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Everland Discussion Thread
Garet replied to dr.gumbo's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
This is either going to be amazing or result in a lot of ride delays due to vomit clean-up: Source -
TPR's Ever Evolving Park Index
Garet replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Ride sign for Hurricane at Everland and Championship Rodeo pictures. Also Big Wheel is permanently retired, it has a memorial out front and they just use it as a giant night light. K-Pop Hologram was redesigned and given a new facade, name and new show if that counts as closed. House of Oz was removed after the accident and replaced with a custom made kids rope course forEverland (as opposed to Oz which could have been on a travelling carnival) so that's definitely closed and Madagascar Live! has also left the park. Global Village has been torn down to be replaced by something else but they could just be replacing the whole system to make Global Village 2.0. Lotte World: Ride sign for Pirate, it's name is the Conquistador. What with this and me talking to myself in the Everland thread trying to keep the news up to date, I should really visit the title fairy over my Korean park OCD. -
But you are also getting another whole theme park for $25 extra...so the whole train ride wouldn't really be at least $25 extra Yea but for most multi-gate parks, a lot of people, especially ones who aren't local and for them a once in a lifetime trip, are probably going to spend a least a full day in each park. So if you are planning on doing both parks anyway but a hopper is the only way to experience all the attractions in the park (Hogwarts Express) then you're not really getting a whole park out of that deal. More an "opportunity cost" of $25 per person to experience just the Hogwarts Express.
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Kind of random but I found an arcade by chance with a working one of these tucked in the corner in Gran Canaria when I visited many years ago and I had to try it out. It was next to the Maspaloma's beach in Playa del Ingles heading towards the sand-dunes. If you hit naked people I think you've gone too far.
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I used to love slides like those where you just had a little ring and down you went onto some mini rapids, splash pools and little flumes. Saw a fair few in Spain and Portugal when I was a kid on family vacation or the non ring versions at Center Parcs. Too bad you rarely see new one's like these, most parks that have connecting slides to pools tend to use master blasters these days. I've always wanted to go to Schlitterbahn and I heard Colorado Water World was supposed to have some fantastic rapid rivers.
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Alton Towers Discussion Thread
Garet replied to Ed's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
^ That Alton Mouse incident of over-riding the blocks is interesting considering The Smiler incident. -
Alton Towers Discussion Thread
Garet replied to Ed's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
I clicked the link and this was the one above the AIR incident: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3568998/Mother-suing-leisure-centre-20-000-claiming-lifeguard-told-not-breastfeed-son-pool.html Told me all I needed to know about what kind of things that newspaper is looking for.... -
No jokes in the mega dead thread please. I just opened an email that told me there was a reply to the mega dead celebrity thread and my eyes instantly latched onto the words Keith Richards.
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Really liked Civil War but I honestly feel like people citing it as best Marvel movie ever are over-reacting. It was a lot of fun, the 2 and a half hours passed by without me ever thinking the movie was dragging, and I got pretty much what I was expecting and it was definitely worth the price of admission especially the middle act. It seemed a bit more generic than some of the others films but the action was fantastic. It's a top 5 for me for sure but I still honestly think I would pick GotG and Winter Soldier over this. Probably because of my low expectations when I went into GotG and how surprised I was at how much I enjoyed it. After Winter Soldier I was probably going in with way too high expectations to this one. *mild spoilers* I felt kind of a little let down by the big bad's plot, it just felt like one of those plans which falls apart way too much when you pick at the logic and I just felt like the movie played it very safe throughout and with Tony throwing away the suit in IM3 even though we knew Ultron was coming and Hawkeye retiring in that one to come back here, I'm kind of over the we've changed the status quo endings that will just be undone in the next with a passing remark. At least the ending of IM3 was acknowledged in this one.
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Some information about Lotte World and Everland
Garet replied to Tim2009's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Sorry for my 5th post in a row but since there isn't a Lotte World discussion page I felt this was probably the best place to put it since most of the discussion has been about magic pass. Lotte World have announced a new premium magic pass. 30,000 won gets you 5 magic passes to be used anytime on the day (the free ones have time limits) or 100,000 gets you unlimited rides for the day. There is a catch however as the 5 pass is limited to only 70 people a day and the unlimited pass is only allocated for 30. No English version up but here's the link: http://www.lotteworld.com/notice/view.asp?cmsCd=CM0051&ntNo=320 -
Tokyo Disney Resort Discussion Thread
Garet replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
I'm assuming the footnote at the bottom is talking about the previous announcement: about the new port, moving of Small World etc. -
^I think he means the rumored PS4.5/Neo. I just got a 4K tv so may wait to see what this rumored Neo offers before retiring my 3 (I still have a huge back-log of flash sale games to get through)
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THIS!!!!!! I think you've both missed the point. No-one is concentrating on the intensity race or complaining this isn't a mind blowing RMC or an Intamin woodie. I watched the same POV and what I saw is what looks like a fun wooden roller-coaster that would be great for the whole family. The problem is the high height restriction means that it can't really be for the whole family and nothing in that POV says to me that high a restriction is needed. If it was something along the lines of Grizzly Mine Cars at HKDL or Firechaser Express with a lower height restriction with an accompanying adult to fill the family ride gap or even this exact ride from a company who could provide a lower height restriction then it would have been a much better fit.
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Shanghai Disney Resort Discussion Thread
Garet replied to Dr Freeze's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
We've got quite a few strange options in Korea I've tried the strawberry pizza here in Korea and quite a few weird options elsewhere, saw blueberry pizza recently at a chain "Italian" (http://www.solemio.or.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=m33). The cheap chain pizzeria near my house has a white cream spaghetti pizza for $8 and I quite like it. (http://pizzaschool.net/menu/%EA%B9%8C%EB%A5%B4%EB%B3%B4%EB%84%A4%ED%94%BC%EC%9E%90/) Ratatouille Pizza was in Mad for Garlic a few years ago, if you're a garlic lover the chain is worth checking out. As you can see from the link above for blueberry pizza, dessert pizzas can be quite popular. The mentioned strawberry pizza from a restaurant in the basement of Gangnam, right next to the Gangnam Style monument. -
Everland Discussion Thread
Garet replied to dr.gumbo's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
I try not to spam up this thread too much but I thought this was kind of funny not to share, and it is a new addition in the park and I like to keep this thread up to date. There is now a mini-simulator with VR headsets, in the building right next to T Express where you can experience.......T Express. I love the lady to the left who has her VR above her eyes. Source I joke but depending on if there's a height to this it'd probably be a) a nice thing for kids to try out who aren't tall enough but want to see what siblings and parents will do or b) good for kids who are tall enough but a bit unsure about riding. They will be alternating the movie to include the Safari Ride (the next attraction down the road from T Express ) but the expensive special tour version as opposed to the free buses and Horror Maze (next door to this building but closed until nearer Halloween) EDIT: Checked the Everland app and it's on the attractions page listed at 120cm, so only 10cm lower than T Express and ironically making the virtual safari a lot higher than the actual Safari Ride which has no restrictions (even Lost Valley is 100cm unaccompanied) -
Tokyo Disney Resort Discussion Thread
Garet replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
If this was ever going to be a reality at any Disney park, it'd be Japan. I feel like you could probably have a whole 3rd gate based around Ghibli, although Hayao Miyazaki is way too green to green light it unless you could somehow make it run completely on self-sustaining energy. As much as it's fan art, it's apparently fan art by a guy named John Ramirez who works for Disney both for storyboards and the theme-parks: Article I linked the picture from The guy's instagram page -
I'm sure the casino and some other attractions will pop up but I'm still skeptical on the theme park and water park front, I've seen so many "confirmed proposals" and partnerships that have never come to fruition, a few months ago I shared a "confirmed" project for Disneyland partnered with MGM resorts in Incheon, the Hwaseong government put out cryptic tweets about a park coming and more details which never followed and speaking of Hwaseong, Universal was announced for like the 4th attempt recently.
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Kings Dominion (KD) Discussion Thread
Garet replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Excuse me if i'm sceptical about where your friends are from, from the USJ thread: My friend is a member of Screamscape... That's funny, because I am the one who took the pics and I don't know you. Here is the rest of the gallery from the trip. https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOwRKU6amGMy8wEDuNY3_GFLZSf26wF-5sIM1DkaM05ThvnEHxw3s_1t0O0c5irMA?key=NlhnTUl4bE4xUi1JaktHN0l0QS1ITG4zOGVONW1n -
SeaWorld Orlando (SWO) Discussion Thread
Garet replied to disneygurlz2s's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
T Express MCBR is quite early in the ride, pretty much after the first two hills and a turn, which is great since I've seen them run 3 trains without stacking, although on a couple times we ended up stopped on the MCBR for a few seconds and lost the momentum. -
Everland Discussion Thread
Garet replied to dr.gumbo's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
With the baby on the way, I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to go out and do a TR for Panda World but this Korean blogger did one already and his photos are always fantastic, it would put my TR to shame anyway: http://szsup.tistory.com/705 -
I realize I'm years late to this but I picked up the Arkham trilogy in a sale and they are so good. Mark Hamill is just incredible as the joker as always, and the gameplay is really good. I put it on hard and died a bit in the first predator room since I'm not too good a gamer but never once did I feel cheated or find it cheap, everytime I died I knew it was something I did or made a stupid mistake, which is something since normally I'm quick to blame the game. Without spoilers it's just a shame the final boss was what it was, so close to being a perfect game for me.