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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.

Most of the signs for Everland's new stuff here: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1827204#p1827204 I didn't submit it as a TR since it is pretty much just an update on things around the park more than a TR.

I know this is the time of the year when I usually upload a year's worth of photos in a huge 90 photo TR but honestly this year I didn't really take any. A couple of reasons but mainly 1) the park hasn't changed much in 7 years give or take the lost valley and panda animal exhibitions, nearly all the new rides have been re-skins or re-used buildings that were already there so most of my photos were just repeating and 2) both my trips I had my 17 month-year-old son with me who, now he can walk, has taken an interest in rides. And although a lot have no minimum height with an adult (I once saw a baby strapped to the parents on the rapids) we avoid anything too fast or that has a divide since he is still too young to grasp the concept of safety (no matter how many times he points at the dragon) so I end up spending most of my time on the children's rides that my wife can't stomach (aka the rotating airplane mini magic carpet style ride for hours) and don't want him bored for an hour while I'm in line for T express. Although from next year I might stop going on days with 50% discount and do a yearly trip with the fast pass package. One minor quibble, the queue return tickets to stop line jumping seem mostly for show. We constantly saw while in the Safari World Reservation line ( the reservation area had a random 9:56am posted opening and ran out within 8 minutes instead of staggered fast pass they allocate a bus every hour or two to be just for queue pass people so be on time for that pass!) one person in the line, point to a group of up to 5 - grandparents, wife, and kids, be given a queue return to go park the stroller while those 5 jumped in and he would come back to join them. I also don't have pictures of the closed ferris wheel VR since there was only a small information board and a small pathway next to the memorial sign I've posted in previous TR's. We ended up here on one of the busiest days with my wife's family. Those are the ticket booths at the front with the entrance in the distance with the area so crowded the line into the park was running past them. Thankfully the ticket booth for foreigners was open. I always find it funny that foreigners get 50% discount over chuseok since the park used to be dead while Koreans went to pay respects to their ancestors and family but it can now be one of the busiest days of the year. For all the massive crowds I think the park did a really good job containing them with lines never going above 2 hours which isn't too bad when i've seen longer lines on some weekends. The ride to replace Pororo 3D. Despite the sign, it isn't just this cartoon show they play. It rotates between 3 different kids cartoons, one an hour on rotation. Like a lot of things in Everland, it's a ticketed reservation ride. Since all my last TR was the boy panda while the girl was sleeping, here is the girl panda in the other half of the exhibit. The red panda was also out today. I mentioned in this thread that Everland was the target of some animal rights groups. There solution was to cover the exhibit and limit looking in through peep holes. Looking through one of the holes. Single rider has now been removed from all rides and their signs in Everland including T Express so plan accordingly. I've never found the lines too long on a sunday for the flat rides so if you plan your day right it shouldn't be too big a deal. Rio 4D has left the, still strangely named, Space Tours simulator and has been replaced by happy family 4D. GYro VR has been built into the existing Sky Cruise gondola station. It's another ticketed reservation but this one is an upcharge. And this one is set up between Hurricane and Championship Rodeo. It's also a ticketed reservation and also an upcharge. Can you guess where I'm standing Hint: abcd (was) EF (now) G (no longer going to be) H

Some photos when we stopped by Lotte Tower while in Seoul. Excuse the quality of some, most were shot 10-20 minutes before sunset with my iphone and zoom since I didn't have my camera with me. The mall is huge but I didn't take any pictures since we had been at a Your Name Exhibition nearby and wanted to make it up before the sunset so we rushed, there was a Kidzania which I know TPR is very fond of. 118 floors up over Seoul With the sun setting just out of this photo The glass floor was crazy busy due to half being roped off for a photo zone. The other side of the building also has a glass floor but since it looks down on mostly grass it wasn't busy at all What makes this a TPR TR.... Lotte World from above. Sun setting over Seoul Lotte World looks so tiny from up here. Even the drop tower. Looking out towards Olympic Park Lotte World at night Glass floor at night was so packed you couldn't move. I took this photo by accident because someone knocked my phone out of my hand and snapped this with the camera pressed against the floor. Looking up from the small outdoor area, I actually enjoyed being out here in the cool air since it was much quieter than the indoor part. The glass floor and photo zone area.

Every time I see news on this rollercoaster it just reminds me that the huge cross valley wooden roller coaster with an almost 200ft drop through trees never happened.

I've mentioned this before, but my wife is the same. Even though she things Tokyo is the best, Hong Kong is her favorite and the one she likes to visit, especially now we have a young child. She likes that we can stroll up to a parade 10 mins before and still find a spot only a row or two back, get a photo with characters in under 15 mins, jump on 90% of the rides and grab a show, fireworks, or eat at the Corner Cafe without needing a lot of planning beforehand. She just thinks for our son being able to walk straight up to Chip&Dale or Stitch right away and go where he wants is a great introduction to Disney before he's older for the lines and crowds of the nearby Tokyo parks.