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Seems you may not have been the only one, from their facebook: source:

Decided to look into the Goddard Groups facebook since they usually work with Lotte World. Elissa had it exactly right:

For anyone that wants to compare the old seats:

Please let this movie be a big hit so a San Fransokyo area can show up one day at a Disney park.

Stupid California means i'll never be able to claim 100% back to the future rides but I just realized I can claim 100% all the Jaws rides.

I made a mistake when reporting the accident, the Korean news reporting a rotating circle made me think it was the rotating barrel finale but turns out it was one of those floor rotating pads as seen in this news article: http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=201411061640261&code=940202 Today with the release of the winter maps featuring them, Everland have announced the retirement of their old mascots and are to be replaced with these new ones: http://www.everland.com/web/multi/english/everland/everland_guide/news/1211124_10988.html The old mascots will have a send off party in two weeks. And finally it seems the flume ride is closing down: http://www.everland.com/web/everland/how/festival/news/1211097_10436.html I hadn't being reading the news lately but it seems something will be coming around summer 2015. It mentions at the bottom of the post that announcements about opening will be made in the future but no other information is made. The flume ride takes up a huge area but I wonder how much they would get done in the winter and early spring when the weather is pretty bad to make something new by summer. There's no other information at this point so anything is wild speculation but when I first put up my complaint about so many of the kids rides being shut I said I was hoping maybe it was in preparation for an overhaul, nothings been announced but with the new characters announced and a giant food court going up on the other side of the parade square i'm wondering if that whole area will get a re-theme to match the characters and the "new attraction/attractions" will be the flume getting a lot of themeing. The English map also just refers to it as temporarily closed adding a bit more to this theory. The other thing is though it's such a popular ride they have to close the standby line and hand out tickets to return most weekends, perhaps it will be replaced with something that will be similar but has a higher capacity, again just speculating. I'd love to see a new roller-coaster to finally soak up some of the crowds Eagles Fortress left behind (T Express also now runs reservation only to help do crowd control) but with the flume being one of the most popular family rides (the safari rides I think are more popular but the buses can soak up the crowds better, the newer safari ride without gates the buses have to wait in even more so) and being in the middle of the kids area my money is still on a rethemeing/higher capacity similar ride. I sure hope that was a virtual queue display and was actually the time from getting a reservation ticket and when you can ride.

Perfect, Lotte World only has one poster and it's a little hidden outside the park unless you know it's there but those logos seem to match up. I can put this information in the round-up on Monday, thanks

Oh really? Thanks for the info, due to the above wait-times I didn't go to Everland for Halloween (which i'm told beats Lotte World hands down with halloween decorations and mazes/halloween themes on their rides) on my annual half day off and switched out to Lotte World again.I tracked down the posters advertizing them and am working on a TR with general park updates which i'll hopefully post Monday, if you (or anyone who went on the sega rides) could look at the posters and let me know would be great.

Apparently there was an accident at Everland recently on the Oz fun house ride, a 5 year old boy slipped on the rotating circle and got two fingers caught and they were sliced off. Apparently doctors couldn't re-attach the fingers. Criminal charges could be pressed against the staff due to negligence, and jail time was mentioned, it's apparently an option since Korea has a huge thing about safety since the ferry and concert disasters but way too early to tell. Sorry it's a bit rushed my wife was trying to translate when it came up on the news for me, i'll try and update when the English korea news sites have it some time tomorrow. On all my previous trips there was someone specifically just for the rotating part next to the emergency stop to make sure people went through straight away and didn't rotate too far, however my TR's this year have I mentioned the huge issues with operations, with most of the children's area sitting closed, 2 hour only operations or late openings with the ones advertized as open being play areas (see post above) and most of the bigger rides outside of the roller-coasters switching to half day operations on week-days no matter how busy the park is. Perhaps they have been cutting down on the number of staff and having rides share crews to cut costs and there was only one person on the entrance at the time? Everland page: http://witheverland.com/769 An example of the new policies, taken from the friday just before Halloween one of the busiest of the season.

I mentioned it earlier in the topic but honestly, will it make that much of a difference? The queues were quite long on our trip to the point we had to purchase a fast pass (this was before unlimited) and even then with 1 train operation and single rider lines, both Battlestars had completely empty lines and the trains were leaving with empty seats until the afternoon when the park got a bit more busier. If reducing the seating by half does have an impact however perhaps they can switch to 2 train operations to keep it the same?

I guess I could also count 100% all European stand-ups/100% all stand-ups with a zero G roll.

I was looking back at some old TR's and I noticed one where Elissa celebrates that she has completely ridden all the Giant Vekoma Boomerangs. I also remember seeing a post on the TPR facebook of people celebrating getting all the Fuji-Q credits. I know that new rides are always built so some 100% achievements that people may have gained would be outdated but if you think you've ever completed something then list it, it'd be interesting to see what people come up with. I realize there can be some easy ones like 100% all coasters at Universal Orlando or 100% all merry-go-rounds in Cedar Point but i'm curious if there are any you have completed that you consider special or ones people can't complete anymore. Some examples could be: 100% a certain type of ride or roller-coaster. Maybe you had 100% all GIB's so for example 100% Giant Inverted Boomerang (2001-2013) because until Sochis you had been on all of them or perhaps you 100% a type of ride that is hard to find, impossible now or spread out so 100% all sky swats (since one has been removed this would be a unique one). Another example with Manits being converted 100% all B&M stand-ups. 100% all coasters in a park that has many or is known for being difficult e.g. 100% all credits in Fuji Q (-2013). 100% visited all of a chain of parks that are spread out e.g. 100% visited all current six flags properties. I'm sure there are many ideas that i've missed. I wasn't sure this was a worthwhile topic, but after constantly trying to think of ones myself I thought people might have fun with this. I have visited all Disneys and Universals except California so I couldn't list that and I missed two Fuji credits for a second ride on Dodonpa and my first ever star flyer, so for me this is really all I could come up with: 100% all park based Mondial Ultra Max's (I believe there's only two right now Fantasy Island and Ocean Park) 100% all aquatrax's (I wasn't going to count this since it's kind of cheating since I live in Korea but 1) i'm sure some-one will point out a random ultra max in China somewhere and I need something, 2) it can be an elusive credit to some and 3) it doesn't really aqua anymore, i've made over 30 trips in the last few years and apart from one of my 1st trips I have never seen the water come back on even after a huge rehab restoring it to it's "original glory" so I can claim that )

New credit if you've been on it before!?!? So that's 5 Jeff Johnson credits when it re-opens? 1) Human original open restraints 2) Human vest restraints 3) Cylon 4) Human 2 seater 5) Cylon 2 seater

Though the English website hasn't updated on it, the map has. Seems Fuji removed the Gundam walk through attraction to place in a Japanese version of soarin: http://www.fujiq.jp/en/map/map1.pdf

I really enjoyed space mountain but this was way way back when it had just become mission 2 so maybe I was just lucky that it had just come off a huge rehab session.

The way I understand it is that in Japan, if you have a transportation system with multiple stops, regardless if it's in a theme park or not, you have to abide by certain government restrictions, taxes, fees, etc, and the only way around this loophole is to have the ride enter/exit at the same place. The moment is takes passengers from point A to point B, it becomes "public transportation", so to speak, and has to be monitored. This is why the Tokyo Disney Monorail is treated much like any other JR Railway train. Which is why I was confused by Disneysea's tram, is it because that one is a shuttle as opposed to a circuit? Or for that matter wouldn't the disneysea boats count? Seems like an interesting law regardless.

I don't think the parks could do something like this without charging guests for that ride. I've always heard there is something with Japanese law that they are required to charge for transportation which is why the monorail isn't free and their railroad has only one stop. But then again the train in DisneySea has two stops... so i don't know. Perhaps because the monorail is completely outside the parks whereas the DisneySea tram is inside the park? I guess as long as both sides ended in a park, it wouldn't matter if it goes outside the walls. Still doesn't explain Disneyland's one stop railroad though. Wild guess but could it be something to do with because Disneysea is a shuttle as opposed to a complete loop? So if USJ did build the Hogwarts Express in their next expansion, it would be O.K. because it's a funicular railway.

Heck walking dead even got a place in Everlands horror themeing.

I nearly murdered the terrible woman in front of me on the Labadee mountain coaster last week. She treated it like a scenic viewing opportunity and kept stopping, taking pictures, going a bit more at a snails pace then stopping again. Luckily the guys running it saw what happened and let me go again for free since my 'ride' was totally ruined! That would have driven me insane! I would have bumped her and just pushed her down the rest of the way. That's really cool they let you go again for free. As long as you don't bump like this guy. [youtu_be] [/youtu_be]

All of this is incredible, considering Pooh's Honey Hunt, I can't imagine how incredible a completely original Frozen ride will look when made by Tokyo Disney.

Yes, I think you can find them at every large hotel's lobby or contact a travel agency. Chimelong opened up a lot of ways to take your money. Yes, it would take a little more time but Ocean Kingdom would worth it. Can you get a visa while in Hong Kong? Though in the end I didn't have time, one of the reasons I skipped this park and did a second day at Disney was i couldn't get a weekday off work to go to the Chinese Embassy here in Korea to apply.

I remember having to brake on a toboggan run one at the top until the car behind me was right up against me because I could see the person in front with a child going about 3MPH and even with almost a minutes head-start i'd still caught up before the halfway mark and had to take it at a snails pace.

Without spoiling too much, Mystic Manor had very little in terms of screens until the end and even then there was a good reason for them being there. Kind of like with winnie the pooh and the bouncing tigger section, the ride was mostly physical sets and if projections were used it was cleverly hidden.

Hasn't Universal hosted a few exhibition style things somewhere else on site that isn't the 3D theater? Didn't they host some one piece stuff that had toured Japan? Just a theory but I wonder if the Evangelion exhibit that's been sitting in Fuji Q could be getting a new place for more people to see it or a similar exhibit to this could be temporarily going in. They also referred to 3D a lot in it's description when I was there, but they were talking about seeing 3D models of things from the anime. It's also briefly mentioned as the first 3D life sized model on the website still: https://www.fujiq.jp/en/attraction/eva.html I have a few pictures, I'd wondered in to escape the lines for a while but I had no idea what I was looking at but a lot of young Japanese boys were very excited about bits of it. This gigantic robot head thing sticking out of a wall seemed to be most popular, there were a ton of people there so I didn't get a picture of it. Again I wasn't a fan so I didn't photo a lot of the exhibit and anime stuff but I took a few pictures of bits they advertised this is what they had at Fuji. This things head blown up to full scale elsewhere in the exhibit was extremely popular. Different smaller head

It's funny in Korea they are called dipangs or discopangpangs and are just randomly in basements in towns and cities as an attraction on their own. I've seen a few of them and little 4D simulators that take up a shop of their own. I had no idea there was one even in my little town. They normally are set to music accompanied by a DJ, disco lights, strobe lights and a spot light that will highlight the top part of the ride. The ride stops there on a person and they are interviewed and quizzed and get bounced out of their seat for getting questions wrong (or right, no-one likes a no-it-all.) They always seemed shocked to see a foreigner show up so I get spotlighted often.