Progress Efteling also went cheaper way to turn off fire and moving edna animatronics figure eventually. Also same happened with aquanura recently. Turning off fire effect, excuse on carbon oxygen while new beacon of light effect is lacking.
You should remind that universal used to create stuffs like kongfrontation and jaws. Both were maintenance nightmare like draak edna. Built way before than joris en de draak.
Animatronic was partially fixed it few years ago with only moving heads. But that broke again one years ago, still heaven’t fixed yet.
Also for the simbolica, whale has been broken more than few years and recently fixed as well
Lets be honest Efteling is pretty slow on maintaining overall. Still bit better than what Disney does.
Still I do agree that universal studio Florida has lots of screen based attraction rather than practical. They created pretty lazy attraction for sure and It’s most weaker universal park in states. But IOA and epic universe is utilizing way more physical effects and most advanced animatronics. Also rather than taking too much time to fix or maintain ride such as fata and dutchman in Efteling, universal has been doing stellar job restoring original effects and maintain, refurbishing rides soon as when they find a problem thesedays. They are even expanding coaster garage for Hagrid even though it’s not necessary. Just for guest convenience, also renovating and adding more animatronics on Jurassic world ride after heavily criticizing was nice touch as well.
Both are amazing park, valuing theming and attention to detail. But currently, I think universul does better job to take care and maintaining attractions, effects.
