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I'm trying to be fair here, really I am. I fully understand that Carnival has more ships than the other companies but let's fix that... Carnival - 23 currently operating ships (counting the two right now that technically aren't operating!! LOL!) Royal Caribbean - 22 currently operating ships (about to send one to a lower line) Celebrity - 11 ships Norwegian - 11 ships (one in a long dry dock) Princess - 16 ships and so on... First off, I didn't realize how close Royal Caribbean was to Carnival, and how many issues have they had the last few years!?!?!? Secondly, why don't we even put ALL these other lines together and still Carnival has way more issues then they should statistically. Oh dear...

Can't wait for this! I already have a new found appreciation for DTD with all the new offerings and this will just up that even more.

Absolutely, just give Robb a bit more time. He's been doing interviews, getting footage, and tons of photos. He needs to put it all together for you guys!

^But first you need to put the slingshot together with only one small tool!

^Woke up and saw the tweets and news stories...LOL! Love it! Oh Karnival!

So this land will either be an Angry Birds fun park or an Ikea!?!? I believe this is the definition of Win Win!

^Exactly. We live in a horrible society!

Wow, really impressed with Royal Caribbean right now! I sent an email earlier this week to the office of the CEO to nicely express my displeasure that Royal Caribbean has bowed down to lawyers and sue-happy terrible Americans and restricted the amount of tricks you can now do on the FlowRider. I received a call back today (less than 48 hours after my email) and the person on the phone seemed to have done their research as they knew when and what I had cruised before as well as upcoming bookings I have! She said they really appreciate the honest feed back and have heard quite a few complaints and they're working with the terrible lawyers to keep introducing tricks back to the Flowriders that we'll all be able to learn and do again. As of today there are 16 tricks you can now do, up from 4 after the lawyers go their way, but still way down from the ANYTHING you could do before all this crap. I really respect companies that respond back, especially in a timely fashion.

It is a bit odd that as well built and GP Friendly as GCI's are they now have what two sitting and rotting? I don't feel that the new trains helped at all. Rocky Mountain it all the way!!!!

I was thinking the same thing. Lifeguards are actually supposed to be constantly scanning their water, yet, they just do a "W" scan, and you can see it by the motion of their head. They don't need to look ridiculous and put their hands way out, or on their foreheads. That's EXACTLY what I was referring to. I do feel it's almost a lawsuit thing, make them look so ridiculous that everyone will know they're doing it. This is what Cedar Fair went to after the Perilous Plunge accident making every ride op say 'Check' loudly so people around would be able to corroborate that someone's bar was checked.

You lost me at 'same people as Orlando Thrill Park'.

^I agree, the visual scan thing looks ridiculous and I don't see it necessarily helping safety. I get what they're going for, it's similar to some of the techniques they teach life guards for scanning the water making sure there's no one drowned! But it's very different and they don't have to put their hand on their head and other silly stuff.

^&^^ We use Delta and go to Springfield through Atlanta. There are a ton of options and we much prefer Delta to Southwest.

^Yeah, the problem's going to be it really seems to affect everyone differently. Bigger people don't seem to have quite as much the problem as smaller people or taller people. Maybe just wait till the end of the day to ride so it doesn't ruin his day if it makes him feel uncomfortable.

It does look quite good!

I find the B&M Wingrider restraints some of the worst they've ever created. On my body, they get tighter and tighter till I'm left barely able to breathe by the time we hit the brake run. I've confirmed other people also have this issue. Seems to affect different body types and leave others alone just fine. I'm hoping these are at least slightly modified.

^Absolutely avoid I-95 and NYC as much as possible! I would go with Tappan Zee.

^Yeah, just finished here as well. Kind of wish there was a way they would tell us 'ok, this event is now over', cause I'm always nervous that I missed something!

^^Pretty sure we mentioned that back in December when we did our first tour of the construction area. I know that facility does a lot of kids parties and a kiddie coaster will round out their kids area really nice!

^Love it when parks are great with Social Media!

This is not true, not even straight line distance! It will be more like 45 miles and take over an hour so keep that in mind if trying to go there.

Same...but remember it's Daylight Saving Time, not Savings Time...just a pet peeve of mine!

^Do NOT use any English sites when prepping for a Japan visit. They are usually horribly outdated. Use the Japanese site and by clicking around and using basic translation tools you should be able to find the info you need. It Kyushu I would recommend Space World for Quality or Mitsui for screwed up quantity! They're both fun parks.

It probably did happen sometime in the last few weeks on one of their ships! It just isn't real news...just like the RCCL outbreak. Some slow reporter just needed space to fill and jumped on it because "OMG CRUISE SHIP STORY!!!"

^Exactly, that worries me a bit. With the crowd that SFMM attracts I have a feeling they'll have to do something unless the photo is more of an optical illusion and it's not as close as it looks.