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^Interesting. So what's not for sale? Rampage, Water Rides, anything else?

^I think they'll be lucky if they get even NEAR the theoretical capacity you've listed.

^We contact the parks ahead of time to find out their rules for filming. Then we either film before/after the park is open, while the park is open, or not at all based on the parks rules.

I really hope these last two comments are being sarcastic. You're all terrible people in this thread!

You're not really going to find anything with as big of video games/simulators as Joypolis, but if you still go to the complex (Tokyo Decks / Odaiba Area) there are some VERY cool arcades with awesome only in Japan games.

Guys, this is all pointless...we all know the parking lot is SINKING!!!!

Don't forget if you want some up close and personal time with this ride, sign up for the New Hotness Tour!

^I'd agree with it a lot more if it had the splashdown ending after the half pipe (like the similar White Water designs). The capacity on this is going to be terrible...although if they put Lo-Q in the water park it's fine with me!

This whole thing doesn't seem weird to anyone else?!!? Didn't they announce a real manufacturer adding the Drop Pod onto one of their slides back in the fall? If that fell through why not get that manufacturer to supply a slide? Why did they go with some random Eastern European company? I'm assuming it's a cost thing, but this all seems a bit odd to me. Add in the fact that it has an old school halfpipe finale which will kill capacity and I just don't get it!

^Hopefully it will be like Montu before that guy convinced Busch Gardens to never put in intense roller coasters again.

I'm not holding my breath! We'll see soon enough!

Have you been to the Florida Universal parks? How into movies are you? Do you have the money to spring for express passes? Are you going during a busy time of year? I believe the park is somewhere between a half and full day for most people, but it depends on the answers to the questions above.

Stay somewhere on Fowler for the 'safest' place. The hotels on Busch Blvd are older, more rundown, and not as nice of an area.

This is exactly why we tell people to post some pictures and a link if they have any actual news or interesting photos. Obviously there wasn't anything good over there which is why no one bothered. Plus when a 13 year old tells you to go do something, you probably should take that with a grain of salt!

^I agree, I'd rather fly one super long flight then have to break it up. As was mentioned though, we like to stay with one airline to maintain status and to get miles. You don't think we paid for those Business Class seats do you!?!? Just a tad out of our price range! So in this case we didn't have a choice with our routing. Hmmm, I wonder where we could be going next!?!?!?

^Robb and I are pretty good with Jet Lag. Around 3pm local time yesterday (2am my body time), after all of the traveling and stuff I started really feeling it, but got a piece of pizza and a giant coke and it kept me going till 9pm, then I slept decently considering it was day time my body time! So far the worst jet lag I've experienced was going from California to Dubai last year. It was an exact 12 hour difference. Robb and I basically survived on random naps here and there for the week!

^So here's how it breaks down: MCO - ATL about 1.5 hours ATL - NRT about 14 hours NRT - SIN aboug 7 hours So you can see it's over 22 hours of actual flying. Once you factor in loading/unloading/taxiing/transfer time, you're looking at nearly 30 hours. Flying from LAX would have cut out about four hours total, not as much as you might think.

Just chiming in with a few random thoughts from the trip so far... - This place is really freaking far from the US. I mean, we fly A LOT, but this flight was a bit demoralizing. Nothing like getting to Tokyo after a 14+ hour flight and not only can you not stay in Japan but you have another 7+ hours of flying to go!!! - Sentosa Island is very interesting. The Resorts World 'complex' is very cool with a ton of stuff to do/eat/shop and more coming. - Universal is quite small, but feels so complete. We spent from 7:30am to 7pm at the park and were never bored or just sitting around. I mean there are five roller coasters! I also was shocked at some of the rides that I didn't even know existed! Didn't know they had the little car ride, the indoor ferris wheel, or the Twister/Backdraft Hurricane attraction! - Transformers left me feeling a bit nauseous. I only rode it once. To me it felt EXACTLY like Spiderman, just with a different film. Again, this is great, but I think I was maybe expecting a bit more out of it. Some of the scenes were exactly out of Spiderman (robot jumping on vehicle, something shocking your vehicle, falling off a building, etc.) The vehicles also seemed a bit toned down compared to Spiderman. - Battlestar Gallactica was 'interesting'. Human has no inversions and is very much like a launched Vekoma Mine Train. The launch in the backseat is a TON OF FUN! Great airtime on that. Cylon is quite intense with a very interesting layout. Both rides though feel a bit sluggish and suffer from some normal Vekoma shuffling. All in all though, they're great to watch, the racing launch is very cool, and they don't hurt at all. One VERY interesting thing we saw is that the second Human train is sitting in the maintenance shed with Over the Shoulder Restraints! Seems like the lapbars may be going away very soon. - Food has been very good so far. Still waiting for my new McDonalds country credit though...that should happen today! Robb's doing some more filming with the park this morning, so I'm here to answer any more random questions you may have for an hour or two!

Yeah, it's like a TPR Party in there right now and we just keep fighting each other with little to no wait!

I'm all alone! Someone come fight me!

^Southeast Asia Trip 2013 is becoming more and more of a reality! BTW, Dan, sometimes I forget why you hang out with us...and then you put together a TR like this and I instantly remember why!!!

^If you're into Roller Coasters and won't go crazy or get angry at bad operations and horrible queues, then go for it! If you're more into quality, culture, Disney, etc. Don't bother.

Too bad the ops were HORRIBLE to some of us.

^That's really nice and will help many people, good for you!

^Must be your firewall, I just logged in for the first time today and I'm 2nd!