UUOP #178 - 2016 & Beyond with Jim Hill
Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast
Lee Mallaby
4.6 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2016
⏱️ 69 minutes
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On this episode we discuss what is going on at Universal Orlando Resort in 2016 and beyiond with Jim Hill.
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| 0:00.0 | Covering the Universal Orlando Resort for over four years, you are listening to the Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast. |
| 0:29.7 | Hey, everybody, and welcome to episode 178 of the unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast. |
| 0:35.4 | I'm your host for today, Darren, and joining us, we have Lee. |
| 0:39.3 | Hello, everyone. And Hunter? How's it going, everybody? |
| 0:43.8 | Tracy is currently in hibernation. She will be back on the next show. Get well soon. Definitely. |
| 0:50.1 | And we have a return visit from a special guest, theme park writer, reporter and podcaster, Mr. Jim Hill. |
| 0:56.8 | How are you doing today, Jim? |
| 0:58.2 | Hey, guys. |
| 0:58.9 | Happy New Year. |
| 1:00.5 | I hope you guys are having a good 2016. |
| 1:03.6 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 1:05.4 | So, yeah, we have Jim on to talk about what's going to happen this year in 2016 and in the future, |
| 1:10.2 | but we're also going |
| 1:11.0 | to delve into a couple of things that happened in 2015 as well. |
| 1:14.1 | Yes. |
| 1:15.9 | Jim, take it away. |
| 1:18.5 | Well, again, when you're talking about the future of university, you do have to kind of lean |
| 1:24.6 | back a bit, because honestly, 2015 2015 in a lot of ways was a game |
| 1:30.1 | changer for universal and you know that there were so many things that got announced or |
| 1:36.6 | so many things that got closed and it's just it's kind of ironic that this was the 25th |
| 1:42.8 | anniversary year and and yet when you look back on it, how many parts of this park that were there from opening day, whether it's, you know, things like the Lucy attraction, then suddenly went away. |
| 1:57.9 | But yeah, let's start with the obvious, that we had Sapphire Falls, which went from, you know, sort of a project that they were discussing to a site that was being cleared. |
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