Trip Report: July 10-18, 2010. Day 4
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From: Bashful on 4 Aug 2010 19:01 Paul Lalli wrote: > ...Thanks for reading. (Especially, in this case, if you actually managed > to read the whole thing. > > Paul Lalli Thanks so much for such a descriptive report! I was looking forward to reading this all day. :-) Unfortunately, I'm not sure that your report really helped to convince me to give the place a try, but at least if I do go, I'll have a MUCH better idea of what to expect. -- Kitty (TDC Bashful) remove "whiskers" to e-mail
From: jt august on 4 Aug 2010 20:44 In article <i3a925$17c$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Paul Lalli <mritty(a)gmail.com> wrote: > As we're now pretty close to the Harry Potter area, we can actually see > Hogwarts. And it looks cool - from one angle. From another angle, you > can completely see the back of the castle, and how they didn't bother > theming the back at all. You see the big square grey box of a building > that houses the major attraction. Bad show. Very very bad show. Remember, this is Universal Studios, and like a real movie studio, they only decorate that parts they want you to look at. Theming the back side is pointless. Not sure how things are now at DHS, but back when I went to D-MGM, I remember similar in the NYC/Muppets area. As the tour guide said on the back lot tour, "It's an old Hollywood trick aclled saving money." jt
From: kidagain on 4 Aug 2010 21:37 On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:34:25 -0400, Paul Lalli <mritty(a)gmail.com> >Thanks for reading. (Especially, in this case, if you actually managed >to read the whole thing. > >Paul Lalli I read it all and it was a fun and informative report. Kinda felt like I was along for the ride. Your discription was almost exactly like my neighbors experience except they never actually got on the ride. After waiting for over 2 hours his wife started feeling sick so they aborted. They are both big HP fans so were disappointed but plan to go again when the crowds die down. He felt sorry for the staff or CMs whatever they are called. Said they just seemed undertrained and overwhelmed by all the complaints and people yelling at them. Poor management for sure. I went to Universal Studios many years ago before IOA and enjoyed it but remember thinking how undisney like it was. Back to the Future is the only attraction I even remember. I'll stick with WDW especially after reading your report. Glad you enjoyed the ride. Maybe I'll surprise myself and give it a try someday. Bill Oh and my neighbors did spend most of their vacation at DW and enjoyed it very much.
From: Paul Lalli on 4 Aug 2010 22:20 Laura Gilbreath wrote: > Thanks, Paul - it was great! Especially since we're talking about going > there in December. You didn't mention Seuss Landing at all - did you > not visit that area? That was one of my favorites from the one day that > I spent there. We walked through it on the way out of HP-land. It seemed like kiddie-ride-land to me, and we didn't see anything that appealed to us. We did ride Cat in the Hat on our second UO day, however. Paul
From: Paul Lalli on 4 Aug 2010 22:22
jt august wrote: > In article <i3a925$17c$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > Paul Lalli <mritty(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> As we're now pretty close to the Harry Potter area, we can actually see >> Hogwarts. And it looks cool - from one angle. From another angle, you >> can completely see the back of the castle, and how they didn't bother >> theming the back at all. You see the big square grey box of a building >> that houses the major attraction. Bad show. Very very bad show. > > Remember, this is Universal Studios, and like a real movie studio, they > only decorate that parts they want you to look at. Theming the back > side is pointless. Not sure how things are now at DHS, but back when I > went to D-MGM, I remember similar in the NYC/Muppets area. As the tour > guide said on the back lot tour, "It's an old Hollywood trick aclled > saving money." The Muppets building is themed all the way around - the Muppets were basically in charge of it and applied their own creative style. The Streets of America area is suppose to be a movie set, so it makes sense for the backs to not be themed. Wizarding World of Harry Potter is supposed to be Hogsmeade village. It does not make sense to not be themed. By the way, even the back of Tower of Terror is themed and painted appropriately, because it can be seen from certain points at Epcot. Paul Lalli |