Months after construction began on not one, but two major new developments at Universal Studios Florida, Universal finally has confirmed that it will... announce something.
They haven't told us what it is yet, but the announcement's coming on November 1 at 7:30 pm ET. The evening's an unusual time for press announcements, but Universal's shown that it doesn't care for playing by the book on these sorts of things. Theme park standard operating procedure typically calls for making an announcement, then starting construction. Given the progress Universal's made on its projects without saying a thing about them, I was beginning to wonder if Universal Orlando's PR staff had been pressed into work on the construction sites, leaving them no time to actually send out press releases.
Of course, we already know what the two big developments at Universal Studios Florida will be. Theme Park Insider readers last December got the Web's first look at the plans for the Gringotts coaster in the new "Diagon Alley" Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Florida. And in June, we broke the news about Transformers: The Ride coming to USF.
Then again, given the way that Universal's coyly denied confirming anything about these two projects, it's possible that the Nov. 1 event will announce something entirely different. Nothing Universal Orlando does anymore surprises me. All I know is that some people at Universal wouldn't mind at all if their little announcement on Nov. 1 made people forget about that new Fantasyland thingie down the street for a while....
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But definitely Trasnformers.
Transformers will be open this summer. They need to get the word out so people plan vacations to come see it.
I'm not counting out any surprises, but the focus will be stuff we already know about.
http://i49.tinypic.com/23kds9k.png
After seeing that hilarious image, I doubt they'll announce anything else.
That said, if I had to bet on it - and that's kinda my job, isn't it? - I'd guess that Universal unloads everything on us Nov. 1 in an attempt to completely kill any remaining buzz about the Fantasyland Expansion, and direct it all toward the "transformed" USF.
UO:
Transformers
Diagon Alley
Krusty Burger
WDW:
SDMT concept art
Pandora concept art
RFID
DHS Expansion
..or it did before industrious folks found it, screen captured it and Universal changed it ;)
WCaWDW = Who Cares about Walt Disney World
;)
The funny thing is, I don't see my original post anymore....
Update: Yup, they removed my post. UOR must be pretty mad at the person who created that Flash animation as they replaced it pretty quickly with a different tag.
Couple this with the fact Robert had an exclusive on the Gringotts plans over 10 months ago. Poor Universal.
WCWTDSAWDW= Who cares what Todd Donahue says about Walt Disney World ;)
Back on topic now.
Big news on November 1? **YAWN**
Theme Park Insiders don't look forward to these types of announcements. We always know before the rest of the world.
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But I think Universal is going for the Transformer ride this time.