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Since you are Australian, let me explain. The number with squiggly lines is a three, not a four. From rcdb: Under Construction opening 2013 Please accept my apologies, it will probably open about 5 days before 2014 so I thought it might be worth a mention if it fell into a bit of a grey area beteen 2013 and 2014. 3 and 4, yep, they do look different.

I used this search engine, the prices are in Aussie dollars and the distance in kilometres, but it should give you an idea: http://www.hotelclub.com/shop/hotelsearch?type=hotel&hotel.type=keyword&hotel.coord=&hotel.keyword.key=Universal+Studios%2C+Hollywood%2C+CA%2C+United+States&hotel.locId=loc.id%3A35935&hotel.chkin=16%2F10%2F13&hotel.chkout=17%2F10%2F13&hotel.rooms%5B0%5D.adlts=2&hotel.rooms%5B0%5D.chlds=0&hotel.rooms%5B0%5D.chldAge%5B0%5D=&hotel.rooms%5B0%5D.chldAge%5B1%5D=&hotel.rooms%5B0%5D.chldAge%5B2%5D=&hotel.rooms%5B0%5D.chldAge%5B3%5D=&hotel.rooms%5B0%5D.chldAge%5B4%5D=&hotel.rating=&hotel.hname=&hotel.couponCode=&search=Search&hsv.page=1&hsv.sortOrder=HOTEL_DISTANCE I just stay at the Hilton personally, because I'm lazy. Nite Inn looks like the most cost effective versus distance option. Hollywood might be an option also if the Universal City metro train runs late at night, there's plenty of stops near Hollywood area hotels south of there.

I hear the Torture Museum has a Hades ride simulator.

Sadly my standard boomerang count has increased from 14 to 17 since I started this thread with the addition of 'rangs from: Six Flags Over Texas Six Flags Fiesta Texas (I'm totally counting it twice) Six Flags St Louis Here's hoping my count stays the same.

^It's a proposal, judging from the thread, hopefully our special correspondent Yin will be able to keep us informed.

After some of the stuff I saw at Mt Olympus like an old lady picking a fight with a hispanic family. Add all-you-can-drink alcohol...well digging deep into the silver linings playbook maybe an angry, drunken mob will burn down Hades.

I've been the last two years of VIP. The backlot tour wasn't bad last year out on the Jaws lake, but not mind-blowing, though it sounds like it will be even better this year with Murdy producing it. You also get a VIP reserved section for Bill and Ted. The lounge is pretty good, the food was a decent meal and you can eat as much as you want and go back an unlimited number of times. Valet parking is included. Whether it's worth it from my point of view depends on how much you value unlimited front of line. In that respect, it's good value compared to the Front of Line Pass which only gets you into each maze once. Knott's have improved their Front of Line this year, making it unlimited and with secret Fright Lane only rooms in 5 mazes. I'm doing VIP HHN and Knott's Fright Lane this year, I'm sold.

Yeah. Hopefully ones that work. Thanks, btw, for breaking it last year, hahaha! Don't worry, I'm staying the hell away from GeForce. To top that off, it broke in 2010 before I got within 12,000 miles of the thing. Let's hope Expedition ChiForce gets off the ground (don't worry I'll stay away from that one too Kyle).

Australia Storm Coaster - Sea World: a water coaster like the one at Djurs Sommarland. http://rcdb.com/11059.htm

Rocky Mountain Goliath and Metal Medusa. I'm not even thinking about anything else in that part of the world. Helix looks good in Europe. Asian Expedition GeForce in China is something to get excited about.

Yin, I am impressed. Hopefully this will lead to an outbreak of Expedition GeForce clones.

SFGAm have potentially the best wood coaster on earth coming in 2014, here's hoping they don't trim the life out of it like Rageless Bull. Chicago is always a cool city to visit, so now I have an incetive to go to SFGAm as well.

^There could be up to 4 RMC's next year at parks on the trip that we didn't ride this year, I guess we'll have to do it again LOL. I jest, I imagine you'd be quite happy to not have to reach that far into the contingency playbook again, but it went well anyway. On this imaginary trip next year I'd be quite happy to miss the Dells. I think even someone who has done time as the pretty young newbie in maximum security would complain about the roughness of Hades, it is appropriately named after hell.

Following on from this year's kiddie ride Gatekeeper...more kiddie rides. They should charge credit whores $10 to ride without a kid on Gemini Wilderness Junior coaster, the revenue boost would be enormous. More money to buy more trashcans, yay!!

I hate it when parks I have no desire to go back to, add a coaster (still speculation) that makes it mandatory to go back. And the year after my last visit just to rub it in. If it's what's being described in Screamscape it will be amazing.

After visiting this month for the first time in 6 years. Maverick is still my fave by a long shot. Blue Streak was running very well too. 1. Maverick 2. Top Thrill Dragster 3. Millennium Force 4. Magnum XL-200 5. Raptor 6. Wicked Twister 7. Gemini 8. Blue Steak 9. Tamekeeper 10. Mantis 11. Corkscrew

Hello fellow Aussie, I would recommend staying at a hotel close to SFMM (I did one walking distance from the park) rather than use public transport (non-existent) and use a shuttle from the airport to get there. Also if you like Halloween events and have time, I would strongly recommend Knott's Scary Farm and Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Hollywood.

Looks like fun. I've been on 2 Wingriders so far and found them to be Fifty Shades of Meh personally - almost a flyer layout on a sit-down coaster. Heide is a very cool park, I'm sure the majority of their visitors will enjoy this ride.

Hades 360, nothing compares to that experience.

I got some sensational rides on Hades in 2007. Riding again in 2013 for the first time since 2007, I have to say the roughness of Hades 360 was worst I've ever encountered in the 587 coasters I've ridden so far. Here's roughly what the bottom of my Mitch Hawker poll should look like this year: 116. Hellcat Lake Compounce 117. 118. 119. 120. 121. 123. 124. 125. 126. 127. Hades 360 I feel there needs to be a large amount of daylight at the bottom between Hades 360 and the next worst coaster.

^I've done VIP at Universal Hollywood, it's unlimited Front of Line so if you like doing mazes heaps of times then that is good, otherwise if you like doing mazes just once or twice then the one entry per maze FOL is better - but keep in mind the lines for the mazes get huge. Also you get food included, last year it was more like a good dinner and you could go back as many times as you want during the night. There is a priority entry and also an exclusive tour, which last year went out to the Jaws lake. Also there's valet parking if you get a hire car. Worth it in my opinion, but I love doing the mazes over and over again.

^And to think there's a similiar coaster (at least in concept) to Mick Doohan down the road that is really good. Sea World ONE Dreamword NIL.

Nice find, I bet all credit whores are salivating. Looks like High Speed Thrill Ride's semi retarded cousin: Low Speed Death Ride.

Flashback/Gwazi/Iron Wolf (now at SFA). Didn't even need to think about those ones.

Either you just made a funny joke about Fuji-Q's lines by accident, or you just made a great joke on purpose. Fuji-"Queue". cause you spend soooo much time in the queues! Um, I was wishing them a good day there in spite of Fuji Q's reputation. I'm thinking reports of a good day for lines at FQ are a bit of an urban legend, though with fast passes, and R & E's expertise, the odds of a good day are greatly improved. It's a park I'd like to go to in spite of all the bad reports, they have some coasters of interest to me like Euthenasia, the Togo Terror, and the so-fast-you-go-back-in-time Dodonpa.