A.J.

Took a spin around Epcot today. Despite the summer weekend crowds, I was able to experience every "rideable" attraction once, and have an enjoyable lunch, in less than seven hours. Two planned FastPasses (Soarin' Around the World and Spaceship Earth), one spontaneous FastPass (Journey Into Imagination), one single rider line (Test Track), one run at rope drop (Frozen Ever After), and the rest standby (Mission Space Green, The Seas, Living with the Land, Gran Fiesta Tour). I feel like it would be tough for a family to do everything they wanted, including extended shows like the American Adventure, in one day, even if they went at rope drop. I feel like it's going to be even tougher once that Guardians of the Galaxy attraction opens in a few years.

Sheesh, everyone, saying that a park is getting a Vekoma ISN'T a bad thing anymore. Can we stop this nonsense please?

The whole point of the ride now is that you're trying to help the family catch Jack-Jack.

Is that just the case for Colossos, being the "prototype"? Or will the other three have to basically be gutted and reconstructed as well? (Open question) Furthermore, are parks able to just replace the running / upstop / sidestop rails if necessary?

For $120 (or $90 for me personally with my annual pass), I'd rather deal with the daily crowds. Maybe I'd drop the cash if I were flying into Florida, AND stuck somewhere during the day (like a conference) AND only had the opportunity to go to the park for one evening during my entire trip. Download the MyDisneyExperience app and periodically check wait times over the next few days. You'll get a pretty good idea.

Yes, they offer the wristbands on weekends at both ends of the season, typically during the calendar weeks where they are only ever open weekends (early Spring / near opening and mid Autumn).

Yikes, that is (err...was) sketchy. So let me get this straight here - when the pump failed the first time and they got it working again, did they not immediately cascade everyone off the ride, close the queue, and inspect it afterward? It sounds like when they reset the pump both times they just kept the ride going as if the problem never occurred.

You don't have to be there at a certain time, but they won't let you in until two and a half hours before the park closes. So you can go in any time you want after 7:30 PM on most days, as the park closes at 10 PM. Weekends when the park closes at 11 PM, you get three and a half hours (same 7:30 PM entry time). If you're staying at one of their resorts you get even more time.

No, the chocolate factory is an hour and a half away, duh. Did anyone seriously expect that after tearing down Stinger, what, a few months ago, that they'd have something in its place for the 2018 season? They could start site work / clearing right at the very end of the year and still be able to open a small / mid-sized attraction by Memorial Day 2019.

Oof. That's the biggest one in my opinion, I feel like there has to be at least someone watching a set of cameras with their finger on the button at all times. Mechanical failures happen all the time, that's a given, but if the park didn't train the staff to deal with those failures, that's a huge problem.

This is a whole new area. Bunch of attractions and a park-facing hotel. Here's a better article on Blooloop detailing the new attractions - https://blooloop.com/news/tokyo-disneysea-expansion-plans/ I was part of the project team for about a half a year. Obviously my life is still signed away but I am beyond excited to see this finally announced. I hope that I can get there sometime in the next 5-10 years!

That has nothing to do with our "beta test". I feel like the top 50, the bottom 50, and MAYBE the top 100 are really the only groups where there is a legitimate consensus. All the other "middle" rankings are a bit more volatile in my opinion and can be skewed based on how people ranked the coasters in those groups - each coaster individually, some coasters grouped together, ranked in some other way, or not ranked at all. In the grand scheme of things, most of those coasters in the middle are either "good", "okay", or "bad" and it really isn't such a big deal which one is ranked over the other.

The parks with the most coasters in the BOTTOM 50 are: 3 - Canada's Wonderland, Darien Lake, Great Escape 2 - Carowinds, Elitch Gardens, Michigan's Adventure, Movie Park Germany, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Six Flags New England, Six Flags St. Louis

The parks with the most coasters in the top 50: 3 - Busch Gardens Tampa, Cedar Point 2 - Hersheypark, Kentucky Kingdom, Liseberg, Mirabilandia, Six Flags Great Adventure, Walibi Holland The parks with the most coasters in the top 100: 5 - Cedar Point 4 - Busch Gardens Tampa, Six Flags Magic Mountain 3 - Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Kings Island, Liseberg, Phantasialand, Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags Over Texas, Universal Studios Japan 2 - Canada's Wonderland, Carowinds, Europa Park, Hansa Park, Hersheypark, Holiday World, Kentucky Kingdom, Kings Dominion, Lagoon, Mirabilandia, PortAventura Park, SeaWorld Orlando, Silver Dollar City, Six Flags Fiesta Texas, Walibi Holland Keep in mind that some parks just have a lot of coasters. If you calculated the percentage of top 50 / 100 coasters divided by the total rankable coasters per park, things might look different. I'm not calculating all those percentages because are you nuts?!?

From my own experience, dark modes are often most appreciated on small screens. We aren't looking at them all the time so our eyes are always more used to our darker outdoor surroundings at night while walking, or on an airplane with the cabin lights off. With a computer screen it's different because we're dead-set on looking at that monitor for extended periods of time. Another example: if you had a navigation system in your car, wouldn't you hate it if the tiny screen in the center of the dashboard DIDN'T change to its dark mode at night? Your eyes become so used to your dark surroundings watching the road and your car's gauges and then you look down and OMGSOBRIGHT. Now, in your defense, software developers like Apple have been making some strides to make bright-screen viewing easier at night, like iOS' nighttime mode which removes blue colors from the screen, so in my opinion having a dark mode probably is more of a "really nice to have" rather than a "must have".

I'm legally required to be unbiased because I do all the entries for the coasters but a surprise for me was how low White Lightning placed.

Please also do this for the sake of the TPR Coaster Poll! It's pretty straightforward for us with respect to new openings, but closures and / or relocations are very hard to keep track of.

I don't usually stay signed into TPR on my mobile device, but here's how different aspect ratios affect the cutoff of YouTube videos. You can see how the posts / replies themselves scale just fine, but the YouTube video preview is locked to a specific resolution, and gets cut off on the left browser.

Tried it out by squishing my browser as if it were a phone. It's pretty well-organized, that's for sure. There should be more variation in the colors used, when everything is white text with a blue bubble it's difficult to see at a glance which are page numbers, which is the "new post" warning, etc... But I'm sure that's in the pipeline. Possible bug, YouTube videos don't seem to scale in the window properly. It's not a huge deal as it would go full screen on a mobile device when you clicked the play button, but at certain resolutions the thumbnail gets cut off on the right side (since it's anchored to the left).

It's also the worst floorless with a floor. Honestly, I wish that B&M would make another sit-down coaster with those open trains. They look so nice!

See? I won't have to put this post in my "most short-sighted" archive because it actually makes sense! However, Hersheypark does appear to be in a bit of a pickle in regards to its expansion, but it at least appears as though they have it handled. Ever since they put in The Boardwalk, the layout has just been completely screwed up. A very small part of me has always thought that they would relocate pretty much everything in Midway America to that new area (and removing Wildcat) but that was before Laff Trakk. As much of a masterpiece as Lightning Racer is, Midway America is a terrible dead end. If you were to gate off the entrances to The Boardwalk, I can't help but feel like it would get worse. You'd also have to reconfigure the entrance / exit to the Ferris Wheel and a bunch of restrooms and dining locations. Plus you'd have to redirect guests onto a brand new pathway that goes over or under the existing park if they wanted to do a waterpark-only ticket, and that quite frankly sounds absurd just writing it in this post! Though, that would end up sounding a little less absurd if they were to construct this new / replacement park entrance where The Claw currently stands.

Seriously? Haven't you heard? B&M coasters all have interesting names now! The best one is Shamburgerwithamericancheeseandsecretsauce.

In most cases, that's where it is. Rock n' Roller Coaster has its camera right as you start the launch, you can see it from the front seat while you wait.

I hope that they can accommodate for losing that floodway. Doesn't the area already deal with major flooding on a regular basis anyway? Hopefully it doesn't make it worse...

I wouldn't get yourself too excited. I'm expecting nothing more than a more intense Thirteen or something similar to Juvelen / Wave Breaker in terms of coaster experience. Perhaps the show elements and story will be worlds above Dragon Challenge (likely), but I really don't think this will end up anywhere near the top of anyone's coaster lists. I'm baking a humble pie just in case, of course.