Mekado Murphy
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Podcast Appearances
You know, that's... Good Lord.
That's the admitted amount.
Uh-huh.
And...
It's a new park near, across the interstate freeway from the older Universal Studios complex, which is two parks and a water park.
Do we count water parks as theme parks?
We definitely count water parks as theme parks.
The reason Epic is such a big deal is that it's investment.
It's Universal trying to be more Disney.
The vast majority...
Families go to Disney World and Universal is an added day or a day and a half.
Universal wants to flip that.
You come to Universal and you do an added day at Disney.
And so it's a big deal for Universal in its evolution, but it's also a big deal in terms of igniting, it sounds cliche because it's true, theme park war.
Disney's pouring money into Disney World to remain competitive and Universal is β Epic is sort of reflective of β
their broader business at Universal.
They're building a new park in the UK.
They're building a kids' park in Texas.