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  1. Tokyo Disney Resort Discussion Thread 1 2 3 4 78

    p. 78 - TONS of new Fantasy Springs info!
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  2. Hong Kong & Macau TR

    Hong Kong Disneyland
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  3. Silver Dollar City (SDC) Discussion Thread 1 2 3 4 275

    p. 275: New resort announced as part of a $500 million development plan!
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  4. Kings Island (KI) Discussion Thread 1 2 3 4 834

    p. 832: Camp Snoopy announced for 2024!
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  5. Walt Disney World Disney's Animal Kingdom Discussion Thread 1 2 3 4 74

    p. 74: Tropical Americas land announced!
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  6. Six Flags New England (SFNE) Discussion Thread 1 2 3 4 337

    p. 337: Quantum Accelerator family coaster announced for 2025!
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  7. Efteling Discussion Thread 1 2 3 4 76

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  8. Pronunciation Question

    Elysburg
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  9. Just doing a test… 1 2

    … with the latest forum software.
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  10. Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom Discussion Thread 1 2 3 4 149

    p. 149 - Cars Frontierland expansion, new nighttime parade, and new Villains Land announced at D23!
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  11. The Knott's Berry Farm (KBF) Discussion Thread 1 2 3 4 653

    P. 651: Montezooma's Revenge project terminated?
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  12. Hersheypark (HP) Discussion Thread 1 2 3 4 438

    p. 438: Twizzlers Twisted Gravity announced for 2025!
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  13. Photo TR: Adam's 2024 European Cruise Adventure

    Part 2: Disney Dream onboard fun and Chania, Greece
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  14. Castle Park - Palace Entertainment - really bad years of ride closings - any other palace parks?

    Castle Park - Palace Entertainment - really bad years of ride closings - any other palace parks?
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  15. The Great Escape (TGE) Discussion Thread 1 2 3 4 35

    p. 34 - Bobcat wooden coaster announced for 2024!
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  16. SeaWorld Orlando (SWO) Discussion Thread 1 2 3 4 277

    P. 277: Arctic-themed flying theater announced for 2025!
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  17. NCL to debut a slidecoaster on Norwegian Aqua

    Longest and fastest slidecoaster on the new cruise ship
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  18. Pictures I took on my recent trip to Thorpe Park for the first time since 2010 and random thoughts! (Review..?)

    First visit in over ten years to the island like no other! Finding my fearless...
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  19. How will AI impact the amusement park industry?

    The impacts artificial intelligence (AI) may have on amusement/theme parks.
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  20. Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom Discussion Thread 1 2 3 4 202

    p. 201 - Iron Menace announced for 2024!
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  21. Aqua Shoe vs Aqua Sock

    Water Park Rules
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  22. [TR] Europa-park / Rulantia experience July 2024

    A full recap of the Europa-park / Rulantica summer holiday during our Summer holiday France Alpes road trip 2024
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  23. Disneyland Paris (DLP) Discussion Thread 1 2 3 4 54

    p. 54 - Walt Disney Studios Park to become Disney Adventure World!
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  24. Photo TR: Adam's 2023 Las Vegas Adventure

    P. 2: Liftoff, Neon Museum and Manhattan Express
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  25. Coaster Comics!

    Want to read a TPR Mt. Olympus trip review in the form of a comic?
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    • Shots from the Oil Derrick. Constuction site and Titan paint job.  
    • I was a little tired of the old teal and orange scheme.
    • Good news, but also I guess I can't count on getting on Dragon Mountain during my road trip to Canada's Wonderland this year.
    • The park put out a Facebook video yesterday saying that Titan's new paint scheme will be red, white, and blue.
    • Titan recieving new blue and white paint scheme.  
    • Latest deconstruction pics. Construction on the new Giga Dive to begin next month according to the permit.
    • No. The product page where you bought it shows the parks included. 
    • Hey all, Does anyone know if people who had 2024 diamond passes and renewed into 2025 prestige passes without the all park pass add-on got grandfathered into legacy six flags parks entry for 2025? It appears that way in my app and pass portal but that seems contradictory to what I understood when I purchased the renewal.  Although I will admit I was hoping they would somewhat change their mind on that or something  Also cool site, Ive been lurking here for a couple years, found lots of good parks info here Thanks Joseph
    • It's a shame that Night at the Museum ride was closed, I feel like I saw some videos of that one and it looked pretty good. It's really a shame that they were never able to get those two dynamic attractions rides operating, even if they had to retheme Alien vs Predator to whatever. After the SFX coaster at Ferrari World opened I thought this one had a chance but I guess not. That park as whole is a pretty interesting place, amazing it ever opened at all honestly. Not exactly somewhere I'm looking to go out of my way to visit but I guess if I was ever in the region I'd check it out. Great report as always. Interested to see what the rest of Genting Highlands was like.  
    • When you really lay out the timeline of what happened to this park, it's amazing they even opened at all!  Such an ongoing disaster.  I really hope they can finish some of those signature attractions.  It's crazy how I don't recognize a thing from when we visited way back when!
    • Genting SkyWorlds is a park with an incredibly unique history, a very unique setting and in a lot of ways, it is a really solid park. It sits atop Mount Ulu Kali in the Titiwangsa Mountains in central Peninsular Malaysia, not far from Kuala Lumpur. The park sits on a plot of land occupied by the previous Genting Outdoor Theme Park as part of the Resorts World Genting complex. It was originally intended to open in 2016 as 20th Century Fox World, the first theme park themed to Fox-owned IP. Plagued by project and construction challenges and only compounded by the acquisition of much of Fox by The Walt Disney Company in 2018, the project was subject to countless delays. With a planned opening in 2019, Fox (in progress of being acquired by Disney) invoked the right to pull much of their branding and license rights out of the park, which resulted in a lawsuit and settlement, enabling the park to operate with some of previously agreed upon IP (Ice Age, Robots, Independence Day, Night at the Museum, Epic, Rio, Blue Sky Animation and Planet of the Apes while losing the rights to other key properties such as Alien, Predator, Alien vs. Predator and Sons of Anarchy. The loss of these properties required that many of the nearly-finished or under construction attractions and areas would have to be stripped of their theming and reworked to operate without their original intent. COVID-19 only worsened the situation, further delaying the park's opening to early 2022. Two of the park's major attractions never opened with the park and have yet to operate, one of which hasn't even completed construction--both of which developed by the now-bankrupt and recently-acquired Dynamic Attractions.  All of that said, the park has some interestingly bright spots. In ways, it almost teeters on greatness at a standard that you'd find at Universal, maybe even Disney in some rare cases. But in a lot ways, that shine is surface-level. Once you get into it, you find that this is comparable to a Merlin-level park with a slightly higher opening budget that has since been operated poorly. The park itself is smaller than it appears, but has a decent amount of offerings packed into the compressed space. But for this reason, the lands and attractions butt up against each other without the natural transitions you come to expect from other parks of this caliber (or the caliber at which this park aspires to be). It doesn't help that a portion of the park is closed following the fire that took place in June 2024... Or the fact that several of the attractions inexplicably are not operating "just because."  But as someone who has watched this park's evolution from afar, getting the chance to see it up close, and to observe what I saw firsthand, knowing in many places what the lands and attractions were meant to be with the 20th Century Fox IP still attached, it is a really unique experience to visit Genting SkyWorlds.  Not unlike other parks in Asia, park maps make it a point to highlight every element in the park, right down to the restrooms, to speak to the volume of things covered by your price of admission. The entrance of the park (seen in my previous update) feeds directly from the Resorts World Genting complex into the park's covered entryway.  It's a decently sized set of entrance corridors leading to the two ways of getting around the park, but there isn't a lot found within this space besides shops, quick service options and games.  Indepedence Day Defiance is a flying theater attraction inspired by the film franchise (more specifically, Independence Day: Resurgence). Sadly it was closed, "just because."  Invasion of the Planet of the Apes might be the best example of how this park teeters on greatness... The queue design is absolutely wonderful from the moment you step in. The tone is set that you're entering the post-Simian Flu-riddled world of the modern Planet of the Apes films. I was blown away by how much detail was put into this worn down queue. Brilliant. You head into a pre-show grouping room where a pre-show sets the stage for where you are in the story. Set in the aftermath of the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes film (with a plot oddly similar to the start of War for the Planet of the Apes), you meet Malcolm (the protagonist from Dawn, recast here for the ride) who explains that the General and his army are coming to try to restore power to the humans using a generator that is home to Caesar and his ape brethren. Malcolm needs your help to warn Caesar of their impending attack in the hopes of staving off war between the two species... Clips from the films are used in the pre-show... You board trackless hovercraft vehicles and go along your journey wearing 3-D glasses. Not unlike similar rides of this sort, you are moved through scenes of water, fire, bullets, explosions and jostling motions. The animation in the ride looks like something out of Time Crisis 2, which takes away much of the positive momentum from the queue and the pre-show, but graphics aside, it is a really solid attempt at translating such a well known franchise into a ride.  Robots Rivet Town is based on the hit, one-film franchise Robots, starring Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Robin Williams and Amanda Bynes. The movie came out in 2005. This is the whole of Rivet Town. Two stacked flat rides and a quick service kiosk behind me.  Big Weld's Zeppelins (a Dumbo-like ride) and Rivet Town Roller (a Unicoaster) were both not operational today ("just because"). Not sure why they even let people into the land, considering there wasn't a single thing open in it during our visit.  A land with nothing open is kind of fitting for such an obscure property... Due to its mountaintop location, Genting SkyWorlds experiences rolling bouts of intense fog that give the park the eeriest of feels.  Walking through Andromeda Base, you pass by "Descent into Darkness," one of the park's two incomplete Dynamic Attractions coasters. This one was supposed to be themed to Alien vs. Predator (as the rest of the land was themed to Alien vs. Predator and the franchise's Weyland-Yutani corporation. Ride vehicles, animatronics and a complex series of show elements were all designed but never installed in the massive show building. The coaster's outside track was put in place but the interior layout was never completed. The inside of the show building continues to be a massive, dark and empty box. And there is no real expectation that the coaster will ever be finished. To read more about what was meant to be, I highly recommend visiting this site for a full look at the land's original design, ride details, art and more. Alpha Fighter Pilots was originally meant to be Colonel Fighter Pilots, themed to the Colonel Marines from Aliens.  While the fog was still rolling through we moved on to the Ice Age land, by far the largest and most spread out section of the park. Ice Age: Expedition Thin Ice has a massive indoor queue, not because it is that popular, but because it is so low capacity. Even with only 50 people ahead of us in line, we waited almost an hour for this Oceaneering trackless dark ride to load. The ride features the characters from the popular Ice Age franchise (probably the park's most valuable IP they were allowed to retain), both on screens and in the form of a few animatronics. The ride was very short and only had a handful of vehicles in operation... It's obvious why this reminded me so much of Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin at SeaWorld Orlando. Acorn Adventure is the land's signature rollercoaster.  The queue is basic but winding with a few neat elements along the way. The park went with Beijing Shibaolai as the manufacturer. The coaster, while fun, was exceptionally rough, to the point that I was convinced it was a re-themed remnant of the former Genting Outdoor Theme Park, but alas, it was just poorly designed. The park could benefit from some sprucing, despite only opening a few years ago... Samba Gliders from the Rio section of the park soars over portions of the Ice Age land. Acorn Adventure's mountain is the largest structure in the park and can be seen from most lands in some way or another. Ice Age also has a pretty large child's play area... With not a lot to do inside. We moved back towards Andromeda Base as the fog rolled out to take a closer look. It's not hard to see how this land was meant to feel like something out of the Alien films. The story behind this coaster is such a shame. It looks like it had such potential. Andromeda Canteen is the land's quick service eatery. It has yet to open at the park to date. Terraform Tower Challenge was originally going to be Alien: Terrorforma. It is a unique S&S combo tower with a pre-drop sequence that lowers riders beneath the loading area for a show scene (that was originally going to involve Alien eggs, facehuggers and the xenomorphs attacking) before shooting you up the tower to drop back down. Boot Camp Training was meant to be Marine Boot Camp Challenge. The traditional ropes course (with a zip line coaster at the finale) had a strict, no-camera policy so this was as close as I could get to taking a photo before being turned away. After loading our items in lockers, we waited in line to harness up, only to find that, with Guests in the structure, almost all employees left the complex for 30 minutes, preventing the zipline from operating (or enabling guests to enter or exit the structure). Seeing this, we gave up before we started for fear of becoming stuck inside. The exit portal between Andromeda Base and the Eagle Mountain section of the park is easily the best transition between lands that the park has. The scale of the portal is huge. And the pathway through the tunnel is quite fun for lighting junkies like myself. You emerge from the tunnel in the more modern-era Eagle Mountain side of the park. Sadly Eagle Mountain is, in essence a mini land with one non-functional attraction, a few shops and dining options. Due to the park's tight footprint, it is nearly impossible not to see the attractions from several other lands from within view. This is really nice rock work though. Eagle Mountain is home to Mad Ramp Peak - Full Throttle Racing, a duel powered high speed motorcycle coaster that has never operated, also produced by Dynamic Attractions. Don't mind my finger, this is one of the best photos I have of one of the few areas of the coaster you can get close to. If you look closely, you can see the coaster track that sits beneath the ride's "pavement." The coaster trains would have motorcycles that rode above the pavement while a chassis was powered along the rails below. The ride's initial launch segment... You can kind of make out the coaster track-versus-pavement setup when looking at this bridge. Without the coaster, Eagle Mountain is a pretty shallow land. The coaster's gift shop contains some interesting items... It appears that the park produced a high volume of merchandise for when it was meant to operate as 20th Century Fox World... How do I know, you ask? Logos like this are not uncommonly found on the merchandise sold (at discount) throughout the park. From the side of Eagle Mountain, the path to the back half of Central Park is closed off. The Night at the Museum interactive dark ride was unharmed by the fire aside from damage to its facade, but the entire land has been shut down due to the extent of the rest of the damage. See what I mean? A look at the Mad Ramp Peak station... Independence Day: Defiance is pat of the Central Park section of the land for some reason. The shop has everything the two fans of Independence Day: Resurgence would ever need. ESD Global Defender here exists, for some reason. Glad to see Setpoint continuing to find ways to build low capacity coasters around the world... Sid's Rock 'N' Slide is a Zierer Kontiki that I missed seeing during my earlier laps of the park. The Blue Sky Carousel is ornate and centered in its own plaza. You can ride on the back of "recognizable" Blue Sky Animation characters... Ah yes, the hit film "epic" is featured here too. Epic Voyage to Moonhaven was so tucked in the back of the park, I nearly missed seeing it. Some solid queue design to set up the ride's story. This is a themed ABC Rides flume with dark ride segments. After seeing the state others were in, despite ponchos, after riding, we opted out. Epic Hummingbird Flyers is the land's other attraction. The design of the land is nice, but like other parts of the park, feels more like a mini land due to its small number of offerings. Of all of the bubble waffles I've consumed, this was certainly one of them. Oh look, a character. Samba Gliders dominates the skyline of the Rio section of the park. I will say, the Rio land was actually one of the better looking sections of the park. Rio Carnaval Chaos! is a Zamperla Demolition Derby but it wasn't operating during our visit "just because." Artsy fartsy.  Another look at Acorn Adventure... This time from the Rio section of the park. Very nice. They even had the Rio characters in a show! A look back at the Awana Skyway passing over the park. The park has a pretty nice exit plaza... I spy a retired logo... Time to head out and do some more exploring of Genting Highlands!
    • ^We had a few that offered to serve as private drivers but given the nature of our trip and timing not being something to plan around, it made more sense to just keep ordering new Grabs. 
    • Looks like Six Flags is discontinuing Diamond Elite passes and upgrading them to Diamond elite VIP along with a price increase. I assume that will hit our park at some point. Looks like it already happened at a handful of parks 
    • Here's the video: Nickelodeon Universe. (2025, January 18). [Video]. Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/nickelodeonuniverse/reel/DE-v6lrh8VU/ Snapinst.app_video_AQMcy1CyifAcdrGI1u01E4MxyR4DTjREkP4YLbf4w5g_g02gQHqm77FWRJeEON9CqhspyC9vGjn5ZlkKVbPWRYKW2N0KWNDfjDyIjQY.mp4
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