Every Epic Universe Facebook page I am on is saying Universal limited the amount of tickets for the first few weeks. It is less crowded than during any preview day, according people who have done both.
Ride wait times are very reasonable, and Ministry opened at 3, like it has in the past. They say it's like a meetup with regard to crowds and everyone is pretty happy so far.
I was assuming it was going to be 100 percent full - But It was a smart choice to limit the tickets.
The summer is almost here -(Not where I live - it is 45 and raining, arrrggg)
But we will soon see the numbers increase to capacity..
Plus they opened early so some folks already got to see the Preview.
The food items look better than most parks. Seems like they spent some time thinking about the offerings.
(And TH Creative still missing - Did anyone see him there at Epic?) HAHAHAHAHAAH
Brian Emery - Not sure why TH Creative went Colonel Markinson on all of us. Has to be a stressful time for any die hard pixie duster seeing the momentum shift and attention all go one way for the next few months.
Heck, on the front page of the website, we have an article by the long lost Jeff Elliott (Welcome back, Jeff.), so there's hope that TH Creative will end his pilgrimage in search of theme park harmony and better colon health and bring his snarky comments back to TPI.
You know, Brian, when you aren't in therapy for your TDS, maybe you can start one of your irreverent Discussion Forum threads to the tune of "Where in the World is TH Creative?". I'd do it myself, but I'm much too serious and boring.
I miss him too. I came for the info, I stayed for the TH comments.
Earlier Universal dropped some Epic tickets on the app, for today (23rd) .... at $189 !!! ($201 w/tax)
Not unsurprisingly, they are still available.
Almost as bad as the Mouse ....
It’s so crazy to me how theme parks spend so much money on attractions and operations and then, like, try to recoup that investment. Crazy times
I definitely would not count on a very restrictive capacity cap for long. Companies don't want "park opening disaster" all over the news, but once the opening hype dies down trust me they will want to cash in on their investment.
Clear, Universal has done this by design, particularly given the anticipated technical issues they anticipated for a number of the attractions. There have been so many stories about previous theme park openings from complete debacles to ghost towns, I think it's smart from Universal to take a very measured approach to ensure positive word of mouth and to allow TMs a chance to grow into their roles before the park is filled to capacity.
The only drawback of doing a controlled opening like this is that it gives the impression that people are not interested in the new park, and Universal may find it difficult to actually fill the park to capacity, and the guests who visited over the first few weeks are spoiled with the half empty park are frustrated when they return and face shoulder to shoulder crowds.
Ultimately, I think it's a bit of a Catch-22, but if I would going to lean one direction, I would probably go towards the tightly controlled admission and then slowly increasing capacity as the park breaks in.