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Monday, December 17, 2018

Universal's New Year’s Eve Celebration Will End Before Sundown, Just To Be Safe


UNIVERSAL ORLANDO RESORT - Universal Orlando Resorts annual cap to the Holiday Season known as "EVE" is right around the corner. The hard ticket event takes place at CityWalk each year and is one of the largest New Year’s Eve parties in the world. This year is expected to be no different.

However, given UOR's propensity to close earlier than all other Central Florida parks, it’s no surprise that the EVE event will not go until the stroke of midnight this year. We reached out to Universal for comment about a reason for the change and Operations Director Gegard Duttles provided a concise answer.

“Monsters” states Duttles.

“I started with UOR back in late September and upon starting observed that every day starting around 6:30PM the entire resort is overrun with monsters”. We at RPN tried to assure Duttles that this was all just costumed characters for the annual Halloween Horror Nights but we didn’t appear to be making any impact on his assurance that the monsters were real. “I’ve seen it with my own eyes, man!” A clearly distraught Operations Director continued. “Abominations straight out of your worst nightmares! It’s our obligation to keep our guests safe. It seems that one guy in the creative department is the only one who can get through to these creatures, only because he’s not doing anything else during the Halloween season and he’s too busy with other stuff during the holidays to help out. So it’s in our best interest to just close the park as early as possible every day before sundown.”

The hard ticket event will feature live performances from 3 different Journey cover bands and will run from 9am to 6pm on December 31st.

Will Billiams

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