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And all of that stuff in each room and hallway we went through.... Hands up from those who think this'll work in North America? Too many lawsuits in there easily waiting to happen. I was amazed at how extremely careful we some times had to be in this place. And then there was the actual (*%@# SCREEMING and running down the hallway!!!! Yeah, that was us. "He" really freeked us out, almost immediately, and BAM! we're hauling hallway LOL!!!

^ I just those things! The simplest of the Mad House / Haunted Swing design. I want one of these in my back yard, LOL! I think this is my all-time favorite flat - next to all that is Tokyo Disney Resort.

^ And the gp bitched about Alien Encounter being too intense. (Never got to see it, sadly.) Am pretty sure, they haven't met This One, yet LOLOL! Long Live Lava Monster!

Continuing on With Cosmoworld.... After our SkyWheel ride, we went over to the other section of the park, David got another credit (The Banana Coaster!) and a bunch of us (ha) went into the park's Ice House, and somehow, "the exit door accidently locked"....for several minutes. Very VERY c-c-c-cold minutes. Then back to the main part of the park, searching for the elusive MEAT COW CAPSULE MACHINE, and...we all found it! And this time, I got a meat Sheep. Only one meat animal per visit, for myself. I think everybody else picked up two or three of them and much trading happened, heh. After that, a turn around the massive arcade the park has, then me, David and JC headed out of the park, to the resident Hard Rock Cafe for a quick (sort of) meal, before meeting up with everyone and back on the train to our hotel. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* And by the by, any photos I credit to my David will be done... (DbM) On the other section of Cosmoworld, there's Donut Bears! In chocolate and strawberry! I was impressed! David gets his second credit on The Banana Coaster! Here's that Ice House, where..... (And another park map) For several c-c-c-cold minutes - several of us could Not Get Out! )o: (DbM) Various ways to bottle a Coke! Personally, I like the awesome looking Coke Mini-Robot in the back, there. Some of the amazingly crafted (even if it's mass produced, it's impressive) anime' figures from all diferent Japanese series and comic books, etc. Just noticed the one on the far left - in pink. Uh...okay..... So this is when I saw "the crowd" collecting around the capsule machines. And not just ANY capsule machine... This Capsule Machine. Moo. I picked up the Sheep on this visit. Note how 'normal' it looks with my last one, Chicken (or rooster, depending on how you look it is). But turn them around and.... Meat Chicken and Meat Sheep RULE! Now we're heading out of the park. And this used to be The Tallest Building in Japan. Not anymore. Artsy shot. (DbM) BFF. I found a lot of them throughout the tour. Mostly plants, but hey - plants need Best friends, too! Me and the coaster sculpture that's not a coaster. (DbM) Our meal at the Hard Rock Cafe. Good food and not too bad a cost, too. One more look back at Cosmoworld and other stuff, before meeting up with everybody else and heading on to Sea Paradise Park.

"Land of Lola" Billy Porter and the cast of KINKY BOOTS

Oh Elissa, I already knew this was going to be a weeeee bit of a distance to get to, lol. But thank you for emphasizing the reality of visiting it. (Not during the Scandi Tour) And a Norwegian Coastal Cruise sounds pretty awesome to me!

^ Ah, right. Of course, big red buttons always (now) make me think of Chuck.

Nice hauls everybody! The Tokyo maps make me immediately sad and wanting to go - back - NOW!

^ That's true about the Enterprise! I think the only 'double' I ever saw in the last several years was at SpaceWorld in Japan. But I think they have since taken it out, from what I remember of the TPR 2011 Japan tour. I could be wrong of course - there could be more of them I have seen on other tours. But I don't really notice them, because... Unfortunately, I don't ride them any more, single or double. The one at our local park gave me such a headache the last time I rode it... very wary of riding them, now. ^^ Oh, and 805Andrew it's okay to go off Coaster Topic, heh heh. I do it all the time in the site. I call it 'age'.

^ Whew - thanks Jon! Now I know it's just not me and my.... memory. Here's a bonus pic of what's to come, of Sea Paradise park... Something stunning this way comes....

Opening track to Tokyo Disney Sea's Music Album Music Album is at top left corner, of these five theme park cds I bought, four of them at Disney. The Lone Wolf (middle) came from Fuji-Q Highland park! Mostly dance'techno'disco - but I enjoy it as good dance music. (o;

^ Which bus?

Ooo! Ooo! ooo! I love it - it's awesome Can we go next year's tour Elissa? PlplplpleasepleasepleaseplplplpPRETTY PLEASE???

^^ Not exactly the way Miles tells it. What Pooh Bear doesn't like HUNNY? (Souvenir candy jar from Tokyo Disneyland) EDIT to show what that Pooh avatar looked like. And I had a "night version" of it too, lol! EDIT finished.

^ You know what? I don't think I ever looked for any Slurpee machine at any of the ones we went through, during the entire tour. (Looking for beers, etc...) From my best memory, I don't think any of them had any kind of Slurpee machine. Lots of magazines, cold (& to-heat) Japanese foods, booze and non-booze on wall racks.... But maybe somebody else from the tour, remembers better than me...?

Here's one of the few videos I took with my camera, during the tour. This one shows Neil on one of the more "physical" arcade games on the Cosmoworld games floor. It's all about bouncing, bouncing, bouncing! Definitely a physical workout, heh heh. [coastertube]http://www.themeparkreview.com/coastertube/play.php?vid=MVI_2355_mwfa[/coastertube] I would get tired just getting up on the thing, LOL!

I missed Tobu Zoo.

June 28 / Train to Yokohama / Cosmoworld The next day, with our new JR Rail Line passes in hand, and the luggage being sent ahead of us, we were soon on the Bullet Train (our only time on it, sadly) to Yokohama, to our first park AND to meet up with all the rest of the group, who had been doing a tour add-on before we arrived. Cosmoworld was a familiar park to me, having been here twice before. It has levels to challenge your sense of direction in finding ride entrances, exits, food, capsule machines... it's a good physical work out, lol. It's also literally in two parts, the main section of it, where we started, and the second part over on the other side of the waterway we had to cross to get to it. Mostly children's rides there, but a couple of good thrill flats - and the Ice House! It was 'very cute' how "somebody" managed to lock the exit door of the Ice House, so that all of us in that thing, were all bunched up at the exit door, freezing our.....off. Fun times, ha ha. David got his first coaster in of the tour (Vanish) and with JC, we ended up eating lunch at a Hard Rock Cafe, just before we all re-grouped, to continue on the train to another park for the day..... Sea Paradise park. After breakfast and before we left the city on the Bullet Train, I noticed this interesting display of a blue beverage. No idea what it was. What? There's a POPCORN TOUR from this hotel? Why are we leaving now??? )o: After the bullet train, we arrive, and wait for Robb and the others to meet up with us here. The two guys in front are not with us, lol. The area we are now in. Heading towards the park we see this. It's a new mall and hotel being built in Cosmoworld. Shiny! Our host for the park, greets us with another Custom Made TPR Greeting Poster. And the Main Subject of said poster, agrees to pose, without knowing exactly what she's posing beside. Good sport, Elissa! A park map to show you all what we're getting into, here. (Pic by David) Always liked that building there. And some coaster track. Here goes Vanish! And it does! (sort of) Both pix by David. The spinning mouse - which really wasn't allowed to spin at all, until near the end of the cycle. David got a pic or two of groups of (non-spinning) riders enjoying the mouse. The flume with a touch of air time (if lucky) before the big drop. We also found out it had a SCREAM METER, that was able to post how 'high' our flume log's scream....was. I think ours did pretty good, but I never checked until afterwards. Then I forgot our original posting, LOL. Silly old bear. After Vanish and the Mouse, we were taken over to the other part of the part (across the water) where we got ERT on the Banana Coaster! (DbM) Front part of the second park section. I think I understand what I just said. One houses prize winning walk through games, usually based on cartoons and children's stories we knew nothing about. (DbM) Since I am already showing shots from the skywheel we're on, here's a shot of what appears to be a mini-golf game setup on a building's roof! And coloured panels to drive your mind crazy! Another view of the new project the park is currently building. Vanish track, around the spinning mouse. An enterprise just lifting - no spinning - just lifting up. Never seen one do that. I liked the small pattern in there, surrounded by all that green and concrete. Us! Enjoying the skywheel and all we can see of Yokohama from up there. More to follow...

"...so not even Don could break it."

Been meaning to tell you, since I got back from Japan.... Thank you thank you THANK YOU for the new title, Oh Title Fairy. It will always make me think of two ways to go from the station - one way, to the Hilton hotel. The other - to all the awesomeness that is Tokyo Disneyland and Sea. Bayside Station is an awesome station!

Um, we just experienced this with the in door dark ride, based on Thomas The Train and his neighborhood, etc. At Fuji-Q Highland Park, right below Mt.Fuji itself. And they used a turntable to switch us in another direction without turning usual corner. We came to a dead stop - turned around - and started going.... yeah well. And all on the usual 'train tracks' which are/were two in number... Turntable. It still works from time to time, lol.

They added fire & smoke, re-did the entire tracking system. Wound the queue around it rather than at it, like Paris. All amazing and smooth as glass, most reported! This layout is the exact same layout as in DParis' version. Only the footprint is turned around, for the 'first view' from the gp. A much better view IMhO - and now, an awesome little coaster in TDS! This is what you see at the front. And at night, it even looks better! And of course, the daytime shot. (o: And there's Daytime Fire there, too. Woot!

Mmmm it's all to me, right now. When we going back, huh Elissa, huh Elissa, huh huh HUH?

Ooooooo This coaster is looking better and better, sssssss......