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Post by henrycpa on Apr 10, 2023 14:18:42 GMT -5
I realize there is an audience for that type of content. But what I question is the size of that audience. If there really was enough of a draw for an adult themed dark side thrill Park then Universal Studios would be drawing a bigger crowd than Disney. They don't. In fact they didn't even compete until they started adding child friendly content like Harry Potter. They're epic universe park is supposed to be even more child friendly. I know more people visiting Universal for HP world that are adults than going for their kids. Especially the under 40 crowd. and yes, they like the darker side of some things. HP is not Child Friendly |
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Post by rigby on Apr 10, 2023 15:55:30 GMT -5
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Post by broganmc on Apr 10, 2023 20:24:54 GMT -5
I realize there is an audience for that type of content. But what I question is the size of that audience. If there really was enough of a draw for an adult themed dark side thrill Park then Universal Studios would be drawing a bigger crowd than Disney. They don't. In fact they didn't even compete until they started adding child friendly content like Harry Potter. They're epic universe park is supposed to be even more child friendly. I know more people visiting Universal for HP world that are adults than going for their kids. Especially the under 40 crowd. and yes, they like the darker side of some things. HP is not Child Friendly Have you taken an informal poll of the number of kids in Harry Potter world versus the rest of the park? After all the whole thing is a children's book series. Remember there's more Harry Potter world than the rides. You're stepping into the world of those books. You cast spells with magic wands. You watch a dragon breathe fire. You get ice cream and butter beer. You go into the wand shop where you might just be chosen. The only place I see more children is in Seuss Landing. And that admittedly is geared towards toddlers. But as another example compare the two different Halloween festivities Universal and Disney puts on. Universal's Halloween Horror nights are for adults only. It's a scarefest. It draws a large local crowd. Disney's is family friendly. It draws an even bigger out of town crowd. Now we can compare the audience for a Halloween horror fest for adults to a family friendly Halloween party. Universal hosts the HHF on 21 nights and sells a max of 20k tickets per night. Disney's hosts MNSSHP on 37 nights and sells 30k tickets per night. That's a relative audience of 420k vs 1,110k attendees. So the adult horror scary villainous crowd is less than half the size of the family friendly crowd. And that's what I would expect for a park. Disney cannot afford to waste the money on a park that is at most going to draw half its regular crowd. |
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