Garet

Double post

No offense but I kind of find it hard to believe that a ride, where part of the experience is shaking your seats, would have a design flaw where the whole ride could need extended maintenance if too many people shake their seat at inappropriate times. People are always going to do things like that during raising and lowering regardless of announcements, look at all the times people pull down their lap-bars before a seat belt check on Full Throttle. I'm sure this would have been considered when the ride was being developed. Speaking of simply science.... you know rides usually have counterweights on the other end, right? If the seats are all mounted centrally so they can spin in a circle easily, surely the stress isn't overly different spinning vs non-spinning, I'd assume as an operator you are aware of that.

I don't, sorry. We all know it's getting new trains with a lot of people expecting vest restraints and possibly floorless, track is getting replaced, the queue is getting updated and the launch is being worked on. The ride is closed for less than a year so I don't think we'll be seeing anything too unexpected, plus wouldn't they have to apply for permission to change the layout? The application people saw a few months ago mentioned the launch but no track changes. There could be a change in theme, right? I don't remember the press release referring to the "new" coaster as the Hulk, just as having "an incredible personality". I saw a picture of one of the construction walls that said The Incredible Hulk Coaster returns 2016 and the walls are covered with Hulk comic squares but anything is possible.

Obviously the coaster will count as thirty-two new credits, duh! I dread to think how many credits those people count Battlestar as due to "new experiences": human with lap bar, human with vest restraints, human with 2 across train, cylon, cylon with 2 across seating

Let the VR rumors begin again

Have they finally stopped balancing the ride on purpose to stop it from flipping? People talk about the other Zacspins with positive reviews when it's unbalanced, did SFMM do something different to theirs that is making the flipping uncomfortable?

Intamin uses Indrivetec. http://www.indrivetec.ch That looks to be a subsidiary of Intamin AG, which would classify Intamin's LSMs/LIMs as "in-house". Unless it isn't a subsidiary, in which case, ignore my comment! Looked at the intamin site to see if there was any mention, I had no idea Intamin had an office in Korea not too far from Gangnam (from the song Gangnam Style). I must have walked past the building 20 times and had no idea Intamin had an office there. It's really close to Lotte World, which makes sense considering the number of intamin rides they own

Mass Effect = EA Oops, for some reason I had it in my head that bioware had worked with ubisoft.

With the recent announcement for Great America, I wonder if we'll see a clone of the Mass Effect ride at this park.

No saki for Mickey?

The new funhouse/play area I pictured above will open soon, unlike the old fun house this one will probably be children only. Source

Though the roller-coaster is not going away, and we've yet to see any B&M coaster be destroyed, are those the first ever used pieces of B&M track to hit the scrap pile?

Looks more like an advert for the 4th movie than a tease for the ride based on the time when HRRR was being constructed.

But a lot of these rides for Intamin at Cedar Point were new at the time or pushing the boundaries, I think people forget when they see a new B&M somewhere like Cedar Point or elsewhere that there have been a few others of that type to iron out a lot of the bugs. I remember when B&M tried something new with their flying coaster. I was at Alton towers a few months after AIR first opened and I remember a lot of reports of it being temperamental leading up to that and sure enough it was closed when we drove up to try it out. It was on and off throughout the day and luckily we were there when the line opened but it was 4 hour waits after that with a lot of down-time. Another example with AT would be the smiler that had a lot of issues which was new and that was Gerstlauer. I think it's a little unfair to say it's only Intamin at Cedar Point when their rides were trying new things as opposed to the other companies building things that had been done before.

I attached a picture of the old trains from my last visit. It looks like you have a lot more freedom with the new ones. I agree Sea Paradise was a surprise highlight for me. I thought it would be one of those parks I visit once and then it hits the low priority pile on return visits but it always ends up being one of the highest for me when I go back to Japan. I need to visit Cosmoworld with TPR, on my last visit I ran out of momney after the two coasters, flume and big wheel. I'd love to see them one day get a one pay wristband. These were the old trains on my last visit.

I think he means this part but I agree I don't think it's a corkscrew. I think the angle of the photo makes some of the supports look almost like they could be attached to inverted track but to me I just see an overbanked turn. If I squint hard enough at the 2 supports I can see where it would look as if the train enters on the left and corkscrews over coming towards the spot from where the photo was taken from. I think this is the bit he's referring to from another angle

This comparison shot was posted earlier, but that's it: https://twitter.com/made_in_USJ/status/646152504258924545

If it hadn't been Frozen, a lot of people would have just complained it wasn't Frozen. No matter what somebody wouldn't have been happy.

Everland is getting pandas for 2016: http://themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1585731#p1585731 and a new fun house: http://themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=70969&p=1633612#p1633612 Whatever is going on in Global Villages building could also be 2016 with the timing of when it was shuttered but it could also be 2017. I'm thinking 2016 since the flume ride had a similar replacement schedule last year. Also a hotel resort in 2017 to replace Eagle's Fortress whenever that thread opens up.

Speaking of adding Frozen to things, I was always curious why Mickey's Philharmagic at the other parks never got any additions or upgrades as new films came out. Is it just a case of if it isn't broke, don't fix it? It still looks fantastic but looking at how great the animations is on some of the newest films like Tangled and Frozen, I'd always thought that ride would rotate out segments. It always seemed like an easy way to keep that ride fresh. Maybe I just really want to see Disney do a 4d segment for let it go.

I mentioned in a photo above that I'd read in some Korean newspapers that Everland had closed down their version of it's a small world after 30 years of operation but I hadn't seen any official confirmation, and that it was just shuttered in the picture. My wife managed to find the confirmation though: The translation in the top left corner roughly translates as: come back to find a new look. Makes it sound like we could be seeing a new theme to replace the existing one of "it's a small world" or maybe like the super-flume being an updated new ride that was pretty similar to the old flume, perhaps a new ride very similar to the old one is going to replace the existing 30 year old one? It's nice to see it's not completely going away, though I wasn't a big fan, it never had too long a queue and the ride building was a lot cooler than other rides/restaurants in the park so it always made a great rest-stop to escape the crowds and hot sun during the summer seasons. I also forgot to mention that Everland now sell their own version of glow with the show headbands for the night-time show. Unfortunately even though we arrived before opening, with Halloween being busy we ending up in one of the shuttle buses car parks so we didn't fancy staying until park closure and seeing the show and having to wait out the shuttle buses since traffic was already heavy that weekend due to thanksgiving preparations, we were taking the back-roads and didn't fancy closing traffic.

2 photos of a wider view of Thunder Falls entrance that I forgot to post since I didn't take my camera on the ride, they were on my Iphone and I forgot about them.

I just caught up with this TR now. Great updates, makes me really sad that my Japan trips have never been with TPR. You guys manage to cram in so much more than when I hop over by myself.

I added some of your Super Flume Thunder Falls photos. Thanks, its probably going to be my last Everland update for a little while.

Hey Larry I photographed the new stuff at Everland. However since it's mostly just the new stuff and not park-wide and also pretty negative and references one bad experience as opposed to the park itself I decided not to submit it to the PI but if there's anything you can use, feel free: http://themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=70969