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^ You had to remind him, huh? Wish you were coming along with us, Mark! And maybe - in just a few years - it happens again - be on it! There we are! You, Adam and moi in that ice house (one of many we went into) at Park Espana, Sept.2007.

Here's the other neat stuff I bought and collected on the tour. Everything from the only two park maps one could get (and one of them you had to pay for!) to a small woven creation bought on Palm Sunday in Mexico City. Then there's that plastic 'glass' in the shape of a Corona Extra bottle.... Lots of good stuff, lol! And ~ back next week with one more post, with thank yous etc. Two maps (Six Flags Mexico; La Feria), a napkin from that awesome buffet franchise, wrist bands, paper things. The other stuff I bought or collected. The plastic Corona Extra glass; shooter glass from Six Flags Mexico; Absolut Vodka (from Airport Duty Free, lol); the woven palm leaf; a little wooden flute from Bicentenario Park. Better view of the palm weave; my only pin (from Jose Cuervo); mini voodoo doll; Marvin the Martian; glass cocktail stir stik (also Jose Cuervo); towel from Selva Magica; the wooden flute.

^ Oooooo I do like the colour combo of this train.

"Everybody Say Yeah" from Brdwy cast of Kinky Boots

The sound of the launch out of the mine on Hong Kong Disney's new Grizzly Gulch Runaway Minecars. And the immediate screams of the riders, as well. Of course there's a bit of "help" to that launch too. (Those darned bears!) And out it goes!

Aren't they breaking up, now?

Great updates on this part of your tour, Robb. And nice to see the Drums are still around.

Yeah well, you'll notice I didn't show the rest of our kitchen? But thanks for asking, Bob.

Oh it was, it WAS! Actually, I took my first turn in the back seat, in a long long time. Did - not - like it - at all. Too much force on/at my frail body. Middle of the train's always been fine for me, lol.

Some more Souvenirs, these ones hav3ing to do with Candy & Snacks. Yum. What I found interesting about some of the local candy, was that chile pepper was a BIG part of some of it. Not overly OMG mouth-burning spicy, lol. But some of that sweet-salty-sour-spicy taste to everything. Definitely worth a try. Here's the haul of it all. The Candy-Snacks Haul, I mean. (o; All sorts of all sorts, heh heh. Some of it was meh. Others stuff was awesome! Where most of it all ended up, after the tour. My "snacks drawer", lol. The chile pepper candy is in the left corner there. A liquid candy, too! And... Best - Snacks Souvenir - Ever! Betty remembered how I loved malt vineager on my french fries (A Brit thing), and saved and gave me these on the tour! (o: Thank you & Big BearHUGS Betty! (They're going with me to Japan next week, too!)

Larry - I got to Playland (At the PNE) on Monday, and looked all over the park for any signs of our newest ride, AtmosFEAR. Unfortunately, the sign closest to it was just the general warning sign that's on most of the rides at the park. But they do have a large sign at the entrance to Playland, for it. So I took a few, and hope these will do. Unless of course, they actually put up A - SIGN there, heh heh The warning sign in front of AtmosFEAR. The sign at the front of the park entrance. A shot of the sign, with the attraction in back.

I know it's not exactly an "animal"... it was planned as part of Disney Paris' Indiana Jones Temple of Peril, but never made it past the drawing board. Too bad. Into this guy's hungry mouth, and then .....

This prince is probably more a part of the .3%, lol.

And now... ~ SOUVENIRS! ~ As this was a bit of a short tour, compared to the marathon I did for China back in September, the souvenir haul was not as big as other ones. But, there was stuff to bring back, lol. Here's the first part of it.... First of all - "The Most Important Souvenir" of this TPR Tour - The Goodies Backpak! The bunch of it all. A couple a nice shirts there. The Tour shirt, and a Six Flags Mexico shirt, in my fave colour, RED! Awesome. The 3 mugs I picked up. La Feria with the nice stir spoon; Six Flags (and I KNOW it'll be from Mexico even if it doesn't say "Mexico" on it...darnit); and Selva Magica in gold, even though it was the 25th anny of the park, lol. (I mean, it IS supposed to be silver, yes? No?) And this part of show and tell ends with The Hotels Haul - soaps, shampoos, etc. - and the nice Agave cream in the middle there. From Jose Cuervo's!

I loves Japanese commercials for parks.

^ Very nice shot there. This one is simple - I call it, "Organized". One can never have enough spices above one's stove, heh. I liked the "look" of the setup there.

"Cinderella Waltz" ...from Broadway cast cd of Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella Nice old R & H redo of a 1957 tv special starring Julie Andrews as Cindy.

I am so looking forward to seeing the parade again, hopefully a bit closer than last time (up near the covered main street). It's really an amazing electrical parade and just out-does IMhO even the Original Main Street one (gasps). So I do want to see it again. And we saw Captain EO when it first - appeared - at the Imagination Pavilion Kodak Theater at EPCOT...in 1987! And we still have one of the posters we bought there. I re-saw it in TDL two years ago, and it really held up well, for what it could do, with what technical stuff was available. And with Lucas, and Jackson, AND Coppola on board - it was NEWS! And Angelica Huston, fresh off (tv series) SMASH, in a younger more, uh, animated role, lol.

^ And it still feels great, when you get on one of those TPR tours, no matter how old you are - like me LOL! And the Alveys will be doing a few more years' touring, as Kidtums gets older and more "allowed to ride...", and of course those new parks and coasters opening... Start saving now and in a year or two you'll be ready to take an awesome Theme Park Review Tour to somewhere you'd never thought you would ever visit. Or ride roller coasters, in! (Note to Alveys - and a Tripsdrill revisit might be.....? )

^ it was great meeting you too Jo, and us hanging around with the others. I think we did alright with what we wanted to do, see and ride. And eat and drink, lol! Mmmm La Chata restaurant.... I hope we'll definitely meet up again, on another (Scandi) upcoming (SCANDI) tour (2014), perhaps? Cheryl, JC, Betty, Ginny...and you Jo! Outside our (current) fave restaurant in Guadalajuara.

OH Henrys...Mr.Bigs... and any choc.bars like them.

The pig knows awesomeness, lol!

That would be great, except for the non-sensibility a lot of North American parents seem to possess, that anything that happens with their child falling over - well, it's a lawsuit, right? The Funhouse queue house would be serval lawsuits waiting to happen, I am sure of that. But everybody else in the rest of the world, takes it in stride, and just puts it to "kids being kids" etc. Doubtful this will happen in any North American park soon.

^5 ~ Thanks! And yeah, I miss my old film camera too - just a bit, heh heh. I must admit, though, there are/were some (I thought) pretty good shots I took on this tour, that I would not have been able to get with my old camera. Too much time (if you can call a couple of seconds that) spent to line up the shot. This was way too easy for me with the digital one. So, it's probable I will stick with the new one and keep the old one around - just for the memory of, lol. ^4 ~ Thanks and great touring with you again, Ginny! You thought about going back to Scandinavia next year? ^3 ~ Heh heh, oh that was alright, Gary! I thought the "magic trick" up, after getting home and going through all the shots. Seemed to work for me. And glad you enjoyed it, too. (Pg.2 - halfway down...) ^2 ~ There was actually a lot of good Mexican food to be had on this tour. There was the exception of the parks that served chicken burgers and such. Not very creative with them, or that tasty, either. The fries however, were mostly great, every time I had them! And there was usually, always BEER, too! ^1 ~ Thanks ...and Thanks Mark! I am doing okay, at 60+ now... but I just found out the no-ride age on Dondopna at Fuji-Q is....54??? (I'm on the upcoming Japan tour) Who thought that number up? But that's ok, I've ridden it twice before and got the credit in 2007, ha ha.

"Now You See Me" We were happily surprised how good we thought it was, after some of the more negative press had been read before seeing it. It had fun moments and some actual (we thought) witty dialogue to help lighten things up, where needed. And it was pretty cool, that it "looked" as 3D as it did, even though the film is in 2D. The illusions were spectacular to say the least, and explained away in some pretty nifty ways. Damn, I love Las Vegas-style illusions! And of course, a couple of twists along the way made for a good surprise here and there. 8/10