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The official announcement:

Ocean Park is closed due to the virus. Considering how much the park has been struggling and that Lunar New Year is one of their busiest times, this is really going to hit hard for them this year.

Alton Towers and Chessington have also removed theirs.

Be advised the park is shut due to the virus outbreak: It could be a case of just being closed for the Chinese New Year when they would have been swamped with people and reopening after that but depending on how this epidemic unfolds over the coming days and weeks, there's a chance it could also become longer.

It's nice to see a TR where things went wrong that comes out positive like 'Shame it broke down but what I saw looks awesome and can't wait to come back to try it another time' compared to the usual who would be 'New experimental ride was busy and had downtime at opening. DISNETY SUXS now!11!!' (Emphasis on smashing of keys on keyboard)

Stupid question and I'm not encouraging this at all, and this is purely out of curiosity, but is there any protection to stop people spoofing their location and tricking the app to think they're in the park? Just thinking back to when Pokemon GO was popular in Korea (still is I guess, even today I saw a guy with 5 phones all playing the game in an A4 sized case full of phone pockets doing a raid by himself), the Koreans like to play their games hardcore and there'd be so many times a gym would be taken or people would join a raid and yet no-one was around.

Are coasters that were open for part of the year before closing down counted in the poll? I noticed Regina is still in my rankings,

I hope they're successful this time but I think this is the second time now the government has had to bail out the park, and it recently got removed from the stock exchange too. Edit: Apparently Ocean Park added a Top Scan recently. Judging by location I think it must have replaced the parks enterprise ride: https://www.oceanpark.com.hk/en/experience/attractions/attractions/wild-twister Seems to be a 6 seater version as opposed to the usual 5 seater ones.

^I think out of those 4 rides, only the mini-flume is new. All the others are existing rides being re-themed.

Like I want to be excited, and it was obvious the rides were going to be mostly/all Mario based for a while, but my enthusiasm has faded a little. I kind of hoped we'd see some of the other franchises represented in a restaurant or interactive area but now I can't see any other big Nintendo properties making an appearance here for a while (Pokemon/Zelda etc) and now we have paid add-on wristbands (What are the odds you can't even keep them for future visits) to 'get the full experience.'

From Screamscape: Umm..... Granted this is a google translate from the Japanese site (which most travelers should check as well as the English one because normally the native one can be more up to date) but even the English site shows Splash Mountain using the search and Big Thunder Mountain does say single-rider on its description there. Not sure why these are considered secret and unpublished, the Tokyo parks have some permanent single rider lines (Raging Spirits, Indy, Splash Mountain) but they do experiment with different rides and put them on the site. My favorite was still my visit in Feb/March 2012 when they had a ToT single rider line.

Let's think positive, it just says it's leaving the park. Maybe it's going to move in with her. Or they'll gently let her know her husband's leaving for more open space, perhaps it's off to live on a farm where it'll have all the space it needs to spin around whenever it wants that she sadly can't visit.

I agree that it's a bit over-kill and would be annoying but these reactions seem pretty venomous to people who are just doing a job they've been told to do, considering that most of that security are probably just following orders mandated from higher-ups. Unless American security is insanely different from Europe and Asian security where I've lived, I don't think they all got together and said 'Let's stop single males for the fun of it and ask them for I.D.' As I said earlier in this thread, there are other parks that have these mandates from higher-ups. Again, I agree it's an annoying policy, but if security is as power-hungry as you say, isn't this going to end in an altercation? I mean it's a park themed to Nickelodeon if you swear or challenge and end up in a fight, all your going to do is scare some kids, ruin their memories and end up as bad as the security you're complaining about? Pro-Tip: Calmly ask where the policy came from and why it's there, then ask if there are any contact details or customer service where you can mention that being constantly approached affected your day. Swearing, anger and arguing just reinforces that the bad policies should stay in place.

All these experiences of people leaving their homes to be at parks by 6 A.M and the ride seemingly sold out almost just after park opening. Is this the same Galaxy's Edge the internet was calling a failure and a ghost town and not bringing in the people?

^ For E-World, the Sky Jump has been reopened by the tower it now runs 1:00-6:00 only on weekends but it is operating again: http://www.83tower.kr/tower/10.htm They've also added a 103m tall drop tower called Sky Drop: http://www.eworld.kr/attraction/08.htm# I found out the sky jump had re-opened when I had planned to visit the park but then the roller-coaster accident happened on Hurricane (I think that's now the only page with broken links) and it didn't seem a good idea to visit a park while they were doing an operations overhaul and investigations/inspections.

I looked up the Osiria project listed in some of the articles and found their official site with more concept art. The site includes the art that has the Blue Fire clone and Mack Power Splash and the description on the site lists those two coasters stating a 100km/h Blue Fire and 13 stories vertical drop power splash. The last art-work seems to have the disk-o coaster but with the official site stating a Blue Fire clone and Mack Power Splash I'm going to work under the assumption that is currently the closest to the final layout. Source

Hey Larry. I was at Seoul Land last weekend and the Flying Carpet and Sky Adventure are gone, I didn't have any pictures because my son was being grumpy and wanted to leave from the cold. I'll try and get around to digging out the Gyeongju World photos that were lost in the hack here and updating the Everland thread later this weekend. I think E-Worlds photo links have broken due to the name change from Tower Land: https://www.themeparkreview.com/parks/k_410_e-world

^I think there's currently at least 5 open in Korea, maybe more. Mosts are a different company but the one under construction in that concept art is the same company as the one in Singapore. They already have one here in Korea and I think it's been successful since their one route is being expanded so it'll have 6 different routes. https://www.skylineluge.com/en/

^ The existing ones here in Korea and zip-lines recently have been really popular so when a Luge Park or zip-line is announced I have more confidence in those announcements than I do new park announcements.

I try to always give the benefit of the doubt when people moan about ride-ops and just say they're doing their jobs but I hate this. IF you've taken the time to get your child checked at guest services or wherever and had a wristband attached confirming the height that should then be the end of it. I feel like either here or twitter or facebook there was a TR a while back where some-one got measured at another Six Flags and the ride-op denied them and people were booing at the hold-up. I can't remember all the facts but I remember feeling horrified. I can't imagine explaining to my son why he's getting remeasured or worse turned away when he's ridden things with the same height requirement. It's unnecessary stress on a child and defeats the purpose of the wristband. Sorry didn't mean for it to turn into such a rant. Great Adventure is weird. They also make you show ID and get an "Over 21" wristband when you buy alcohol and then proceed to ask for ID when you go back to get another beer. If you get carded every time you buy a beer anyway (fine by me) then why does the wristband exist? It's Six Flags. I'm convinced that every group of employees in each ride / store / customer service location / department operates in a vacuum and never discusses anything with anyone in any other department or location ever for any reason. I don't blame the ride ops. I guarantee that there's no clear communication on anything. Full disclosure: I don't work there and I've never worked there but I'm pretty confident in that assumption. Maybe I was too quick to blame it on the ops then. Sorry for that but I do think that it's really silly that guest services offer an official wristband to confirm the height that doesn't actually confirm it. That and even after one op confirms it, having another come over again seems like over-kill. I know my son would stress and it would be on his mind the whole ride instead of having fun and if for whatever reason he got turned away after riding others that would definitely be his day over because he just wouldn't understand why. Yup, and I still have such a bad taste in my mouth from that SFGAm visit that I just can't even go back! We followed all of the rules and you made my young child get booed by strangers?!!? Screw that park and those employees. On that same trip SFGAd gave KT a wristband and a name tag to make up for that other park experience and she had a great time riding everything! <> She's braver than Noah, if that had happened to him we probably wouldn't have even been able to talk him into another theme park a few days later.

I try to always give the benefit of the doubt when people moan about ride-ops and just say they're doing their jobs but I hate this. IF you've taken the time to get your child checked at guest services or wherever and had a wristband attached confirming the height that should then be the end of it. I feel like either here or twitter or facebook there was a TR a while back where some-one got measured at another Six Flags and the ride-op denied them and people were booing at the hold-up. I can't remember all the facts but I remember feeling horrified. I can't imagine explaining to my son why he's getting remeasured or worse turned away when he's ridden things with the same height requirement. It's unnecessary stress on a child and defeats the purpose of the wristband. Sorry didn't mean for it to turn into such a rant.

This reminds me of those articles that talk about how zoos should be replaced with AR/VR animals in the exhibits. I'm sure this ride will still be highly themed but anytime you start seeing things with glasses it just takes your focus away from that you know the real thing is not there. Trackless technology has come a long way, I'd rather a highly themed dark ride with only a few power-ups or other riders in cars traveling the same time. e.g a trackless shell or two appears throughout the ride zipping nearby the cars or bananas that drop into the floor making you think you hit them than wearing glasses that overlay the sets with 1000 things happening at once. Same with mushrooms, it'd be easy to make the car speed-up. I'll reserve full judgment until I've seen and ridden it myself but if the glasses are just to show off effects that maybe can't be done physically like stars taking out other racers, the lightning bolt effect or many other racers then just don't include them.

I rode one in Singapore years ago, it's basically just riding a toboggan down a mini-road instead of a tube with a handlebar attached to the usual lever for braking. I prefer the toboggan/alpine coasters since these tend to be slower but on the plus side if there's a mother/child ahead you can go past and keep up your speed instead of being stuck going 1mph for the rest of your ride (this happens way too often to me on those coasters) There's been a couple open in Korea over the last few years but I can't be bothered to stand in this big of a line for it: [fbvideonew]https://www.facebook.com/351669398831855/videos/322807008604972/[/fbvideonew]

Seems this project may be in jeopardy. The article says paused but we've seen a lot of projects both in existing parks or announced new parks that get scrapped pretty often in Korea so it could just be a long pause but with attendance woes and a big holder arrested I'd be surprised. I think I mentioned this before, we drove right past Shinhwa World and didn't stop. I've never been interested in doing exclusives or rushing to be the first with a TR and with only the park open, with quite a small park line-up, and the water park and Lionsgate both not opened we skipped past it. Seems it hasn't got much attention since opening either. Source