Garet

Damn, the shop has already gone? I hope everyone already bought their Mr Fusion underwear.

I've mentioned it before in my TR's and I made a thread asking a while ago how people felt about rides becoming fast-pass only rides with no standby line, Everland on weekends and holidays runs a lot of their rides on different fast pass only systems. T Express for nearly all of its operating time is fast pass only. You need to line up and get a reservation ticket to come back later to ride. The tickets were never staggered they were always from 0 clock until 50 minutes past for everyone. However nobody seems to read the park map to see their are multiple ticket booths around the park and i've seen people wait almost an hour for a fast pass ticket because they all run to the T Express ticket booth. After 3PM it was first come first serve to enter the line, which meant as soon as the queue was in danger of going past T Expresses closing time the line was shut (T Express closes a lot earlier because of the fireworks nearby) Before it closed down to be replaced/upgraded the flume ride had an interesting system. As soon as the line hit 60 minutes the standby line was closed and fast pass tickets were handed out, but unlike T Express they were staggered and once they hit 5pm that was it you couldn't line up until then, and then it was first come first serve same as t express. They also run tickets only on the 15 minute hologram show where you pick the show-time and come back, it runs every half hour though because they change the show each time. I wonder how people would feel if they could choose a show time for Shrek 4D or Mickeys Philharmagic, no waiting in line but you can only go once at that exact time and when all the shows are full you can't go anymore. The shows that run 3 times a day and the kids indoor playground are also reservation only, you choose your time (or for the playground time slot) and when the number of tickets are gone that's it, so you have to grab quite a few different tickets when you first enter the park.

Too many simulators? If you ever visit Korea, you might not like Lotte World then

Wow they really can't catch a break, the aquarium is still closed, the worlds biggest cinema is still closed and another accident this week: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2015/02/116_173724.html

A few months later and the incidents are starting to take their toll on the shop-owners businesses: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2015/02/123_173491.html

So looks like the amazing spiderman series is dead and spidey is getting another reboot, but this time he'll be part of the MCU. It looks like the new movie is taking Thor 3's spot: http://marvel.com/news/movies/24062/sony_pictures_entertainment_brings_marvel_studios_into_the_amazing_world_of_spider-man

My wife had never seen the movie when we saw the show in Singapore and Japan, and she just enjoyed watching the stunts and effects and the men splashing the audience at the start, she liked the look of the arena too. She had no idea it was based on a film when we were in Japan, after Space Fantasy and Hollywood Dream, she assumed Waterworld was just the name of that area of the park.

Beats a bunch of ugly, plain scaffolding. Personally my favorite is still Lotte World's it's just the sky and some hot air balloons passing by, honest approach: http://szsup.tistory.com/613 (click the black box and scroll down)

^^ Isn't that a different game? This thread is about Frontiers Coaster Park Tycoon but that post was all about RCT World, maybe it should go here: http://themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=68727

Oh, god I hope not. I still think that Carthay Circle was the dumbest, most ugliest building they could have chosen to put at the entrance of DCA. People in California don't even know what that building is, or had never heard of it before DCA and now of course they all now pretend to be "experts" on it! We never ate there because the menu never looked appealing to either of us. That, IMO, would be far worse than the Chinese theater! lol I'll be completely honest, having absolutely 0 knowledge of California and never really paying too much attention to DCA outside of seeing a few videos of the bigger rides, world of color and Cars Land, I'd always assumed when people talked about the Carthay restaurant, that it was a part of Cars Land and was a really terrible pun of the word cafe.

Pulled up google earths oldest satellite image, looks even more mickeyish in black and white. (and before the hat)

On the official page they just put this status: https://www.facebook.com/FunSpotAmerica?fref=ts Seems that a permanent one could be coming eventually. Edit: Seems this information got posted above at the same time.

If they knew it would be there for such a very short time though, why ask TPR to come out and film it? Your suggestion also makes sense but it just seems strange to try and get publicity for a ride that was so temporary.

Doesn't Drayton Manor have the same ride? England gets plenty of rain throughout operating season.

^ I thought that too but Robb corrected me. For some reason I thought the seat that came off years ago was from the cylon side and whatever incident shut it down this time was the human side but it sounds like it's always been the human side. I was under the impression that it was a seat from the inverted side that came off. Could be wrong though. I think that was the first incident, this second closure was apparently due to the human side of the ride.

Sorry if it's too off-topic but I saw this in my local supermarket last month and thought of Epcot's food festival.

To answer my own earlier question, it seems they have numbered benches set up for the lottery ticket winners: http://szsup.tistory.com/663 Boy is that blog making me miss Tokyo with each new update, the costumes are incredible I need to try and hop over on one of those weeks and brave the crowds. I had no idea Tokyo disneyland had a different night parade for when it's raining, instead of just outright cancelling. On my last snowy trip they cancelled the day parades but cleared out the snow for the full night parade. Also i'd seen the mickey shaped burgers before but not the mickey egg yolks

It's not what you think, there's been a big deal with what is believed to be "government mafia" coming in the night and trashing street stands because the government is currently very unhappy with all the unlicensed street vendors that line a lot of the streets, take cash and don't pay tax and one of the biggest sellers was knock-off selfie sticks. You couldn't exit any of the main subways without seeing at least 4 vendors selling these. Koreans love selfies, so as I said in my earlier post them and tablets to record are everywhere in the parks. The government hasn't banned them at all, just the knock-offs, you'll still see them everywhere here too.

The selfie sticks are everywhere in Asia, I always see them being snuck on places. But for me my biggest pet peeve lately has been how many people take their tablets to use as cameras. I try to be considerate and use my view-finder or even when i'm not still have it set to view finder to keep my screen off but so many firework shows and dark-rides where I just sit there half blind because people are recording and snapping away with the brightest screens in the middle of the darkness. We were at Everland recently and it's the middle of "rehab season" plus temperatures and wind meant almost everything was closed but the inside rides so we figured we'd ride the Everland version of it's a small world and our boat as well as the one in front was just a sea of big, super bright screens. Even the fireworks show. I don't mind phones and camera screens too much since they aren't that big (even if I try and keep mine to viewfinder) but when it's a ton of tablets it's actually pretty blinding. Speaking of DisneySea, an awesome thing is they don't allow those into the park I believe and nobody seems to try and sneak them in, the just respect the rules This guys came out of his shirt the second the ride was in motion

I'm gonna call BS on that, Radiator Springs Racers cost ~$200 million, I am extremely skeptical of them spending double that on a single attraction. Yea but the trackless ride cars are going to be pulled by real reindeer, the plastic surgery to make sure they all look exactly like Sven is the other $200 million

Pictures from Tokyo Disney's Halloween costume days: http://blog.naver.com/khegel/220122240499 and here http://szsup.tistory.com/661 . Seems pretty popular, looks like the park will hit capacity sometimes when they are on.

Just saw on a Korean blog pictures of a fast pass style lottery and then saw it on the official website, but did that new projection show always have a fast-pass/lottery system to be allowed to view it from in front of the castle? http://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/en/tdl/entm/show/once/index.html In the pictures it seems a very popular fast pass line and you choose one of two show times to enter the lottery. I'd have assumed it was first come first serve but the website makes it seem like you scan your ticket and it either grants you a seat or it doesn't. I'm kind of curious on how it works, being Tokyo Disney i'm sure its awesome but i'm still curious. Are there actual seats set up now so you get a seat number or does it just let you in an area? It says your party is allowed one go per day so if you had a party of 4 does that mean one go or you can try 4 times with each ticket and if one is approved all the party can go in the area? I wonder if resort guests are more likely to win. Curious if it's pre-decided when you get your ticket at the start of the day if it's a winner or loser or the machine decides once you scan it (was thinking more that when you buy tickets as a group if those are already decided on that way you have say a family of 5 who scan and get all winner tickets than the machine deciding per person and lots of families with one winning ticket trying to use it for 5 people) If the machine decides, wouldn't they probably run out pretty early? Edit: seems they also use it for a show: http://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/en/tdl/entm/show/one/index.html and disneysea show: http://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/en/tds/entm/show/band/index.html I'd assumed fast pass like world of color which is why I hadn't brought it up, but reading the Korean blog, he talked about how he didn't win when he tried for tickets on his trip.

After the incidents of shutting down the cinema and aquarium due to problems, a few more incidents and problems in/around Lotte World 2 have come up, souring public opinion even more: More on the death of a construction worker and delayed response from my last post: http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2014/12/113_170062.html A door came off in the mall and fell on a visitor (this was the second incident of parts of the mall falling down onto people): http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2014/12/113_170670.html The government is threatening to shut down the mall completely if there are more incidents: http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2015/01/113_171127.html More cracks have appeared around the supertower. The article states it has nothing to do with Lotte Tower but with all the cracks and sinkholes appearing around the construction site since they started work, people are still blaming Lotte: http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2015/01/116_171337.html