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Covered the ones that said needed for Lotte World: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1481581#p1481581 There was so many changes and new rides it ended up being a full blown TR this time instead of just an update. This is probably my last TR for this year for Korea, they keep delaying the re-opening of childrens grand park and I feel even if it opens in autumn it will be packed for a while so I may hold off until 2015. I do mean to get out to Seoul Land since most of one area of the park was re-themed so all the rides look like characters from all kinds of different korean childrens animations but I keep putting it off hoping one year they will add something new, although minor edit for that Hi-Roller is a flat ride, not a roller coaster.

Part 2: The indoors The Balloons are always one of my favorite rides on quiter days but it's another ride that picks up a line fast The signature shot was under rehab last time I rode so here it is A look over Lotte World Another look over Lotte World, note again the construction in the middle for the new ride Carosel under refurbishment Tilting tea-cups Pirate ship Pharoahs Fury.... .... speaking of which has one of the most impressively themed queue lines i've ever seen We popped down to the first floor to check out the new rides and saw the tram dropping off the dancers for the show/parade. Back to carrying passengers. The kids play area has a reservation system same as Everlands, both run out extremely fast since it's a favorite of parents to grab a coffee and watch from the side One of the new childrens rides that was heavily advertised by the Goddard Group, I hadn't planned to photograph it but it was empty and my wife wanted to try it. I couldn't take pictures of the relocated and themed frog-hoppers since it was full of kindergarten school trips all day. The suspended whip was fun and the swinging out on the corners made the whip effect quite mild, its probably a huge hit on weekends for the little kids. I forgot to see if the shark in the corner was an animatronic and moved. This was added last year but i've never seen it, it's mostly catered to kids and in Korean. Like Stitch encounter/turtle talk but in Korean. Dragons Wild Shooting so new it has 4 entrance signs #1 This one sits a little off near the kids area #2 Hanging over the queue line #3 Just next to the entrance #4 This is the main one and it hangs over the entrance I liked the humour in the line but was suprised it was all 100% English, is this ride a clone from somehwere? More Humour and no Korean Last bit of queue line The ride vehicle This guy explains whats happening but in Korean, basic story: Here be dragons, shoot em. There's a ride op just before here who says something in Korean about cellphones and cameras however I was snapping and he didn't tell me to put it away so i'm posting these since I assumed it was about no flash like I was told on the other dark rides when I took pictures. (see baloon ride) I really love the mix of the screens with the physical sets, it's a trackless ride that bit in the bottom right that looks like track is actually a line that all the cars follow Here be dragons "The Anti-Dragon Wand" As you can see in the bottom left unlike another dark ride you definitely aren't calling them..... Again great mixture of physical and screens. I love the different ways to take them out, for this dragon you had to shoot out the little ones holding the table first, they would come back so a full car is needed to really beat these things sometimes. It's not 3D my camera just couldn't keep up Again the little details of the physical set with the screen, we couldn't bring ourselves to kill Dragons with kebab skewer swords We had no problem however killing the baby dragons The big bad, I was taking pictures and only my wife was the only one in the car so i'm not sure if he/she can be defeated since we never had a full car. Again i'm not sure if you get a different animation if you do kill the final dragon. We really enjoyed this ride, it's fairly short but a great laugh from start to finish, it's a shame there was no gift shop at the end, we thought baby dragon merchandise would be a huge hit but we didn't see anything (please make a dueling kebab skewer dragon please) The other new ride was Lotty's Air Balloon Here's the problem with its name everyone assumes its referring the balloons visible going around the building. Its quite confusing for new visitors since the balloons are one of the first thing a first time visitor will probably see when entering and they automatically assume the big balloon with park mascots will be the entrance. It was a quiet day and the poor cast member outside had to keep changing languages for different groups, in the 10 minutes I waited I counted almost 40 groups who were turned away because they were actually looking for the balloons on the 4th floor. He seemed confused I wanted to ride and checked twice to make sure i definitely knew this was a film ride. He came over a 3rd time and told me "kids film, yes ok?". The entrance leading up to going in, sadly you don't line up in here (at least on my quiet day you didn't) although I think even on busy days you won't since nearly all lines in the park are kept empty and you are made to wait outside the actual queue area to avoid grafitti. More of the area between the entrance and rhe ride. The ride reminded me of a very tame Niagara's Fury, the only effects on the ride were some bubbles and flashing lights, it might have shook slightly but I honestly not remember it. It's a shame because it really is a great film for kids but it has a 120cm height which is quite high for Lotte World. The only people who did show up and weren't mistaking it for the balloon were parents with kids who ended up turned away because they were too short. A clever way to hide the projectors, it's a shame the height can't be 10cm shorter, the film was very mild and it makes for a great ride for little children who sadly can't ride it and it definitely isn't really for thrill seekets. Special thanks for the following pictures to the Lotte World ride ops since I was the only one riding and therefore couldn't possibly disturb anyone told me it was ok to take as many pictures as I wanted if I didn't use flash. The ride starts with a peaceful balloon journey..... ..... until an air shop starts bombing you, if there's any shaking it will be here but I feel like the ride was static here and just flashed, I honestly can't remember Our balloon drops down and somehow works perfectly underwater, here is one of the only physical effects where bubbles come from the ceiling We come up again and get attacked by the airship but some whale creature thing grabs it and pulls it under. And finally the balloon touches down in Lotte World at night-time. With this picture I think i've covered all the new rides that were open during my visit so I will end my update here.

Lotte World Update: I really don't have as much to say about Lotte World as I did about Everland, whereas i've made my feelings about Everland well known, every minor problem I had with Lotte World has gradually disappeared over the years (which i'll point out in the TR). Whereas a lot of Everland feels old with areas that haven't seen much love and attractions left SBNO in favor of a huge new attraction or 2 in the same park area for the last few years, Lotte World has had so many new attractions showing up in all areas of the park both outside and inside as well as improving their food options with more restaurants and including some of the shopping mall ones that it really does make the park feel fresh with something new to see with every visit even if those visits are only a few months apart. The 25th anniversary is in full swing at Lotte World The new open ticket booths And new entrance gates to go with it Underland and the walled off construction area for the 2014 ride. More of the construction area, little did I know they'd come down and the ride would open 2 days before I posted this update Lotte Worlds newest area and home to one of the many shooting rides of Lotte World. 3 shooting rides may sound excessive but this park also has 3 bumper cars (one just for kids though) and 4 rides that involve 3d glasses and even more than that involve watching screens. There's a themed wall up in the new area from where the construction walls came down that says coming soon Wild tours so prehaps these numbers could increase again One of my problems with my last TR was that Underland apart from the 4D ride (and now the kids boat ride) was that it is mostly themed entrances to shopping mall restaurants, and Lotte World has a no re-entry policy which almost caused issues when my wife went out the normal exit of the restaurant find a bathroom in the shopping mall. Lotte World now have fences to seperate the theme park eaters from the mall eaters The castle was decked out for the 25th anniversary Our first stop is always Atlantis at opening, even on quiet days it is the first to build up a queue and will remain high for the rest of the day. The park was dead but even on that day by lunch the fast passes were already hitting late evening time and were covered up and closed by around 1:30pm Atlantis just came out of a 6 month rehab with the adverts stating it had been restored to its original glory, the castle had been repainted and looked great. I was disappointed however, i'm sure there was a lot of work outside of the public eye that needed to be done but when the adverts mentioned in Korean restoring it to its former glory I thought that meant like when it opened including returning the water, maybe i'm visiting at the wrong times but I got one ride when I first came to Korea of it being an aquatrax and ever since then all my rides have just been well......trax. The water had been cleaned up in the rehab but sadly is still lowered so you can no longer touch it. I was quite suprised the track didn't get re-painted in the rehab since it seemed the troughs had also got a new coat, then animatronics also seemed to have been left untouched during the rehab. I really hope one day the water is put back on as well. However the castle does now look great. Lotte Tower is nowhere near finished but already towering over the park. Gyro Drop had its queue re-arranged to go towards the back of the tower, its a very little thing but one of my earliest complaints was on busy days queues would run together so it's nice to see things like that addressed It's a shame scream shields were added but they don't make too much difference.... speaking of...... Gyro Swing finally had its scream shields upgraded to match Gyro Drops, although I find the shields really do impact the sensation of feeling the wind on a swinging ride they are much better than the old ones. The old scream shields were made to completely enclose all your head and had foam that went from over your hair to just above your eyes, it made it really hot and worse they got vandalized so bits would hang down as you rode. I've seen these on markets and its shocking how many times i've seen people sneak them on the rides this year. They don't even have adjustable straps, they just have a loop to wrap around your wrist, and I really wish ride ops would keep a better eye out for them I saw one snuck on here and at Everland and the fact they are very loosely attached to the wrist and stick way out of the ride envelope when fully extended makes me nervous. A ride sign for the wave swinger for the park index After 4 years I finally rode this. Probably won't ride it again, I didn't like the original sixth sense, let alone sixth sense: cat edition. One of the new rides for 2014: Gyro Spin a very inventive name after Gyro Drop and Gyro Swing. I'll be honest i'm not the biggest fan of Disko's, i'll ride them when there is no line but I always feel quite uncomfy by rides end. It's disc is larger than some of the other models I saw while in Japan.

I don't know numbers but i'm pretty sure I know which episode you are referring too, I know just before Lost Valley opened they did a whole episode about them. No, I'm not overly interested in K-Pop, I only saw PSY to get something for the park index, but as I said because I got told not to take pictures by a member of staff I didn't post them I think it was more a parent complaining than a rule for the ride since i've seen plenty of pictures in other blogs but i'm just playing it safe by TPR's ToS. Honestly it wasn't as impressive as it sounds, it honestly felt more like watching a move than a hologram since it was a projector on a tilted screen there was no 3D movement just side to side movement. To give you an idea you may have seen a few of these in some museums before built into some dioramas, this was just a bigger screen. In other news, Lotte World opened their new Fairy Trail Dream Boat ride today, its definitely made for small kids and parents, there's also a wall with a picture saying Wild Tours coming soon, could be a hint to the next attraction. The area is under the Underland banner on the guide maps. Underland is mostly themed entrances to the existing shopping mall restaurants but with the new ride it bring the areas ride count up to 2 (with the already existing 4D shooting ride) and hopefully wild tours will lead to another next year. It'll probably be a while before I update since the construction walls were up when I visited in the TR i'm currently working on but a Korean blogger I really like made this fantastic update: http://szsup.tistory.com/635

You mean Parks&Rec right? Just saw Guardians of the Galaxy really enjoyed it, I saw it in imax and it was stunning, was also not expecting the post-credits scene at all, really made me lol. The movie was a lot of fun but after hearing lots of people saying how much of a risk it was for the studio and how different it would be in my opinion it felt very familiar to the other marvel movies lately which can also be a testament to how well Marvel have done that something like this can feel familiar from the start. Again really enjoyed it but the bad guy in this didn't seem to make much impact which is a shame because I really like Lee Pace, he seemed almost the same as Thor 2's bad guy (and again I love Christopher Eccleston). Spoilers: I feel like the aircraft/spaceship crashing into cities as a finale has been really overused lately or is it just me? Captain America 2, Thor 2 Star Trek into Darkness and now Guardians of the Galaxy. I get it's a sci-fi so spaceships are obviously involved but the finale seemed very familiar. My friend who isn't big on comic books joked it was Avengers in space. Cosmic stone leads to people having conflict first then teaming up, adopted sibling must face other sibling etc. Again not a bad thing, we both loved the movie.

I don't know I think it's fair for people to complain, he stole other peoples photos and claimed them as his own for his TR, as some-one who spends time and effort when I visit parks like Everland and Lotte World to provide updates to parks that aren't visited often by people here, i'd be pretty annoyed too if some-one was using them as their own on another forum to pretend they'd visited and passing it as their own hard work. Look at Robb's posts when people took his SCAD tower video and didn't give TPR credit.

So......There's a movie about Bronies apparently: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2446192/

It's interesting that unlike Orlando (I Think) both the harry potter rides have been added to the express pass here and allow you to skip over the timed entry to the area although at the expense of other rides which have all been downgraded so you have to make more choices. http://www.usj.co.jp/e/ticket/express_pass_7.html http://www.usj.co.jp/e/ticket/express_pass_5.html I wonder how early they'll sell out now, anyone know how you can book them in advance? I was thinking of going on a long weekend but on my last visit the express passes sold out so early and I think Harry Potter will speed that up even more, my Korean co-workers have always managed to get express tickets 7 or 5's booked a month before they go through an agency but the website tells me they are park only and seems to give me websites that give harry potter entry but not express passes.

When I first came to Korea they had a herbivore safari attachment to the existing safari ride as the new ride for the year but it was quickly removed and a lot of the animals showed up in this new safari ride. Just a theory but and its just a theory I think capacity was the issue that made them go with a second one, when I go on really quiet days the old safari ride quite often has a bigger line than the new one and even on busy days they can match throughout the day. The old safari ride has lines and tigers and bears right next to the bus so the bus has to drive into a cage right at the start and between each exhibit have the door close and then wait for the next one to open to drive out so there has to be a gap between dispatches no matter how much expansion there was. Though a few animals can come up the bus on the new one with most of the animals either side of the "river" in pens there is just the one gate which is more for decoration at the start so buses can leave the second the guests are seated. Actually, please DO post them. I'm very curious to know what it currently looks like. I honestly forgot to take some pictures of that area this time, the station area looks pretty much the same though and its very difficult to get pictures of the track are since the big wheel came down although you can still see it from the bigger rides obviously I can't take my camera on those. I will try and grab some pictures if I can get out soon, Everland is one of the very few parks which is actually quieter during summer weekends, a lot of the rides I hit with 30-hour lines in the spring will be walk-on to 10 minutes during parts of the summer days, a combination of the high heat, sticky humidity and low chances of thunderstorms in the july/august months makes less peopple go than spring and autumn. And I also want to look into the rumours of a q pass booklet form guest services near the foreigner ticket office if you go within 7 days of your birthday, although i'm not sure if thats something you have to apply for or can just show I.D. Work and weather may mean I can't make it sadly. My Lotte World TR should be ready soon but since I didn't take pictures of that area and I saw it on screamscape, the new mini flume ride is actually opening in a few weeks its not actually a 2015 ride, the concept art makes it look like a highly themed family ride but by the looks of the pictures on the construction wall it looks to be something more exclusive for little children, you can see one of the pictures from the construction wall in the guide map: http://global.lotteworld.com/inc/module/etcDownload.asp?fno=2

Is it ok if they upload the original video themselves so it still has the TPR logo so you can tell it's yours but doesn't actually link back in any way to it or give credit outside the video? I've seen random friends share a couple like this

Removed my original post. I thought I saw one since I couldn't get it to link back to TPR and only played audio when I used firefox but for some weird reason it then did when I looked on explorer. http://topy.tv/v/5G8L

But that was when Arrow was still in business. Doesn't Vekoma make floorless versions or at least they did for Chessington, maybe they'll cut down the trees give it new floorless cars and market it for the YOLO crowd

^ I would say the buses weren't as easy as you'd expect them to be to find, unless the stickers are new last time I went they were pretty plain buses and a little bit away from a main street lined with buses going places which had me convinced that was where to go for my bus and ticket. It's better to look for the ticket office than the bus 1st since if you find the ticket office the buses will be one of the closest to it. Try to make sure your schedule is flexible and you can easily switch days around, the weather can be so unpredictable that on my visits I generally make a base camp in areas I want to visit and keep my schedule flexible with rainy day alternatives. On a 9 day trip I made early spring I encountered 1 day of snow and 3 days of heavy rain so I had to constantly change my plans as I went and make horrible sacrifices or make up on other days. I ended up losing out on my park hopper day at Disney and couldn't fit in Parque Espana or Nagashimi Spa Land due to rain out and my indoor option of Joyopolis was down for rehab. Universal/Osaka in general was another good one for the rainy days with lots of indoor rides or around the town the tower, neon lights and aquarium.

With a lot of help from Robb and Elissa I made this post a while back and some of your parks are on it including Fuji: http://themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1142982#p1142982 If you book your trip for the bus for Fuji you can get a deal at the bus station when you pay that includes entrance that's a bit cheaper, they've updated the english website since I last went so it seems a lot easier to find the bus deal and booking than before so you might not even need my links. Honestly with Fuji the best thing you can do is whatever you want to do the most get in line for ASAP and then hightail it to the fastpass ticket counter after that, also keeping an eye on weather forecasts to try and get the clearest days with as little wind as possible is a must.

I remember trying one of these a long time at ago at Sky Park in Tenerife (after tracking down a sweet VIP deal at a travel agents that got unlimited goes on everything for the same price as one bungee jump) and it definitely terrified me more than the bungee jump next door. Even after 4 or 5 goes it was one of those attractions for me that didn't get any less scary with repeat goes.

They do have two but i'm not quite sure that it's because one was not enough, the other one goes through the bears,tigers and lions and so is closed up with windows. This one is a lot more open since apart from the cheetahs and white lions which are a bit further away mostly goes through the herbivores and so are much more open. People seem to really like the "amphibious vehicles" even though it's not really that deep and both of them give different experiences.

I posted Everlands new rides today, was going to just do a park index update but ended up taking enough pictures to do a full TR. I already grabbed pictures for the ones listed as needed on Lotte Worlds page which i'll update later this month. They keep delaying the re-opening of Childrens Park but i'll try and get out and cover it whenever it reopens since I think a lot of the old rides have gone.

Part 2 Our time for the K-Pop Hologram came up, my wife who is always stuck standing around while I take these pictures for updates complained she's never in them so here she is posing in the photo booth End result for me Photo booth area, sadly although I have photos of the attraction I was asked by a member of staff to put my camera away, although I saw other people taking photos and have seen blogs with the pictures I am not posting them in case it violates TPRS ToS. I think since my wife as at the back and I was walking around taking pictures of the area and there were a lot of little children I think a parent may have got concerned and complained even though my pictures are just the screen, either way to be safe I haven't posted. TBH it was a bit underwhelming it was a tilted mirror and projector to create the hologram effect but it was very 2D it just felt like watching a 5 minute music video, the bands just perform two songs. All the gangnam style merchandise you can want. I love the ride cycle on this, it flips around 13 times and seems pretty intense for a park model. However this runs a slow cycle to the point where it's honestly a little uncomfortable and not really thrilling My issue with the whole half day operations is that it makes the lines huge, this was on a weekend when I had planned to go out just to enjoy the park instead of blogging, weekdays are even worse with most of the park having small hours, kids rides with only 2 hour operations or closed completely Still rusting away "as a memorial" So many people 3 years later still asking the staff where the entrance is for the big wheel or if it will open later on I still have never got around to riding this it normally has a wait time as big as or bigger than T Express, it also shuts its standby line and switches to reservation on a first come first served basis on busy days (and also is abused due to lack of scanning) Since i'm married i'm now forced to ride this At least this version has beer More beer Randomly between countrys we suddenly visit christmas and outer space MURRICA The everbody together ending is considerbly smaller on Everlands version The gardens in Everland are always extremely pretty I'm not sure if its permanent but this closed down and is re-opening tomorrow with a Thomas overlay. http://www.everland.com/web/multi/english/everland/attractions/1209973_11115.html I thought i'd grab a picture of what it looked like. I've been promising my wife we'd see this show for a while, i'm not sure how tied into the movies it is but I think it was based around the 3rd movie. It was mostly circus acts with only the lion and the hippo of the main 4 showing up (although the penguins and the lemur were there). There was also a mash up of I like to move it with the words afro circus being sung over and over. The line for this dropped at the end of the day according to the app but so many people in the park were using the app that you have to be quick to get there. It seemed a bit more rapidy than last time I rode it which is definitely a good thing, it's never going to be intense since i've never been on a korean water ride where you actually get wet but it was a bit more fun than my last ride.

I'm a bit late getting my updates up this year, I foolishly thought once the wedding was over i'd have a lot of free-time straight after the honeymoon, I didn't quite realize how much i'd have to do post-wedding for the last 2 months. I'll try and post my TR of Lotte World before the end of the month but since Lotte World had a lot more new rides, a lot of general improvements and the weather was nice I ended up taking a lot more pictures there so I need more time to sort through them. Everytime I visit Everland I end up writing a negative TR and I really don't want to keep repeating myself since I do like the park but on both our trips this year we generally came away thinking our trips there were just OK. I think the problem is we've being going so much over the last 4 years we keep comparing the Everland today to the Everland that was. I am quickly going to get the things that really makes us quite hesitant to visit Everland so much out of the way first. The ride operating hours have got pretty bad compared to what they used to be. Although the more popular rides have always closed up to 3 hours before park close, almost a year ago it began that on weekdays a few of the rides in each area would share half day schedules. So for example the top spin and shooting ride would operate from 10:00 - 14:00 and then they would close and then the top scan and rotating house would open 15:00-closing. Now it has changed that this happens on even weekends/peak days. Weekdays almost 2/3s of the parks bigger rides will only run for half the day, with half of the childrens rides closed completely and the helicycles never running on weekdays. Maybe i'm being too harsh about this since the park is pretty empty on weekdays but it seems strange compared to Lotte World that runs all rides including fast pass even on dead days. We had the same problem with the waterpark hitting 2 hour + lines with only half the slides runnings so 2 out of the 4 aqua loops were open and the master blaster and body slides that had an a and b side would only open the a side etc. Again I generally do enjoy going to Everland and T-Express alone is worth the entrance as is going to see the Dream Of Lucian fireworks show (when it's not been replaced by one of the seasonal shows) purely for the super low fireworks and how much the story mirrors Fantasmic but I do wish it was more like the Everland I encountered when I first came to Korea 4 years ago. One other slightly Everland related thing, the government has changed the laws so you can no longer stand on the red public buses, even though the bus from gangnam only takes 40 minutes if you are going on a weekend it may be worth leaving a little earlier just in case. (Edit 2015: This trial run very quickly ended since no amount of extra buses resulted in everyone sitting and you can stand on buses again, all mention of alternate transport methods seem to be gone from the Everland site) My wife correctly predicted that since the weekend after our visit was a weekend with a wednesday and friday bank holiday and the weather was overcast it would be quiet. Believe it or not this is a quite opening crowd (taken 1 hour before opening). I wanted to go on the day between bank holidays but turns out everyone had the same idea, that day had 40 minute lines even for the small world knock-off. Top tip: If the park is busy head for this office, it'll have a small line even when the other ticket offices have overflows It's easy to spot. The booth just next-door is Everlands version of fast pass, for 80 dollars you get entrance, a drink, a queue pass for t express or rapids and the safari rides as well as 2 tickets to the madagascar show and hologram concert ride which are reservation only. The real reason we were here early, the first 100 people who paid with BC card would get a q-pass, when we saw the crowds we'd assumed we'd missed out but it turns out a lot of people hadn't checked the home page and gone to the special booth to claim them afterwards (there was no notices about it at the park either, only the home page). Everland have quite big discounts that change each month so it always helps if you have a Korean friend to check the site and lend you their card . We got 50% discount and a q pass for this month. My first stop was to pick up a reservation ticket for one of the new attraactions. Times available, we went there as soon as the park opened so there was plenty but as with most of the reservation rides they can't check if you've already taken one so people will go to more than one showing and they can run out on busy days. Ride sign for Larry. Generally this ride is one of the first people see so it will pick up a line for the rest of the day almost immediately. I hopee they build something eventually up near where Eagles Fortress still sits, though Hurricane is popular most people will head downhill from here and barely anyone seems to head up the path towards the pirate ship and break dance, the area seems pretty dead. Next stop was T-Express to pick up reservation tickets. This line can stretch pretty far and out of the area on busy day to pick up tickets, i'm honestly not sure what the limit is on the number of tickets though since I tend to avoid the park on busier days. The rules for the reservation system. You show up at the ticket booth and they give you a ticket to come back in an hour, the idea being it's a virtual queue but it really didn't seem to work that way since the waiting times didn't seem that different from before the system came into effect. I don't think i'd have such a big problem with it if it wasn't so easily abused. They require all the group members to be there but then they don't scan tickets so we would see people get them from T Express and then try and get another from a booth in another area. It seemed pointless that people would abuse it anyway since once you waited in line and rode you would barely have time to get in another ride on that time slot anyway. There seemed a lot of confusion over the system that they had 2 members of staff (one with an I speak English badge) on the entrance to explain things, i'm not sure if it was because it was quiet but we were told it was ok to get one for each hour so we ended up laying T-Express leapfrog. Since the passes aren't staggered over the hour and have fixed times, the lines would be huge at the start of each hour (about 50 minutes). We found the best time was to get there at 35 minutes past the hour grab a ticket for the next hour and jump in line then for around 20 minutes getting off just in time to line up before the next hour people started arriving (the operators would yell out how long the line was and they would let people in 10 minutes before the time slot if it got quiet enough so it helped to get there early). Then after that ride we'd grab another ticket and repeat. Doesn't work as well on busier days though since the line will still be big. I'm pretty sure TPR members would be smart enough to read the map but you'd be surprised how many people would run to T express and jump in a big line for the tickets when these were both mentioned on the map and scattered around the park with no lines. Also try to avoid getting the opening hour reservation, not only will it only be a 20 minute window but they only run one train and also add the second train and test it during that time so it can be a pretty big wait even with a few people. As I said we got to the park when it was really quiet. T-Express After a year of bad luck with the weather policy or special events it was nice to finally ride again Since it was quiet I finally got to ride the parks rotating house It was quite nicely themed but even with a empty queue we waited 15 minutes, sadly couldnt get a picture of the inside for the TR since the ops were trying to get people through as fast as possible. I rode this between T Express tickets, another ride that is normally packed so I avoid it. New for 2014 is Rio the 4D experience. It's a new movie inside the old space tours building, for park index purposes it's still listed as Space Tours on the maps and website. Queue area Pre-Show Main ride, I always think of 4D as a 3D movie with effects like vibrating seats, water, smells etc but both the main cinemas (I saw Frozen in 4D) and rides seem to always be just moving seats and wind blowers. The movie is just clips from the movie put together I'm honestly now sure if it was always there or it was put in for Rio 4D but there are parrots in the garden next door now (I think before it may have been butterflies). The new ride for last year was Lost Valley, we used our queue pass for it, it's still one of the busiest rides in the park and if it wasn't for queue pass i'd probably have never ridden it. Despite signs saying it's not allowed this ride has the worst line jumping i've ever seen in my life. It's the ride everyone runs to at park opening, it's at the bototm of the park and so many dads will run down and grab space in the lines before it opens and the mums will slowly make their way down the mountain. It's quietest at lunch but even then there was so much line pushing, i'm told its completely empty on weekdays though when children are at school. Some of the zoo animals have been moved into the line so at least there is something to look at, the zoo seems to get emptier wach year as more animals are moved into the safari areas. Chipmunks run along the queue line as well, this queue line is now Elissa approved. The ride vehicle backside of the ride vehicle Our tour guide This effect on the blank rocks was simple but looked really good. Finished effect Entering the lost valley Sploosh One of the first animals you will encounter is the elephants from the old herbivore safari attachment to the old safari ride. OMG i've found the legendary animatronic hippo sanctuary You can see the bus from the old safari ride in the background The cheetahs that share with the rhinos and the white lions are the main draw to the ride, sadly both animals were asleep when we rode. One last look at the vehicle The old safari ride still pulls in pretty big lines even with the opening of Lost Valley This cartoon was posted on Everlands facebook, my wife offered to translate but I honestly think it's funnier letting my mind making up its own version of the story. Part 2 to follow in a moment.

Until more details emerge i'm not sure what can be believed but you may need to read the article again, It seems the problem was with a police officer not so much the park and he removed himself from the park.

I'm honestly not overly surprised though, Battlestar always seemed to be dead even with 1 train on busier days when all the other rides had long lines. I'd imagine anything thrilling for a while will at least be accessible for all the family. I had hoped that they were going to build a clone of Minion Mayhem like some rumours had suggested.

Sorry if this is a stupid question but where there any restrictions on the hogwarts express? With the two and a half hour wait to get into diagon alley and return tickets for a later time, was there anything stopping people from just getting in line and taking the train in IOA to get straight into diagon alley

What I meant was designed to be operated with one train only, not operating with one train. My fault, I should have been more clear. Doesn't Hair Raiser at Ocean Park only have one train? There's no MCBR and when I was there on a packed bank holiday and they only were running one and if any day was when they'd have two wouldn't it be then? I could be wrong though, does anyone know? Edit: After checking a few pov's that only had one train I found a chinese one that shows two. Never mind.

I'm guessing that Ka will be running while they are loading riders so the roof is to protect them while they are being loaded.

I also read it as something the younger children can't do but older children could so perhaps it's talking about the height restriction will be too high for the younger ones.