Garet

I don't know, a lot of people seem to enjoy the idea of the water rides but don't like getting wet. Here in Korea, the Koreans seem to like their water rides dry. I've never got wet on either the log flume or rapids in lotte world since one has the little wind screen and the rapids seem to go out of their way to stop the boat from splashing (it just seems to rock as it goes around) and the water level was lowered a few years ago on Atlantis and i've never seen anybody able to touch the water since (although I have yet to visit after it's 6 month rehab claiming to return it to its original glory to see if that includes the main pool of water). Heck Everlands rapids come with covers to pull over yourself and on every visit i've had people will always use the covers. On my visit to Japan there were covered splash boats and on my visit to Fuji Q the rapids ride had glass put up all around the boat so you couldn't possibly get wet and it still had a 2h line (but thats probably just because its fuji q operations and they were only allowing 2 to a boat..... so the line was probably only 20 people)

I'm super excited to see what people come up with when the flat ride maker is released on the 16th.

So what's the limit before a project could be considered cancelled? I keep hoping to hear something about the polercoaster but my searches just led me back to this topic.

I did not realize studying Chinese in China grants one access to all Chinese amusement park knowledge. I thought it was still difficult to get accurate information on many projects. I was going to quote that but the Yin comment made me hope it was sarcastic. However since I just married a Korean, work and live in Korea you are more than welcome to ask me about all the secret future plans of Everland

It's still listed on their site as operating, I was tempted to visit when I went a few years ago just to actually have tried one but with rumors of Thunder Dolphin re-opening after I left (which thankfully came true) I never did visit to see for myself.

But that one comes to a stand-still and tilts then drops.... as opposed to a chain lift into a drop where the back car would have a lot of speed going into the drop.

Out of interest how is this doing on different countries charts, it seemed to be creeping up to the high 20s when I last had the chance to check but I think the chart my iphone shows is only UK.

Just saw on TPR home page the tweet from No Limits about the POV, I know parks don't normally do it but i'd love it if they released that track pack. Pretty please if they read this

I'm pretty sure Tobu Zoo had this policy for their water-park when I was there.

That yahoo article seems a bit misleading into what it is implying, it quotes mypaper as it's source and makes it seem like everything about battlestar will be torn down but the second i loaded up the mypaper news it gave this as the first caption: Until the park 100% confirms something take it as rumours but here's the full article: http://mypaper.sg/top-stories/battlestar-galactica-may-have-heard-its-last-whoop-20140402 Makes it sound more like a retheme of the current roller-coasters with maybe a few modifications or track/train changes to fix the problems than a complete tear-down like that yahoo article seems to suggest, I think a re-theme would probably be good to give it a fresh start as a new theme after all the closures and incidents reported. As myself in my Tr and a few others have said this roller-coaster always seemed quite empty even when other rides had pretty long lines. Also lines up with dejiki's last TR (http://dejiki.com/2014/03/uss-update-2014mar/) but again until the park confirms anything 100% take it all as just rumors for now. I'd love to see a alliance/browncoats theme with Firefly to keep it sci-fi but I think i'll be forever dreaming on that one

Sure looks like a second train to me. Those pictures look quite old, where do they keep it when it isn't on the storage track? On Google Earth it shows an empty section of track where that train is sitting.

Sorry I was so busy with wedding stuff I only just noticed and replied to your PM but here are all my pictures (thanks Larry for suggesting my TR so I was made aware of this topic ) i'm not sure how many I included in my original TR. Sorry about the grey sky, it was a day after heavy snow so conditions weren't ideal.

In addition to the ones I posted above, if they would just add the honey mustard that I had in HKDL at Grizzly Gulch i'd be very happy, I was really sad that I never got to try the apple cinnamon flavor since I love cinnamon bread, when I saw a cart not on the map on my visit to Tkyo I really had hoped it would be apple-cinnamon but it turned out to be cranberry as the flavor they were trying out (it was OK to me but i'm not a fan of cranberries on their own) edit: Just realized it says only apple in the picture above mine, I wonder where I got the idea there was apple cinnamon popcorn from.....

Here is the popcorn from my last trip, with also some handywork thrown in from the japanese cleaners during the snow and later melted snow of the weekend. I don't think i'd be able to work as a cleaner in Japan, the sweepers had far more talent with their mops, 2 minutes and rainwater than I can manage with an hour and a pencil.

I'm hoping for something like that dynamic attractions video that was sadly deleted a few months ago. The one with the free-fall drop, launch and the pivoting track with the screen and finally the sideways sloping track at the end. Maybe themed around escaping a burning forest and tumbling over cliffs and sliding down hills etc.

Which will flood in places it shouldn't, removed and replaced with a bunch of treadmills in the middle of canal to move the boat over where the drop/ lift back up used to be.

I heard there's a secret arena in that little area where no-one goes where randomly picked visitors jelly-wrestle for exclusive Duffy merchandise that can only be obtained by becoming the ultimate champion of the day.

If Chris Sawyer made a kickstarter to create an updated sequel to roller-coaster tycoon 2 (or heck even 3) just in the same style since he couldn't use the name i'd back it

So the incredibles 2 and cars 3 is coming, A few years ago despite Toy Story 2 (which I really liked) I'd never have expected them to be a company that would churn out sequels almost as much as their original films (although out of all the movies I always thought The Incredibles was one of the ones that could tell more story), I always imagined them being more like Studio Ghibli and churning out one story and moving on unless they really really felt there was more story to tell, I liked Toy story 2 and 3 but didn't like cars 2 at all and Monsters University was fun but the first was much better and didn't seem like a story that really needed telling. But then I also felt Finding Nemo didn't really need more story told but we've got Finding Dory coming soon.

I'm so glad my job and my impending marriage means i'm 1) a 30 minute drive from Everland (even if i'm the only person in the world who doesn't like the place right now) and more importantly 2) only a short flight away from Tokyo. Really will need to do another trip during a few weekdays when its not in-line with the rest of Korea and Japan's vacation time.

If anything we are all the way back to Bullfrogs Theme Park, RCT1 had way more realism to it than this.

The hotel in the older map definitely makes it look like a college party Although I don't like either map, that new one puts so much emphasis on the coasters I find myself barely noticing anything else in the park, it'd probably be different when I had it in my hands when it's bigger but my eyes only seem to find the coasters. It took me a while to spot samurai, the old one looked extremely chaotic but at least I was looking at everything and could see where it was.

Since it's based on the movie carriages, i'm pretty sure both ways half the people seating will be going backwards since in the movie they have the seats facing each other.

I think the problem was that was trying to be a game version of south park, whereas this is south parks version of a game if that makes sense. I'm not a fan of licensed games but I find a lot of the RPG stuff that is made fun of as you go cracking me up, i'm still early into the game but i'm finding it almost as an extended interactive episode dedicated to mocking game styles, i chucked quite a bit at the references to the fact its a standard mute rpg protagonist and yet people keep having conversations, that and the jab at all the games that use nazi zombies.