the year-round Halloween Horror Nights experience is going to be in guys we're currently Universal
Studios Universal just dropped the biggest bombshell ever the theme park Wars in full
effect right now over the course of this video we're at Universal we have a couple of updates
to talk about but we're going to talk about everything you need to know about the new
Halloween Horror Nights attraction that's coming to Vegas and also the new theme park
that is coming to Texas my mind is blown uh I have some cool insight about I think about what
it's going to be about and what's happening there first going to Universal Studios real
quick uh Cafe La Bamba finally reopened my adrenaline has been pumping for the past
couple hours I'm just like over the moon right now with all these announcements I haven't been
this excited about theme parks in years because it really hasn't been any good announcements uh
this is this is a big one it's a big deal one quick little question for you how do you feel
about all the new spooky things coming to Vegas now for Universal Studios yeah
cabbage now Cafe La Bamba has opened from 12 p.m until 4 P.M this is kind of a weird restaurant it
used to be like a character dining way way back in the day and then it was like the VIP area people
to have their lunches during their VIP tours then it like popped up for some of like the hhn food
options it's just very strange so it's open as a quick service now the Hollywood Hotel Cafe La
Bamba Hollywood's original restaurant since 1921 and then out here we have a menu looks like they
have tacos burritos Bowls the meats or not so they do have no vegan friendly stuff and then we have
kids menu they made desserts and then also side so they got a lot to offer let's see if it's any good
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photos of them making the universal monsters film there's the mummy drinking tea Frankenstein right
there got our boy Frankenstein in the back they have a lot of different offerings here right so
they have kind of deluxe burritos or a basic burrito I got kind of the basic burrito you
can either get carne asada shrimp chicken pork mushrooms or chorizo as like your main meat I went
with the carne asada that's what the team ever suggested so you're gonna get a flour tortilla
cilantro rice black bean with your choice of protein cheese and pico de gallo I'm not a fan
of beans so I took the beans out it's a decent sized little burrito they make it all fresh yeah
I was watching The Culinary team make it it's not the size of a Chipotle burrito a little smaller
honestly I'm surprised pretty good it's got a nice little pick a cilantro in there good Pico
some flavorful carne asada it all comes with a side of chips we got a bunch of different Salsas
too so let's try those try the green salsa oh it's like a lime limey salsa oh I like that I'm gonna
put that on my burrito you know how I feel about universal quick service food um this is the first
time besides pizza fries ever that I'm like I want that again I got the carne asada burrito right and
I added the green sauce inside that green salsa is a 10 out of 10 amazing goes wonderful with the
chips the chips weren't stale they were fresh so those went great with a salsa little platter that
I got but that burrito nine out of ten for a theme park burrito a nine out of ten is it antiquita's
level no but Anthony is so expensive this is a great more of affordable option there's not too
many people in here you feel like you're in a old tiny Hollywood right on your break in between sets
grabbing a little bite to eat pleasantly surprised I really went in with low low expectations uh but
that was very good now it's time for dessert so I got the horchata Tres de leches cake vanilla cake
soaked in horchata with dolce de leche that's a great Mary Berry would say this looks like a
fresh bake that's some good stuff just finished the dessert wonderful is it the best Tres de
leche I've ever had in my entire life no but for me a quick service dessert at Universal 10 out of
10. it's a must fresh big nice and moist nice and creamy nice and filling I loved it I cannot wait
to come back here not said that in a very long time you guys are amazing we're just finished
I'm the good type of food where you don't feel disgusted that was like the perfect amount where
I'm like I'm happy and content with my stomach fullness right now before we talk about all the
announcements let's do a quick little rundown about what what's going on new in the park here
at Universal Studios before we talk about all the new parks they got a massive construction
while Outside The Simpsons Ride they got Marge and Lisa the cotton candy looks like Marge's hair
Marge looks a little worried we have Milhouse and Bart they have the entire front entrance closed
off they're refurbing it to kind of enter in back there behind the carnival games I do kind of like
how they have put Simpsons characters on like the construction wall so it gives you something
to look at it's like each one of them is telling kind of a little story I feel like Mo never wants
kids now this is also all walled off by the little Coca Cola stand at Men In Black they're probably
just fixing the concrete I bet that's what they did at this portion over here last year this
is a massive footprint of whatever they're doing here I'm guessing the concrete but this is a big
wall all the Christmas stuff is gone here what's going on at Disney right now everything Christmas
at Disney Store everything at Epcot everything at Animal Kingdom still there Christmas all the
Christmas trees Christmas music's still playing it's still December at Disney but every nook and
cranny they've taken down every single light every single little Christmas decoration everywhere here
at Universal Studio looks like they are doing more construction around each one of these little drink
stands the one over here and then the one over here there's like construction walls on them all
right so the tribute store is no longer and it's taken away from here forever you'll see the kind
of the remnants of the outlines of the lettering from the Christmas tribute store hashtags out
waving everyone right now hi hashtag minions Cafe construction is uh they're working at a
break deck Pace right now I'm really excited for this restaurant uh next month I'm gonna have a
full review of the minions Cafe in Hollywood so you guys are gonna know what's happening here in
terms of food quality wise but I'm excited for this restaurant here's a little shot of the back
of the minions Cafe villains minions attraction is under construction right uh this is the time to do
it right it's uh the slow season now in theme parks January that's why all this construction
is happening because once spring break hits then it's just gonna be madness here back in Orlando
this is a bob iger's face this morning seeing all the universal announcements now the trivia
store as I've told you guys will be coming here in between these three little shops but we can get a
little peek inside we can see a piano so yeah a cooler and uh just kind of some more painted
walls they they got a lot of work to do and it opens in a month they were the annual Passover
Lounge was they used to be like a sky backdrop but let's say there's paintings of uh some figures on
the wall Now The Milk Bar is no longer I'm so sad I never got the fish trying on those milkshakes
and now the prop shop has been closed it was limited time only I think they're just kind of
like conserving the props I think they'll have like the Christmas tribute store stuff them in
here then they'll reopen it for probably a week or so and they'll close it down again that's what I'm
thinking we can peek at the window we can see that it's just kind of filled with like boxed
up merchandise I don't see any props so maybe the prop shop isn't coming back it's just kind of like
a giant storage Holding area now doing some more concrete work over by the Despicable Me attraction
all right we're heading out I have this shirt but they've also added this bag same design right as
Universal Studios on the zipper you're looking at 55 which is honestly is not too bad compared to
what a lounge Supply will cost you we hopped over to CityWalk real quick just to see if there's any
updates with the new Coconut Club I know of course it's a private event so we can't even go look at
the Coconut Club the surprise we finished all of our little updates here at Universal Studios
in Orlando now let's go back to the office and talk about all the big announcements about the
Halloween Hornet stuff coming to Vegas the new theme park coming to Texas so let's go off to
office Kevin now okay guys we're back at home let's talk about all the big announcements from
Universal Studios today uh so much is changing right as I've been saying for a long time now
the tide is changing and the theme park industry Disney took their foot off the gas Universal hit
that Nos and Vin Diesel did and uh they're going fast and they're going furious with what they're
doing with all the new offerings for Universal so first up let's talk about the new theme park
coming to Texas that's right Texas Texas currently you have six flags and you have Sea World and a
bunch of different water parks so this is a great place for Universal to kind of get their foot in
the door with this brand new theme park to this new clientele now let's do a little rundown about
um how everything went down today so first off Universal Studios Orlando says just announced
Universal Parks and Resorts plan to bring A New Concept for families with young children
to Frisco Texas then there's a guy on Twitter named Scott Gustin he kind of like compiles
all the information from all the sources on his Twitter the frisco project will be roughly 100
acres for the new park and a 300 room hotel in says Islands of Adventure is in Orlando is
around 110 acres so a little smaller than Islands Universal says the Texas Park is intended to have
a completely different look feel and scale than Universal's existing parks and will appeal to
a new audience for the brand and will include family-friendly attractions interactive shows
meet and greets the people asking why Texas and not Orlando Universal's own words were proposed
Park will be designed to be more intimate and engaging for younger audiences will be sized
for a regional audience now you guys might be kind of confused about that like uh why are they going
after a younger demographic you want to build this brand recognition early on so then when the
kids get older they want to go visit the other Universal parks around the country and around
the world Universal did release concept art for the new theme park I think I figured out most of
it by looking at the concept art I'm thinking this is a DreamWorks exclusive theme park right there's
not gonna be minions it's all gonna be focused on the DreamWorks property kind of look at the
front entrance and we see this kind of symbol that's very reminiscent innocent to like the
DreamWorks logo and it looks like you're walking underneath clouds to enter into it it's with that
DreamWorks theme let's first start off with what the attractions are going to be to the left if
we zoom in it looks 100 like Madagascar um if you look at the Madagascar films when they're in the
Central Park Zoo you can see these cages in the background it's like the little Penguin Pond over
there it might be something with water uh and then kind of like a little Jungle Gym probably
some different gift shops and food offerings on those other buildings then the one that I'm
really excited about is up to the top left of this concept art kind of see like the Jurassic pillars
probably thinking Greenworks doesn't produce Jurassic world well they actually do if you
haven't watched the Netflix show Camp Cretaceous it's actually really good but I believe this is
all just gonna be Camp Cretaceous themed you'll be able to meet some different dinosaurs hopefully
you can meet bumpy it kind of looks like there's a jungle gym kind of like art camp Jurassic and
Islands of Adventure some sort of like exploding volcano that you'll get to go around back in Camp
Cretaceous it kind of looks like there's water slides all the way in the back it looks like
there's a lot of greenery so it's just not like a concrete jungle like a lot of theme parks have
become the center boat ride kind of confuses me I believe it could be two things it could either be
based on Boss babies right because boss babies is like it's in the clouds and everything and there's
like clouds there or it could just be kind of like a DreamWorks boat ride where you get to travel the
circumference of the theme park in your boat and kind of see the different DreamWorks properties
and then if we go all the way up here to the right this is the land that's gonna be lit I
think it looks like it's gonna be based on Shrek you see this building kind of looks like Shrek
swamp right with the tree and everything and then there's like a castle setting looks like
where some food and gift shops will be it could be either be far far away right we're Shrek and
Fiona live currently or it could be duloc night from Shrek one it could be kind of like a hedge
Maze and then it looks like dragon is gonna have a ride right it kind of looks like you're gonna
be riding on top of dragons babies then there's like this top of a baby bottle kind of looks like
the boss baby maybe the boss baby might have a little attraction here this whole rainbow area
is definitely gonna be trolls right there's been rumors of trolls attractions coming it looks like
probably there'll be a little dance party and everything some there's maybe some uh bumper
cars over here to the left it kind of looks like there's this uh simple ride where it's kind of
like a bus and you just kind of like roll like this and go back and forth I don't know what's
happening inside these buildings that's the stuff that's like intriguing to me we'll be getting like
some special dark ride I'm really excited for this I will be there on opening day when it comes out
in the permits that it has to be built in four years that takes us to 2027 so two years after
epic universe will have opened right this is the universal decade they are taking over the theme
park industry now guys it was time to talk about the year-round Halloween Horror Nights experience
is gonna be in Las Vegas so let's do a whole run down about everything that's happening first off
it starts off with Halloween Horror Nights is Twitter saying just announced we're bringing
an entirely new year-round core experience to you Las Vegas and Universal responds with just
when we thought we couldn't get a break from Halloween Horror Night this brand new permanent
entertainment experience in Las Vegas will bring to life Universal's Das library of classic horror
films and today's most terrifying tales with a variety of unique immersive fantastic core-centric
experience that surround the high energy food and beverage Spaces by day turned haunting bars and
eateries By Night the New Concept marks the first time Universal has created a permanent [ __ ]
experience Beyond its theme parks Universal is known for our ability to deliver original
highly themed and terrifying horror entertainment experiences for millions of fans every year that's
huge as we see in the concept art looks like Jack the clown will be back and looks like chance will
be back so they will be bringing the Orlando icons right to Vegas it was really interesting
to me last year that hot topic was getting the HHN icons and Halloween Horror Nights merch Nationwide
so it's really cool that the icons have become so big that they're going Nationwide right so
it looks like there's going to be food and drinks rotating horror environment so I feel
like probably every year they will rotate out the different houses and everything to keep it fresh
and new for people to keep traveling to Vegas to go do that so it's gonna add a whole nother thing
to do for all the hhn fans out there to make this you know pilgrimage to Vegas now probably
every single year I would love if they did kind of that storytelling escape room with the hhn icons
how cool would that be to go through like the icons escape room Adventure I would love to do
that maybe that's what they're bringing I have no idea what's happening I will be at a holly
Hornets panel in February I'm gonna be missing the opening day of Mardi Gras sadly but I'll
be a trans World in St Louis and they're going to have kind of a holly Hornets panel so maybe
they'll talk more about this I'm hoping for big announcements at that panel too person on Twitter
named traveling salesman went to the area of where it's going to be built all right guys all right
here we are location of the future year-round Universal Halloween Horror Nights is right here
future location you want to see there are actually markers right there this is where it's all gonna
happen probably 2024 2025 it's my guess you notice how Brown has broken but it's parking lot it's
fairly easy to move as soon as possible so they still have a lot of work to do right they haven't
broken ground on it anytime soon you know when Universal announces something they start pretty
quick I'm so excited for the next five years of universal we have Nintendo World opening in
February you know the kids own refurb happening and then we had epic Universe happening then we
have all this other stuff let me know what you're most excited about with all the announcements I
feel like Universal is Just Gonna Keep crushing it now to kind of like wrap this whole big thing up
the new theme park coming to Texas right Universal is not trying to make a new Universal Studios
trying to make kind of like a universal themed kind of kid family friendly almost kind of like a
Lego Land Vibe it's meant for like the younger kids the cool stuff is happening off in Vegas
for all the adults new food new drinks rotating haunted attractions happy and inside I believe
it's like a hundred and ten thousand square feet building of just pure hhm I'm so excited I wonder
if they're gonna weave in the stories there's just so much that's unknown it's January we still got a
lot long road ahead of us Universal will just keep teasing us with new information and new surprises
I was not expecting for this announcement this morning on that note if you haven't already hit
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