State of USH - What's Next?

[GAcoaster]

Or, the licensing has been moved from USH to Universal Kids in Texas. Generally these licensing deals are for certain numbers of uses— could be they gave up Hollywood for Texas.

 

[Jerroddragon]

Questions for 4th of July

1) Do most the area's in the park play the music when the fireworks are going on?
2) I heard the golf course has fireworks as well but can't find anything about them so wanted to ask if anyone knew if they are doing fireworks as well?
3) If I'm going I heard to just stay until 10 PM because of the lines to get out of the parking lot, has anyone gone and tried to leave right after?

Thanks for any information, I have gone on the day before but first time on the 4th at night

 

[Rideguy70]

I've been before, but I don't think I can really answer a lot of your questions... I don't think most of the park plays the music, and I think we did stay past 10. I don' t know the Golf course schedule, but they'll be easily seen, especially on the mid-way platform in the elevators.

Best advice I can give... go to the viewing area by Moulin Rouge/Minion Water Play area. You will be mesmerized by being able to see all the illegal fireworks endlessly going off all across Los Angeles. Believe me, it's worth it. Watching that after makes it easy to stay until 10

 

[Ron101]

Don’t know if anyone has noticed, at least in California, themepark attendance seems to be way down this year. Low wait times and deals for tickets everywhere, even Disneyland! Do we think there’ll be cuts to things in the future?

 

[Freak]

Don’t know if anyone has noticed, at least in California, themepark attendance seems to be way down this year. Low wait times and deals for tickets everywhere, even Disneyland! Do we think there’ll be cuts to things in the future?

That’s what happens when everything is expensive AF. People will cut down on theme park time. Wonder if we’ll see similar-ish attendance for HHN this year?

 

[Viator]

That’s what happens when everything is expensive AF. People will cut down on theme park time. Wonder if we’ll see similar-ish attendance for HHN this year?

I have to think we will actually see a spike in HHN this year.

Multiple *new*, massive GP IP's are all coming to the event all at once. Including that one long-requested ones at that. Think FNAF, Fallout, and Terrifier are going to do a lot of heavy lifting to get people to care, as a big problem with HHN last year seemed to root on the "New" content, being that of content that came before.

 

[bdubsCEO]

Amongst my IRL friends most of whom only go once every 2-3 years, EVERYONE is going to HHN this year. I’ve had some actual jaw-drop reactions when I read the list of houses.

Whether all of it perfectly appeals to you or not, we have four headlining IP’s in FNAF, Fallout, F13 and Terrifier and I have to imagine that from those alone this year is going to have absolutely insane attendance.

I do think Grinchmas and FFN will have to fight a lot harder for high attendance as a result of this though. Hopefully they really lock in with those.

 

[Rideguy70]

You and I have very different friends, haha. But I am happy for you and them. Just not my cup of tea.

 

[Jerroddragon]

That’s what happens when everything is expensive AF. People will cut down on theme park time. Wonder if we’ll see similar-ish attendance for HHN this year?

If it has less people then last year, I'd be surprised

Most people I tell about the line up are interested in the IPS

As for the summer, Disneyland is hit or miss this summer even so I think for sure tourism is down and people dont have money for the best APs but I think HHN is something people are willing to pay for....love USH and I enjoy the summer event but its not like they added anything must see its mostly a fun event that mostly is for people to get pictures with Jaws, BTTF and wicked characters

 

[ItsAtrap]

I got to talking with a TM last night (July 4) and she said there were only about 16k in the park. Well below projection.

 

[Jerroddragon]

I got to talking with a TM last night (July 4) and she said there were only about 16k in the park. Well below projection.

Makes sense

I went and while it was busy it was not insane

 

[KlownzNskullZ]

Makes sense

I went and while it was busy it was not insane

Park hasn’t hit projection in months

 

[Jerroddragon]

Park hasn’t hit projection in months

Someone on reddit claimed Management thought the park would be full and it reached maybe 1/3 capacity

No idea if it was that low, because in many areas it was packed but also I mean the minions ride had a 5 min wait most the night along with some others. Heck I even checked yesterday and the Tram had a longer line then when I was there on the 4th

I will just say this from traveling around and looking at wait times on the Apps...this was not a strong weekend for theme parks. I feel like USH future is very much now worst ground then when SNW opened...and hope they can figure some way to get people in the park....I think the first thing they need to do is lower day tickets

 

[OrlLover]

I feel like USH future is very much now worst ground then when SNW opened.

It’s not like the Economy is doing amazing right now.

 

[Viator]

It’s not like the Economy is doing amazing right now.

Not gonna talk about it much as I don’t know what forum policies are, but I don’t think it’s a matter of economy having a presence to why people are hesitant to go to a major tourist destination.

If it is, then it isn’t the sole reason.

 

[Jake S]

a lot of people are looking to confirm their priors based on limited (or bad, even!) data.

 

[Rideguy70]

FWIW, I was also seeing plenty of posts about how dead Disnelyand was. When I checked the app last night, ROTR was only a 30 min wait on the 4th of July weekend. So this isn't just a Universal problem.

 

[Mad Dog]

WDW has been low crowds for much of post Memorial Day also, according to Touring Plans 'actual' crowd lines. So its not just California. All that covid stimulus money, especially big amounts for families with kids, is long gone. And park tickets. hotels, food just keep rising above even inflation ceilings. And, the demographics, with almost zero population growth now, is not feeding all those teenage thrill seekers numbers into the parks anymore. The average park demo is getting older. Those 2017/2018, 2022 post covid revenge attendances are now gone....But that's good for the guest experience. Disney & Universal parks were getting too crowded.....The week I just went to WDW there was really no need to purchase lightening lane, except for Guardians, Tron and Slinky Dog.

 

[Jerroddragon]

a lot of people are looking to confirm their priors based on limited (or bad, even!) data.

I mean maybe but I want the parks to kill it and I've been going and....I just feel like its been more crowded before

HHN was not that busy either last year and even Grinchmas many times when I went just wasn't as full as I remember it used to be

Everyone on here knows I want USH to be more...but with the crowds and at least people online saying USH can't meet its targets its kinda worrying that after F&F they are just going to go as cheap as they can because they already have a huge budget towards the hotel....would love to be wrong and Universal is making lots of bets right now but it feels like at some point spending will go down if we can't get people back into the park and have more sold out dates.

I feel bad for Six Flags as well they seem to be trying to make Magic Mountain better now with showtimes on the app, shows coming back for weekends and the Water Park looks amazing but feels like your throwing money at something that just can't draw more people

 

[TheUniC6]

One way in order to boost attendance at USH will be to break ground the next major project post F&F in 2026.