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TPR's Ever Evolving Park Index
Garet replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
^ Gyeongju World didn't make the area a 3rd gate. It get's a separate tab on the home page to drum up publicity but seems to be part of the park. It was originally Snow Park before the rides were installed due to it being where they keep the snow rubber tube slides but it's now Dragon Valley and also included on the main park site and attractions list. You could probably add Dragon Race (the air racer) and Krake (The 360 degree swing) for that park to the list as well. If you don't mind me making more suggestions for the list E-World also added an Air Race (called air race_ and a 360 swinf (Mega Swing 360) and Jeju has the new park Shinhwa World (https://www.shinhwaworld.com/attractions_filter.php?subid=32&url_lang=en_US) -
Ridesims twitter came back from the dead: Makes me hopeful if they are working on a new sim for themagical.nl that more of the old sims may be released to the site. I used to play Mystic Manor, Splash Mountain, Radiator Springs Racer and Star Tours more than any of the other sims and though I was glad to see some resurface on themagical.nl I was a tiny bit bummed none of those appeared.
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Disneyland Paris (DLP) Discussion Thread
Garet replied to SharkTums's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
The Buzz rides have always been separate though. Even in places like Hong Kong or Shanghai where Toy Story Land is part of the same park, they are located in different areas. -
Geauga Lake Discussion Thread
Garet replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Hmmm, an easy cash grab on nostalgia for stupid people that believe anything. I'll be back soon right after I re-create my 2 new gofundme on restoring Ellen's Energy Adventure and The Great Movie Ride. I'll set it to $10 mil to show I'm serious but as long as I make enough to cover my moving fees I'll be happy. -
Thorpe Park Discussion Thread
Garet replied to Rooey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Not long until the whole park is themed to destruction/apocalypse/derelict buildings. -
Gyeongju World 2018 Attractions
Garet replied to Garet's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
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Walt Disney World Epcot Discussion Thread
Garet replied to SharkTums's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
I’m surprised people are so focused on the worlds longest part. Disney have never really been ones to go for worlds longest or first whatever. Their rides and Ip s basically sell themselves anyway. At the end of the day that worlds longest is pretty much the least interesting bit. Enthusiasts will go because it’s a new Disney ride and the public will be most interested that it’s a marvel/gotg roller coaster. -
Gyeongju World 2018 Attractions
Garet replied to Garet's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Maybe it's just the angle of the photo but that second drop looks a little more stretched out compared to Griffon/Sheikra. -
Disneyland Paris (DLP) Discussion Thread
Garet replied to SharkTums's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
^ That could come later. Turn the car show into a filming of an action scene with some heroes and villains and have the Guardians Tower once the hype dies away from the Avengers Coaster. I'm struggling to think of any re-theme that would make the Armaggedeon ride interesting though to re visit it. -
Tokyo Disney Resort Discussion Thread
Garet replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Studio Ghibli has an obsession with flying machines and it's Japanese. A fan can dream... -
Knoebels Discussion Thread
Garet replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
I once flew out, in 2011, from Korea to see some friends in Canada at Niagara and then went on to stay with some friends in Pennsylvania. They offered to drive me to Cedar Point for 2 days or we could have hit Hershey's (pre-Skyrush) or Knobels for a day instead. Under the assumption I probably wouldn't be back for a good long time to the U.S. I picked Cedar Point but every-time I check on this thread, it always makes me think I may not have made the right choice. -
Nagashima Spa Land Discussion Thread
Garet replied to gerstlaueringvar's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
I mean you should also consider tastes and trends do change over time. I always felt Japan had a much bigger balance in what new rides came out between families vs thrill rides etc. I used to say the same about Korea in my TR's, after T-Express in 2008, almost every new ride in all the parks was ones that the whole family could ride and a lot of media based rides and a few bigger ones got removed with no replacements. The only single high height restriction I saw was a zamperla disko-o and 9 years later, in 2017, E-land added an air-race and a 360 swing and now this year we've seen is a dive coaster and another 360 swing and air race. Do I agree with your opinion... No. Looking at the number of huge rides that have been installed in the last 10-20 years in Japan. But making an argument that going back further that was a trend, I maybe could see it. -
Everland Discussion Thread
Garet replied to dr.gumbo's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
T Express will reopen on the 14th with a new event called Roller Coaster Week that runs from umm.... February 14th to March 13th. I do like the image they've picked since it's a nice callback to the old characters when T Express was new (this was the only T Express merchandise I could find when I went before I realized I'd end up living in Korea.) One of the events announced is a meet up with Jeong Jun Ha, a famous TV celebrity who has done a few eating challenges, both at Everland and recently at Magic Mountain during a trip to L.A. for the show. [youtu_be] [/youtu_be][youtu_be] [/youtu_be][youtu_be] [/youtu_be] -
Kings Dominion (KD) Discussion Thread
Garet replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Am I the only one who never really cares about the name of things and more about the experience itself when I visit a park? They could rename every future RMC just the rollercoaster. At the end of the day when you take things like the experience of the ride or the theming of a ride or lack thereof, the name pretty much has the least effect out of those Even if the reason for removing is wanting to be more PC it’s pretty inconsequential in the end. How many people really stop and discuss the name in detail over the actual rides. -
The Official "TPR Coaster Poll" Thread!
Garet replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
I'll try and rank my Asian rides sometime next week when my projects are all finished with. -
Gyeongju World 2018 Attractions
Garet replied to Garet's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Another update, theming has started. I love the look of the gate dragon: Source -
The Official "TPR Coaster Poll" Thread!
Garet replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
I would mark it as ridden. I had the same dilemma with Flashback/Boomerang (SFOT/SFSTL). Why would you mark a coaster that you haven't actually ridden? Just because it's in a different location? That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. There are plenty of things that can happen or change when a ride moves from one location to another. Case in point: Taz's Texas Tornado > Zonga or Deja Vu > Goliath. Location, settings, operations, climate, alterations in hardware... all of those things can lead to a very different ride experience. I get that you want to mark it as ridden if you've technically "ridden it" in one place, but if you haven't ridden it in it's current location, in it's current configuration, then I don't think it should be marked on the ballot. Just my thoughts on this... Age is such a huge factor as well, if I was ranking Hair Raiser based on my 1st ever ride it would have been probably my lowest B&M but much higher than it will be now, I didn't get the complaints that I'd seen about the roughness on my 1st ride since it wasn't enough to distract too much but that one drops with each future visit. Kumba, I haven't ridden in over 15 years but I get the feeling that hasn't changed too much to rank it accurately. Although not sure about Space Mountain Mission 2 since I rode that when it first opened and I hear that has changed a lot since then in rideability. -
Gyeongju World 2018 Attractions
Garet replied to Garet's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Source Not too much trackwork left. -
Cedar Point (CP) Discussion Thread
Garet replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
I thought that was a cable launch? I've only been on the Paris one but I could have sworn I saw a catch car thing coming down when watching from the final part of the queue. -
The Official "TPR Coaster Poll" Thread!
Garet replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Wrong thread -
SeaWorld Orlando (SWO) Discussion Thread
Garet replied to disneygurlz2s's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
They're just getting ready to send it over to Kumba. I hope this joke doesn't get me killed -
Universal Studios Singapore Discussion Thread
Garet replied to Adriel's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
This might be the issue in that there was so much to do on Sentosa that we passed on our first 3 day vacation on a long weekend to fit in a day in the city and a day at USS (it's not such a bad travel from Korea ) that the things we hadn't done pulled us away this time. It was also a stopover day since we opted for that to break up flights and loved our first visit to Singapore. -
Universal Studios Singapore Discussion Thread
Garet replied to Adriel's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
I'm curious how people feel about USS. This thread hasn't seen a postfor 2 years and the park seems to be forgotten among enthusiasts. We enjoyed our visit very much years ago but we recently had the chance to go back and decided to skip USS for seeing other tourist sites which is rare for me. Posting here popped into my mind because of Battlestar and TPR's coaster poll because for a signature exclusive ride and a dueling one, I really don't know where I would rank it. It wasn't bad enough to be memorable like some rides are but it wasn't that exciting for me to remember that much. Personally, I sometimes find an- eh/ok-ish coaster is worse than a bad one because it becomes a forgettable one. We loved Mummy and, though preferring Spiderman, also really liked Transformers, but those are at most of the parks. My general policy is to just go to a park and have fun, but I really didn't feel like going for 2 rides that are mostly elsewhere. We keep talking about visiting Disney Shanghai to try out Tron and Pirates because they get us excited seeing future versions or new things of what Disney can do, but we definitely didn't feel that from the Jurassic Rapids ride and were disappointed with what Madagascar had to offer. I feel bad since I'm all for showing up and having fun at the parks we visit and this has come across quite negative, we really are glad we went the first time but I think this is the first time ever on a holiday we haven't done a re-visit to a big park nearby to go check out other tourist stuff and felt like it was a one and done for now and was curious about other peoples feelings.
