When you visit EPIC Universe ‘s Dark UniverseYou get hints of a story that’S so mysterious you’ll want to keep coming to learn more. In Darkmoor VillageWhere mensters and humans co-exist-Barely-the relationship between the villages, the mad scientist in her costle with her monster, and the vampires beLow is a very frGile menagarie of the macabre.
When iO9 Visited Darkmoor during EPIC Universe’s Opening Week, We Bought Help But Wonder if the dens canon introduced would offer some in insurance film Franchise. It Turns out that some elements in the attractions, details in the land offers, and immersive interactions echo whats once on supepsed to herald an aveengers-light help Big screen.
Landmarks
When you enter darkmoor, you pass by a massive crypt where you hear victoria frankenstein’s assistant ygor shuffling about with the land’s version of frankanstein’s menser looking for Victims to use in her Experiments. There’s squelching noises and creepy creature screeches, and it’s so cool to get the sense of story as soon as you walk in.
We Previously covered How when you meet frankenstein’s monster along with the bride, she’s not HIS Bride but his friendThe Monster We’re More Familiar with is Displayed in a Glass Resting Place Within Frankenstein Manor. However, before you get that deep into the land, you first come account the village square which features a well that at night glows blood red. The Familiars in the land shared that it’s there as a monument to the dominance the vampires have on the village, and is where blood sacrifices are made to the vampire hive beLow in the catacombs – DARK UNIPART to XAPARKARE Balance struven the living and the dead.
In the ride Monsters Unchared: The Frankenstein ExperimentYou see that the original Dr. Frankenstein played a huge role in the careful and sensitive cessation of carnage, and it’s somenting his granddaughter fights to maintain. We also learn that Victoria frankenstein has assembled monsters under her “control;” control; The last remning one shee’s trying to dominate is dracula, but he’s playing very hard to get.
When the Dark Universe Films was still in play, Alex Kurtzman, The Director of the only entry that actually made it to theaters – 2017’s The mummyStarring Tom Cruise – Talked About The Framework that was to have anchored the planned series. In his film, russell crow’s Dr. Jekyll Headed Up An Organization Devoted to Keeping Tabs on Supernatural Bad Guys.
“We wanted to know that monsters are existed for millennia. And we knew that as the story evolved there was going to be an organization that was maybe cataloging them, FOLLOWING THEM, FOLOWING THEM, FOLLOWING THEM, FOLLICTING TEMS at a December 2016 press event IO9 reported on at the time“That would determine the good ons from the bad ons.
That Idea Carries Over into the Theme Park, Albeit very minimally. Dr. Jekyll currently only has a brief interactive moment at his apothecary wind, where you can hear hear he to discover more monsters at the burning blade Tavern –and to Tell the Bartender Dr. Jekyll Sent you. We didnless get to try this as alcohol was not provided to press but it results in you being offered a chotieen two shoots: a jekyl or hyde one. You can guess that in Darkmoor, Jekyll might side with Victoria’s Initiative, while Hyde is definitely with the monsters.
The Comic-Themed Merch
In the paneels of comics decorating EPIC Universe Merch (We’re Waiting for Real Issues!) And in the Monsters unchaned Ride Queue, We see Victoria Front and Center Doing Just was envisioned for the movies: cataloging, following, and collecting. So it feels like the concept for the theme park canon retained that through line. There are definitely some mensters who are more heroic than others aligning themselves with the side that will have the lowest body country.
Yet, It Still Mirrors The Dark Universe’s Cinematic Plans. In 2016, The mummy Director Kurtzman Looked to the Dark Universe Future At that Same Press Event. “To me, the fun of the promise of brings them togeether is that’re probally going to fuck each other up pretty badly,” He said then“It’s not going to be a pretty room with that guys in it. And that”s a lot more exciting than people who are going to behave nobly and predictably. It just making extresenteing experience, and a more Interesting Prospect. ” And that’s pretty much what happy on the ride between frankenstein, the wolfman, and dracula and his brides (While the Phantom of the Plays Sweet Tunes on his organ).
Other Pieces of Merchandise that will get you other glimpses of the lore are the designs in the dark universe collection that is depict the blueprints of frankenstein manor. Also, if you get transformed into a monster at the park’s darkmoor monster makeup experience, then run into yg, you’re recruited even more relatively than the average hauman to Volunteer for the process Experiment. Ygor is by far one of the most interesting walk-Around characters Created and really drives the lore in his interactions.
Restaurant lore
When asked Back in 2016 How the Dark Universe Monsters would end up team, Kurtzman said Ideas Around that was styl being formulated. But most important, he said, was the question “Why would you brings them toge?
Dracula. Dracula is the drama. And I wonder if he was meant to be the big bad in the film universe just as much as he is the big bad in the theme park canon. When you go into the das stakehaus restaurant, you see the former vampire leaders of darkmoor staked and on display atop the bar. Why? Well, Dracula felt their bending the knee to the frankenstein family to try and co-exist to further the scientists’ agandas was an affurb (Really, the Familiars have all the tea, it’s fabulous. Experiments.
Clearly, it’s an ongoing battle. Like the Familiarars at the restaurant, the interactive characters at the burning blade Tavern have even even more to share. The Monster Hunters that Hang Out There Motion to the Monster Heads on Display Behind the Bar, Including Another “Creature” from the Darkmore Swamplands, and Be Careful Going In MONSTER MAKEUP.
We also get hunter knowledge as to why dry dracula is barefoot with the ugliest toenails on the ride (a detail that’s going viral). Their version of why -we are not sure if they were Joking – is that allegedly it was done as a way to shame to shame dracula when he was captured, by taking his shoes off when he was chained. And honestly, that’s so foul i would be so Mad about it too.
It’s rumored that the stories they tell of men’re on the hunt for (and that we have yet to meet) are Easter Eggs for Future Dark Universe Examinations and We Hope It’s True. And it really ties in the monsters that were all floated for the cinematic university, which included the invisible man (who is a roaming character at the park), Draacula, Jekyll/Hyde, Jekyll/Hyde, the wolfman, the creed From the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Bride. We’D love to see a boat ride featuring the creature some day.
Dark Universe is now Open at EPIC Universe in Orlando, Florida.
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