Invisible Man fan club, RISE UP!! HE WASN'T FORGOTTEN!!
This show is really something. Once the first HTTYD drone effect pops up, the show grabs you and runs, and doesn't relent until the show is good and over. I was smiling ear to ear pretty much the whole time. Those drone effects are so incredibly cool, and are used in such creative, beautiful, and purely fun ways. Seeing a 3D Stay Puft walking towards the crowd, Kong on the skyscraper with the three planes buzzing around, a giant Bruce head popping from above the red-lit water,
"HUG TIME".
The show really goes above and beyond with the limited venue that the USF Lagoon provides. The hook of movie music is incredibly simple and the picks are all great. I love the ways that less musical properties like Fast or Minions were incorporated. The lighting effects for scenes like the blood in the lagoon for Jaws, the super poppy rainbow colors for Trolls, the sets of Hill Valley or New York for BTTF and Ghostbusters set against Sting Alley. All of the E.T. Drone effects were just stunningly beautiful. There were so many moments where I audibly went "That's so cool", literally too many to count, and I feel like I'm not someone that does that too often!! It all works just so so well, and it really turns this nighttime lagoon show into an E-Ticket in it's own right.
Plus, welcome Nintendo to the Universal Orlando Resort! "Peaches" is a hell of an opening salvo haha!! I do wish there was some drone stuff for the Mario cast but hey, maybe we'll get something at Epic! I'm just so incredibly happy to see Bowser, Peach, Mario, Luigi, Toad, DK, and everyone finally making their Orlando park debut! I've waited my whole life for this!