Universal Mega Movie Parade Debuts in Technical Rehearsal at Universal Studios Florida
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3:14 Universal Mega Movie Parade
5:02 Back to the Future
6:45 Sing
8:40 Minions
10:51 Kung Fu Panda
12:27 Trolls
14:02 Ghostbusters *
15:50 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
17:45 Jaws
19:30 Jurassic World
* Ghostbusters (c) Sony Pictures/Columbia Pictures
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I like it! I canât wait for them to add a transformers float, a Mario cart float, a mummy float, Harry Potter, float and a how to train your Dragon float. When finished the parades gonna be super spectacular.
There is a Mario Kart float at Universal Studios Japan, including a Pokemon float
Universal mega movie parade is all about movies not video games and television
â@@sergiotorresaragon7673If I love those Nintendo franchises, I hope they have their own parade in the next Epic Universe park.
@@rayman4146everything the previous people said ARE movies.
Wouldn't they be at the new Epic Universe park?
That jaws float kicks ass
I wish they had a Hooper in the cage.
Favorite was Back to the Future and ET those two floats wish I was there at Universal Orlando
Honestly this was the best way to pay homage not only to the older films/attractions, but to the newer films/attractions as well. I think my only complaint is to remove one of the animated floats and add harry potter in to balance all the properties. Harry Potter float doesn't even have to have the main trio, but could just be school students and magical creatures.
I will say i loved the addition on Marty who I dont think has been in the park before as well as the other ghost busters from the recent films
Universal's Superstar Parade will always have a special place in our hearts!đđ
I loved it. Was hoping to see the universal monsters with a float too.
Prolly after Epic Universe opens
Saw the Ghostbusters and Jurassic Park ones on Facebook, was not expecting a Back to the Future float, nice.
Miss superstar but I love this. It combines past movies with the present!!!!! Def a celebration of the movies!!!
Big improvement. Wish though they had original soundtracks like Huey Lewis with Back to the Future. They said 80%, wonder what's missing? Jaws head should move and spit water.
Love it! Thank you so much for sharing!
Was kinda hoping the Delorean (body) and Doc and Marty could've been on a light kuka arm to make it look like it's about to take off.
That t-Rex at the end shouldâve been Barney lol đ
This looks spectacular and awesomeâŒïž Canât wait to see this when Iâm at the park in a couple weeks!!
Understand it being a technical rehearsal But Compared to a Disney parade it seemed a bit boring, it needs more characters and fun to it
Blah blah blah. The parade looks great. Floats are amazing
I agree it's a bit underwhelming. I still like it but you can tell it's missing some pizzazz.
They should have an ecto-1 driving behind or in front of the ghostbusters float. I canât believe they didnât incorporate the car at all
â@@doctorvondoom5797 Do you have an actual argument? Because there wasn't a single animatronic. No special effects coming from the floats. Almost no choreography within the actual floats.. characters just stand around awkwardly and even face away from the crowd (this is a stageshow 101 no no)
Didn't even get the iconic T-Rex roar to end the parade..?
Its cool to see them finally trying to catch up to Disney both this AND their Fantasmic clone but yeah..
It sucks because they have the budget and creative to do it. But it seems to bean counters or w/e always force them to dial it down so much its underwhelming compared to the competition. Which I hear has been asleep behind the wheel. This is a good example as to why they don't care lol
Iâm waiting when they introduce their sword and sorcery characters under that studio like Conan the Barbarian, Dragonheart characters like Bowen and Kara, Snow White and her Huntsman Eric with Queen Ravenna and Sommersâ Mummy and Scorpion King characters along!
What a fun parade! Thank you for this video!
The JAWS stuff was pretty great. Wish the shark was moving like the t-rex though. Still so heart warming to see JAWS back in the park in any kind of way.
This is just the beginning
The floats are incredibly cool, but definitely has some issues to be worked out. Love the theme and vibe though!
This is a great parade
Iâm getting paint the Night parade vibes from this.
Forgot to say, the casting of Quint and Ghostbusters Phoebe for this parade, were spot on!
It's great that UNIVERSAL is doing an parade based movies and It's.
But to compare it to DISNEY. To different parades.
Well, Universal still can't really compare to Disney on most things. Just from a basic experience - Disney is better from parking to exit by a pretty wide margin. Disney's philosophy to make access to each ride as easy as possible really is apparent when visiting both. Bring a backpack and enjoy Universal's problematic and crowded locker system versus just bringing your backpack on the rides. - except for Tron, but that is a locker system far superior to anything at Universal or any other park. Universal has a lot of good stuff, but Disney is just easier to deal with most of the time and the parks are much nicer to walk around and enjoy.
The Jaws float stole the show with the mayor in the front asking people if theyâre going for a swim!
The jaws float was the best , big time fan of jaws summer of 1997, I remember seeing the mechanical jaws behind studio 18 would love to go back again the jaws ride and king Kong were the best great videoâ€
This looks ABSOLUTELY amazing!!! They had classic and new rides! I cant wait to see this in person.
17:55. Hooper drives the float, chief
That was gosh darn glorious! I generally donât love the parades that either park does, but this was GREAT!
Unfortunately itis not something what will make to visit the park. Hopefully someone from Universal reads the comments as they need to do some upgrades to almost everything. Good base thought.
I was thinking the same thing. As a pass holder was thinking Iâd make the trip down the road from north Florida to see Dreamworks land (I know itâs for kids but still) and this parade. Buuuut, CZcams shows were not missing much this summer, unfortunately.
As a Disney parades lover, I have to admit, I liked it.
I hope they add Shrek, Transformers and the Universal Monsters other than that this is a cool parade with my favorite looking float being the Jurassic Park one.
Why would they let the public see a rehearsal? Disney never does that. They rehearse their parades and shows at night and in rehearsal spaces. Never in front of guests.
Cause Disney sucks a big đ„
Replacing the Superstar Parade (which we will miss đ)
This parade is better. Floats are better too
There's too much space in between the floats.
Time to steal a few Disney floats....
My nostalgic feels!!!!!đąđąđąđąđąđąâ€â€â€â€â€â€
Also, I know the parade itself has to be 15-20 mins long even though 10 floats are enough, but I'm predicting if there should be more floats added to the parade:
1. Universal Monsters (including Beetlejuice if possible) float
2. The Mummy float
3. King Kong float
It needs more character/crowd interaction
I am so loving this. I wish they had this in Hollywood.
love to see the parade paying homages to Back to the future, Sing, Minions, Kung-Fu Panda, Trolls, Ghostbusters, E.T., JAWS and Jurassic Park!
What happened to that rumor where they bought a two piece replica of Ecto 1?
True that
Pretty sure thatâs being used for the horror nights house
I've noticed them using Ghostbusters more lately so I wonder if the rumors of Rip Ride Rockit leaving soon are true, we end up getting some sort of GB themed coaster in its place. Or a retheme of Men in Black to Ghostbusters at some point.
holy crap that Trex float is INSANE
Subscribed and liked and the bell is on.
I watched it last night and the Ghostbusters float had to be removed when it tried to come out and there was no back to the future float and the first float came out but the screen wasnât working. but with that being said, the parade was amazing. Love it
No Slimer on the float?
@@KatMusic2009 we only could see the front of it because I was at the beginning where the annual pass holders sit and it didnât make it out of the doorway, it hit the side, backed up and couldnât make it out so they backed it up and let the others go. So I didnât see him but he may have been there.
I hope they add their own sword and sorcery characters like Conan the Barbarian, Valeria, Bowen and Kara from Dragonheart, Snow White and Eric the Huntsman and the Evil Queen Ravenna!
Felt the first half was a little lackluster as the floats all had the same basic design but the second half was great. Maybe they need to mix up the order of the floats some.
Get rid of the random security cast members that walk RIGHT alongside of the damn parade floats Universal lol. That looks so bad and awkward. Have them walk along side the guests by the edge of the streets.
@@TheBitBlock I hope them walking that close while wearing bright green was just for these Tech Rehearsals. Otherwise, âUniversal! Wtf are you doing???â
No one tell Doc about what happened to his institute!
It looks good, but I think each float should represent a scene from the movie. With that each one should have effects, or stunts. That would make it so amazing
Very beautiful parade .....................
Iâm sorry but the people in green next the floats are really messing with me. Why wear green shirts? Just wear all black. Some people had shirts tucked, some didnât, some had black belts and some had different color belts or no belts, name tags on different sides, some had radios go around the front and others had their radios go around the back. The mics were hanging on their shirts and wrinkling the collarâŠIts stuff like that that donât seem like a big deal but it makes a difference.
You need to see a psychiatrist.
@@ghostman5620for what
@@ghostman5620 for pointing out facts? Universal is a multi million dollar theme park and they canât do these details right. The security people shouldnât stick out like that.
@@dozer11exactly lol
I hope that when they finish tech rehearsal they have the T- Rex puppeteers interact with the audience more by looking around in between sound queues to add more movement and visuals to the show
The floats themselves look amazing, and the dancers are excellent. But there isnât much going on each float. Barely any movement outside of a performer waving, or an animatronic. Hope it gets better as the year goes on.
so many thoughts:
all in all i think there is a lot of potential, but it needs so much more! the floats LOOK great, but they neeeed more animation, more sound effects and lights. there needs to be more animation from the characters than just waving and they all need more dancers in between, it looks so awkward from float to float. also the music is not loud and coherent enough. i have a lot of ideas to pimp this ride! i also wouldn't mind additions from the mummy or classic monsters, or maybe king kong and harry potter.
generally it was nice to see BTTF, GB, JAWS and JURASSIC, but yeah, it needs tweaking to become an actual parade.
This is technical rehearsals, not much is on really
@@teamkong9216 ohh i didnt know that, thx for sharing
I'm underwhelmed. It lacks kineticism but I love the vintage IP
Aw, you didnt like it?
@@maximusprime3459 no where near as good as O.G Festival Of Fantasy
Great parade!
I liked it. It was fine for me. And that wasent all the floats. There is more to come so thats good to hear. Here i thought this was gonna be a year round deal. Hope it is
â€â€â€â€â€â€â€â€â€FUN SPREAD UNEVERSAL STUDIOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, that was meh! The float designs went from dull to amazing. But they need to have movement. Jurassic Park was better because the T-Rex moved, imagine the Jaws float with Bruce chomping! Oh, and Quint, you can't yell Full Throttle when the Orca is split in two!! Ghostbusters without any energy beam effects looked weird. Hopefully, the full parade will have more kinetic energy.
This is technical rehearsals, expect more upon opening
Tech rehearsals are more so to see if the floats will get from point A to point B in without flaw. They'll probably add more effects as time goes on.
I bet the Quint ACTOR is aware of that. But with some imagination, a person could visualize the reenactment being portrayed.
Or they can just complain watching it for free on CZcams.
Ok this was a good parade... loved the TRex...
Floats were GREAT, but where were the classic Universal movie monsters?! That should be the final float, a large castle with all the movie monsters on it.
In-between dance groups were AWFUL. The small size and costumes looked cheap. They got a little âbetterâ with the Ghostbusters/Jaws/Jurassic Park floats where they were characters from those movies.
The actor playing Doc on the Back to the Future float needs to be older instead of just some 20-something with a really bad gray wig, it looked like a high school play.
I'm sure it'll be bigger and better when they have more material.
Thank you for posting the video.I like itâ€I would love to go see this parade, but I'm in Japan so it's not possible. I will watch this video every day.
Hope they add a float based on the mummy and even Fast and Furious
Heyđitâs Rick & Nikki in your opening shotđđŒ
Awesome
NICE
I liked the minions float they had two years ago. Why didn't they use that? Also why didn't they use the spongebob float they also had? They had awesome floats from 2 years ago and didn't even use them. Parade looks okay, but they need to organize the performers and bring it to life. Jurassic Park float needs walking raptors and other dinosaurs. Ghostbusters needs led lights coming from their proton blasters. Back to the Future needs a fog machine
Maybe Minions and SpongeBob will end up at Universal Kids Resort.
Okay. Parade is for Disney.
Not going to lie...that Back to the Future float brought a tear of joy to my eye.
PLEASE bring back Hill Valley, Universal!
The floats looked great, but the sound design didn't work for me, and the floats lacked the kinetic energy that I enjoyed from the previous parade. Everything was so stagnant... like, with the ET float, Why weren't they even pretending to pedal on the bikes??? I love the IPs included but overall this fell flat for me. Another thing that bugged me was when Johnny was banging the fake piano there wasn't a reason to. They literally had ZERO music from SING happening that could've allowed him to have a piano bit to "play". Most of the performers seemed bored, uninspiried and like they didn't actually want to be there... The only one I saw who didn't was that one from the BTTF segment who was like, "HIGH FIVE! YEAH!!" At least she was into it. Give her a raise.
Was concerned after the first float that each one would just be a screen, which would be very Universal.
Seriously. Most of their rollercoasters are basically screens with a simulator.
Is it just me, or was there no music or audio specifically for the Sing unit? Was that part not ready for the tech rehearsal or did something glitch?
dressed in regular street cloths costumes lol and a tiny t-rex
Pity this wasn't going on at universal studios when I was there last year. Once all the kinks are worked out, this is going to be a huge attraction for sure. Pity they don't have a horror parade during horror nights. Cut out some of the scar zones and create a horror parade
Lipps Inc. and one of the parts from Selena's Disco Medley @ 8:10!!!!!!
I hope they include the Mummy
I hope so with Van Helsing and Anna!
Huey Lewis & The News- The Power Of Love @ 5:47!
Hey whereâs the DeLorean Time Machine from Back To The Future?!
On the BTTF float!
nICE THANKS for the upload .. Dang Universal has to bring back the HHN parade now TOOOOO ;)
Wow.
This parade is spectacular
Ray Parker Jr. and Walk The Moon @ 13:54!!!!!!!!
The floats and float characters look great. Some of the dancers and people walking around look a little unprofessional, though. Their dancing and costumes could be better.
Is that the donkey kong country credits song playing between each vehicle? Its just a fragment of the song tho. If so, its probably part of the soundtrack of the new area in Japan and Florida.
Can you point to a specific timestamp where it is heard?
No that is the Universal Studios theme song.
@@TheBitBlock didn't expect to see you here Josh haha
@@gameplayxtreme3389 Howdy. I've been excited for this parade since the start of the year when rumors were stirring. Universal did great with it. THAT JAWS SECTION!! :D
Fantastic parade. Two nitpicks
1. Lil disappointing that this Jurassic World segment doesn't live up to the one in the nighttime parade they have overseas. Think we were all imagining something more like that...
2. They REALLY screwed themselves over making it a "movie" themed parade. This would've been a fantastic opertunity to give the Nintendo characters a parade segment, again like overseas, where in Japan's no limit parade they have an awesome mario kart segment. Would it be in the correct park? No, but it wouldn't matter, it's not like Jurassic World is in the Studios park either. Would've been fun
Not sure the extent they are able to use Nintendo characters in this park for stuff like that. Some of it may be the license with Nintendo and what they allow them to do in each park. Parades and characters may be limited to Epic Universe for the time being.
@@MrMac1138yea that is very likely. They could still put it in a movie parade since there was the Mario movie and it had a Mario Kart segment to it too
As a huge Jurassic fan, hearing the T-Rex having the Indominus Rex noises was just sad
The Fourth Of July marching band only exists on Independence Day week!
Hopefully is still there in the Fall.
It will until late November
there needs to be wayyy more movement/lights. its honestly so boring.
For once this really puts the watered down Festival of Fantasy at Magic Kingdom to absolute shame
It might be a zero percent chance but WDI needs to look at their rival, Universal Creative with their fantastic floats and purpose a new parade for MK to put FOF to rest(and maybe DHS) to be confirmed at D23 either before or during that weekend.
With that said.., I think they were planning this as early as 2020 before the pandemic changed everything, like the Minions unit was definitely representing The Rise of Gru(if the pandemic didn't move back its release by two yrs) and the Trolls unit felt like a promotion for the World Tour movie, and the KFP float had no trace of the polarizing fourth film(no Zhen, even though they have a costume for her in US Beijing), and also celebrated the recent Afterlife movie with Phoebe and her brother there(another film set for Summer 2020 without COVID), they're not nitpicks not at all, they're all solid additions(a real nitpick..., there's no Shrek and the way Universal continues to limit their animated output in the parks is crazy)
I think they would have done this in 2020 as a calvacade like what Disney did in their parks
Sister Sledge @ 13:15!!!!!!!
Love the parade but McFly looks nothing like Mc Fly. Not even remotely. đ And the t rex needs to roar like the movie T. rex.
Wow the jawsfloar
End date?
Late November
@@moneygrabbercodswollop8133 Brilliant, thanks, we donât arrive there until October 15.
That first float is a mess
No sound?
there is sound for me. that might be on your end
Such a spectacular parade! However, if I were to make it better, hereâs what I would do:
1. Replace the title float that has a screen with a new one featuring the parade's title appearing on a globe, with film reels and spotlights surrounding it.
2. After the title float, add in one that features Woody Woodpecker as the film director, similar to the Hollywood Dreams Parade. Have Winnie Woodpecker, Curious George, Gabby and, in a surprise appearance, Fievel Mousekewitz interact with guests along the route.
3. Improve the Jurassic World segment to make it on par with the one in the nighttime parade they have in Japan.
4. Right before the Ghostbusters segment, add in a float that features the Universal Monsters.
Other than that, Universal Creative did an amazing job creating this parade. đđđ»đđ»đđ»
I think they should have the ghostbusters car driving with the float
The first float should've had an Escalator at the rear. It really looks like it would fit judging by the front end design. Would be a funny USH reference
CBS News brought me here. Several shark attacks by one single shark. News anchor asked on site reporter if they plan on closing the beach. âŠthere was a long awkward pause. The fact that this was July 4th made it seem so real.
Itâs missing Nintendo tbh but itâs great overall.
So, uh.... where's Annie?
What a boring 'parade'!!
I like a lot of the intellectual properties, but was underwhelmed. As others have stated, it looked boring. I wonder if it will work better as a nighttime parade with lights. Sticking to what I saw, I think Gozer, the shark, and the T-Rex came across as unnecessarily sterile. Constantly interlacing the music with Universal pictures opening theme felt incredibly stale. The non float performers were hit and miss. The overreliance on movie sound bites didn't always land either.