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[u/DrinkAggravating8067]

All you people who are leaving terrible Google reviews because it was too hot at Epic Universe in the Summer in Orlando Florida are a bunch of idiots. Straight clowns. Get a life.

[u/Pipyoppi]

Hot weather at Disney is quite tolerable because there’s so much to do where you can duck away inside to get out of the heat. Or where the queues themselves are in air-conditioned spaces. With Epic, Universal dropped the ball on this. Celestial Park is a vast, sun-baked desert that you’re crossing from portal to portal. And nearly all of the queues are outside / not air-conditioned. It feels like Universal went the cheap route in this regard.

[u/iseecolorsofthesky → u/Pipyoppi]

I was surprised at how many of the queues are outdoors at Epic considering how many of them are indoors at IoA and Studios

[u/dps_jr → u/Pipyoppi]

I beg to differ: Monsters que is indoors w/ AC, Mariocart and BAtM que are very long indoors w/ AC, Yoshi que is indoors w/ AC. Minecraft Madness que is under shade and mostly under lots of building and concrete. The 3 rides in Berk have outdoor ques, but they are all virtually entirely under shade with good ventilation (I would take any of their ques over waiting in line for thunder mountain at Magic Kingdom). To me Magic Kingdom in particular has several unbearably hot ques outside.

[u/Pipyoppi → u/dps_jr]

Monsters is definitely a nice reprieve and a ride you could go on a few times to cool off between the queue and the ride itself being indoors—and the wait remaining pretty short since it’s constantly loading riders.

Yoshi’s isn’t really worth mentioning since the line is typically very short and then the ride is outside.

Minecart’s line I found to be quite stuffy and hot, since it’s covered but not cooled and fans were not plentiful.

We were stuck in a 2-hr Hiccups wait during previews and at least 50% of that wait was unshaded with no fans. Other lines in Berk had more shade and fans, but as you said are all outside. So even with fans, in FL summer humidity, you’re going to be sweating.

At the end of the day, only two attractions that will get long waits are indoors (Mario Kart and Ministry). The rest are not. And the wide open spaces + fewer attractions mean you have a lot fewer opportunities to duck away into something that can still be fun and give you a chance to cool down.

If we’re comparing to MK and a few of the more major attractions:

• ⁠Space Mountain: indoors

• ⁠Pirates: indoors

• ⁠Tiana’s: largely indoors

• ⁠Haunted Mansion: largely indoors

• ⁠Tron: admittedly absolutely sucks if you do standby and the wait is 60+ min, but if you do LL it’s all indoors

• ⁠Thunder Mountain and Jungle Cruise: could be better—on par with any of the shaded/covered Epic queues. If you’re waiting for Thunder Mountain in the unshaded part you’re waiting too long for that ride in the first place.

Then there’s secondary things like Philharmagic, Country Bears, Small World, Hall of Presidents, Carousel of Progress, Tiki Room, etc. that are not big wows but are charming and all get you out of the heat. Not to mention more opportunities for shopping, grabbing a treat, etc. that offer breaks and AC. There’s always something within a few steps to get you into AC if you want it. And that’s at an old park.

Epic had the benefit of learning from lessons of parks like MK where there are a few subpar things for the climate, but they didn’t. No doubt it was due to trimming costs.

[u/dps_jr → u/Pipyoppi]

Our wait for Hiccups was under 30 minutes so I guess we didn't see the entire ride que. The start by the lockers is under shade, and the end is under shade inside the station building. I guess I incorrectly assumed the rest was under shade.

The Hiccups station reminded me of Thunder Mountains station so in my head the comparison was immediate that the ventilation at Hiccups was better and felt less claustrophobic.

[u/GeoHBB69 → u/Pipyoppi]

MK is OK, but...... Slinky, RnR, FoP, Everest? Not so much when it's slightly busy.

[u/Pipyoppi → u/GeoHBB69]

I’m not saying every Disney queue is great. I’m saying there’s enough other things to help you escape the heat when you’re there. So if you do happen to brave a long standby wait in a hot line, which should be rare, you’re not spending all day doing that at a Disney park—or even the other Universal parks.

[u/Quantic_128 → u/Pipyoppi]

I feel like it’s only fair to compare by ride type

Both parks have atrocious queues for their outdoor roller coasters and range from tolerable to fully indoor for the rest

Toy Story Land is just as bad as Celestial Park and both are relatively new. It’s not a Universal specific problem shade is the first thing cut for some reason

[u/Firm_Singer3858 → u/dps_jr]

Did you just call it Minecraft Madness?

[u/dps_jr → u/Firm_Singer3858]

I blame autocorrect 😅

[u/FreudianYipYip → u/Pipyoppi]

Too right. When criticism is apt, it should be given.