Universal's Epic Universe Theme Park is Astonishing
/Film Daily
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4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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On the April 7, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Jacob Hall to talk all about Universal’s new Epic Universe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Slash Film Daily. |
| 0:01.8 | Today is Monday, April 7th, 2025. |
| 0:04.3 | On today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking all about Universal's new Epic Universe theme park. |
| 0:09.6 | My name is Ben Pearson. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm an editor at Slashfilm.com, and I'm joined on today's episode by Slashfilm editor, Jacob, |
| 0:15.9 | hello. |
| 0:16.9 | All right, Jacob, you just got back from a whirlwind trip to Universal Studios, Florida, in Orlando, where you visited Epic Universe, which is the new universal expansion. Is that what you would call it? You're much more a theme park guy than I am. Do I have the terminology right there? It's a full on new theme park. The Universal Orlando Resort now has three theme parks, |
| 0:38.4 | including Epic Universe and a water park. |
| 0:41.2 | And this is the first major theme park to be built to North America |
| 0:46.4 | in, I think, nearly 25 years. |
| 0:49.4 | Wow. |
| 0:50.0 | Disney California Adventure in 2001. |
| 0:52.7 | So it's kind of a big deal in the theme park world because |
| 0:56.0 | parks of this scale don't get built very often. |
| 1:01.0 | I mean, it's like I said, it's been since 1998 for Disney, |
| 1:04.0 | and it's been, you know, almost as long for Universal |
| 1:07.0 | if you don't include there, their water park from about 10 years ago. |
| 1:16.0 | So this was, and also to be clear, the park isn't actually opening it. It opens on May 22nd. |
| 1:17.9 | And we were invited out there for a media day. |
| 1:20.9 | And so it was, goodness, I was probably close to 200 folks from across, you know, traditional outlets, online, YouTube. |
| 1:29.8 | Even our old buddy Peter Threat, our formula, formula, now runs, you know, ordinary adventures on YouTube. |
| 1:33.9 | He was there to cover it, and we hung out for a bit, and we were able to share some thoughts. |
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