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This is episode 707 of the Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast for March 25th, 2026.

Hello everyone, welcome to the show.

I'm here with Chris Michelle and Lee.

So this show we're going to go through Blue Loops article,

The Seven Epic Breakthroughs of Epic Universe.

It's interesting because I used to find a lot of unique articles about Universal that we used to do a lot of episodes on and I haven't found any for the longest time that I felt like we could cover and then this popped up and I thought this actually a really good interesting topic of conversation. Because didn't, I saw recently that Epic was one of Time magazine's best places in the world, 2026 or something.

I can't remember what the actual title of it was.

2026? It's only March.

Apparently that park's got worse as well since 2025.

I heard mythos is the greatest theme park restaurant somewhere.

Yeah, only by bloody theme park insider. That's the weird thing about that. It wasn't even like an industry thing. It's like theme park insider. No offense to Robert Niles. You know, I like him and all, but like, you're just a website. Hey, the Universal ran with it. An accolade and accolade. That's true. Yeah. So are we ready to dive into this? I think we should just get stuck in. Yeah, there's a lot to get to, actually. Let's do it. All right. So, Epic Breakthrough number one. Mastery of Scale. The scale is spectacular, and yet it holds up at every level. And the details there, down to the smallest level. It holds up in master shot, medium shot, close up, extreme close up, and even touch.

Few parks pass that test.

For example, Plaskache and the Ministry of Magic have been created in a scale that takes

your breath away and yet breath away, and yet

every detail is complete. This is more than a theatrical set. You feel like you are in the

real place. That's so true. What did I say to you? It was yesterday we were watching a vlog,

and they were in Plascahashire. And I was saying about how it about how it's probably my favourite of all the wisdom worlds.

Because even though it's not even about the rides.

That's because there's only one and you can't get on it.

No, but it's not about that or the show.

Just it's the scale and the detail and how completely immersive that is because you could be

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