Stale barely warm popcorn that is all self-sevice, then where the f- do you get your drinks? that go with the $20.00 Popcorn deal - Oh, you have to walk across the entire popcorn cafeteria to yet another wounded employee that really doesnt want to deal with people - to hand you a cup and point to the SELF-SERVICE counter again. Its nicely done, very comfortable - But where is the GUEST SERVICES that we are paying for. What a waste - all that nearly new equipment and fittings such as lights, handrails, windows, counters, automatic sliding doors, etc.Few could walk away not complimenting the experience from a technical and design point of view. The owners cut their losses and sold out to Kroger, who tore it down for a new grocery store. The place opened just after the laser tag craze peaked, and so it was open for only a very short time. The two auditoriums-turned-arenas were mirror images of each other, and the business plan called for the organization of teams and leagues, and to push birthday parties too. We also redid the exterior of the building to look futuristic ( by mid-80s standards, anyway). We leveled the floors of the auditoriums, and added carpeted bunkers and other such structures, and converted the projection booth into an observation deck. An out-of-state company that was opening laser tag centers all over the country bought the theater, and we turned the lobby into a space-port where you would rent equipment and queue up to enter the arenas, with a snack bar too. Even the structure for the screen was original, they had just hung two smaller screens onto it. It was easy to see that the theater had originally been just one screen, but had been turned into a twin by merely removing seats and building a wall down the middle.
The theater (which was part of the Universal Mall complex but in a separate building) had just closed, and all of the seats, equipment, etc.
Back in 1986-87, the architectural firm I worked for (Thomas Strat & Associates) designed and built a project to convert the Universal City Theater into an indoor laser tag arena ( I think it was called Lazerblast).
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