These characters are decades and decades old, yet everyone knows who they are, so they are clearly culturally relevant. Universal’s reboot franchise flopped, but these horror characters are the fairytale equivalent of Snow White, the little mermaid, etc that so many fantasy lands are built around. Forever famous, and people are always interested in new takes on established characters like these.

The simple fact that Dark Universe will have a crazy immersive ambiance, more likely the best area to walk in at night tells me that it's gonna be a success. They just need to serve those monsters not looking like they were back in time but how they would be if those movies had been made now. Because how they were looks like out of our time because of the possibility they had at this time. They look like outdated monsters, because of the look not because of the monster itself. But I'm sure it was the plan.

Do more homework. You are saying a lot of silly things. Do better.

Hahaha, what? It's more risky to adopt the IP that Universal already owns? Rather than purchase current IP like Halloween Horror Nights? Dream on bro

I love the Universal monsters and I hope younger generations will love them too after going to this attraction.

While the actors that were picked for dark universe are all good actors, I think they were the wrong pick. Needed people that no one has heard of. I couldn’t take the movie serious enough with these actors. I was waiting for Russel crow to go into an arena and Tom cruise playing the mission impossible music. I want to see new faces. Plus these characters are suppose to be evil. I didn’t feel that sense of fright watching the mummy. Lame story.

I think you're missing the enormity of these hundred year old franchises. It's not like vampires and lycans are not all over streaming and several updated movies.

They cooking long term🔥

This is only your 2nd video… Well done sir, great storytelling! If you don’t mind me asking what software do you use to edit?

A potter rip off And a boring kids coaster

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nice thumbnail! i think one way it could be a little more eye catching is instead white, make it yellow

Nice to see that Universal is using The Dark Universe name from their failed universe and you know Universal should've stayed The Course with Dracula Untold as THE 1st Film for The Franchise. Now according to Luke Evans, Universal has been wanting to put their monsters together in films since the late 1970s to early 1980s and he doesn't see them giving up that quick.

What’s interesting is they kinda tested this theory out last Halloween horror nights with the new exorcist film

I'm excited to go, just for the atmosphere. Placing it next to Wizarding World is smart - it's like companion planting in your garden :D

Honestly, Dark Universe is one of the parks I'm the most excited for. If they make movies on them, I will 100% be going to see it!

💯 Bang on. I would go on to add that the upcoming Nosferatu film is a safe way for Universal to test out the waters without potentially tainting its DU brand. So far, Nosferatu hasn’t really been mentioned in any Epic Universe marketing (at least that I’ve seen). So if Nosferatu flops, no harm done (unlike with The Mummy). It’s also a slightly more obscure remake that isn’t original to Universal, so they have even more insulation. But if Nosferatu does become a suprise hit (or at least gain a cult following), you can see how easily it’ll transfer over to the park.

This is genius... This video was really well put together. Can't wait to see more

The Dark Universe was announced in 2017 while Epic Universe was in the planning stages. They were more than likely conceived hand in hand with the expectation that the movies would draw people to the park. The movies failed so they pivoted into a less expensive more generalized version of the original plan.

Dracula may not be but vampires still are very relevant in 2024

Well done! I am subscriber 164!

I'm seriously so jealous that Orlando has something like this. I would've loved Dark Universe to come to Hollywood!

I know I can’t believe universal would take the huge risk of trying to bring back their classic monsters and make them cool again as you just said. I respect the challenge and originality of universal but dang. Maybe they’re trying to save money from licensing other intellectual properties lol

The story arcs of these great classics helped build the foundation of all horror, all horror today.

I'm sorry I hate the argument on the having to pick something new compared to og universal monsters. Those original monster are the foundation of horror and are still prevalent even till today even if they have had a resurgence in different styles they will always be there. With using a modern ip there's a bigger chance of it falling off or being to niche. But everyone knows these monsters for ever and always

deserve a lot more subs!

Every aging geek who has ever commented on Epic Universe picks the Dark Universe section as the part they're the most excited about. (It certainly is for me.) To the point that I wonder if it's possible to not disappoint them. After all, the last time Universal tried to make "Dark Universe" a thing, starting with the Mummy reboot, it was a miserable flop.

That all would’ve worked before if they wouldn’t put Tom Cruise in anything. I see where you’re coming from and as a parent I have this to add my daughter has never seen any of the classic monster movies, but she knows who all of those characters are thanks to Hotel Transylvania. She is one of those darker gothic kids not all kids are like that but she can’t wait to go to this piece of the park. She wants nothing to do with Disneyland. She has no interest in princesses and that’s OK. I’m just glad there’s a park for her now.

I hope the Disney folks are watching this. Dark Universe is that alternative to the various Disney PG offerings. Now Disney wants to tone down the Haunted Mansion, because Disney wants to even push HM more into a PG offering? PG is fine, but that’s not the only market out there. Disney, as Universal does, has to trust their guests to understand the fantasy, from the real.

At first, you sounded like a millenial who had never seen the old monster movies. But then you pointed to the success of HHN with its monster houses. And you surprised us with that picture of Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp as having a deeper meaning for Dark Universe. Well done.

please stop using that "ding" sound or lower the volume its very ear piercing i want to hear what you are saying but have to turn it down

Keep growing my friend

At 34 I can confidently say Ive seen, own and collect movies and figures of all Universals horror IPs.. This is the park I've been waiting for my entire life. Dam I was born on Halloween! I can not wait to go for my 36th birthday Halloween horror night in this portal, dream come true 😊 Hope they expand even further down the road..

Not a secret if a little youtuber knows about it. Also, Dark Universe is NOT a odd choice, its literally a perfect choice. oooof

It does feel like they’re trying to reverse engineer the Pirates of the Carribbean film franchise’s success and I hope they win.

If they are going to try to make new Dark Universe movies, they need someone who knows the classic versions and understands why they worked in the first place.

*Frankensteins monster

I like how they’re artificially trying to make their own “pirates of the Caribbean” type franchise and I think they’re working

Put together extremely well .

Lets hope it's a nightmare...I mean a success. A nightmarish success 😁

Poor Micky...but this looks awasome😎

I don’t like the new creature designs. They’re not as cool as the originals.

The only way to bring the Dark Universe back to Hollywood would be if Guillmo Deltoro and Sam Raimi were both put in charge of the entire franchise. Both of them know how to make Action and Horror movies, and understand movie making in general.

The video production was quite well done. The content kinda missed the mark, you might look into the history and lore and rumors a bit more, should help you stay on target. The Classic Monsters have saved Universal so many times over the years. They have been killing it with the HHN houses with the Classic Monsters over the past several years. They made a mistake with the recent mummy movie, they forgot the essence of the Classic Monster movies they made. I think if they go back to that and embrace the classic aspects they could make more movies. But the love of the classic monsters never left. So having Dark Universe makes TOTAL sense in EU, honestly it might be their strongest sustaining land (only tied with Nintendo) because both have such a history and lore to expand upon. But do your research and get that history, facts and possible rumors in there and vids like this can go far.

I think you’re wrong about the relevance of Frankenstein and other classic monsters, there is a huge cult following of these old horror movies. People have been craving a ‘villains’ or spooky side of theme parks for a while. Look how popular Halloween horror nights is, they are capitalizing on the monsters that have a following and they already own them.

I was expecting this channel to have at least 100k subscribers, the video was so high quality and well written I didn’t bat an eye. I love the outro music too. Keep making this kind of content and your channel will explode

I stopped watching when he added that image of Five Nights at Freddy’s

That last shot feels like a war map but for theme park supremacy.

Wait until bro finds out about Pirates of the Caribbean

Dracula isn't culturally relevant?..... The character that has multiple unrelated movies, games, books every single year?