Universal Joint Episode 8: More magic coming to Hogsmeade in 2019. Universal Orlando just doesn't want to be specific about when

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🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Dustin Fuhs and Jim Hill start off this week's show by talking about how the November 9th release of Illumination Entertainment's "The Grinch" may be impacting Universal Parks & Resorts' holiday plans. Jim then talks about the movie version of "Wicked" that Universal Pictures is readying and the possible impact that this IP could have on the Parks. Fuhs and Hill then close out this podcast by talking about all of the hard lessons that the Universal Orlando Resort learned back in 2009 from the delayed opening of Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Get ready for adventure, islands of it, man.
0:03.3	From the studios to Volcano Bay.
0:05.8	This is the Universal Joint, a podcast devoted to all things Universal,
0:11.0	with your host Jim Hill and Dustin Foods.
0:15.0	Welcome to the Universal Joint Podcast.
0:18.0	I'm Entertainment Writer Jim Hill
0:20.0	and on behalf of my co-host, Dustin Hughes, this is our first show for October of 2018.
0:26.5	And it's that time of year when the leaves start to fall in New Hampshire as well as up in Toronto,
0:31.8	and when ticket prices start to rise in Orlando.
0:34.4	Just to jump into it, Dustin, did you see where the Disney Parks and
0:38.3	Resorts is introducing this new online planning tool? I want to say it's going live on October 16th.
0:46.0	The Walt Disney company hopes that this tool is going to make it easier for guests
0:51.0	to make sense of the Walt Disney world flexible pricing policy which has been in place for what three years now?
0:58.6	Yeah and I always find those planning tools really funny because yes it's flexible pricing which means
1:06.3	there is a different price based on a number of factors which could include long weekends, holidays, just busier times.
1:16.0	And yeah, absolutely, sending us an opportunity to make things easier to spend more money.
1:22.7	We appreciate that.
1:23.8	Disney's putting out this tool,
1:25.8	but in this same window of time,
1:27.6	here's the Universal Orlando Resort,
1:30.0	announcing that they're making some changes to admission prices to Iles' Adventures,
1:36.8	Universal Studios, Florida, and Volcano Bay.
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