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I have such a soft spot for Stanley Falls!! I love old school flume rides, and the foliage around this one is beautiful. I'd much rather see Tidal Wave go - the half assed theming on the river portion is not representative of the brand. That said, if they decided to knock the flume down for an Aquatrax or a Mack water-anything - I wouldn't complain! I water coaster would be nice. I agree Tidal Wave can go. I also think Tidal Wave's location is better for a new coaster instead of right next to Montu and Cheetah Hunt. Python was in that area before and it would put a little space between the water rides, but it's nothing I'm expecting to see. Behold Tut's Fury, the first launched spinning coaster It wouldn't be the first launched spinner in the world, there's Veil of Dark in Joyopolis.

Granted I've only popped in when I've been in the area for a few hours and haven't spent the better park of a day there yet but as I said earlier, the whole park really does seem to be going through a refresh and the operations are much improved to be more like the Everland I remember when I came to Korea 6 years ago. Being a foreigner is probably better than being a Korean for Everland lol, there's a ticket booth just for English speakers which is normally a lot emptier and quicker than the main ticket booths for buying tickets and getting in, plus they normally give foreigner discount of 20% there (I think it's 20). Pretty much every sign is in English around the park and a lot of the areas have English speakers around. T Express has an English speaker to explain the reservation system, just as I said don't fall into the trap most people do and run to T Express and end up lining up at T Expresses ticket booth when there are much emptier and quicker ones around the park. The ticket booths are pretty important to get to quickly if you want tickets to the Madagascar show while you get T Express. There are different booths around the park for different things, information ones are generally for show/T Express tickets, K pop show has it's own booth as does the kids cafe and the ones in the safari area are for special personal car tours. The one down for the riding the camels/ponies also does show tickets/T Express tickets however on my last trip. Nice empty booth Usually busy booth

Makes me wonder with the announcements so close together, if they waited to see how the Kong announcement went first. If Kong had got a lot of people talking about Universal, would we have seen this announcement come later once the Kong talk died down?

It'll be interesting to see how the lines play out next year, after people returned from the park and posted on social media their real experiences, the trending did a 180 with people amazed how quiet the park was on children's day especially considering the 3 hour queues across the park running up to the holiday on what weren't full public holidays. I don't think Everland did itself to many favors with its weird operating decisions over the last year and a half only opening one half of each area in the morning for a few hours and then closing those rides and opening the others in the afternoons, combined with only keeping one or two children's rides open in the whole park meant it was very easy for pictures like the one above because it pushed a lot of people into the parades for something to do. Also there were promotions at strange times like giving all the Samsung employees extremely cheap entry on the last weekend before Halloween, one of the craziest weekends even without special offers. As I said it generally has been that weekdays are busier than weekends lately or the days before the public holiday as people try to avoid the crowds ironically enough. Though the lines should die down when the water park fully opens, it's not like there's a shortage of people wanting thrill rides so I really think something big is needed. Looking at the line times lately on weekdays when other rides including the safari rides sit almost empty, the top spin and top scan are constantly pushing 60-100min lines and T Express also jumps up when the reservation system ends at 3PM. What's extremely crazy, especially for a country known for its bali bali (quickly, quickly) mind space (something is popular, it opens everywhere... there's now 7 little french fry places after one did well on one street near where I live and after honey butter chips was a trend there's now about 3 shelves worth of variations in every convenience store, that and bubble tea is now everywhere) is how stagnant the parks are here. The last time I think the whole country got a thrill ride aimed at the 1.4m people was either T Express or Let's Twist and even that runs on an extremely mild cycle (the suspended top spin has a great 13 loop cycle next door though) The roller-coaster situation is even worse I don't think the number of roller-coasters across the country has gone up since 2008. A lot of parks like Seoul Land still sit practically the same as the day they first opened 15 years later with only little investments like a low rope course, small rides or refreshing the kids area since opening. The boomerang I believe is now SBNO. I think the only new coaster maybe after T Express in 2008 was Childrens Grand Park this year, which recently got a Vekoma suspended clone at the expense of the old looper. Even they removed their thrill ride, (I guess they really want to take the Childrens part of their name seriously) the intamin gyro swing, it was on the concept art of the retheme but gone when the walls came down (did anybody ever ride it? I've seen pictures of it but never in action, I think it may have been installed just before the park shut for the retheme) and their drop tower has a pulley on the outside so it doesn't really "drop" (TR coming soon) Legoland is coming soon with 2 more coasters aimed at families but it has been an extremely long time since anywhere saw a thrill ride. The new water ride will help soak up some of Everland's lines but when the pandas come in 2016 I think they could use something in Eagle's Fortress old spot since with the pandas being near the entrance there will be a lot of people in the top of the park. If Korea's future really is wanting to be family friendly, as much as I'd love to see something along the lines of a terrain "Maverick", I think a terrain "Cheetah Hunt" would fit perfectly not only as a more intense family ride but as a nice gap between the kid coaster and powered coaster as beginner and T Express and Rolling X Train for the more extreme. It used to advertise as one of the only roller-coasters to run 3 trains a few years ago but now it runs a reservation system from opening until 3PM so there isn't a standby line anymore. You grab a ticket from a booth around the park (many people don't read the map and run to T Expresses booth and wait ages.... but there's a lot of empty ticket kiosks aorund) and then jump in line. Times aren't staggered though so if you go at the start of the hour you'll hit a big line. Korean News The Korean Government will decide if they will approve the reopening of the worlds biggest cinema screen and lotte worlds aquarium this week, early signs point to a reopening despite another incident in the shopping mall again, this time faulty sprinklers going off: http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2015/05/113_178351.html

Just an idea but with Disney owning Marvel, would they use Nintendo to re-theme some of IOA's Marvel rides? There's so many things under the Nintendo name could just that be used to make a 3rd park? Even if it couldn't in Orlando, with all that talk about a 2nd park in Japan, i think it would go down really well over there.

The 2016 dark ride is going in that area.

Banana?

Even if the Back to the Future merchandise has gone, I think I could easily spend half my life savings on the other random things in the park, perhaps even just in the Jaws store alone.

Again wouldn't a skyloop count as 180 degrees or something like G-Force? Gutterflowers guess makes more sense really

I think your misreading the height as how big the drops will be. 14.5m will probably be how high it is from the ground at it's highest point. Alton Towers can't really build above the tree-line so they have to use a low height. Look at Oblivion and Nemesis, they have height's of 65ft and 45ft each but their drops are much bigger. I believe when they say pre-show building they mean something before you get on the ride like SFMM apocalypse used to have when it was Terminator Salvation or Rock N Rollercoaster, not part of the ride itself. The pre-show will be more to do with what the park are themeing the ride as, not to do with the manufacturer. A few of the Alton Towers rides do have pre-shows. Weren't the original plans that were submitted for a wooden rollercoaster to use the valley between Forbidden Valley and what was then Ug Land to get around the height limit but feature huge drops?

Looks like they'll be announcing what all the kongstruction is for tomorrow :

Worlds steepest lift hill seems a strange record to go for. Wouldn't all those Eurofighter vertical lift hills count as steeper? Or can the sky loops claim they have a 180 degree worlds steepest lift hill?

Everland's helicycles have re-opened after almost 8 months since they last were seen open, although with Friday being a day off for workers and children's day being today, its currently unclear if they will be permanently reopened with the new flume ride bringing people to the area or if like last year it will only open on days expected to be extremely busy since last time it opened was for Korean thanksgiving. Speaking of crowds yesterday: When it was not a full public holiday, but some schools were closed, lines were reported at Everland of being almost 3 hours long across the park for most of the rides. Today looking at the app, it has been reading 20 minutes for T Express (once the hour reservation system has finished), walk-on for the bigger rides and X train in rockville (X trains minimum wait time on the app is always displayed as 10 minutes) and the family favorites, the safari rides at just under an hour, the equivalent of a quiet Sunday really. I mention this because this photo is currently going viral on Korean facebook: Source The app is normally quite accurate since it's tied to the parks information boards and not the kind where user input is used. I'm wondering if it's just a very well timed photo from the chairlift after the parade/show has finished in the arena since that path can clog up pretty badly but it's still a huge crowd so I'd thought I would share it. Update: Well that was fast, looking at the Everland Facebook page it seems many people have posted the picture there asking about the situation. Everland surprisingly aren't denying the park can sometimes be that busy but are pointing out that picture was either from yesterday or last years children's day or taken from another packed day. Apparently there are other pictures of packed ticket booths and Everland has been the subject of bloggers and people on Facebook using pictures from previous days (from Halloween/Christmas etc) to pretend the parks are busy. That would explain why on the public holiday themed around treating your children the park is surprisingly quiet. Everland have posted real pictures of today here, got to give the park a lot of credit for responding to pretty much every comment made, even if it is copied and pasted. Again I'm still surprised looking at some of the insane crowds in the pictures that the social media team are admitting that was what the park looked like yesterday. It's got so bad they've now resorted to a modern day version of holding up today's newspaper to prove that their pictures are from today. Source

Sounds like puss in boots is a winner for the park if even the fast pass line is hitting 45 minutes: http://dejiki.com/2015/05/uss-update-2015may/ I never had to wait for any of the rides on my visit with fastpass but maybe that's because they didn't have the unlimited fast pass option back then so I guess all the guests only getting one ride each must have helped spread it out.

I'd be happy seeing this guy in another Universal park.

Granted I've only ever been once, and it was a few years ago but the day we went in the end of July both it and Raptor had pretty similar sizable lines early in the morning, I thought I wouldn't get to try them all in one day but luckily I was with friends who knew the park better and we got both credits with a walk-on in the late afternoon.

So I mentioned that Everland had construction projects all over the park. Well, that mystery building in the middle of the park turned out to be a charactorium, the swinging airplane outside has been repainted from the generic model to a Korean barbie and the building contains activities for the little children based around popular Korean tv shows: http://www.everland.com/charactorium/ While not the most exciting news I know, it's still nice to see that area getting some attention after spending I think maybe 10+ years as a giant concrete block with some random children's carnival rides put on it. It's still concrete and one of the other carnival rides are still there but it's a start. On another note I don't get Korean crowds, lately weekdays seem busier than weekends, but maybe Everland just needs to up the thrill ride selection or start letting T Express have a standby line, the other Sunday when it rained T Express had to cut the reservation system the park was so empty and everything had walk-on. It rains on a weekday just as bad and rock spin and lets twist had 80 min lines. Apart from the safari rides which people flock to on weekends, It's been the same on some sunny Sundays lately, we hit the park around opening times Sundays and can get done my around 2-3pm skipping the safari rides and seeing around 30 minute lines in the afternoon for the flats but lately it seems the weekdays can be either super empty or really crowded. Are there any other parks where a weekend can be quieter than a Sunday? Could be down to operations a little I guess, weekdays a few rides will open later at 1pm and even though the rain seemed lighter they didn't open T Express like it was on the Sunday. Hopefully when the water park fully opens at the end of may it'll help move some of the crowds over. The hotter humid weather will help as well, spring and Halloween seem to be busier than the summer although right now with the public holidays the park will be packed this weekend. Strange though, when I get a half day off on a weekday Lotte World is empty in the mornings, I can get the park done and the hour bus back to work by 3pm but I finally mixed it up and tried Everland and it was busier than any of my Sunday trips with my wife.

And Given What Tokyo Disney does with Disney attractions, At It's worst, It'll be cranked to 11. Not a fan of the "Frozen Land" name personally, With that, Cars Land, and Avatar Land they all sound really generic. Like If Wizarding World Of Harry Potter was Called Wizard Land. I'd be surprised if thats what DisneySea settled on considering how serious they take the theme of the park. Since it's another port I wouldn't be too surprised if they went with something like Arendelle Fjord or just Arendelle.

So I've seen these pop up in Korean stores lately, its a "selfie lens" its a wide lens to put on your phone so you can fit in more of your group without the stick. Not the biggest fan but if it helps mean less sticks everywhere I will be happy.

Great, now I'm dreaming of a 200ft tall Aquatrax

Me too! I'm also from the UK and it's my first ever trip to Cedar Point. I'm scared of how long the queues are going to be though with it being memorial day weekend... I went in the middle of Summer on the last week of July for 2 days on the Wednesday and Thursday (the only week I could get off and fly from Korea) for what was probably my only ever trip and this was before fast-plus+ and we still managed to get almost everything done using the second day to hit Maverick in the morning (we missed it the second day) the water park and re-rides on most of the major coasters. Although it helped I had friends who had been before and knew the crowd. When I saw Raptor with almost a 2 hour line and Mantis with a huge line, I thought i'd have to make a few tough decisions on what I'd miss out of due to time but my friends knew when to go back to find them practically walk-on even in summer. So i'd assume with fast pass + you'll have no problems getting everything you want.

They should get a really fun indoor trackless ride, they are lacking one of those

Did you sit through the credits? With all the talk of fake endings on youtube just wondering how much I have to sit around for? Is it just one mid-credits scene or is there a post-credits scene? I know the director said there wasn't but wouldn't be the first time he lied

Sorry if my post was mis-understood, I was more pointing out that it had happened before when the other poster was asking if there had ever been a steel coaster re-tracked. I didn't mean to imply that it was common practice or that I think the Hulk will get a complete re-track, because I really don't think that.