Garet

Those photos are incredibly shot, thanks for showing them off.

I think here and Phantasialand are 2 of the highest parks on my bucket-list to go do even maybe edging out a Florida trip by a margin. For us, now our son was just born, it probably would be once in a lifetime for Florida (as in 10 year saving plan) and the downside of being a teacher in Asia is the only time off falls in the avoid like the plague weeks for theme parks (1 week end of July and another Christmas & New year week). Plus, airplane tickets go sky-high since nearly the whole country has that time for vacation and on our budget it would be a v cheap hotel so fast pass + might work against us. That's not a dig at Disney since that's our own personal situation but what I mean is if Europa Park ever installed this it would leap over all the other parks on my list by a considerably huge margin as the place to save for.

No... No it hasn't.

This looks incredible, sorry if this comes across as strange but it almost seems like a modern-take on the classic Fantasyland rides such as snow white, peter pan, pinocchio etc, jumping scene to scene with animatronics, all the characters and locations etc and that is definitely not a bad thing. It works great using what was left from Maelstrom but with it's popularity I feel like this would go great in any other park, maybe even with just a track and sled themed cars if they wanted to duplicate this ride and it would fit in nicely in most Fantasylands.

I don't get why a park wouldn't have their express pass shops open, especially one that offers them online in advance. Surely even when it's quiet the option should be there since I bet there are people willing to spend their money regardless. Most parks I've visited when it would be fairly quiet and I've looked into buying one the staff have told me I may not need it if I wanted to save money and advised me on expected wait-times but still allowed me the option of buying one.

^ There used to be one of those in Wicksteed Park, not far from my Dad's house and it alone was worth the price of a wristband, too bad it's gone now.

I can't work out which one I am enjoying more: these awesome TR's or the super-fans reactions to Robb's opinions.

Wasn't expecting this one: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36572649 R.I.P. Anton Yelchin

This guy appears viral every now and again on Korean social media, couldn't find the original video:

Figured this was best here with the other news clippings, more bad news for Lotte Worlds main company, especially Lotte Tower (aka Lotte World 2) Source

It amazes me how quickly you can make something half decent in this. I haven't really had a chance to play it since I bought it due to my son being born.I wanted to have a quick play around so when I had 30 minutes spare so really quickly threw this together and then had a very quick play around to just check out placing scenery, terrain tools, vfx and lighting (just one quick spotlight on the other side of the ship and some small smoke machines on a tunnel to see how it worked.) The only place I got stuck was trying for a dive loop, it just kept coming out completely inverted and I didn't have time to figure it out. Gotta agree with the people asking for pre-themed rides, really wanted to quickly put down a uni-coaster and try and barrel-theme it but there was no getting around the floaty brain.

That's true, I'm kind of a wait until it's died down kind of person for trips rather than being first so i'll probably wait a year or 2. I still haven't ridden Harry Potter because I'm more interested in Flying Dinosaur and want to wait. Even with my local park, I remember Lost Valley had 4-5 hour lines when it opened and still gets dashes in the morning. On all my trips I didn't ride it until a year and a half after opening when it had a 20 minute wait around lunch.

I feel like entitlement in general is a big issue. The amount of times I see both from students (whose parents complain when teachers tell them off for breaking rules) or people in the apartment blocks or on the road who seem to think the rules are for everyone but them has increased so much recently compared to just a few years ago. It went from every few days or so 6 years ago to every day to now when I literally see about 8 things that make me shake my head in despair and just hate the world in just 1 trip to the local supermarket and back.

If i'm being honest, outside of Soarin, I was expecting lines for this park to be much worse than 75-120 minutes for bigger attractions even in the morning on a opening weekend (or so close to opening).I think based on some of the mad dashes at opening I've had on Japan trips I was expecting to see around 3-3.5 hours for things like Tron and Snow White etc.

What's a blitz coaster? A Blitz coaster is manufactured by Intamin. They are usually a somewhat compact coaster that have an LSM launch to propel the train. Here's a list of Intamin Blitz coasters here. Pretty sure he's joking. Either that or AJ resets every so often

I get the impression that TPR has never really cared about being first and more about the quality of the videos they shoot. I think they'd rather have a nice steady video without the shaking than having a member rush out with a hand mounted one to be first.

^I've done one midnight showing in my life and that was Simpsons Movie because.... we were in the area and thought it'd be interesting. It came out one daily earlier than the USA and there were seriously die-hard American fans who were posing with tickets and ringing up friends. They were dissecting whether it would match "old-school" Simpsons level of funny and discussing favorite seasons and episodes, what they'd heard in interviews, who they thought the secret celebrity voice was etc. Back then there was no option for reserved seating at all and we were there 25 mins before opening behind them. With all their discussions I felt like i'd seen the movie before we even went in. That and then the mad scramble some of the super fans had once doors opened to get perfect seats.... Never again.

^This may be useful for you then, they will pick up near military gates in Seoul and Osan.

I was quite shocked when I saw the video length, I had never seen a video of Aladdin and I only looked it up yesterday after being curious once I saw the length of Frozen.I guess off of my previous experiences in Tokyo and HK I was just expecting the shows to have been something shorter like the length of Lion King at HKDL (so around 30 mins)

I heard with alpha 2 it's a bit more optimized, I bit the bullet and just hope it holds up.

Do they research outside events when they give reasons or just look at things like forecasts? Just curious because I was surprised to see no mention of the MER's outbreak when they were talking about the down year. I feel that would be the main effect for Korean parks this year as there was mass panic over the MER's outbreak that spread quite rapidly in Everland's and Lotte World's area that had schools shut down for almost a month (in my area that wasn't too far from one of the hospitals) and a lot of people petrified of any big public areas for over 2 months during the busy late spring season as well as reducing the amount of foreign visitors especially Chinese tourists as well. It was a little silly since all the spreads happened in hospitals but there was a lot of mis-information and hysteria about where it was. I saw mothers crying and yelling when the school was opened and had only 5 kids out of 30 in the early days before they shut. Even when schools reopened it took a while after that for things to pick up again. The parks really were ghost towns for a while. Also, for most of my time in Korea, my quietest trips have been the summer season, it's usually pretty quiet for the parks compared to spring and fall since most people hit the water parks due to heat and water parks don't have that long a operating season (the water park just opened running 3 slides right now and hasn't fully opened yet) they even offer deals to get people into Everland for free in the evening or to go there for "waiting" because the water park is at capacity.

Those pneumatic towers still rely on the cables to somehow connect the cars to the pneumatic system. ARM/Larson towers use large permanent magnets on the cars. So unless something wonky happens to how physics works, they'll always come to a slow crawl before reaching the ground. I know Acrophobia uses magnets as brakes, so I imagine Intamin uses magnets on other drop towers as well. Yes, all Intamin gen 2 and up towers use magnetic brake except for Phantasialand's and the indoors one at Lotte World. Lotte World's tower is outside now, but putting it near the bigger gyro drop (sadly now with scream shields) does make it very overshadowed and although it is mainly pneumatic it actually has magnetic brakes at the bottom and top in case of emergencies but you are correct in that it doesn't really use them as its main brakes.

Am I the only one who kind of enjoyed cinemagique? It was cheesy but I quite liked the way they did it overall, although they seem to keep tinkering with it to "update it" with more current movies and it seems to make even less sense what shows up where each time and they were stretching with a few on the original.

As funny as that was, I got most of my laughs from the comments section.

^ I haven't had to replace any of mine and I don't exactly treat it nicely either. Thank god there are plenty of shops here in Korea. My BTTF Uniqlo shirt gets worn pretty often out of some other movie ones that I tend to end up using for my kindergarten job where it gets tugged and pulled on and covered in all sorts and I haven't replaced any yet. My cheapish hoodies and jackets that I use almost daily for dog walks during late fall- early spring have outlived a lot more expensive ones as well.