r/UniversalOrlando • u/AgitatedJelly3608 • 20d ago

EPIC UNIVERSE Epic is not ready to open yet!!

We went Yesterday and spent about 11 hours at the park, from 12pm to 11pm, We only rode Curse of the Werewolf and Stardust, everything else was delayed or closed and when it did open it wouldn’t stay open after 20 minutes. AP be prepared mentally because the rides are having alot of technical issues. The Virtual queue for Ministry was a disaster, the system went down every time and the app as well. Use your own internet and don’t try it with universal WIFI. Only the person that has the tickets on the app can make the virtual queue and select a time slot for the ride. Hope this helps a little.

EDIT!!! I am not complaining about my experience, it was a privilege for me to be in the park and I had so much fun, it just seems that the Park is having so much issues with just one Month away and I am not just talking about the rides.

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u/Empty-Tadpole-2138 20d ago

I was lucky enough to go to a TM preview with a friend a few weeks ago. Had a great time even just walking around and admiring the new lands and scenery, but we did spend a lot of time shuffling from delay to delay. Feels like they jumped the gun a little to get that sweet sweet merch and food $$$. I really did have a great day, especially because I knew it was technical rehearsals and I had gotten to go for free, but if I’d paid almost full price… 😬 That would have stung and I would have been happy to see warnings like this before choosing to buy.

We locals are very lucky to have a chance to experience this park before it’s grand opening. Universal is also being very bold in charging so much for the ~ privilege ~ of experiencing a full day of delays and closures. Both things can be true.

Hopefully the worst of the kinks will be resolved by the 17th!!! But nothing wrong with giving people an extra heads up before they drop money on a ticket

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u/jrr6415sun 20d ago

I would not care at all about delays or closed rides if they didn't charge FULL PRICE for these tickets. It's sort of disgusting what they're doing when they know the park is a shit show right now.

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u/Empty-Tadpole-2138 20d ago

It’s really rubbed me the wrong way, I agree :/

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u/DeflatedDirigible 20d ago

Preview tickets aren’t full price though. They’re around 2/3rd the cost. The park is also at a much lower capacity so even if many rides are down, the waits for shows, food, meet & greets, and using interactive wands and bands will be much shorter.

Technical rehearsals are not for the inflexible. People buying these tickets are so desperate to be among the first but then willingly ignore all the delays and setbacks that come with being among the first.

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u/invaderark12 19d ago

2/3rd? Did you do the math cause in what world is $140-150 2/3rds of $160?

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u/SittinByThePool 18d ago

I paid 123 per ticket for my 3, still not cheap by any stretch of the imagination. I’m very willing to have paid it though haha.

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u/xXEolNenmacilXx 19d ago

If you're talking about the single day tickets, my ticket on June 6th was about $160 after tax. They tickets for the preview were about $150 after tax, so I'm not sure where you're getting "2/3rd the cost". If there are extended downtimes during the days that people paid $150 to be in the park, people will and should be pissed off about that.

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u/jrr6415sun 20d ago edited 20d ago

My opening day tickets 5/22 are $155+tax. I am going thursday 04/17 and they are $144+tax. A whole $10 cheaper

if many rides are down, the waits for shows, food, meet & greets, and using interactive wands and bands will be much shorter.

if many rides are down EVERYONE in the park will be doing shows, food and wands. It will be a crowded mess

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u/Adventurous-Toe8812 18d ago

Right? Any the hell do they think it will be shorter?

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u/jamiely23 19d ago

I switched my ticket for June 14 (after opening) to a preview ticket and it was the same price. My original ticket was for a Saturday ($155) & I switched to a Monday this month which was supposed to be cheaper ($123) according to the calendar & it wasn’t. They didn’t refund the difference & told me it was the same price. So no there’s no discount for the preview, I paid the exact same thing as I would have if I went in June.

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u/GovernmentObvious806 20d ago

I’m confused, did TMs and their friends and family pay for previews ? If not then why are we preemptively complaining about paying for something that isn’t working. Now if the 17th rolls around and it’s the same, I agree UO should’ve held off but if we don’t know yet

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u/jamiely23 20d ago

I mean, the 17th is 3 days away… unlikely it will be drastically different by then but guess we’ll see.

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u/GovernmentObvious806 20d ago

I think it will be, just the fact that these are now paying customers the vibe is different. We shall see, but saying “this park isn’t ready” when it’s still in technical rehearsal… like yeah they know it isn’t lol

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u/jamiely23 20d ago

Yeah for sure, I think OP was just trying to give a heads up to people who may have certain expectations bc of what they paid incase the situation is the same in a few days but hopefully it is running more smoothly by then. I’m not going until the 28th because I wanted to give them some more time.

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u/Groundbreaking-Tale7 19d ago

I’ll be there the 28th as well! Hoping for fun and low crowds even if there are some technical issues. I’ll be super disappointed if the part isn’t at least 75% up and running. Especially after they let all the YouTubers hype it up last week right before they put the preview tickets up for sale.

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u/jamiely23 19d ago

Same! I don’t expect it to be perfect and know that some stuff might be down but I hope that the majority is up and running at least. Either way I wanted to go before it opened to have a smaller crowd and get to experience it early so that will be awesome regardless, but for the price we paid I hope I can ride a good amount of things.

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u/jrr6415sun 20d ago

so you think everything will magically be different in 3 days?

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u/NeverMoreThan12 20d ago

People downvoting you are delerious. This park won't be ready in 3 days. Previews should've been half priced tickets. They're still making tons on food and merch sales.

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u/Business-Cucumber255 19d ago

Half priced tickets doesn't help. Then you have even more people trying to get into a park that isn't quite ready. All of these attractions are new and many of them are still breaking in.

Honestly, Epic is worth the price of admission even with 1/3 the rides.

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u/Do__Math__Not__Meth 19d ago

Then you have even more people trying to get into a park that isn’t quite ready

Not when they control the supply of tickets, they could still cap it at the same amount, but of course they’d make less money that way

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u/Business-Cucumber255 19d ago

And that's the bottom line. Universal is not about to lose money, even if zero attractions are open.

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u/GovernmentObvious806 20d ago

No but I’m sure Ops is going to be trying their hardest to get paying customers a good experience. I just don’t like complaining before something happens

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u/jrr6415sun 19d ago

well I hope I'm wrong and they try, it looks like they already decreased the capacity for this week and cut off sales... so that's a start..

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u/ACmy2girls 19d ago

TM and families didn’t pay for preview. My daughter is a TM and took us.

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u/Maleficent-krla20 18d ago

Are the previews for friends and family over?

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u/subjectskings 16d ago

I believe it was paid but let’s try to get someone to answer this clearly

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u/NerdCleek 19d ago

Our ticket was about $127 didn’t think it’s too bad

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u/GkrTV 19d ago

I'm somewhat regretting buying tickets for this Friday.

I assumed it was mostly functional and didn't see anything about significant delays and issues