! Universal needs a dark boat ride!
You were talking about London footprint being too big for MIB to be eaten by it. But if the rumors are true about Pokémon taking over Simpsons, they could make it a Nintendo themed shop in the front and use the building in the back for the HP ride
Hey, don't diss Bourne Stuntacular. That attraction is pretty amazing, unlike the other crap you listed (DreamWorks... yawn...). Though I agree it isn't driving new visitors to the park.
IDC what anyone says I love villain con
Enjoyed the video.
How about a full welcome to hogwarts ride, the boats, first dinner {with smells!} the sorting hat - each vehicle gets randomly sorted and then at the end you visit that common room
I’m just curious what will happen to the hhn location if Harry Potter takes over f&f
A dark water ride would be good. Something different but doable for them in a few places like lost world, fear factor or one of the many back studios.
Fear Factor is a huge people eater for HHN, and they've had a lot of capacity problems with HHN in the most recent years because it's so popular, also it's usually during hurricane season so people's trips end up moving and overpopulating the park. I understand their hesitance to get rid of it 😂
You have to trust me: I immediately thought happy and heart warming dark ride. I didn't think of boat. Maybe add some small splashdowns (no wetness) where the story reaches a crescendo. Maybe a Merman hologram crawls in and says "hi" (strike that - not happy!). Maybe the two ships coming out of water from Goblet of Fire??
Supposedly the reason that the VR broomstick attraction was scrapped was because in the Harry Potter store in NYC they opened a VR attraction.
I think they're perfectly happy with Studios. HHN let's them double dip for 3 months out of the year.
Night Bus ride
No wait Weasley car ride though London into Hogswarts
Family's with kids can go chill in Didney world
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I honestly believe the 2 rides that jeopardize USF are Minion Mayhem and Transformers.
The placement of these rides created a domino effect that caused the park to have an identity crisis and feel disjointed altogether. Minion land should have taken over Kidzone and Transformers should have gone behind New York.
Wise and correct. Transformers solidified the park as a mish mash of IPs with no cohesiveness.
I honestly don’t see the necessity to expand Diagon Alley other than maybe do a night bus ride. Which if that’s the case it’d be better to take down Fast and Furious since it already uses a Bus style ride system. As for Fear Factor Live and possibly even Men and Black I could see both of those areas and possibly some of the back area being used for another IP or land. I’m thinking they could either do a universal IP like Twister and build a land based on Wakita from the first film but have the ride and setting focus more on the recently successful sequel. Or they could have an expansion to Pokémon which will most likely take over the current area where the Simpsons are.
Current rumor is rip rode rocket is being demolished and intamin has already filed permits for that a few weeks ago and we are going to get a fast and furious roller coaster something similar to the Hollywood version but not identical. So hopefully they will make that expansion for Harry Potter sooner than later
Yeah I saw that rumor but it just doesn’t seem like that will happen, that themed ride would not fit in the New York section of the park sweeping through that area and in front of city walk, plus if you had the entrance where the current entrance of rip ride rocket is, then that would be even weirder, I also heard that they could demolish the old entrance and build the new station near the exit of the tribute store on the side, however I think universal might not be looking to do that since that would cost a whole lot more money. The other possibility is the intamin vertical launch model, this could fit well in this area and play a little tribute to rip ride rocket trying to keep the vertical hill but replace it with a launch, and the theme be something studio generic theme. I still see them doing something completely new and not themed to F&F. But yeah no matter what it is rip ride rocket is most likely closing soon, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s closing sometime in December 2025 with them announcing closure in summer 2025 then with construction probably 1 year and half the new ride would be open sometime in 2027
Nocturne ally dark ride?
I one hundred percent agree about the family dark ride not sure about a boat ride I think there are better IP’s for that idea but I think it’d be hilarious and just a slap in the face joke to the people who criticised the wizarding Paris to London ministry and have people travel from diagon alley to the French ministry of magic and do a family dark ride based on newt and his animals
There’s not really enough room in Diagon alley in my opinion, although they could expand it
In all honesty I kinda would have liked the Harry Potter broomstick ride I mean I’m a huge fan of VR so it would have been a win for me but that’s just my opinion
Yeah once epic universe opens in may 2025 all eyes are on universal studios, as for what’s most likely to happen first is rip ride rocket closing. I would not be surprised if they announced the closing sometime in summer 2025 and the official closing date to be sometime in December 2025, which then gives universal 1 year and half to build whatever the replacement is, and have a new ride open sometime in 2027. Going further it really just depends what the rip ride rocket replacement is, if it’s something F&F related like it was rumored, I would assume the original F&F attraction would close, making room for the Harry Potter attraction. However if the rip ride rocket replacement is something brand new and not themed to F&F then the original ride will most likely still stay open. However even then whichever option it is I don’t see them expanding Harry Potter before dealing with simpsons and men and black. Simpsons is most likely to be replaced before men and black due to the Disney contract, I would not be surprised if they used the cleared land behind the Coca Cola shop, since they built new sprunk hhn tents farther back and it leaves them room to expand back there. Eventually men and black will come to the end of its life cycle and I wouldn’t be surprised whatever replacement it is uses that land if the simpsons land doesn’t use it first. As for the fear factor stage, it was rumored that universal realizes that the hhn show there is super popular and people would get really mad if that show wasn’t around, so as for that stage, most likely they’d build a backstage stage somewhere in universal to host the show before closing the fear factor stage, once it’s closed they’d probably add that plot of land with the men and black replacement to make a bigger land, or use it for Harry Potter depending on if rip ride rockets replacement is F&F or not. As for what’s likely to happen rip ride rocket will be something original, the contract posted a few weeks ago was for an imtamin built ride, possibly the vertical launch model imtamin has, something a little tamer than velsoicoaster, probably generally themed to studio stuff. Yes it was rumored for F&F spinning roller coaster to replace rip ride, but I don’t see universal doing that currently, it doesn’t fit the New York section of the park, and to have a F&F roller coaster sweeping through city walk in the front there doesn’t make sense. But who knows, universal has done some weird stuff, like 2018 vs 2019, 2018 opened a horrible bus ride (F&F) but the next year in 2019 opened up one of the best themed roller coasters ever. Also one last thing is villin con. I think universal is starting to realize that that attraction was a flop, I think they wish they could have done a ride system like Toy Story mania shooting ride, if they did something like that that ride would have been much better, rumors had that concept originally but the building apparently needed major updates if that was going to happen plus the sound stage was to small overall for it, I think for villin con half the stage is still going to be used for hhn but they never built a house in there yet, wouldn’t be surprised if they did next year in 2025 since they don’t like the F&F house location
I know about it
Hottest of hot takes
Epic Universe doesn’t so near the numbers you tubers predict. This isn’t the magic kingdom coming to a barren Orlando. I predict 5 million in 2025. Is anyone here going in September?
Studios is so tiring making these awful recent decisions. I truly can’t wrap my mind around it. Villancon is so bad. Dreamworks very mediocre. It’s time to invest some $$$ into this park!
A wicked land would make noise! Imagine a Defying Gravity rollercoaster and kid friendly ride!
I think you’re taking some leaps of logic here. Diagon is fine as it is, there are bigger fish to fry at the Studios park.
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You can't count Dreamworks as anything new as nothing really changed besides the theme.
Gringotts is not a coaster...
Yes it is.
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its a total loss, tear it down and rebuild Jaws
Honestly, I'm kind of sick of the overabundance of Harry Potter. Not even Star wars or Lord of the rings get this much treatment
That would be sick to see something on this scale for lotr
nah
The only reason Star Wars isn't as abundant is because Disney doesn't know how to use it.
You could make the argument. It is the strongest IP on planet Earth. It doesn't matter how incompetent Disney is with it@@junglehero1274
@@KikiMeowKittyI love Lord of the rings. The only issue is you have to make it with broad appeal. I don't think you can do that in a theme park setting
Fast and furious is awsome
After epic I want it to stop
Give that expansion plot at ministry of magic to what ever franchise is going next door
No. And that’s for the Great Hall. 😅
@ that I’m down for
First of all the Harry Potter ride that was going to go into where fear factor is was not gonna be a VR ride so whoever gave you the information is wrong! It was gonna be a ride like the avatar banshee ride over at Animal Kingdom
we don’t need anymore harry potter attractions
instead of expanding Harry Potter what if they... added a proper Wicked area
I know people have requested it. I would be open to it especially with how J.K. is.
I like Wicked, but I think we should wait and see if Part 2 is a success as well before imagining theme park attractions.
Interestingly, the most successful stage show in Universal history still is a 1996 failed movie (Water World) - and it only got built because they actually built it BEFORE the movie came out. Fast and Furious movies have made billions, and so far the attractions are...
Wicked could work... making the show or ride engaging seems the harder part.
they need to save wicked for epic universe not universal studios
@@junglehero1274the traction from the wicked store alone is enough of a testament for giving it its own land in the future
I honestly don’t get why people like gringotts, like I have never been on a more overrated ride in my life. I genuinely think it’s an D tier attraction. It’s so bad and I feel like if you like it it’s just cause you like Harry Potter. Like can you actually tell me what’s good about this ride except for the queue?
I lost my v card there
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Nah, you probably never lost it, lmao.
How bout we forget Harry Potter altogether? Ok. So I'm coming off still with the anti-Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling stuff but honestly, you cant remove the world from thr author and she's one of the biggest obstacles. And as you guys mentioned, Fantastic Beasts was a major flop and kind of ruins the themeing when it was all supposed to be themed around Fantastic Beasts. So granted, I mean with the Wicked Part 1 doing well, they could redo Harry Potter with The Land of Oz. But thats also the issue with those parks. You gotta rely on films and TV more than original IP at times sadly.
And this is incorrect. Alicia Stella confirmed that the Fantastic Beasts/Ministry ride mesh was always the plan according to original permits. Also, the movies were not even close to failures as the numbers show otherwise. The main gripe with the last movie is that it wasn’t for children since there was the whole Dumbledore and his ex- Grindelwald.
Don’t be one of those haters for people whose political views don’t match yours. Rowling is free to believe in what she wants. That simple
Considering how much money Universal and Hogwarts Legacy are making, and how excited people are for the new Epic Universe land, I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of people don't give a crap about JKs tweet history. Plus the Hobbit films were disappointments too, but LOTR is still beloved and people want it at the parks.
Weird wokies could never make me hate JK Rowling, she's pro women. She shouldn't be attacked for being a normal person.
Universal wouldn't be anywhere near what it is today without Harry Potter in both parks. The Harry Potter series literally turned their theme park division around and made it what it is today. It'll be years and years before anything HP goes away from Universal.
I honestly believe the 2 rides that jeopardize USF are Minion Mayhem and Transformers.
The placement of these rides created a domino effect that caused the park to have an identity crisis and feel disjointed altogether. Minion land should have taken over Kidzone and Transformers should have gone behind New York.
Also, I love the idea of leaving fear factor live and MIB alone because I would to replace that not with HP, but i would replace it with Amity Island and bring back JAWS to the park!!!