Universal Orlando set to unveil new drone show, hot on the heels of Disney

No mention of Drones but, New Lagoon Show is June 14th, New Parade is July 3rd.

OK Then!!!!! 600 Drones!!!! How many is DS getting????

Hooray! All this opens just two weeks before my trip! Excited to see this! (Will only miss the new parade)

Prefer NOT inappropriately shoehorning in IP to every crevice of specific parks (Epcot and DAK) solely for the sake of marketing synergy.

USO or DHS are by their nature IP centric parks and need IP to be present for an excellent park experience.

1. Thank-you for just rephrasing my point, I guess.

2. WRT USO being necessarily an "IP park"... Then what's the reason for EU being almost solely IP driven? That wasn't necessary, no?

Isn't EU by its nature, a park dedicated to going inside the fantasy worlds created by assorted IP such as Nintendo, HTTYD, etc?

It seems that way. But what is it about the theming of the whole park itself would necessitate that?

A 'movie studio' theme would bring about the expectation of being part of the movies. Does a 'celestial theme' also necessitate that?

This is just Universal doing what Disney is doing... making everything IP. Or, to put it as often phrased "crammed into every nook and cranny and shoved down our throats!"

Even Six Flags feels the need to theme a totally unthemed coaster with a flat cut-out of some IP at the entrance and to paint the metal a color evocative of that slapdash IP.

Only our dear Saint Dolly has escaped the IP mandate.

I'd consider the Monsters land an original land as pretty much everything there will be unique and not follow any sort of linear storytelling told elsewhere.

I can care less about IP or Original concepts... just make a good ride/land.

One of the issues with creating original-based attractions is translating what's actually going on to the general public without pre-existing knowledge. Disney has had the luxury of relying on simple concepts to grasp onto (Pirates, Ghosts) for their original rides.

Not saying it's impossible, just difficult to do properly.

DAK and EPCOT were created to stand their own without complete dependence on IP.

Epcot did this for quite some time because the way it was originally envisioned made IP insertion difficult to pull off. It was only until they completely stopped caring about the original concept of EPCOT did they start pushing IP in. (Nemo started it, but it was clear when Frozen in Norway was undertaken.)

DAK had IP on day one, but it was made to supplement, not define the park experience, because the park was about the animals first. It was only until later that you had an entire themed land devoted to a specific IP that defined the park experience. (even though the AVATAR insert was done very well). But now you see it in full with the Indiana Jones clone and TBD Ecanto/Coco stuff just mashed together under the "Central/South America" umbrella.

CineSational Tested for Team Members tonight, Looks like CineCele was Topped!!!

From CityWalk:

Saw some other videos that didn't look too impressive since they were only in two minute segments but these look much better. I'm excited to see the full thing. I saw a post of Twitter saying it was the best Uni nighttime show which is good. But that's not a very high bar...

I got to experience the show last night and it's absolutely excellent. Great soundtrack/song selection, great use of IP, good interactive projection on the surrounding buildings, and the right balance of animated drone usage. I wasn't expecting any pyro in this show, so I was pleasantly surprised not only that it had it but also had plenty of it. USF needed something like this and I expect it will be a massive hit.

Very good over all. Now, let's nitpick...

Making it about "music" is a mistake. Yes, we hear and recognize and enjoy the music, but this isn't a live concert. We see lights and images, so why not make this about "light"? Same mistake Harmonious made saying it was about the music (among too many other things). It's "cinesational", so, make it about cinema, period. The music will follow.

The drones are a great touch, but too light of a touch. They could have been used more as a type of chapter title since sometimes the images on the fountains aren't the clear and I was left wondering, which movie is this? The drones could have telegraphed that better. Also, the drones only popped in a for a short second in a nearly static poses and then disappeared. Not really able to call this a "drone show."

Double down on the more popular music! They could have done "Dance Dance Dance" for a full five minutes hyping up the crowd with images from a whole bunch of movies.

Surprised the Minions got such a short segment.

The flow of the story was a bit scattered. E.g., you get the Mummy up front instead of being part of Universal Monster's section. It was a bit jarring to keep going back and forth from lightheartedness to monsters.

Fountains and lights were impressive. They could have uses the projections on the background buildings some more, tho.

Looking forward to seeing this in person some day.

Two Things:

Probably should have started and ended with Universal's Logo in Drones.

I kind of like Drones staying in the back round. We all know that Drones can't take over the Whole Nighttime Spectacular....