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Should start seeing relatively rapid progress on this then - wish I'd been there this weekend to look for footing work. Vertical construction on these small coasters go really fast. Canada's Wonderland didn't take much more than a couple weeks from start to final track piece. Yikes what a way to put it. But now that you mention it that describes my daughter - born after Pandemonium (same year as Evil Knievel) and gets her permit this year. It's even been a decade since ANY track has been on site for construction. Not sure how many PTC carousels get renovated by Chance though since PTC just offers the service themselves direct.

This is the first new steel roller coaster track SFStl has had in the park in 16 years. There have been people born and driving who have never seen this happen before.

I'm positive most guests aren't even aware there is a WDW in China, let alone the chances of them ever visiting. I hate myself for even replying.

My wife and I were there on that miserable Sunday (weather wise). Footing work for the new coaster really has not started. They did have a bulldozer parked on the old go-kart track, so it very well could be getting close to grading, and getting all the markers set for construction. It will be interesting to see what they do with the old go-kart track and dragon swing, and to see if any beautification will happen for the queue, or a reroute of some of the boss walk of shame. Lots of tree limbs down throughout the park. One heck of a storm system came through Saturday evening, and it showed. Park employees were doing a decent job trying to get things back to somewhat normalcy. Front of the park restrooms are still under construction. The area near thunder river entrance and the old Excalibur entrance which used to have some kids/basketball games... now has some electronic claw machines. Primos was open again, and it has a much bigger, enclosed dining area. Another place to get out of the weather when needed. It was a low-sensory Sunday at the park. Its very odd to walk through, and not hear any background music.

It's still funny to me that after all these years of tweaking it, the coaster seemed less reliable than Top Thrill Dragster was.

LR was running today. So, there's some hope for you two.

Apparently it's still considered a Holiday weekend as it was absolutely packed today, my bad. I ended up breaking down and getting their 'FiloToMatix' skip the line pass. It seemed a bit expensive at 45 euro for 1 single use skip-the-line on 10 attractions, Toutatis not included. I think I remember Walibi Holland having an unlimited use skip-the-line for 50 or 60 euro. I also ended up getting 2 single skip-the-line for Toutatis at 10 euro a pop, but between the crazy line and the ride being down all morning, it seemed worth it. I ended up getting 3 rides total on Toutatis; one front row, one 2nd row 2nd car, one 1st row 4th car. The morning started not so great. Heavy crowds, I arrived a half hour before opening and already there was a massive crowd waiting to rush to Toutatis. I joined the crowd, a big mistake, as Toutatis wouldn't be ready for open and even if it was, I was way back in line. I wasted about 20 minutes before deciding to head over to Oziris. By this point, there was already about a 45 minute line, but it is what is it. Oziris was great, more on that later. I then headed to Tonnerre 2 Zeus after a little wandering around trying to figure out how to get there . I walked past Goudurix, whose line was out the entrance and then saw that Zues line was also out the entrance, estimated over an hour. At that point I decided to look at what, if any, skip the line passes they had, hence above. Of course on the app, there was no link to use bancontact and I left my credit cards in my car so now I had to go all the way back out to order the pass. By the time I got back into the park, it was already 11:40 and I had 1 single ride on the day. As much as I love a quiet park, I absolutely hate a busy park. With the pass purchased I then headed to Goudurix and then Zues. More on them later. Once I got off, I noticed that Toutatis was showing as open. I purchased a pass for it and then hopped on Pegase Express while waiting for the slot to open. By the time I got off and checked my phone, Toutatis was down again. After checking it out in person, I went on Trace Du Hourra. I then hung around Toutatis for a bit and it started running again, around 1pm. My pass was showing as 'cancelled' since the ride had closed, as was almost everyone else waiting to go in by the Filotomatrix entrance. I noticed though the option to purchase another pass for Toutatis, so I simply did that and got an active QR code so I managed to get passed all the people complaining about their cancelled pass and head up to the station. I got my first ride in the 2nd car. I then jumped in line, which was about 2 hours. About an hour into the line I was able to purchase another skip-the-line pass for Toutatis, so I got pretty quick back to back rides between 3 and 4. After that the line looked to be down to 1-1.5 hours. I made the bad decision to go use up the rest of my rides on the pass (Oziris and the water rides) and wander around taking photos, instead of getting back in line for a 4th ride, because when I came back at 5pm, the line was the longest of the day, way out of the entrance, probably nearly 3 hours long (and the park closed in 2 hours). Besides the crazy crowds, I really enjoyed the park. I don't know why, but I wasn't expecting it to be as pretty and well themed as it was. The only complaint would be the food didn't look very good, very fast-food/convenience store level and not a lot of variety. Completely different than the great food at most German/NL parks I've been to. Especially the sandwiches, they all had really bad looking generic bread. I really expected more for France! Another big pet peeve of mine that Asterix was guilty of: having single rider lines and not using any of them. Early in the afternoon the ride ops were dispatching a lot of trains with empty seats on Toutatis, probably only hitting 85% capacity for a while, meanwhile a perfectly good single rider line sat there roped off... To be fair, as the day progressed, the ops got into a better rhythm and did a good job of filling empty seats. They were very quick to dispatch as well (2 train ops), so props to that. This was the first park I've seen that wheels out big bins and collects everyone's bags while they are in their seat. They were pretty quick and I can see it being a faster solution than the typical bins, assuming the staff are moving quickly, which they were. Ok now on to what you're waiting for Toutatis: First, I have to mention the reliability issues. I knew it would be a risk going when the ride hasn't even been open 2 weeks, given Intamin's reputation with new rides. Still, it's getting a little ridiculous. It pretty much didn't open until after 1pm, with a few short downtimes in the afternoon. I'm just happy I got on it as it was looking pretty bleak in the morning. Now onto the ride. It's everything I hoped Kondaa would be. Nothing against Kondaa, it's great, but the flaws like that pointless non-inverted cobra roll and the kinda slow 2nd half simply don't exist on Toutatis. There's not a single 'that could have been better' moment that I can think of and it's still flying when you hit the brakes. It's claimed as having 23 moments of airtime, which might be generous, but not far off. On my last ride (in the front row), I counted 20 moments, including the hangtime on the inversions, spike, rollback, and start/finish of the top hat the 2nd time through. The two little bumps on the transfer track before the top hat gave really great airtime in both directions, the top hat gave surprisingly good pops of ejector air as well as sustained floater air. There were a lot more ejector air spots than I was anticipating and a number of the transitions were taken at a good speed with nice snap and aggressiveness (probably not the level of Maverick, I still haven't ridden that though). My home park got the wrong Intamin! I'm still not sure I can put this ahead of Expedition GeForce, cause I'm just a massive fan boy of the classic layout loaded with ejector air hills, but I think Toutatis will easily become most peoples favorite coaster in Europe with Untamed being the only competition. (If I'm honest, it's a better ride than Expedition GeForce in everyway minus not having that classic 1st twisted drop). I think Toutatis clearly puts Parc Asterix on the map as a must-visit. It might now have the best coaster in Europe with a solid #2 B&M invert and a few other fun coasters. Just too bad Zues sucks. Just a few photos for now, I'll upload more and my impression on the other rides later. And a quick note on Zues: the re-tracked sections are pretty smooth, though I didn't get much in the way of airtime really anywhere and the old-track sections are brutal. If the replaced parts were even worse, OMG I can see why some people would like Goudurix more than it. I really didn't like how the ride kept switching backing and forth from smooth to jackhammering. I'd almost rather they replace the entire track or none. The smooth sections seemed to accentuate the roughness of the old track, it was extremely jarring every time it switched. I normally can love rough wooden coasters but I have no desire to ever ride Zues again unless they completely re-track it. Yuk. Oziris themed section is awesome, pretty Montu esque, and the ride was really fun with a nice layout. Strong #2 coaster in the park. Pegase Express was fun to. The bobsled, I don't get the theme at all.

Sounds like people not going where assigned more than the grouper making a mistake/miscounting. But that goes back to my funding it less than useful. They didn't try to fill the trains. Group of 3 goes up and they never ask for/send a single to fill the seat (I've seen similar happen at other parks too).

More Titan Track being added!

Ice Breaker at SWO. Solid ride. Just before that was Arie Force one and that was also a very very solid ride!

Bummed to hear that Lightning Rod has been closed. I'm going for my first ever visit this Friday. Fingers crossed...