We live in a time line where the Secret Life of Pets ride is better than the Kung Fu Panda ride.

What a time to be alive.

I never understood why they never made a How To Train Your Dragon Ride similar to the Simpsons. I feel like its a missed opportunity not getting to ride TOOTHLESS

The saddest part is that most of these franchises have AMAZING potential for attractions, imagine a story coaster where Po attempts to stop the "clash of two dragons" obviously a dueling dragons style coaster but only in the later portion, perhaps even offering a more forgiving ride experience in one of the queues and one for more seasoned coaster enthusiasts in the other queue, that way they achieve a dual purpose of creating a new headline attraction that appeals to families, but also an intense thrill ride for older guests

It seems that most of universal’s lesser quality attractions are from their oversea parks rather then their main ones in Hollywood and Orlando. Compared to Disney’s oversea parks, I think universal in the future should put more investment into these other markets. There still is quality there, but these parks could definitely use the extra care to really be incredible parks. With inclusions of stuff such as Super Nintendo World and minions to Singapore, I trust that this park will soon stand out as it’s own and be a better experience then it currently is.

I think one key thats missing from Kung fu pandas dark ride is height, and multiple levels of action. Both life of pets and pirates of the Caribbean have multiple levels with action and figures, which causes the rider to have to shift their eyes up and down searching for detail.

When all of the detail is right next to each other it’s easier to see all of it in a shorter period of time, thus making it seem like less.

Nobody better even think of saying one bad thing about ET

"Boats are one of my favorite attractions." We know, Poseidon. 😭

Just last week I went on the Fast and Furious ride. It was the worst thing ever. Everyone on the ride was laughing hysterically at how terrible and cheesey it was. Ironically everyone was having a great time because of it. Idk what they were thinking. I would never ride it again.

I feel that Universal Hollywood in particular suffers from Motion-Simulator-Syndrome in the main area of it's park even with all of the advantages it has. The Upper Lot is rife with these rides, and given that the park in general isn't very huge since it's an actual movie studio, things can feel limited at times. The park is still well-supplemented with things like the Wizarding World and the Lower Lot, and with Super Nintendo World coming there very soon, I feel that there's a lot of good opportunities for the park to shine in the future.

Aw man, how do you botch a ride based on Kung Fu Panda? It's such an awesome franchise, deserving of an equally awesome ride!

I have a nickname for the Fast and Furious ride: "Fast and Make the Fans Furious"

To me the worst rides would definitely be Fast and Furious, the Kung Fu Panda ride in Beijing and Hollywood (the franchise deserves so much better 😭), the Madagascar one, which just looks like an earlier version of Kung Fu Panda, and Kong Skull Island to an extent imo. Even if it is one of my favorite dark rides, The Cat in The Hat has seen better days. Now it’s just a shell of its former self 😢

I think Universal is finally learning their lesson about what works and what doesnt, it took alot of trial and error but if they keep the theming like with nintendo for all their future stuff, they may take Disney' spot.

ET is the biggest trip ever, like the ADDED a whole planet and species to ET's backstory at the end.

Something I’ve noticed ever since i first saw povs of madagascar/puss in boots in singapore a few years ago that applies even to secret life of pets is that the animatronics of universal’s animated characters always manage to look off model. Disney has found a way to make their animated characters translate perfectly into animatronic form (beauty and the beast in tokyo, for instance) but with universal, something about the fur or the limited motion tends to look consistently off. Even cat in the hat back in 1999 had this issue to some degree.

I lived in Singapore for 10 years. Shrek 4D was my second or third favourite ride. Why? It's well-airconditioned, the line is nicely themed, and 3D is much less widely available so it's more unique. I live an hour from LA now (for college), and even in this small town I can go see any new movie in 3D if I want; In Singapore however, 3D is limited to very select theatres. Avatar: The Way of Water seems to be changing this, but you still have to go to a further theatre to watch it. I do, however, wholeheartedly agree with your assessment of the Madagascar boat ride. It was so lukewarm that the circular park has a distinct direction more people walk in bc Madagascar is the first ride you go on if you go clockwise.

F&F Supercharged is the last time business execs designed an attraction for universal and now they let creative do their thing.

If Disney can get some chefs out of the kitchen, they can get back to greatness too.

What's interesting is that the Kung Fu Panda land and ride were originally supposed to be based on SpongeBob Squarepants, but plans for that were canceled for some unknown reason. Maybe because they didn't have the rights to use the SpongeBob franchise in China or that they found it isn't that popular in China. Either way, they were in the middle of building the SpongeBob land when they decided to cancel it, so it was too late to tear down and rebuild from the ground up, they had to put in a different franchise for an area that was built for SpongeBob, including the boat ride. When Comcast bought DreamWorks, Kung Fu Panda was the answer to take over this area, but honestly if Universal chose to build a Kung Fu Panda land from the ground up, I doubt they would have gone with the choice of the boat ride.

New Poseidon video = great day

0:12 my god that cgi vin diesel looks awfoul