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That cruise looks fantastic. I always wanted to do a Disney Cruise or something similar. I will have to take a look at the website soon to see the costs of an adventure at Disney standards but hopefully there could be something more in my price range than the actual cruise ships. almost wish you'd stopped by Alton Towers to ride The Smiler while in the U.K. just to see the fanboys lose their minds again.

^Ahh thanks so as a tourist, it would be alright taking pictures? I don't zoom a lot as in one car but more to fit in a train going by when I take pictures. I asked a friend who teaches out there so that must be where I got confused.

Isn't there a law as well where you have to be careful who is in the photo, where if you can clearly see the face, you need permission if someone is in it and you post it online? I'm probably wrong but before my wife was pregnant, I was looking into going to the parks and it seemed like taking pictures of the area and rides as overviews seemed OK but not zooming in to get closer pictures of coaster trains/ride vehicles going around.

I've made my feelings clear on my dislike for reservation only rides when discussing Everland and Volcano Bay, but I've seen some tweets saying Kraken Unleashed is full by noon. Granted, it's new and popular but if it's a case of the VR making capacity that low surely that's not going to go down to well with guests.

The Thomas train will finish operations at the end of this month, like Pororo, Madagascar and Rio 4D, it could just be a case of letting the license expire and getting a new theme in to replace it and the nearby cafe. If not it could always revert to the original festival train. Old train

The VR area in B3 is now a permanent area, It can be accessed from outside Lotte World for people in just the mall and each of the zones is a separate charge. It can also be accessed from inside Lotte World, but since the park is normally a no re-entry park, they give you an invisible stamp to allow you there.

I thought reading it the description compact coaster with both way launches would be a sky rocket II but I guess that is probably the impulse coaster.

^Also throw in the fact that one of the big topics here, especially since the Sewol disaster, is about putting safety over cutting costs. There would be a lot of bad publicity if the ride so much as e-stopped for a few hours and the press got wind the park had skipped on costs to get a Chinese knock-off prototype over the real thing.

The only thing that holds me back from that is E-Land also just added the same two Zamperla rides so it could be potentially there instead. The other thing is the construction site seems a little big, there's a picture of it on RCDB but I also think that's where two areas are going: Midgard and Nifelheim with the megaswing as well. As I said all artwork points to a B&M Dive Coaster (I'm really hoping it's also not Golden Horse) but I've seen enough artwork be crazily different that I tend to only read the Korean and all that mentions is 90 degree drop which could be a Thunderbolt. I won't get my hopes up until the track shows up. Last time TPR visited was 2008? And since then in terms of roller coasters: Minus one Eagles Fortress (to be replaced with a garden), the Aquatrax become just a trax (I can't remember the last time it ran the water) and the only addition is one Vekoma Family Suspended. However coming soon is Legoland Korea, the Jeju Resort and potentiality a Dive Coaster of some sort/Thunderbolt.

I really hope not. The fact that it's the only Korean park with a B&M should make me hopeful but who knows. The fact the official site uses a TPR video complete with Robb's commentary makes me laugh. But then again I've seen projects so different from their artwork here part of me thinks that until track shows up this 90 degree drop they keep advertising will be the Zamperla Thunderbolt coming to Korea despite the B&M concept art and videos.

My personal pipe dream of this would be sets of trackless vehicles going through a dark ride race course interacting with each other, changing speeds and there being riderless trackless vehicles showing up as shells at one point. Throw in some banana scenery making random cars spin and perhaps one projected room where after the lights flash on everything is bigger for lightning.

Unless perhaps it was Flight of Passage style.

They did have Universal Express that let you bypass the reservations and join the slide line directly but not sure if it's stopped until they fix some of the problems.

Interesting to see Lotte World got a spike when Everland did not. Especially with the insane money spent and media push Everland did with the introduction of pandas coming to Korea in the spring. There were huge grouping areas painted on the paths so seems they were banking big but the crowds never materialized, it's been a walk-on almost every day to see them. It'll be interesting to see how the numbers go for both parks this year. Pluses for Lotte World are the huge Lotte Tower Observation opening next door bringing more tourists into the area and the fact their 2016 attractions opened at the very end of the year (Gyro Drop and French Revolution being Korea's first VR on a ride and coaster) as well as a flying theater should have a knock on for 2017. Negatives being there is a spat with China due to Lotte selling land to allow the deployment of THAAD and the Chinese government leading retaliations by closing their stores in China not to mention some anti Lotte movements now from the Chinese when Chinese tourists make up i've heard around 5-10% of attendance (i'm not stating this to be political or judging just in the context of attendance) Everland have also had bad press in terms of Samsung's bribery scandal and the Samsung CEO being in jail. They've also replaced rides or are going to (Eagle's Fortress and Global Village) with gardens or upcharge VR which won't bring in too many crowds. There have been signs of cuts around the park such as less parades and the hotel not being built etc.

So after the knock off it's a small world was removed and replaced with a garden, it seems this is now also what is fated to replace Eagle's Fortress. The construction walls don't mention the hotel anymore but a new garden. To be fair to the park, it's a huge site so it could be a case of part of it will be a garden and the rest is for future development (please don't let this be where the Korean Zamperla Thunderbolt ends up)

I'm curious if there was a reason why there haven't been meet and greets before? Is it just a case of because Shrek was the only ride there wasn't a need for them? I remember going to USS a year after opening and meeting Po. Granted their Dreamworks selection was a bit bigger with Madgascar and Shrek 4D (Puss in Boot wasn't under construction yet) but we didn't see anything Kung Fu panda related in the park.

Korean parks have been pretty stagnant lately with nothing major for quite a while, not sure why but a lot of the parks have suddenly started expanding and it's great! Two parks that were relatively unchanged installed Zamperla air races and 360 swings, there's a B&M Dive Coaster and Zamperla Thunderbolt coming (not excited for that but at least something new is coming), Legoland and this project as well as talks again about some of the Incheon projects. Sadly still no Universal Studios near my house 8 years later though. From what I've heard of this project and even the site you have listed has a picture of flight times, their big push with this seems to be aiming more for bringing in the Chinese tourists/cashing in on China's theme park boom than aiming at the Koreans.

In several trip reports, I've read people have not even been able to ride some slides as they have run out of available slots for the day. As I mentioned earlier, this seems to be a recurring theme for reservation only experiments, they would be gone 3-4 hours after opening all the time here whenever a ride was reservation only in the Korean parks.

I've made my negative feelings clear on reservation only in another topic when some Korean water parks or theme parks have tested by making 3 rides/slides in the park reservation only but I do worry that a lot of the problems in your TR are one's that never seemed to go away here when it was tried even months later. 1) Even with reservation hitting a standby line. Big roller-coasters running 3 trains would still have 15-20 minute lines with reservation only so obviously with a water slide it was going to be worse. They can reduce the numbers but that leads me to point 2... 2) The reservations here would run out stupidly early on busy days. And again this is a coaster with a much higher PPH than water slides. If they did adjust the numbers to reduce standby I can see them running out stupidly early. I should point out that the systems here didn't use wait times like VB but return time slots, same as fast-pass but it's essentially the same. On peak days the tickets around midday were gone. 3) Sometimes you'd only be there for the coaster and if you had a ticket for 6 hours later, you kind of just ending up sitting around or giving up. I know they say it reduces your wait but I'd rather just stick it out for 90 minutes at 2 P.M. than sit around until 6 P.M. for a 20 minute line. 4) This one might sound stupid but it always felt like the time-slots controlled my day and I lost my freedom in the park, constantly checking the clock. I know using q bots/fast pass is also on a time slot but i still had the freedom of choice to hop into standbys. For VB you have to gamble grabbing the short lines first and risk the longer ones selling out or grab a long slide and sit around. 5) This one doesn't apply to VB so much but it was incredibly frustrating to see half empty trains go round at times because the next slot hadn't started yet. If I was to make this a VB situation I guess something similar would be seeing empty-ish body slides with 5 minute wait times and not being allowed on because you have a 180 time elsewhere. Honestly, I really hope they work it out as they get more data and can adjust but I really hope it doesn't result in reducing numbers and affecting guests from waiting. People moaned enough that Jimmy Fallon would run out, I can only imagine being told 4-5 hours into your water park day that half the slides are now off limits.

Aqua Trax's are a myth, there's only one less mythical Trax out there in the real world.

Are some of those lockers new-ish? Granted my only visit was when Windseeker was brand new but I only clearly remember having to grab a locker for TTD, not sure about MF, most of the rides we got on the 2 days I was there were literally at cut-off time, both times we planned on ending the day with Maverick and when we realized using that single rider line on Maverick to cut 5-10 minutes might gives us the time to make it over and we sprinted so much I don't remember grabbing one (although maybe we were lucky with the people but both nights they let us in and plenty after even 5-10 mins after cut-off). I had my camera bag and remember taking pictures in line for Mantis and Magnum though.

They have been for a while i put the links a few pages back

R.I.P. Roger Moore: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40018422

I'm more forgiving than most for this park, because I seriously loved riding Dodonpa, but I still remember getting the harness released and then all rechecked when the op noticed something was in my pocket (a very tiny lump) and it turned out to be a piece of used tissue from my cold that i'd forgotten was even there.

I realize artistic license was taken but never have I wanted something to become real from concept art than that potentially a hyper shark head underwater slide.