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Could there eventually be an Inside Out attraction in Epcot? Source: Cinemablend

Not really news but: http://kotaku.com/earthquake-stops-tokyo-disney-ride-at-the-worst-possibl-1706891377 I'd personally rather be in the car e-stopped at the lava monster.

Mad Max was really good. We saw it in 4D however since people told us it was a great movie to see in 4D since you'd see all the effects in action. We'd seen Titanic 4D years ago and been really underwhelmed but we were told 4D is even more hit and miss than 3D in how good it will be and Titanic wasn't a good fit. They were right Mad Max had tons of 4D effects: the seats really were violent and timed really well with the movie, water sprays, the seat kicked us at moments, strobes for lightning, wind machine, puffs of air from behind and in front, apparently smells (I didn't notice) and smoke (didn't see it but I did keep hearing a machine go pfft all through the movie)..... and we really didn't like it. The 4D I mean, not the movie. Probably should have known what we were in for considering a lot of the Korean parks have 4D rides which are just motion simulators with a wind machine but we were surprised how much the seats moved here considering their were no seat-belts and people eating popcorn we'd assumed it would be gentle but it really threw us about. The effects were really well timed but the idea it immerses you more in the movie can't be true. Every time my chair kicked me or vibrated or puffed air, it pulled me out of the movie as I was then paying more attention to my chair timing up to stuff than the movie. I didn't suddenly think I rolled through the dirt 8 times, I was pulled out of the movie because I was busy seeing the things my chair was doing. Honestly, the 4D was fun in a way. I know I said we didn't like it but I think 4D works best if you see a movie, you've already seen and can just laugh at the effects timing up to the screen. People were right that Mad Max was definitely 4D cranked up to 11. For Titantic all I remember is my seat tilted a bit and a wind machine (I did like the wind machine blowing during the movie) but this one was just non-stop doing different things for 2 hours. I think we weren't enjoying it because we hadn't seen Mad Max and the effects kept pulling us back out of the movie.

Agreed, seeing it sitting their for 7 years was a reminder I arrived in Korea just a little too late. I really hope it is replaced with another roller-coaster. There's no guarantee it will be but with T Express reservation only for half a day, it does leave people who couldn't get tickets with only X Train right now in terms of roller-coasters. I know Lotte World doesn't exactly have that much choice either but at least you can line up for those at anytime. If it was replaced by a new roller-coaster and they want to make that reservation only, I'd hope they would at least then remove it from T Express since it won't be the headliner anymore and give people another place to go.

Agreed, I love that store but then I live in Korea thankfully so it's pretty easy for me to find one and go shopping. I picked up a Tintin and BTTF shirt from there yesterday actually.

Did they announce yet who became the third developer? Looking at this blog from two weeks ago, it seems after the trailer Area 52 was removed and some-one new is working on the game but they haven't released the information. Source

One of Koreas most popular TV shows 무한도전 aka Infinite Challenge recently went to Everland and did a number of challenges again including trying to eat ramyeon and do make-up on T Express as well as a ride on Double Rock Spin. Last year 2 members of the show had to leave due to being caught drink driving. They recently gained a new 6th member to the team after running the show with 5 members. To celebrate, the first episodes he appeared on had them re-doing old challenges which involved some very old challenges they did years ago on T Express. Here's the clips: Note: If you look very carefully during the POV shot just as they are about to go over the first drop you will get quite a good view of the massive land clearing where Eagles Fortress used to be thatI mentioned in my TR. Make-Up Challenge: [youtu_be] [/youtu_be] Ramyeon Challenge (This one doesn't last very long): [youtu_be] [/youtu_be] Double Rock Spin: [youtu_be] [/youtu_be]

The TPR video of this is popping up everywhere: http://www.cinemablend.com/pop/Batman-Rollercoaster-Unlike-Anything-Ever-Seen-72060.html

Nooooooooooo! It's too fun and silly and pointless and random (sort of) to go. And it's awesome at night, too! Agreed, it's the most pointless ride but i've never seen any-one not with a smile on their face after this ride. Even people who hate spinning rides love it. I'd rather they retheme it if it comes to that, than ever remove it. Apart from retheming the cars and station, put a couple of the Finding Nemo seagulls on the rocks yelling "mine" and turn the posts with the lights into lighthouses. Note: I mean this as a worst case scenario, if they wanted to refresh the whole area, I do like aquatopia just the way it is now.

I ALWAYS make a point to check out Japanese versions of things like those since it's a given that even though I won't understand what's going on, the actors will be really passionate and still make it entertaining. Turtle Talk was definitely like that at TDS. Although Stitch Encounter was fun in English, my wife and I have never ridden the English version of jungle cruise again at HKDL, it's so much enjoyable just listening to people laughing along to their own language than some-one doing their best at trying to joke in another language (although all credit to them, their English is really good and they do try it's just the delivery just sometimes comes across way too stiff) . Although the Jaws lady I got on one of trips to Osaka was still my favorite. She had the highest pitched voice I'd ever heard exce3pt when the shark showed up and she turned into Christian Bale's batman voice.

Turtle Talk with Crush has been in DisneySea for a while now. It's in the big ship near tower of terror.

But now we can't make jokes about the shape of the gun....

I rode it today. It's probably my favorite flat in the park, other than Drop Tower. It's always a crapshoot with whether friends will ride it or if they're too frightened, which I think highly contributes to its usual short lines. I don't think there's any ride at KD that gathers a bigger crowd to watch. I wish more parks had this model instead of the normal Topspins! You should see Everlands 13 inversion cycle, they run on their version.

Well that didn't last long, previously the government warned any accidents in the complex could result in another close down, although they have passed this one as not major it won't help the safety concerns or visitor numbers, there's a few aquariums in Seoul already and a new one opened recently, it's going to be really hard for them to pull in numbers with the safety concerns: Source: Korea Times

Some of the lines on Wednesday after I encountered 20 minutes all of Sunday for the bigger rides and practically walk-on for championship rodeo and the pirate ship, as I mentioned in my TR Sundays really are quieter than weekdays these days but it's amazing just how much busier these days. I'm curious why so many of the thrill rides are hitting such big lines on weekdays this year. Hopefully Eagle's Fortress massive land clearing can be filled with something to help knock the lines down.

Sorry Larry I went a bit overboard with this years update: http://themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=68491&start=60

Part 3 Oh hello T Express The reservation system is still in place, you can see the times here displayed, it's not a staggered system, there are 4 different time slots. Aim for hitting the line around half past-35 minutes past the hour and the line should be pretty short. This was the sign when we came back from lunch, I'd heard friends complain about it before but this was the first time we'd encountered it. It was kind of surprising since the park really didn't seem busy to me and on all my previous trips with the reservation, T Express was running 2 trains and didn't sell out. Today was 3 trains but tickets were gone sometime around 12-12:40, 3 hours after opening As I mentioned before, it's an easily exploitable system since there are multiple ticket booths around the park and all you have to do is show your ticket without any scanning, you could easily get away with a lot of tickets. Everland also has never had a problem with people getting more tickets later (I ask every time when I get off the ride and they always tell me O.K.) Again even though I'd heard friends complain, I've never seen it so my wife normally grabs a ticket for the next time slot for me while i'm in line since she doesn't want to ride (they also have never said it's a problem) but ironically from a guy who rides about 3 times by knowing when to get in line and where to get tickets, I think Everland needs to get a scanner system for the tickets going and limit it to one per person to make it more fair. We inquired about single rider and they had it, but you still needed a reservation ticket and I wouldn't recommend it. If you can visit the park often like I can then maybe, but if you are only going to get one or two chances to ride on a visit, just go in the middle of the time slot and choose a seat you want. I understand the logic of not letting single riders go without a reservation since they don't want people to flood the queue pass line (where single riders go) when reservation tickets run out but there must be a way to control it. It seemed a shame that I needed to take up valuable reservation tickets to take up what would have been an empty seat anyway. The queue pass line is pretty long and wide and sees very very few people go down it anyway, there must be some way they can allocate single rider passes separate. With the passes you have to turn them in at the station since they are one time use for all the rides and get another one anyway, there must be a way to allocate them and control the flow. I actually found my first two rides some of the roughest I'd ever had on T Express. The staff were trying to rush a 3rd train onto the ride so they were filling up trains half empty so they could cycle it faster. Both times they bundled the single riders into the empty car near the back since it was close to the queue pass area and with the train not weighed down it rattler a lot more than any of my other rides. Again I wish there was a way to run the single rider without needing the reservation ticket, I saw so many empty seat on this trip. However at the speed they needed to get the trains out to keep 3 trains cycling there wasn't much time for grouping riders up unfortunately by the look of things. My 3rd ride was the hands up fun I remember though. All credit to Everland again, after all my complaints about operations last year this was the first time I have seen 3 train operation in a very long time and the op's were hauling ass. Last time I rode many years ago with 3 trains we stopped on the MCBR on both my rides but that didn't happen today. One of the restaurants has some of the Madagascar characters drop in at certain times when you eat there. The festival train got a re theme into Thomas. Either Madagascar is leaving this year or it seems the temporary show with the park mascots that occurred this Christmas will be a yearly thing. Madagascar tickets were still available on this visit unlike my previous visit when they seemed to be gone quite early. We popped into the gardens while the park was busy since my wife had really wanted to look around and I wanted a better angle of Eagles Fortress's construction site. I've always enjoyed this area of the garden a lot more than the back garden near the hostel. Everland's new mascots and again Entering the back garden Everland's hostel These look really pretty at night apparently. Even the carousel had single rider My wife went single ride but ended up on one of the rock it yourself horses on the outside. One of the very few places you can still see the old mascots is inside the Small World knock-off. They'll probably replace these posters soon though. Everland's own matterhorn. Also it was really hot outside and a nap in the boat in the nice cool building seemed like a good option. The temporary looking concrete block area of the park finally got a refresh after I think about 10 years of being a concrete path with one or two random kids rides plonked down on it one of those kids rides got a nice repaint of its roof The charactorium I didn't take pictures inside but it's a huge building filled with lots of interactive things for kids theme around popular Korean children's shows/stuff. The area looks so much nicer now The other kids ride got a re theme to make it a lot less generic. I mentioned earlier Everland had installed a campsite, it took me a while to find. It's in a quiet section in the middle of the park tucked in a corner across from the powered coaster and spooky coaster. It's a bit too expensive for me. It looked nice but also pretty empty. Since T Express became reservation, we've tended to arrive at opening and haven't seen the night show in a long while but if you like pyrotechnics and lots of low fireworks over you head definitely check it out. These photos from an earlier trip, they've updated it to include the new mascots but the effects are the same.

Part 2 Eagles Fortress update time, looking over form the skyway entrance, nothing seems to have changed. It wouldn't be a TR by me if I didn't find at least one new ride sign. The fence behind Hurricane is new. More of the new fence Can any eagle eyed readers see what's different? After almost 7 years it's nice to see they finally replaced the sign that said "under refurbishment" The station still stands Hmm is that a digger I see? The old display has seen better days Tree's blocked my view so I decided I needed to head up the pirate ship to get a better view of the area. Dirt..... where there should be overgrown track and trees. A digger! The digger had moved by the time I'd got off the ride. Honestly the best places to see the construction was through the trees on the road above Everland when you drive in, or from the top of lift hills or rock spin but obviously you can't take cameras on those. I'm going to cheat and skip ahead in my TR, it wasn't until much later I found that by going into the rose garden, you looked up straight into where Eagles Fortress used to be. Cut track They've cleared out a pretty big chunk of land and trees. It's been years since I went up this path so I decided to ride the breakdance I rode X train to get a view of the construction (you're welcome) since when I looked from T Express it was too far away and i gout allocated to the backward facing part of rock spin. From the lift hill you could see a pile of track and supports sitting on the site but it wasn't clear how nicely it was dismantled. Considering it was a pile and not overly neatly snacked I'm going to guess not very. KFC has come to Everland, kind of surprising since nearly all of the food outlets in the rest of the park seem to be run in-house. Finally tried out the single-rider passes, it's amazing how many people walk past the signs at the entrances and have no idea they were there. Like the instructions said, you really need to approach a staff member since each ride has different policies and otherwise the staff just assume you're hanging around the area for your friend. Let's Twist I was made to wait near the exit and Rock Spin near the control booth. X Train was a bit awkward since you were given a ticket by the staff at the entrance and then had to go up the very narrow exit ramp and hope you made it to the top before guests came down it. For Hurricane I resorted to jumping and waving my arms at the staff to ask them since so many people stand around the line talking to friends or watching the ride they were blocking the gate. It's worth asking staff at the entrances of rides if you don't see a sign just in case, T Express for example had it but I didn't see a sign (I could have missed it) There may have been more rides but I was with Jin on those together so I didn't check. I found it funny that so many people ignore the signs, they announced me as a single rider over the P.A. systems on all the rides I used it on as you boarded. I guess to explain to disgruntled guests in the one hour lines why some-one got to show up at the exit and just walk on. Let's Twist still has a mild cycle However this still does 13 loops and is far more intense than any park normal top spins i've been on. Heading down we hit the 2015 construction site Apparently it will feature a backwards drop For a ride that is supposed to open in July I was really surprised to see they were installing supports for a lift/drop now. Seems the helicycles are permanently open now and not just for public holidays anymore It's got a little overgrown in it's 18 months of being closed. The fun house has been removed since the accident. With Eagles Fortress being ripped out and the helicycles open, the big wheel is now the last SBNO ride. One of the construction sites turned out to be this new food hall. The menu it's a order and then go to the specific counter type of restaurant. T Express: coming up in part 3

Here's my Everland TR, sorry it's my lengthiest TR yet (and my TR's are pretty lengthy). Honestly after all my complaints over the last 18 months, we had another fantastic day, it really seems like Everland is back to the way it used to be apart from T Express's reservation policy. It makes such a huge difference when everything is open as opposed to half the park open in the mornings and half in the afternoons. The park was a little busy to the point where I finally tried out Everland's single rider policies but we never felt rushed like on our previous trips, we had time to look around, try out snacks and really, really, enjoyed ourselves. We normally go in June when Caribbean Bay has all the flumes open which can draw some of the crowds away but since it was my wife's birthday we went this week since if you go within 7 days of your birthday you get a coupon book to jump the lines with 4 queue passes and 4 tickets to the older of the two safari rides among other things. Sadly this got suspended a few days before our visit due to it being too popular but it's a perk we are lucky to have had before so no complaints here. I'll let the pictures do the talking, since it's a lengthy TR i'll break down the parts so you know where to scroll to: Part 1: Entrance, new mascots, Lost Valley and 2016 construction Part 2: Eagles Fortress and 2015 construction Part 3: T Express, new additions and the gardens If the park is busy, this ticket booth will be your friend. The park was busy but not overly crowded, on the busyness scale I'd give it a 4/10 (there's a reason I mention how busy it is but you will see that when you get to T Express) As I mentioned lately Sundays have actually been quieter than most weekdays but that'll maybe change when the water park fully opens and the weather changes from pleasantly hot to sticky hot. It's the 30th anniversary of the rose festival. Also check out Everland's new mascot. My wife wanted a picture with the new mascots, she sold it to me by telling me people would want to see a picture of the new mascots. They were mostly being ignored at opening as people participated in the Lost Valley rush. Everland's main street I've always wondered what is housed behind this facade. It wouldn't be a trip to Everland without a picture of the tree. Pororo got a new film but apart from another poster like this one, nothing has changed. The entrance is still the same. The new mascots in topiary form. The 2016 construction area. I bet you can't guess what is coming soon All the people on the daily Lost Valley dash. The construction area runs all the way from the top of the park to the bottom of Rockville. I've never understood the Lost Valley rush, every time we go to Everland, everyone tells us we must run to Lost Valley. I get it's the parks most signature attraction but people run to it wait 30 minutes for it to open and then another 30-40 minutes again for the people ahead of them to ride. When it opened it did get 3-4 hour lines but it's 2 years old now. If it gets 2 hour lines these days chance are the lines are that long across all the park. Maybe when the new flume ride opens people will start to run there instead. Honestly Lost Valley can get through people so fast that i've never seen the line go above an hour on an average day. The old safari ride normally has a longer line since it can't get through as many people. We always hit the line around 1-1:30 when people are eating if we ride. I timed it this time and we waited 18 minutes. When everyone else is running to Lost Valley do yourself a favor and get a T Express ticket and get the family dark rides done at the bottom while everyone else is waiting for Lost Valley. The queue is full of animals to look at, Naked Mole Rats always remind me of Kim Possible. Could Lost Valley be the most Elissa friendly line ever? After queuing up next to these screens for 10 minutes and seeing every hair of fur on the animals bodies I really want a UHD tv. Well played Everland. Since the ride was closed for over 4 months due to the risk of foot and mouth, we decided to ride to see if anything had changed.... turns out nothing had. The painting of a hunter and a line moving across the rock and becoming the line head is a really simple effect but a really nice one. Everland's famous talking elephant only talks to Korean celebrities apparently. The white lions pictured here are a big draw for Lost Valley. I'm pretty sure they used to be on the old safari ride a long time ago. The regular lions are cleverly positioned so they can be seen from both safari rides at one point. The giraffe feeding seems to be a favorite for most visitors. Its funny considering how much people love the amphibious aspect of the ride, how short the water part actually is. These cheetahs never seem to come down off their perch, maybe they are scared of their rhino pen mates? This porcupine had a brief love affair with a pooper scooper. The others including an albino were too lazy to move. With the flume ride demolished and the new one not yet open, the rapids were pretty busy all day with people wanting to cool off.

Lotte World's aquarium was allowed to reopen today: Source: Korea Times Should hopefully have my Everland TR ready to go in a few hours.

I'm not as well traveled as most people on here but the last thing to wow me was Mystic Manor's particle effects of the music box, especially in the end room when it gets sucked back in, looked much more impressive in person than it did in any POV's I haven't been able to make it back to HKDL since that opened, so in no particular order a few things have wowed me in my travels: -Lava Monster -Shariki disappearing effect in TDS Tower Well at least I've managed to see those 2 things.

I'm not as well traveled as most people on here but the last thing to wow me was Mystic Manor's particle effects of the music box, especially in the end room when it gets sucked back in, looked much more impressive in person than it did in any POV's

http://www.themeparkreview.com/parks/park.php?pageid=486 And I know there's been more flavors since then since a friend of mine had Nacho Cheese popcorn.

Just got back from the park, it was a fantastic day, so glad Everland is much easier to get around and enjoyable again. Today I finally remembered to go up and take pictures of Eagle's Fortress so I will have the TR up sometime this week.

Not the greatest website for "news" but saw this linked on somebody's facebook: http://www.tmz.com/2015/05/09/disneyland-pluto-hug-hurt-kid-video/