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Sometimes it's just fun to flashback ten years and post some retro footage...

You know...trying to get around the word filter just makes us add more word filters!

Yes, but none of those places you just mentioned did it as slowly or as horribly as Fuji-Q does. I've been to all those places, too and also had to lock all my stuff away as well. Again, case in point: Explain to me how a park like Universal makes you put EVERYTHING away on rides like Space Fantasy and Flying Dinosaur yet still manages to crank through a metric shitton of people per hour? There is simply *NO EXCUSE* for how poorly Fuji-Q is run and it has been that was for the past 14 years in which we have been going fairly regularly. I'm not sure why you keep giving this park the benefit of the doubt. It's terrible.

THIS! Exactly THIS! And even Dodonpa *could* have higher capacity with some operational changes. The whole concept of having to lock EVERY FUCKING LOOSE ITEM away and then hand you some janky key put to around your wrist just baffles me to no end. Yes, this is a low-capacity ride, but Fuji-Q have figured out ways to make it even LOWER. And they DO have the ability! Case in point: During one of our visits to Fuji-Q we watched Fujiyama run with one train and a 2+ hour line the entire day. About 45 minutes before closing, we thought "man, those ride ops are going to be here a long time after the park closes" but low and behold, they quickly and I mean *quickly* threw on the second train, and we watched them HUSTLE that 2+ hour line and have it totally cleared out about 20 minutes after the park closed! That's fucking bullshit, IMO. If they can do that at the end of the night so they can all go home, they can do that all day long. And this is not a "when in Rome" scenario because the rest of Rome isn't ANYTHING like Fuji-Q!!! That's what frustrates us when reading his review. If the rest of the country was this disorganized and poorly managed when it comes to efficiency (and trust me, we've been to enough countries to see where that scenario IS the reality) I'd almost understand it, but in Fuji-Q's case, I almost feel as though the park is taking advantage of how nice and patient the Japanese culture is by presenting them with something that is so far outside their norm and seeing just how far they can push it. Yep, that's the way to do it.

I think I've done that before at Epcot, but that's a rare and very special case since I was distracted by all the food and World Showcase. No, she means like ride two things in six hours because you stood in line three hours EACH for them! lol I go to Epcot all the time and will hang out for hours and not ride a damn thing! Very different kind of non-frustrating experience!

All of which could have been totally avoided had they followed the advice of many, many people on these forums, including ourselves by NOT taking the train and instead taking the bus so you could get to the park early enough to buy the FastPasses or at least get in 1-2 rides before the insane lines form. No. You don't need more time at the park. You actually need LESS time at the park, but be smarter about how you approach it. The last two times we visited the park, we were there on days just like yours, but we got on every single coaster in the park, some of them multiple times, and also did dark rides, flat rides, etc, and one of those visits we didn't even stay until closing. You just have to be "smart" about your visit. Seriously, why would you subject yourself to the world's worst operated amusement park for LONGER than you need to be??? Ugh, the idea of spending two days at Fuji-Q just infuriates me. There is no ride on the planet that is worth waiting in line 3 hours and 15 minutes for. Especially one where you could have not waited at all for with better planning.

What can I say about Book of Mormon that hasn't been said already? I just got to see the show again tonight at Dr. Phillips Center here in Orlando as part of their 2018 Fairwinds Broadway Season playing now through Dec 17th and it is still one of my all-time favorite shows! Let me post some thoughts and musings about the show... - Without giving anything away, "Planet Orlando" is by far the BEST place to see Book of Mormon!!! - I cannot think of many other shows (really any other) where each song is so high energy and full of amazing! - The cast for this tour has been just wonderful! This is the second time I've seen this cast and they are a pleasure to watch on stage! - The show itself is just hilarious. - At many points of the show you just stop and have to say "I cannot believe what my eyeballs are seeing right now!" - It seriously is just an incredible, hysterical, and yes even heart-warming show! - Beneath everything that could possibly offend some people, the show actually has some wonderful messages! - Basically just nice to each other regardless of what someone believes. Oh, and... - "Hasa Diga Eebowai!" There are still some amazing shows coming to Dr. Phillips Center in Orlando this season: School of Rock, Waitress, The Lion King, Something Rotten! You can find out more about upcoming shows and how to become a season ticket holder here: https://www.drphillipscenter.org/ Hello! My name is Elder Price. And I would like to share with you the most amazing book! Elder Cunningham is the hilarious underdog hero that steals the show in every scene he's in! Nabisco, Nala, Nintendo 64...what's her name again? "I'm wet with salvation! We just went all the way" - Typical mormon baptism, right? Hasa Diga Eebowai! "Does it mean No Worries for the Rest of Your Days?" Tomorrow is a "latter day!"

Wait...don't we have a SFA discussion thread?!?!? Thread locked... continue discussion there...

Silver Dollar City sent us this cool teaser of them dropping their first Time Traveler train today! [fbvideonew] [/fbvideonew]It would really make us super happy if you all shared this on your own Facebook page! Thank you!

If I had a dime for every time I posted something, thought "eh.... I don't know, that one might be a bit much" and then Robb or Elissa came along and gave it the seal of approval as I was questioning whether or not I should edit it I would be a rich man. Here's some guidelines: "Someone using a dildo to remove a dent" - On the "adult" side, yes...but not graphic and it's funny.... "Someone using a dildo to remove a dent while said dildo is firmly shoved into someone's rectum" - That would probably be crossing the line. Now you know where the boundaries are! "probably"

Ok, that was amazing! lol

^ Thanks. I was hoping someone would have screen shotted the actual tweet with the soda can analogy! That was comedy gold!

FYI - Moved some recent posts HERE.

^ I moved these posts from my trip report thread as they do not reflect my thoughts and opinions of Dubai or the UAE. Please continue the discussion if you would like here. Thank you!

Awww, what a shame the Tweet was taken down. I hope someone took a screen shot of the original tweet...

As soon as I can stop laughing for the few seconds it takes me to ban an account...

You know... sometimes when I'm feeling really down on society and bitter about this industry... it's things like that last two pages that really brighten up my outlook on things!!!

Joey. Seriously. What do you know that a Canadian high school armchair engineer doesn't know? I mean, not like you have worked around roller coasters your entire life or anything. This guy from Canada is going to SAVE THE RIDE for certain catastrophic doom! Whatever would we do without people on the internet pointing out obvious flaws that professionals would overlook?

Right. Exactly. Why someone in Canada needs to point it out like as though Knott's would be all "Oh, whoops! We didn't notice those dents! Good thing that guy from Toronto tweeted those pictures because us here at Knott's HQ would have never noticed and the ride would have just collapsed one day!" Again, so incredibly stupid...

You're not too far off there!

EXACTLY! And I'm sure that Knott's maintenance team is rolling their eyes as hard as I am over some self-appointed high school engineer in Canada pointing out how their construction is flawed. Seriously, people are so stupid that it hurts my brain... Explain to me why someone in Kitchener, Canada need to be preoccupied with minutia details of a ride being constructed in Buena Park, California? Like, you're about as far removed from that ride as someone can be in North America. But... some people just HAVE to go out of their way to attempt to trash a ride thousands of miles away from them before it's even built with comments that clearly show that they don't even understand or have any knowledge whatsoever of what they are looking at. So incredibly stupid...

I have two words to describe what I just read... "Armchair engineer." Like Knott's is going to put something up that would just collapse.

While I have not gotten to our Motiongate part of the report yet (that's coming up soon!) we did get to tour the "under construction" Capitol Bullet Train roller coaster while we were there which has since opened and the park has sent us some footage! So here's a little bit of foreshadowing to our next update...

Please tell the audience when the last time YOU contributed a photo trip report to the forum was...