So your saying Universal could possibly be up too adding to their parks lineup to match Disney which is currently Universal Studios Florida, IOA, the new water park Volcano Bay not third park, Fantastic Worlds-third Park, a future fourth park to match the 4 dry parks WDW has already. And another water park to match WDW’s 2 water parks? Again this is blue sky like you said. Seriously I must ask again once Fantastic Worlds comes, hotels, a city walk, restaurants I know the expansion land is big but wouldn’t that take over mostly all of it? I really thought Universal Orlando would only have like 30 acres left remaining.
Universal Studios originally had a flat parking lot. They later built parking garages to accommodate the IOA expansion. The same could be done with future expansion at site B.
Note that the current parking garages at UOR are not on the same side of the street as the parks+CityWalk... There's a bridge that crosses over Universal Boulevard. Now imagine the same at site B... Universal owns a chunk of land the size of two garages right across the proposed street Universal Way.
With the parking lot out of the way, Universal has plenty of land for an 80 acres dry park 4 and enough left over for water park 2.
So your saying probably after Walt Disney opens Star Wars galaxy’s edge day in California and Florida Universal will strike back quickly with Bourne, The new JP coaster and possibly JP land Overhaul, Nintendo Land details, fourth park?
The main thing I'm suggesting is that Universal is going to try to catch up to Disney over the next 10-20 years and Disney won't take this laying down. (It's sort of like I have the long term goal of being debt free... And BTW I have a 30 year mortgage. So it's going to take a while.)
I think a reasonable future looks like this:
Universal builds dry park three. ~2023
Universal builds dry park four. ~2033
Universal builds water park 2. ~2036+
Disney is going to look at that and strongly consider another full dry park and/or another water park within that same time frame. (They have plenty land, capital, attendance, and IPs, so none of those are issues.)
If that's the case, 2023 through 2035 could come close to matching the expansion from 1989 to 2000 (MGM, USF, AK, UOA).
On the other hand, if Universal starts selling off land or building hotels where there could otherwise be another theme park, then we're done. Look at what happened to Universal about ten years ago, Blackstone/GE was selling the land/company off... You can make some assumptions with that kind of movement that they have no plans for expansions.
Say for example there's another global recession and/or FW is not making enough money, Universal is going to keep that land a parking lot and focus on making what they have profitable. (Current status of SeaWorld is a good example of that.)
Keep in mind, I don't believe Universal will announce anything until they're nearly finished. But we'll start hearing rumors, we'll be able to see what they're using parcels of land for, we'll get an attendance report for FW a year after opening... We'll get indications and be able to make guesses within the next 5-10 years.
Yes because originally Nintendo was supposed to go their then came the possibly Pokémon rumors to come to Kidszone also possibly bringing Zelda to IOA all those plans are canned yes but what will become of LC and Kidszone will anyone be surprised if they just stay their for the future?
This might silly to say, but I wouldn't be surprised if Pokemon was in park four.
I'm not at all suggesting that Universal has Pokemon in mind for park four (or really anything solid for park four at this time other than it being a goal).. I'm just saying they have precedence for this already... Look at Mario.
Only reason FW is (strongly rumored) to get Mario is because Universal didn't start moving to build on KZ sooner. Nintendo rejected the plans because they saw more potential with FW. The same could happen again with Pokemon if Universal keeps dragging their feet. (Maybe not probable but at least possible.)