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My blue sky Universal Studios Hollywood expansion concept is now complete! It adds 4 new lands and grows from 16 to 24 attractions. Here's the full site plan, but if you want to see it is higher res where you can read all the text, head here: imagineerlanddesign.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/1...

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One more bonus for you with my Universal Studios Hollywood plan: over at my portfolio website, I have an image slider where you can compare the before and after for the park! It's all the way at the bottom of the page. imagineerlanddesign.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/1...

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Thank you! I'd love to visit the park again one day once it has grown some more. Hopefully what they really do is even better than this. Planning on more expansion plans coming through the rest of this year.

Thanks. I just didn't think it makes sense to have 2 kuka dark rides next to each other. In this hypothetical plan, I imagine there could be equally high quality ride with a different ride system to get some variety in this area.

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I hope you've enjoyed reading about my concept for a expanded Universal Studios Hollywood. I had a great time at the park when I visited earlier this year and I think a couple expansions could make it an incredible top tier park. Excited to see how the park actually grows in the coming years.

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There are multiple new and revised scenes on the tour to take guests through every step of production, starting with a new Scene 1 where a movie shoot magically comes to life in an empty soundstage. Other scenes take guests into a Hot Set and to a movie premiere for the finale.

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STUDIO TOUR The Studio Tour is relocated to the rear of the Lower Lot to place the tram tour right in the action of production. The queue building contains museum scenes of the history of the studio and the tram tour. Guests load onto the current trams and then head out for the experience.

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It is lined with retail, a Cafe 80s quick service restaurant, and fun futuristic interactive elements. Inside the courthouse straight ahead is the main attraction, an indoor coaster where Doc recruits us to go recover some lost artifacts from some of his stops in the past.

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HILL VALLEY 2055 The last land of the park is Hill Valley of 2055. This expansion replaces most of the stages in the Lower Lot area behind Transformers. The land recreates a futuristic version of the town square and provides a unique sci-fi themed environment to the park.

FAR FAR AWAY This Shrek themed land adds another family focused land to the park. The land features a Shrek swamp meet and greet and a small Duloc town square area with a covered teacups style flat ride and a classic dark ride where the story of Shrek is retold by the Magic Mirror.

SUPER NINTENDO WORLD This builds upon the existing land with an expansion that takes over the current Transformers building. This new area is themed to Pokémon and includes a carousel with rideable Pokémon, retail, and a rethemed Transformers dark ride where guests jump into a Pokémon adventure.

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JURASSIC WORLD: ISLA SORNA The existing Jurassic themed area is expanded. There are no new attractions, but the areas around Jurassic World: The Ride are redeveloped. New themed buildings define a plaza in front of the splashdown pool and hold retail and a new indoor Velociraptor meet and greet.

This is a plaza space that guests enter into first which has 4 branching paths into 4 distinct filming "backlots", which are completely immersive as if guests have stepped right into the movies. At the back of the plaza is a new entrance to the Studio Tour.

LOWER LOT The remaining areas of the park are all down at the Lower Lot. One big change is the demo of Mummy and the reconstruction of the last set of escalators in a rotated position so that the escalators drop off at a more central neutral area of the Lower Lot instead of right into JW.

My Universal Studios Hollywood blue sky expansion concept reaches the last area of the park today, the Lower Lot.

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Tomorrow we wrap up the park with the new lands and attractions on the Lower Lot, as well as changes to the Studio Tour. Thanks for following along if you see this!

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Through the entrance tunnel, guests step into the courtyard of the Emerald City. Straight ahead is the entrance to the Wizard's Palace. The land includes dining, a covered balloon spinner ride, and a family friendly boat dark ride across the fantastical world of OZ, featuring music from the show.

WICKED: EMERALD CITY Exiting out of Dark Universe, guests cross a plaza space with a view over the lot and then face the gateway to the Emerald City. Still questionable if Wicked has the longevity to be a theme park land, but the Emerald City looks perfect for one to me so I went for it.

The rest of the village holds retail, a quick service pub, and a year round walk through haunted maze through the abandoned tunnels under the village. This is meant to be a flexible space that is used as both a daily attraction and as a HHN house with extra performers.

But this version of the land is dominated by Dracula. Sitting at the edge of the town square is the Count's grand palace and inside he has gathered a collection of his most fearsome monster contemporaries to hunt us. This is a Transformers style dark ride with the focus on AAs instead of screens.

DARK UNIVERSE I think it is essential to celebrate Universal Monsters in the studio where they were born. This is not a copy of the Epic Universe land, but instead like a parallel location in the story. There is a crumbling village, wandering Monsters, and a main attraction that drives the story.

I see a lot of people speculate that the Falls Lake area on the east of the property could be park expansion as well. Maybe so, but I didn't use it because it is far from the main park, hard to get to, and I liked maintaining a cool production location. So I expanded elsewhere.

The other area of expansion is on the Lower Lot and replaces some of the older soundstages with park space. This is heavily rumored already and Universal has been building new stages on the east side of the property to replace this studio filming capacity.

The first new area is The East Lot. This area replaces the studio tour queue, loading, maintenance building, and some back stage space near CityWalk. It also requires some regrading to the hill above Prop Plaza/Hollywood Terrace to add some buildable space. The bridge and escalators remain.

PARK EXTENTS EXPANSION In this blue sky expansion, I have taken the opportunity to expand the footprint of the theme park by pushing into the studio areas in two specific locations. I think these expansion areas are fairly in line with what could actually happen one day.

My expansion concept for Universal Studios Hollywood continues today with new lands in a new area of the park! But first, quick thoughts about park footprint expansions.

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My Universal Studios Hollywood blue sky concept plan continues today with the lands of the Upper Lot! Here's a labeled plan, read on below for more info.

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Tomorrow, we will continue with posts about the strategy for expanding the footprint of the park and then walk through the new lands in the areas outside the Upper Lot.

The other addition is the Great Hall Dining Experience. Guests enter a shop in Hogsmeade and take the Floo Network up into the castle Entrance Hall. The 4 house tables are recreated and guests partake in a family style feast, featuring occasional entertainment and welcomes from Hogwarts notables.

There are still two additions in this land though. One is a walkthrough show experience through a back street illicit magical creatures shop. Guests meet a variety of fantastic beasts while working their way through a series of shop rooms, brought to life as AAs and puppets.

WIZARDING WORLD OF HARRY POTTER I chose not to significantly expand the Harry Potter presence in this park plan. I know a lot of people hope for more Potter expansions and lands at the park, but I felt it was a better and more interesting use of space to do a more varied collection of lands.

ILLUMINATION-LAND This land is formed of Minion Land and the Secret Life of Pets dark ride. In this plan, Minion Mayhem receives a new film to freshen up the attraction. The only other addition to the land is an indoor meet and greet that is in the 1st floor of the new Hollywood attraction.

PRODUCTION THEATER This is just a different way to label Waterworld because there was no way I was going to get rid of it. So instead of the land being called Waterworld, this is now an offshoot of Hollywood where production demonstrations can take place, today (and every day) featuring Waterworld.

The Simpsons Ride building is gutted and renovated to be a modern flying theater attraction. This attraction honors the symphonic history of Hollywood cinema by taking guests on a flight through film scenes accompanied by their iconic scores. Think the ET Flying Theme or Jaws Theme.

Next, Kung Fu Panda is replaced with a quick service restaurant to replace the capacity of removed FnB. Next is Hollywood Drift and then the Springfield area, now reworked into continuing the Hollywood style of the rest of the land. The quick service building is rethemed to Hollywood landmarks.

This would span all the way from silent movies to the blockbusters of today and feature dozens of movies, including those not already in the park. The movie palace entrance with a grand marquee is placed as a weenie at the end of the entrance street and can act as a new secondary icon for the park.

The first change is a new attraction that replaces Universal Plaza. This felt like the right space for a park anchoring attraction. Basically, this is the Great Movie Ride for Universal. It is a trackless ride that takes guests on a whirlwind trip across the "globe" of Universal movie history.

HOLLYWOOD The main land that runs through the center of the Upper Lot is Hollywood and extends all the way from the entrance arch to the area currently known as Springfield. This central corridor is the main traffic path through the park and all other lands branch off from it.

My Universal Studios Hollywood blue sky concept plan continues today with the lands of the Upper Lot! Here's a labeled plan, read on below for more info.

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Thank you! Its a tricky park but it feels like such a special place that it deserves a big concept and a great future of growth. Can't wait to see what actually happens!

Both changes make a lot of sense to me as good moves to bring more activity to CityWalk and create more of a Universal Bubble. Hopefully those real changes bring some life to the area. Tomorrow we will make our way into the park itself with info about the lands of the Upper Lot!

I shared the site plan for my Universal Studios Hollywood expansion earlier, now we start going land by land. First is the areas outside the park. EXTERIOR PARK AND CITYWALK The only changes happening here are the under construction security hubs and the heavily rumored main gate hotel.

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Today, I am sharing the site plan at the top of this thread and will share the first land in a new thread soon. Then I will be posting a couple lands each day until Friday when I share a final wrap up for my blue sky Universal Studios Hollywood expansion concept.

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This is the dream version of this park that gets to ignore the very real limitations that affect the real creatives like budget, schedule, logistics, and the grading challenges the site presents. This is very much an idealized take on this theme park.

I want to reinforce that this is a true blue sky plan that I know is probably far more ambitious than will ever happen. This was done just for fun as a design exercise and to get some ideas that were stuck in my head down on a site plan.

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A big goal was to introduce some variety to the types of attractions in the park so that everyone could find something they would love, such as classic dark rides, flat rides, and new story based thrill rides. More variety, less screens and simulators.

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I visited this park for the first time earlier this year and immediately loved a ton about the park. As a big fan of theme parks, movies, and the concept of behind the scenes, this park had everything for me. I left with a ton of ideas for ways to expand and rework the park.