What If Harry Potter Never Came To Universal Studios Orlando?

B&M 1,000% could have built on the rip ride rock it plot.

I hated the spiderman hd upgade. doesnt make me feel im in a comic book as much

Good vid bruv

Harry Potter was originally going to disney but disney wanted full control to do it their way and lost the contract. Leaving it open and universal scooped it up.

I love both Universal and Disney but the one thing I’ve noticed about Disney is that they always tease the fans with all this blue sky art concepts for new lands or expansions but in the end it never happens they just say “oh we could do this” but in the end, it doesn’t happen because of the money etc

This a truly hilarious video because Universal doesn’t own the rights to Harry Potter. The agreement they made was that Universal would pay and build the sections of parks in FL and CA, they would also pay for the stores and restaurants, and they would pay to staff these areas. Warner Brothers and JK Rowling would have complete design control, down to each item sold in the store and each brick’s tone of color. Warner Brothers and JK Rowling would also use “Wizarding World” for this merchandise and retain all of the profits from these stores. They also take a cut from every ticket. (Which for a while was just islands of adventure, then it became all part tickets). Now, some people say the reason they stopped building in the Simpsons area was because of the potter area and they are incorrect. While Yes, Universal still owns the theme park rights to The Simpsons, all other rights (including merchandise) are now owned by Disney. When that sale happened all plans to expand that park ended, because they do not profit on any of the Simpsons merchandise now. Universal is great at piggybacking, they don’t mind allowing a company (like Nintendo) to come in and build 1/4 of the park and take 1/4 of the ticket price because they are VERY aware that Nintendo is what is drawing people to the new park.

It would be a good thing because jaws would still be there

If it never existed poppeys would be my favourite ride

So basically, Harry Potter, Not being at universal literally means everything is better. And we also got a second Simpson's ride. Also we would stop having universal meat riders... im starting to not like harry potter anymore

No Harry Potter would probably have been close to the end of the park. Attendance wise, the park was struggling.

Mmmm… I wouldn’t miss it tbh.
I believe they could’ve come up with something great

Take in to consideration this video is only if harry potter didnt come to orlando so hollywood is perfectly fine. LETSSSS GOOO in fact if harry potter was only in Hollywood the park would get a much needed expansion

You have to remember, all major roller coasters at Universal got mandatory lockers. Meaning that you couldn't have anything in your pockets. So it's likely that if Potter never came in, they would bring back the dueling aspect of the ride now that this is in play.

Plus, the ride would keep its popularity since it is dueling and JK Rowling wouldn't be JK Rowling and say "BYE BYE." So it would be much more worth it for Universal to give it the Hulk treatment.

"I wish Harry Potter wasn't at Universal!" Said absolutely nobody in actual reality.

Let’s go JAWS

This feels like one of those movies where the protagonist sees a alternate world where he was never born or something like that.

The World of Harry Potter was offered to Disney first. WofHP wanted a train. And Disney's CEO said no. So they went to Universal instead. So glad that happened. I hate Disney's management. Now, all Universal has to do is build a World of Harry Potter in any of their parks, and they are guaranteed heavy foot traffic. It's one of Disney's management biggest blunders.

If it never existed I would have never went there the only reason I went there was all because of Harry Potter but if it was not there I would have never went a day in my life until they created Harry Potter

I liked your idea of what would happened if wizarding world didnt end up in universal, however i would love to share my ideas of what would the plot end up being used for if wizarding world didnt exist. I think the plot would be used for a Jurassic park expansion,
the plot is closed to the land so it make perfect sense. maybe in this reality the plot would be used for the jeep safari ride, and the helicopter ride. I'm still wondering if it would have the same impact like when harry potter opened, while Jurassic have a more bigger box office than harry potter. I'm pretty certain that harry potter has a more active fanbase than the former. I also could see with the box office of jurassic world being big, I could see universal adding a Jurassic world attraction probably being the velocicoaster and maybe we got the Jurassic world the ride more sooner. And I really didnt want to abandoned the KUKA tech if HATFB didnt exist, so maybe instead of the KUKA tech being used in HATFB, it could've been used for a potential Jurassic world ride.

I really like the what if scenario of this video. A “What if Euro DisneyLand was successful” video in the same vein as this one would be really interesting and fun. I’d love to see more vids like these in the future

If Wizarding World of Harry Potter never happened, I think Universal most likely would have found either another franchise to help boost attendance at the park or would have expanded the Jurassic Park area shortly after the release of Jurassic World to as said earlier, help boost attendance. Epic Universe probably still would have happened but probably would have taken longer to get off the ground. I also think Universal would probably also be putting more focus into the lands and attractions that they have not and either touch them up a bit or expand upon them. Personally, while I don’t hate WWOHP, I’m still not huge into it due to me not being a Potter fan and as a result of that as well as the fact that JKR is a scumbag, I really wish that it never happened.

Something that NEVER made sense to me: they have the theme park rights to the Scooby Doo franchise. Why did they never build a haunted house for him and his pals? It could help them have a counterpoint to Disney's Haunted Mansion. Now having said that, it would be a dumb mistake to not build Luigi's haunted mansion at Epic Universal. I can't believe there is not a shred of evidence that they'll ever intend to do so. Come on Universal, it's not that hard to brainstorm new ideas. At least entertain the thought of something like that along with a Hogwarts themed hotel or a new Nickelodeon Land.

They should still build that grinch coaster

I have been to Universal and the only thing memorable was Harry Potter World.

if it never came to universal Studios Orlando my great granny wouldnt be happy

For someone who’s not a fan of Harry Potter I kinda wished all this in the video actually happened.

I’d love to see jaws stay & Jurassic Park & Seuss expanded

Wet n wild was very popular and very well known actually

Man I miss Dueling Dragons! I know it was old, but it was such a unique ride, and the parks could really use some more legit thrill rides with inversions, so I would hope it got refurbished like Hulk, maybe add in metal detectors if necessary so people don't get hurt

In what universe was Wet 'n Wild not very popular or well known? I could see not knowing about it maybe if you didn't live in Florida but in it's heyday that place was poppin'. It's popularity spawned several other locations in different parts of the country. You make it sound like some insignificant little nothing place.

I’m having the biggest brain fart what’s the first song you used?

I think Harry Potter forced Universal to up their food game

I think without Harry Potter, jurrasic world and minions would get a lot more rides

The grinch and more Jurassic park would be amazing

In my mind Harry Potter does take about 80% of the blame for Jaws being shut down however in actuality no Harry Potter would have only delayed the inevitable

I never would have give Universal Orlando a chance if it didn't have Harry Potter. Diagon Ally is really the only real reason I go to UO and I make it a priority now every time I visit Florida.

I strongly disagree with the sentiment that without Harry Potter, universal doesn’t have a fan base to care about ET closing.

This would never happen ever lol

I would like this alternate reality a lot better if it weren’t for Epic Universe being too expensive too open, I will always defend the OG attraction (Jaws) and Super Nintendo World would be fantastic!

The dragon challenge

what about nick studios????

I’ve never been to Universal. Is “Lucy” on the map 🗺 for I Love Lucy?? 😳

Nooo!!!!😭😭😭😭😭 why would you think to get rid of harry potter

I care of bat ET done

I care of bat it done

Answer: then i would have not gone on his scariest ride in 2016 when I went with my parents

I would want a monsterverse with all the Godzilla, kong, mecha g, and much more!

The Grinch coaster and HTTYD coaster would bring me there in a heart beat

The craziest thing I've ever seen at island of adventure was a fire work malfunction that injured a shit ton of people. It happened like the first couple of years it was open.

That's what epic uvers is for and volasacoaster is made