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^Can we get the old restraints back too?

I'm one of the few who enjoys Twitter corporate crossovers and snark, e.g. John Oliver/Cheerios or parks temporarily changing coaster names after sports matches, especially because these tend to also lean towards charity donations but it has to be something that both sides seem OK with to make it even remotely enjoyable or something like Wendy's where it's aimed at a majority of different places and not just one. Maybe I've missed some tweets but it seems like this is very one-sided, and only aimed at Sea World which just just almost makes it seem like bullying which I know is a weird way to describe something between 2 giant companies...

^What's an astro wheel? Is it a thrill ride where the cars spin or just a weird kind of Ferris Wheel, I tried looking it up but that POV is so jittery and blurry I can't even tell.

But the article does mention 'However, the facility has been closed since the 12th of this month and has been under inspection for acceleration measurements.' One thing I love is Japan comment sections. It's not overblown drama or park blaming. In this case it's a lot of comments discussing how powerful the ride is and asking if the people had forgotten to follow the instructions and put their heads back into the rest.

^All the big Korean parks have embraced mobile app passes lately. Seoul Land has a new app where you can pick a ride and once you've used it can get another. Lotte World's app, which even when it was paper tickets, was always based upon Disney's old fast pass, is get 3 rides and once you've used them can get another. Everland's is very interesting. It's points/lottery based. You scan your ticket in when you enter the park and you get 1 point for each 30 minutes you're in the park. You can only hold a maximum of 5 to encourage using them/stop hoarding. If you use them the timer will start up again though. Each ride has a value from 0-5 (0 right now being for shows or indoor play areas due to corona) and you can use those points on ride-time slots. The time slots are staggered so different times open throughout the day so people who arrive late aren't punished because they still have a chance but the people who arrive early are also rewarded because chances are they're the only ones with 5 points to get the headliner rides morning fast passes. OF course that was pre-corona since until the number go down, right now we have *sigh* reservation lines instead of fastpasses on the biggest rides and those do end up sold out ridiculously early.

Not sure when this started but Hong Kong Disneyland is closed every Tuesday and Thursday. I assume low visitors due to Corona. For comparison, Ocean Park is closed every Tuesday.

Is Tokyo now the only park which still has free fast pass? I know Hong Kong now has 'Priority Special' and 'Priority Special +' and Paris just switched to a pay per ride scheme.

I'm still bummed that one of these was on the original art for Lotte World 2 and they opted for a Blue Fire clone instead and a Mack Supersplash. Don't get me wrong, both of those are great, but with Lotte World owning half the Intamin catalogue, and the Korean office just down the road, I really thought the world was finally going to get a clone of it.

Didn't those parks used to have unlimited skip the line fast-passes you could buy? Or am I imagining things?

^^ That right there is why we've decided that our once in a lifetime trip will basically mean the hotel is a place to store our stuff and crash. Half the 'Korean pensions' are basically just mats on floors anyway so our only requirement is not overrun with bed bugs and according to our friend in Tampa (who says 'the wrong side of the tracks' can apply to literal tracks), a relatively safe area if we op for a cheap area.

Probably a very unpopular opinion here, but I'm all for paying for this if it levels the playing field on when everyone can make reservations in terms of day tickets vs hotel stayers and pass holders. I know a lot of people here are regulars to the parks or can go probably more than once in a lifetime but for my wife and I, we always viewed Orlando as a once in a life-time trip. Normally we like a decent hotel, but we always figured for this trip with our son, we would have to save so much, we would just get a car rental and an airbnb for 2-3 weeks so the less spent there, the more could go on treating our son, fast-passes at the other parks, trying out Springs/Citywalk nice restaurants, and potentially trying a cruise at the end since all the ones here tend to cater to Chinese tastes and their wallets (and more gambling). Maybe we are wrong here, but with Florida's weather, we always figured pre-booking tickets too early could go wrong and it might be better to plan around weather days, and the fact fast pass+ could be booked much earlier for hotel stayers and annual pass holders and that was always in the back of our minds on how we would get the popular rides our son would surely want. Although, Robb's posts and tips about refreshing and being able to usually get a slot did make me feel better.

You'd be surprised how many countries can potentially grow bamboo. I think Ethiopia especially grows a lot of it. I love the idea of bamboo themed supports. Reminds me of travelling and seeing all the builders trust their lives to it in Hong Kong.

It's been slow for me for a while but a new problem started recently is the main front page of TPR just stays black. I have to jump to the forums hyperlink or go through an email notification to get here.

Some Goomba's fell over on the Yoshi ride. Thankfully it missed the riders because they look heavy: In any other country this probably wouldn't be a big deal, but considering how safety conscious Japan is, it'll be interesting to see if they return. It happened August 9th and we did have a typhoon in the area so potentially that could have been a cause. The ride did apparently close for safety checks but is open again now, minus Goombas.

Also It seems like not many new Huss rides get built but a few disappearing over past few years. Lots of enterprises and top spins have disappeared. Only recent ride that comes to mind is the floorless top spin for Sea World Australia

^ Little off-topic but I just noticed your avatar picture. I always forget that there used to be a Chaos ride at Cedar Point. I always seem to just miss those rides. The only one in the UK I skipped over for another park and the one at CP was gone by the time I visited.

I'd love a drop tower like Falcon's Fury. Surely the 2 gondola version like Ikaros could fit on that area. It's the perfect ride for Cedar Point. They'll have a new ride to market and draw in the crowds but with that location they can just constantly stick a 'closed for wind/weather' sign on it any days the park isn't packed and never have to worry about staffing the thing.

^ I don't think that's it at all, I think the park usually aims for families (to the point they sent Samurai to Thorpe Park) and a small ride like this with one inversion would be a perfect step up ride for kids starting to outgrow Chessington before they move on to the big B&Ms and Intamins at nearby Thorpe Park. It's just a shame then that the height restriction is confirmed as 1.4m like all the other B&M's when something like Cheetah Hunt at Busch Gardens, which I always also viewed as a step up coaster when raising little enthusiasts before hitting the bigger rides, has a height requirement of 122cm. But then again isn't Chessington's Wild Mouse also a 140cm requirement? Which if we are comparing to Busch Gardens again, their's has a 117cm requirement. Also in light of my comment mentioning the drop sequence on an SBF tower on the previous page.... Yea, as an enthusiast, the drop sequence sucks, but as a father... my infant son went on a version at the Folk Village and he seems to loves these ones especially that you go up and down multiple times and has no interest in regular drop towers. Considering the audience Chessington aims for, it is definitely the perfect fit for them.

Everyone seems to be assuming losing Wicked Twister means another roller-coaster to replace it. I agree with this statement. The park has been lacking a Larson Loop for a while.

Sorry I wasn't sure, was surprised how many people didn't wait for a post credits because it isn't Marvel.

Potentially mild spoiler, scroll slowly: There's also a post credits scene to remind people this show is happening. Starting to think it's not actually fully a prequel and they just didn't want to state sequel to keep the deaths or survivors of this film a mystery.

Literally my only memory of that theater is that it was in just the right position that the seagulls could crap onto the Windseeker queue down below. WIndseeker had just opened so the queue was pretty busy and watching people run through that stretch of queue as you slowly got closer to that same area going through the poop gauntlet was probably more entertaining than the ride itself.

^ Thanks, I'm only a 90 min flight from Osaka or an 2 hour flight from Tokyo so hopefully when corona is done I can get back to Japan. I think the pictured one in my post is probably not for sale anymore, since it seems although the flavor is an exclusive TDS staple, they do constantly update and change it. In the game, they're ice lollies, which was inspired by the creator's TDS trip, and that seems to have come from a really long time ago since I've never seen an official picture, only fan recreations.

So random question, I finally got around to finishing Kingdom Hearts III, the last of the KH games I haven't beaten on my PlayStation and one of the big things that comes up throughout the series is Roxas, Axel, and Xion eating the sea-salt ice cream. Got bored and then curious so decided to look it up if this was a Japan favorite flavor that I'd missed on all my trips. I've seen a ton of weird ice-cream flavors in Japan but never that so I wondered why it was in the games. Turns out it's not a Japanese thing I missed, but a Tokyo DisneySea thing, I've somehow missed. Despite multiple trips to TDS and playing all the games in the KH franchise I somehow missed out on this. Has anyone tried it at the park, between popcorn buckets, and where was it available? When I'm back from work I'll look through my photos and see if I've been an idiot and it's everywhere and I was too busy finding popcorn to notice this. Source

Proving enthusiasts are very similar worldwide, people seem to be a bit upset that the luge lighting and structure gets in the way of Lotte's theming... Source