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Monday, April 13, 2026

Universal looks to blend reality and fantasy in new show system

www.themeparkinsider.com: Night time provides a great environment for stories. It's spooky and mysterious. The dark sky and low light of night time offers a handy environment for theme park designers when they want to create an indoor ride or attraction. It's just easier to make an environment look natural when you set it in night time instead of the bright, harsh, revealing light of day time.

1 comment:

Eliana Stevens said...

I think this is really interesting and it really plays with the idea of reality versus fantasy and I think it will blur the lines for most at the theme park and it will create a more seamless transition and in the end create a more pleasant transition to and from reality versus the fantasy. I think this is so powerful if as a designer you really want the audience and person to take in the fantasy as the reality and by taking away the harsh change and transition you allow the audience to slowly accept the world and it becomes more believable that you were in this fantasy without ever even realizing that it's happening. And I think that is so magical and so cool and it's gonna bring such an amazing new aspect to the theme parks and eventually maybe even to the theater. I would definitely want to follow this pattet and see where this leads and would love to experience it for myself one day and see if I notice the change.