Universal's Epic Universe - News and Discussion

[fatmanatee]

Do we have any idea of the pricing for this?

We don't.

 

[Minnie1222]

The single day tickets that will be released on 10/24 are only for AP holders.
No idea when the 1 and 2 day tickets for the general public will be released.

Yes, we are all AP holders. I'm willing to pay full cost for the packages in order to have certain dates.

 

[The Gatekeeper]

I have an extremely basic question, but I've never done this.
I am an out-of-state seasonal pass holder. I've never linked my passes to my account but I believe I know how to do that. My question is what do I do on the 24th to buy the one day tickets? Will there be a link on the Uni website and as long as I'm logged in, it will allow me to purchase the tickets? Is there an email with a link sent out? I just want to be prepared.

Also, we are a family of four and I would like to buy 8 tickets (2 days worth). Will I be able to toggle to my husband's pass within my account to buy the second set of four? Maybe it would be better to have him log into his own account and get the second day himself? Or do I buy one ticket per day per passholder? I have no clue.
Any guess as to what time the tickets will go on sale? I have had a trip booked for the last week in May for a while thinking Epic would open then, now I'm nervous about ticket availability. I can't put the trip off further into the summer because we love Volcano Bay and as seasonals we will be blocked off after the first week in June.

The logistics are tough here. I want a couple of nights at Helios too, so hoping to get a room for a couple of nights and have those nights align with the Epic tickets is going to be hard, I fear. Fingers crossed!

 

[DawnM]

Your passes don't include the new park. They only give you first chance at buying tickets for the new park, that's all

Thank you, will APs include it in the future?
I really want to go but I am not 100% sure when we can, so I can't purchase tickets yet. UGH.

 

[CAPSLOCK]

Thank you, will APs include it in the future?
I really want to go but I am not 100% sure when we can, so I can't purchase tickets yet. UGH.

Your existing AP will not include it.

Speculation - they will probably sell APs that include Epic in the future - I'd guess it'd be a year out or more. At that point it's likely existing APs would be able to be upgraded to include it.

 

[fatmanatee]

Thank you, will APs include it in the future?
I really want to go but I am not 100% sure when we can, so I can't purchase tickets yet. UGH.

They posted on Twitter that eventually there will be an AP that includes EU but I strongly suspect that it won't be for awhile and that it'll come with a significant price increase.

 

[tony67]

I have an extremely basic question, but I've never done this.
I am an out-of-state seasonal pass holder. I've never linked my passes to my account but I believe I know how to do that. My question is what do I do on the 24th to buy the one day tickets? Will there be a link on the Uni website and as long as I'm logged in, it will allow me to purchase the tickets? Is there an email with a link sent out? I just want to be prepared.

Also, we are a family of four and I would like to buy 8 tickets (2 days worth). Will I be able to toggle to my husband's pass within my account to buy the second set of four? Maybe it would be better to have him log into his own account and get the second day himself? Or do I buy one ticket per day per passholder? I have no clue.
Any guess as to what time the tickets will go on sale? I have had a trip booked for the last week in May for a while thinking Epic would open then, now I'm nervous about ticket availability. I can't put the trip off further into the summer because we love Volcano Bay and as seasonals we will be blocked off after the first week in June.

The logistics are tough here. I want a couple of nights at Helios too, so hoping to get a room for a couple of nights and have those nights align with the Epic tickets is going to be hard, I fear. Fingers crossed!

Think we are all in the same boat with this.

As I understand it you can buy up to six tickets per transaction but the tickets are for passholders only - so everyone has to have an AP and you have to have all the APs in the wallet - the tickets are linked to the AP

So if there are four of you you need all four APs in your account so you can link the tickets to the APs.

 

[lisam70]

I have an extremely basic question, but I've never done this.
I am an out-of-state seasonal pass holder. I've never linked my passes to my account but I believe I know how to do that. My question is what do I do on the 24th to buy the one day tickets? Will there be a link on the Uni website and as long as I'm logged in, it will allow me to purchase the tickets? Is there an email with a link sent out? I just want to be prepared.

Also, we are a family of four and I would like to buy 8 tickets (2 days worth). Will I be able to toggle to my husband's pass within my account to buy the second set of four? Maybe it would be better to have him log into his own account and get the second day himself? Or do I buy one ticket per day per passholder? I have no clue.
Any guess as to what time the tickets will go on sale? I have had a trip booked for the last week in May for a while thinking Epic would open then, now I'm nervous about ticket availability. I can't put the trip off further into the summer because we love Volcano Bay and as seasonals we will be blocked off after the first week in June.

The logistics are tough here. I want a couple of nights at Helios too, so hoping to get a room for a couple of nights and have those nights align with the Epic tickets is going to be hard, I fear. Fingers crossed!

I'm going to try and buy the tickets thru the app. I do have our AP's linked so I'm hoping it will be easy.
Having Helios reservations open on a different day as the single tickets is tough I agree I am also hoping to align the two!

 

[fatmanatee]

Since it's been coming up, Universal keeps answering people asking "what time does _______ go on sale" with basically "we don't know, stay tuned!'.

 

[wendlle]

do we know if ANY of the AP's will work? I usually buy the Seasonal (cheapest one)
Also when purchasing an AP is it active from the day I purchase it online??

We do have a 2 week stay at Universal in May as I said, I have the AP but it's not active, just held on my account. I was going to get regular tickets for my family BUT now I'm thinking we will all get AP's, we can use them over the 2 weeks to come and go in the parks as we please, and I'll be able to buy 1 day tickets to Epic.
BUT I'd need them to be active from now when I purchase, not when I go to the park because I'm in Australia and can't do that.

 

[Kit Jackson]

It makes no sense to me for them to just give it up - unless Disney is going to give them a big bag of money to get back the rights.

I was under the impression they can use any of the characters from when they made the deal and they need to maintain the land.
I assumed they could also create new things based on those which is what I would like to see.
I guess it is possible that they would need approval for anything new with the characters - but that won't happen - Disney will not approve anything new.

Disney doesn't need to pay to get back the rights. Disney owns the Marvel rights and Universal Orlando is paying Disney to use the Marvel IP. From Universal's perspective, if they give it up Springfield/Simpsons to create something with IP they already own, they no longer have to pay Disney money.

Universal Orlando is allowed to maintain the existing Marvel rides but they are not allowed to create any new Marvel rides.

as I stated earlier, I had already booked a trip to Orlando for May. My Universal dates were May 3-16th bummer that I miss the opening. We will be over at WDW by then
I guess I could wait and see if we can get 1 day tickets and go over before we leave Orlando on the 29th of May, but they'll probably be sold out by then and I don't want to purchase another package or buy more multi day tickets to go for just 1 day - kids really want to see the Super Nintendo World, really we would just go for that at this stage.
I'll just have to wait and see how luck swings for us, I can't change my dates as I have DVC rentals booked for WDW.

We won't be back in Orlando for 3-5 years, it's gotten too expensive for us to do our yearly trips now.

Unless you passionately care about being there opening day/opening week, wait 3-5 years. By that time they will have all the bugs/issues/glitches worked out, and they may even have phase 2/more stuff open by then.

 

[wendlle]

Unless you passionately care about being there opening day/opening week, wait 3-5 years. By that time they will have all the bugs/issues/glitches worked out, and they may even have phase 2/more stuff open by then.

I kinda do want to be there, I would really love to take the kids for a day, even if we didn't get to do much and just look around I think it will be amazing.

Just waiting to see if anyone knows the answer to my AP activation question above - hoping I am able to activate the AP's before we arrive so I can get the 1 day ticket add-on. Otherwise I'm stuck again either having to buy multi day tickets for just 1 day of use, or waiting until they offer 1 day tickets later on.

 

[Minnie1222]

Just waiting to see if anyone knows the answer to my AP activation question above - hoping I am able to activate the AP's before we arrive so I can get the 1 day ticket add-on. Otherwise I'm stuck again either having to buy multi day tickets for just 1 day of use, or waiting until they offer 1 day tickets later on.

I spoke to a Universal team member earlier today regarding this issue. He said the AP has to be validated by physically going through the park turnstile in order for the passholder to buy the tickets on 10/24.

 

[lisam70]

I spoke to a Universal team member earlier today regarding this issue. He said the AP has to be validated by physically going through the park turnstile in order for the passholder to buy the tickets on 10/24.

Thanks for the clarification.
Honestly it makes sense or everyone would be rushing to buy an AP before next week.

 

[wendlle]

Thanks for the clarification.
Honestly it makes sense or everyone would be rushing to buy an AP before next week.

it makes sense but also doesn't. not everyone lives in Orlando or the USA. And I need AP's anyway so will be purchasing them, just can't have them validated.
Oh well, guess I'm left waiting for the 1 day tickets.

 

[Minnie1222]

it makes sense but also doesn't. not everyone lives in Orlando or the USA. And I need AP's anyway so will be purchasing them, just can't have them validated.
Oh well, guess I'm left waiting for the 1 day tickets.

It doesn't hurt to try on 10/24 with your "invalidated" AP. Maybe the system will be so glitchy it'll let you buy a few tickets.

 

[zavandor]

Thank you, will APs include it in the future?
I really want to go but I am not 100% sure when we can, so I can't purchase tickets yet. UGH.

The tickets they sell for UK residents for 2025 only are valid for 14 days for the original parks and only 1 day at EU. But in 2026 they'll allow entrance to EU with no limitations, even 14 days. It's reasonable to say probably there will be AP for all parks in 2026.

 

[familyman123]

Disney doesn't need to pay to get back the rights. Disney owns the Marvel rights and Universal Orlando is paying Disney to use the Marvel IP. From Universal's perspective, if they give it up Springfield/Simpsons to create something with IP they already own, they no longer have to pay Disney money.

Universal Orlando is allowed to maintain the existing Marvel rides but they are not allowed to create any new Marvel rides.



Unless you passionately care about being there opening day/opening week, wait 3-5 years. By that time they will have all the bugs/issues/glitches worked out, and they may even have phase 2/more stuff open by then.

Waiting until 2030 so Universal can work the bugs out is pretty bad advice.

 

[magickingdomprincess]

I spoke to a Universal team member earlier today regarding this issue. He said the AP has to be validated by physically going through the park turnstile in order for the passholder to buy the tickets on 10/24.

Hmm, I wonder how this will affect my plan to buy single day EU tix. We had 4 day tix that we upgraded to seasonal AP's on our last day, and we upgraded as we were leaving, meaning we didn't actually use them to enter the park. They expire the end of May though. I wonder if I'll be able to actually buy the EU tix.

 

[tony67]

Disney doesn't need to pay to get back the rights. Disney owns the Marvel rights and Universal Orlando is paying Disney to use the Marvel IP. From Universal's perspective, if they give it up Springfield/Simpsons to create something with IP they already own, they no longer have to pay Disney money.

Yes Disney owns Marvel - but Universe has the theme park rights for the eastern US. I don't see Universal giving that up for free.
Whatever Universal pays is what they negotiated with Marvel back when they were broke so I don't think its much - and its pretty much forever - but they are selling all that merch that puts money in Disney's pockets.
As long as Universal keeps up Super Hero Island Disney is very limited in what they can do in the Orlando parks.
I'm sure they would like to get that back. Even when they did that Dr Strange meet and great it was a bit iffy.

don't know how accurate this is but its basically what I've heard over the years:
East of the Mississippi, Universal controls any character, side-character, and villains considered part of the Avengers, X-Men, Spider-Man, Incredible Hulk, Daredevil, and Fantastic Four "families", sand some other rights like comic book likeness of characters existing before 1994. They also control the theme park license to the word "Marvel" nationwide.

Not sure about that nationwide "marvel" thing - its the first I've heard of that.

Simpsons is a whole different thing - that has to be renegotiated and Disney wont make it easy. I also don't think its worthwhile anymore - its a cool land and all - but I wont miss it.