Some fortunate individual managed to capture the new Transformer Ride in Universal Studios Singapore.
While I’m not the biggest Transformers fan (movie… I grew up with the animated show and had a ton of the toys), this looks like I would be a lot of fun. Quite a bit like Spider-Man at their Orlando park.
Speaking of which…. Universal announced that they were closing the Jaws ride and the entire Amity area of the park (makes sense since it was so closely tied to the ride). No tears shed by me on this. Jaws should have been scary. It shouldn’t have been the ridiculous Jungle Cruise-esque thing that it became. Also never liked it for the forced-perspective buildings that one was never far enough away from for it them to really work.
Rumors are that a Harry Potter expansion will go in that area. Looking at the layouts of the two parks, it would be extremely hard for this to happen (plus it would be in a completely separate gated park from where the original goes.
To tie it together… I bet Transformers goes into the Jaws/Amity area. A version in Singapore has opened. Another in Hollywood is opening next year. Why not clone it a 3rd time for Orlando?
As for the Harry Potter expansion, that should go into the remainder of the “lost continent” area of Islands of Adventure that wasn’t taken over with the first build. They actually should have done this from the start. Harry Potter is being marketed as almost it’s own theme park. It is really just about half of the Lost Continent Area with a little more thrown in the back. It is well done (except for the size of the shops), but not marketed well. Expanding it into the Lost Continent entirely would be cheaper and really make the Harry Potter land, then land it really should be.
