Certainly, I've more than once played with the idea of going ahead and plunking down a dinero or two in order to perhaps redo my "famous" video from 2010 when I was there at Islands of Adventure for the opening of the brand new Harry Potter IP. Witness the spectacle here.
I kind of repeated that a few years later when I went to a soft opening at the Diagon Alley debut. See that here.
But, as I've posted before, my days of tolerance and patience in dealing with the whole theme park milieu have pretty much dried up to a little nugget. But it is an interesting thought and certainly an attractive one to ponder...What would it take to go ahead and be there at the opening of Universal Epic Universe on May 22nd 2025? Let's take a look at how much it would take monetarily at this time.
As of today, tickets are available; but they are sold right now only as part of a package deal. The minimum available package is a three-day option broken down as such: one day for Universal Studios Florida, one day for Universal Islands of Adventure, and one day for Universal Epic Universe. As you can see in the screen capture below, you must select your option over the course of a 6-day period with that first day determining your per day ticket price. You would be able to select three of the days out of those five when you would attend each of the parks that you've purchased.
So for one adult, if I wanted to attend the opening of Universal Epic Universe on May 22nd, with the current ticket options at the lowest rates, it would cost me a total, with tax, of $513.32.
Well what about Florida Resident Annual Passes you ask? Currently, they still only offer a two-park or three-park option (counting Volcano Bay water park as a "park") being the currently existing and open parks, that is, not including Universal Epic Universe. They do have an option on the ticket purchase page for a pass holder to add a one-day Universal Epic Universe ticket on to their annual pass but I didn't check that out since, I currently have no existing annual pass, let alone an annual pass that would extend out to May 22nd of next year. For me to get a simple Preferred Pass which is not the lowest priced option but probably the most economical option, we're already in the $630 range, that's WITHOUT an Epic Universe ticket add-on.
So, I guess, unless I hit the lottery, or win big at a casino, both options which I very much doubt will ever happen since, well, I just don't gamble, I guess I'm not going. I live in a trailer park and I'm on food stamps for crying out loud!
So I'll just sit here in my little trailer watching YouTube videos from all the vloggers and rich fuckers that can afford to go and try not to be super jealous.
Look at this TV promo for this park though...oh why didn't I make better choices in life?