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The interview from the daily mail with one of the crash victims is here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3123056/Our-agony-Smiler-Alton-Towers-victim-reveals-hell-waiting-hours-rescue-comforted-girlfriend-lost-leg-change-them.html Regardless of sensationalist headlines, it does seem like just his genuine thoughts and upsets rather than a smear campaign on Alton Towers or ride safety, though he does ask why none of the staff spotted the empty train sitting there and called it in, I did notice he took time to mention this:

Looking at the TPR Twitter, I'm kind of curious if Tobu Zoo still has it's drop tower G-Max or still has 2 ferris wheels. When I went to Tobu Zoo's nearest subway station they had the overpass set up as a timeline to the theme park rides and it was amazing seeing how many rides had rotated in and out over the years. When I went the drop tower seemed to have most of its seats chained up with fade seats and only running one side that looked cleaner so it seemed as if it would be next to go, it also almost "felt old" it made some very slight jolts on the pull to the top that I had never felt on that style of ride before and didn't seem like it had got a lot of love.

I'll probably wait a while before I ride, last time I was at the water park lines were over 2 hours for the bigger slides and 1 hour for normal tube slides. For Mega Storm, at least for soft opening, it's open 1-4pm with wristbands handed out from 9am first come first serve but I don't think i'm in good enough shape to out-run all the Koreans who will go I wonder if it's popular enough if they will make the new water-slide reservation only like T Express is, I know last summer they did a trial run on 2 of the most popular water slides where you reserved a time at opening to come back and ride them.

One of my students showed me how to get the links for the Korean version of google street view, in Korea they have both an airplane mode and a street view mode so here's the link if you've ever wanted to walk around Everland Everland: The street view is almost 5 years old and the airplane view over 6 years old, so quite a bit of the park has changed since then but it's still an interesting look around. Eagles Fortress' photos were taken not only before it was torn out but before the area had become overgrown. Walk around the park Fly-Over Lotte World: These views are even older and taken in 2009, sadly not street view. Fly-Over

Wow the Matterhorn Bobsleds one has so much going on in it: http://ridesims.com/simulations/matterhorn-bobsleds/

That did get mentioned in the TR :

So with Everland soft opening Mega Storm this Saturday, they've updated the site with Mega Storm's micro site: http://www.everland.com/web/intro.html It could be nothing but I find the slide in the bottom left interesting. It could just be an artists representation of the ordinary tube slide but the colors and type of tube are completely different. I would think nothing of it but if you look at the entrance building there's a sign that says -mpest (I'm going to assume Tempest) that isn't present on the building currently whereas everything else in the picture matches up. Could this picture have accidentally revealed something to come to the water park next year?

^ Unless it's something completely new, I think we are more likely to see a version of Singapores flyers than IoA's since Singapores has a higher capacity.

Apparently 10 minute closures counts as news now: http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Alton-Towers-shut-rollercoaster/story-26662463-detail/story.html

Kind of curious looking at the closed list of rides among the parks that X isn't on the list. Isn't that also a multi block ride? Seems kind of strange they shut down every ride with blocks except that one or did X already have the "protocols" in place?

This one was a little buried under all the MERS panic (the parks are all walk-on and completely deserted right now) but there was another incident in Lotte World 2, not sure this one is their fault or related to construction but again it's not really helping settle the public unease right now: Source

Yep like this very helpful infographic, maybe this should be shared with the sky news reporter when she keeps talking about how they've been operating unsafe rides.

It'll be interesting to see if Korea's park and water park numbers drop next year compared to the ones in this report. With MERs panic across Korea right now, parks are apparently walk-on on a saturday with their rides right now whereas normally with the start of the summer season, lines would be an hour long for a lot of the rides. Although both Caribbean Bay (Everland's water park) and Lotte Water Park are opening pretty big new flumes this month and Everland has it's major new water ride scheduled for next month which might counter-act that.

It's just a poorly designed ride vehicle. I don't think it's a poorly designed vehicle, considering the positive comments on the other zac spins... I think it's the modifications SFMM made to reduce spinning that made it uncomfortable, didn't some-one say MM added weights to the bottom of the carriages?

Alton Towers have also announced they'll be closed tomorrow as well.

All 4 people in the front row have now been named: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-33011347

I've seen the POV (we have one on our channel!) that doesn't actually tell me that much when you're not that familiar with the ride. I was hoping that someone who has been on the ride could tell me how fast it feels at the point of the impact and if that is one of the faster parts of the coaster. Thank you. 20mph according to this article: http://news.sky.com/story/1496002/alton-towers-crash-survivor-is-overwhelmed

Wow, I knew Harry Potter had been popular in Japan but that's a huge boost! Considering people said the lines weren't as busy as they expected them to be for Gringotts I'm surprised to see Universal Orlando had a similar boost.

New waterslide coming to Everland's waterpark: Mega Storm [youtu_be] [/youtu_be]

Not much in this video that hasn't been seen but it does show the empty train sitting there at the end of the video (i'm assuming before the crash): http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-32981573

More details as the page has updated with the picture I posted above: Source Taken from someones facebook comment on towertimes haven't found a original source yet, the floor has buckled.

Another picture Source

After only opening with only 2 outdoor slides last year, it seems Lotte World's waterpark is finally ready to open the rest of the outdoor slides for the 2016 season tomorrow. The 2 slides of the outdoor waterpark opened last week and now the map has been updated to reveal all the attractions to finally complete the water park: http://www.lotteworld.com/inc/module/etcDownload.asp?fno=6

I haven't read the comics either, and am only going off the movies i've seen and the names/press release of the next Avengers. That's probably why whenever he shows up I'm just like.......meh it's that guy again.

Sorry if I mis-read this but do you mean this post as saying that the purple guy was the Hulk? Because it's a different character named Thanos (that shouldn't be a spoiler by now), he was in the post-credits for Avengers 1 and appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy as well. He'll be the big bad in the two Avengers 3 movies but I wouldn't be surprised if he appears again before that. Although while on that subject, I fell like all this build-up over what will be 10 years by the time Avengers 3 isn't going that great to make Thanos the big scary bad Marvel want him to be. I saw Avengers 2 with some of my Korean co-workers and they thought Thanos was also a purple hulk or "that guy who sits in the space chair"