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Lift hill is done based on the parks (sadly vertical) video from their newest ride, Klake, due to open on the 23rd. [fbvideonew] [/fbvideonew]

^Speaking of flashbacks, I used to really enjoy those park videos you had set to pop music many years ago. Not sure how well they'd go down with current viewing habits seeing as people these days seem to drop out of videos pretty fast, It always amazes me how much your videos have changed with the times to match what people want to see compared to other channels that seem to remain the same.

I remember once I had a balled up tissue in my pocket years ago when I got on Dodonpa and didn't even know it was there and they unlocked a whole train and made me put a balled up tissue in a locker and get a strap just for that. I like at USJ, for Flying Dinosaur, they found a way to let you keep your stuff for the majority of the queue to use your phone but have it in a way that it doesn't slow down operations when it needs to be stored. I've been to a ton of Asian parks where I've had to plan out beforehand and been in parks where there is 3 hours line across the board like DisneySea or even parks that don't offer fast passes and still had a good day regardless and not been grinding my teeth. Fuji-Q on the couple of times I've been I end up more stressed than enjoying the park half the time. Constantly having to check the weather forecast for even tiny amounts of rain or wind. Having to gamble getting that 1st ride at opening vs going to the fast pass booth which tends to open whenever it feels like it. Even then spreading those out to take in for account operations and getting different times I find myself having to watch the skies for weather and closures for the later times worrying.

Yea... no, I really don't agree. You can grab food or do the bathroom between rides or plan ahead like every other park. I've spent 7 years in a country where even though there are signs everywhere saying no queue-jumping, people are constantly allowed by ops to have lots of fathers on their own hold a place and then have 2 kids, a wife, and grandparents constantly pushing past me or getting rope dropped into the line. If a line is 2 hours, I really don't think its right that 80% of the group aren't there for a good portion of the line. It makes the outdoor theme-less pens lines slow to a crawl as well. If you do ever go back from Tokyo, I'd highly recommend the bus deal of ticket+bus combo online. It dropped me at the park before opening. I also tend to grab a ride on one of the big coasters before hitting the fast pass booth. Sometimes they're already gone anyways for more popular rides so I risk grabbing that ride at opening. Last few times I went the original Dodonpa opened later than the other big coasters so I waited the 30 minutes there while people darted to other open rides and was rewarded with only a 30 minute wait. This was on an "empty" day when all the flats where walk-on, lines never got higher than 60 mins for Fujiyama and Eejanaka, 90 mins for Takabisha and Dodonpa still hit 3 hour lines all day.

^That 1st shot was taken from the parks official youtube video. I'll post the link below. It was kept hidden in a lot of recent footage, drone shots etc. Now is one of the first times it has appeared in the official footage. [youtu_be] [/youtu_be]

Lotte World has a VR section now where you can buy tickets and try different sections which are basically the same thing with different ideas, strap on a VR headset and do something with motion controls. Some pictures of the area here: http://szsup.tistory.com/728?category=323243 Everland also has a ton of different VR stuff in their park now as well but theirs is more about different ways of riding with VR e.g. robot arm VR, a gyroscope style VR, static VR, VR on motion seats etc. but there's is all from Samsung who owns Everland.

T Express is running great even though Everland is so busy, there's only one other coaster in a park with long hours and year-round opening times, and apart from a winter rehab has to endure temperatures from -15 to 35 throughout the year.

Ehh spoke too soon, the attractions suspended list added it for another week until the 13th, although it could be added again later. VR has returned again to French Revolution with a new movie opening December 9th. Gyro Drop's been closed for a while, there was supposed to be a new VR film to replace the last one there over Halloween which never came about but I'm assuming this current downtime is to accommodate and set up the new VR.

Wait they aren’t already? Magic Band is honestly the most awesome and creepy theme park technology out there now. Oh, they are already. But, you choose to wear the band. Even though you will have the choice (i'm sure) to allow the face scanning, people can argue that it's doing it anyways. But, that's not a topic we need to discuss here. Hasn't USJ had a mandatory face scan for many years? I remember getting slowed down at least 4 years ago on opening time once because the system was malfunctioning, it was a screen that the staff member moved and took a picture to match the person to the i.

Looks like the ride will finally reopen on December 6th.

Did anyone hear more about this? The site claims that the Oriental Land Company have officially announced their intent to make a 3rd park by 2025: https://mainichi.jp/articles/20171130/k00/00m/020/136000c

This right here is pretty much why I've never bothered with a count. Because this seems over the top but I guarantee someone with a similar overly complicated set of rules would want to debate for hours on the subject, if I said so much as a number of coasters ridden. I go to the park, choose what I want to ride, decide if I enjoyed that enough to re-ride/go back later or not, rinse and repeat.

I posted this on the IAAPA thread when the debate came up over counting that. This is one of the reasons I've never kept a coaster count. I don't want to debate what counts/doesn't and just have fun. I'd probably pick a new flat to try or a re-ride on a coaster I like over a credit anyday. I always feel that if it's what the manufacturers want to sell it as or the people who paid for the ride want to use to market it as, then just to respect that and disagree among friends or online vs actually at the parks where kids are sxcited for a "coaster" (Personally I wouldn't call disko coasters and this roller-coasters but I'm not going to belittle people who do). Although I think if anyone started really caring enough to debate it for hours instead of just riding the ride and having fun my friend list would quickly get much smaller. That and the day my son is big enough to ride bigger rides and gets off his first coaster and run off excitedly to tell his school friends, would follow the day I sit him down and tell him that he's old enough to know he can't count that dragon coaster as his first anymore because it didn't coast enough or had too many tyres on the track (I've heard people debate Lotte World's Comet Express once when I was in line by some visiting enthusiasts) is the day I should stop with this hobby... Yea, I'm going to let him ride a skyloop or RC Racer and just have fun

Source Picture of ride from site since i can't seem to get site address when clicking the ride listing: This park also added it's only coaster recently, one of those small helix spinners by the look of it. I say by the look of it because the gallery includes Toverland's spinner and a Zamperla spinner in there, but the middle two pictures seem to be of the parks ride: http://my-land.co.kr/index/s3/s3_01.php It's the second from last listing. Crazy Clown's listing is the top right one.

I think the thing I ended up enjoying the most in this update was turning off track limits and playing around making a spinner with inversions or an overbanked suspended coaster.

This is one of the reasons my wife loves HKDL so much since it's one of the few Disneys where we don't have to plan anything in advance and can just go since it never gets too busy. Honestly, with our trips to the Tokyo parks, we just try and plan out 2 fast passes a park, one to dash for opening and the second when the next time comes up if they are still available counting anything else as a bonus. I've been on days where the lines are 3 hours across the board when it should be quite due to snow keeping crowds away previous days and still managed. Like others have said if you end up a slave to your schedule, you might just end up frustrated and not enjoying yourself as much if you miss deadlines or some passes have already gone. I remember seeing somewhere the park doesn't allow camping for parades and shows and being shocked on my first trip to see people setting up on blankets mid-afternoon for Fantasmic at least 4 before it starts. To them, long waits and crowding are just part of the norm. Just be like that and relax and you'll have fun.

I heard really bad things from most of my friends who saw the original version on West End (disclaimer: a few of them are die-hard Phantom fans though), but I also heard they fixed a lot of things in future productions, so sounds like they have changed things for the better.

Reign of Fire. I've never seen it but I remember the tour mentioning it years ago. A really forgettable movie when it came out, and definitely forgotten by now... So yeah a big waste of space.

I can speak for Robb and myself that we called it a roller coaster in the updates because they are calling it one at the show, on the press materials, etc. Do I believe personally that it's a coaster? NO! This is one of the reasons I've never kept a coaster count. I don't want to debate what counts/doesn't and just have fun. I'd probably pick a new flat to try or a re-ride on a coaster I like over a credit anyday. I always feel that if it's what the manufacturers want to sell it as or the people who paid for the ride want to use to market it as, then just to respect that and disagree among friends or online vs actually at the parks where kids are sxcited for a "coaster" (Personally I wouldn't call disko coasters and this roller-coasters but I'm not going to belittle people who do). Although I think if anyone started really caring enough to debate it for hours instead of just riding the ride and having fun my friend list would quickly get much smaller. That and the day my son is big enough to ride bigger rides and gets off his first coaster and run off excitedly to tell his school friends, would follow the day I sit him down and tell him that he's old enough to know he can't count that dragon coaster as his first anymore because it didn't coast enough or had too many tyres on the track (I've heard people debate Lotte World's Comet Express once when I was in line by some visiting enthusiasts) is the day I should stop with this hobby... Yea, I'm going to let him ride a skyloop or RC Racer and just have fun.

Yea this. I hit up the park after snow had kept the crowds away and it was 3 hours across the board and Indy's single rider still flew by in under 10 minutes. Raging Spirits I barely moved in 30 and gave up and got a FP (although this was a time when ToT had single rider and MM wasn't open so it was easier to sacrifice a potential different FP ride.

What made you think that? Outside of Fuji Q, I normally find Japan operations fantastic. I know Flying Dinosaur was hitting 10-11 hour lines but it seemed more down to the number of people than operations, they did everything they could to make those lines move with the unloading of stuff way before boarding, probably even better than the american Universal does with their detectors and stuff etc. (although Harry Potter's locker room sucks)

And November as well. This is an extremely long closure for an e stop gone wrong.

Happy family also came to Everlands 4d cinema this year

The sunfish used to be at the end of that dolphin tunnel you went through, that other dolphin wasn't there so looks like it changed. I forgot how many different aquariums that place had, there's a picture on the English site of it, but the japanese site confirms that other dolphin took over the sunfish's old round pool: http://www.seaparadise.co.jp/english/aquariums.html I never saw a manta ray when I was there so that must be new, although I missed the door to see into the show tank where the whale shark was twice on my first trip (it didn't have a big sign back then) so I could have missed it, although I did end up seeing a manta ray in quite a small tank at the tokyo stadium when I was getting my galaxy express 999 credit.

Yea HKDL has it all over, but personally, I really liked the Knex look. I thought it was a clever way to fit the theme and the area is already so colorful I thought it worked better than a solid "lego" fence would have.