DirkFunk

Someone once told me that his appreciation for the Beast came from it being from an era where regional theme parks sometimes did completely crazy, off the wall stuff, and this a rare surviving example of that thinking. A ride like The Beast would never again be built in the US as there's no one with the gumption and willingness to let their own engineers just build out forever like that. Once I started to look at it that way (as a novelty rather than some OH MAN SUPER CRAZY THRILL RIDE~!) I started to like it a lot more. It isn't a top 5-10-20-50 ride, but it is fun and oh so different.

It's gonna be craaaazy this weekend I think. Might stop in Sunday morning for early ride time, and then jet out of there.

I'm sure if someone shows up with an obvious disability they'll get the pass anyways. Six Flags can't be that stupid.

I haven't heard anyone say that B&M isn't going to be involved in the new Hulk. My guess is that Screamscape doesn't have particularly good connections on this one and is throwing stuff at the wall. Same reason we keep seeing "Marvel is leaving" type rumors pop up there without refutation. EDIT: Nevermind. Now hearing info that supports Screamscape. It's....interesting. EDIT AGAIN: I have no idea. I only knew it was starting.

If you want the real "home park" experience, you'll need to repeat what you're doing for years on end until you become bitter at the experience and desire something different. Kentucky Kingdom is probably 1/3 the park Carowinds is. I could definitely have a good day there. I might even be able to push it and have a couple good days there with healthy hanging out at the water park. Unless you want to go to the opera/ballet, visit Churchill Downs, go to minor league baseball, and maybe take a boat ride down the Ohio, you should perhaps consider some of the other advice being provided.

Let's take it a step further and you can't afford it period. Does that suck? I bet it does. If you're a regular Disney guest now, I seriously, seriously doubt that the change in pricing is such that it will radically alter your life and make you unable to go to the park any more. At the very least, you could buy season passes to Magic Mountain, Knotts, AND Sea World San Diego and just have to make deal with more and better theme park options than almost everyone else in the world has afforded to them. If you can't afford any of that, you're probably poor, and you have much bigger problems in your life than your ability to regularly attend a theme park.

Universal should charge 1/2 gram of gold to park. Fiat currency is untrustworthy as governments can print endless supplies of it and only filth should be reliant on credit. Shiny metal is the only way!

It's all fun and games until someone gets arrested for terroristic threats demanding the return of Holidayland and the Fritos Kid.

$3 parking price increase ($17->$20). UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HATES POOR PEOPLE

Only the parking changed. Orlando Sentinel had to post a retraction since the annual pass price raise they were describing happened months ago.

They also built a second park, which while not terribly popular compared to their goals, still alleviated some of the crowding issues. Fixing the park made it much more popular, which made passes more popular, which perpetuated the cycle of growth and crowding. But let's back up. The "problem" is that as a business, Disney is committed to making money. Rather than cut down on the guest experience significantly at Disneyland by removing services or goods at will (very different than Rivers of America being closed for construction) in order to increase revenue, they've instead decided to increase pricing. Why? Because they know that people will continue to pay more to have access to the same thing, and use individuals own personal budgets to be the deciding factor as to whether or not they renew. Would asking people to pay $1050 up front eliminate some passholders? Possibly. You know what I insinuate with this argument? That the issue you have isn't that the prices even cost more, it is that the passes are still being offered in a manner that individuals who are not you and simply haven't "worked as hard" or "tried as hard" as you have might have access to every benefit you do. Deep down, you're bothered because other people have passes and they should just be for you and people just like you (I wonder what their demographics are? Hmmmm). And now, EVUL DAZNEY has marched in and threatens your financial stability with yet another price hike targeted at you, the hard working, financially responsible and proper guest. If only they'd do something with the scum!

Sunk Cost Fallacy is at the heart of a lot of bad season pass holder arguments on the internet. The truth is that once you pay the money, it is gone. You aren't getting "$8 a visit" or whatever because often times those people choose to go more often (and spend more as a result) because, "Well, I have the pass, I might as well use it..."

I get it. A lot of people believe that obtaining entry to Disney theme parks is a meritocracy, and as such, you earned it and they're now threatening to take it away from you. Aside from the obvious fact that it establishes an entitled attitude, digging deeper, it also suggests that for those most upset (and likely also affected) by the price increases are upset at the idea that they are like all the "bad element"/"unruly guest"/other code words who they once could take solace in having a retreat away from. Sorry charlie: If you can't afford the increase or don't want to pay it, you might have to play with everyone in a different pool. If you can't find anything to be happy about in that other pool, then maybe you need to look in the mirror about who and what you are.

Disney isn't a "bargain" any more than Ruth's Chris is a "bargain". You're paying a bunch for a product that you know is gonna be good.

A perfectly logical assumption for a park with a standing death toll of 0. Someone died after falling off their Crazy Mouse. They lived. They probably can't communicate with more than grunts, but they lived.

I can book a room right now for a weekend in October at Mount Olympus Village for $45/night that includes free green fees at a golf course and park entry. Do you understand how difficult it is to make money on a hotel room that costs $45/night with just the basic cost of cable and utilities along with the labor? Their business model is completely insane. You don't continue to drop prices getting further into peak season if you're succeeding. That's counter productive. It appears that they have no idea what they are doing or that they believe they have a potential successful business model that literally no one else has ever succeeded at or even attempted to try.

I was pretty critical of Downtown Disney a few years back for being home to lots of uninspiring chain food, mall kiosk level shops, empty buildings, and the tragedy that was and presently is Disneyquest, but they've finally managed after various starts and stops to turn it around. It might not be the sort of thing that appeals to me as an individual with no plans to stay on property right now, but if I was, I'd be ecstatic about these alterations.

What about astroworlds batman coaster? Wasn't it scrapped? Intamin ride. Also IIRC it is sitting in a pile across the street from Darien Lake.

No contest. Bungee wins. Slingshots are shockingly not-thrilling. The launch feels comparatively controlled, as does the rebounding. The ones with old school bungee cords might be different, but they're also death traps I won't touch with a million foot pole.

I'm not Robb, but the answer is no limit. Anyone can get a bag and get candy too. Usually they just throw in giant handfulls. We ended up leaving some for our maid because we couldn't take it with us without it melting into a weird puddle in our car the day we flew out.

Yup. I would rather they charge $150-200 for the bands and you're guaranteed no lines than pay $70-100 and just see half the wait (maybe).

Cedar Point during Halloweekends is a zoo on Saturdays. I believe Columbus Day Saturday two years ago is the known all time attendance record over 65K and cars filling the grass space on the causeway. Honestly, if that's the price point at which people break before buying a Fastpass, I'm fine with that. Otherwise, they'll sell a billion of them and it'll mean nothing. I would never personally pay that; why? I've been to the park a million times. Like someone else said, that same amount of money can go to local haunts and I can go buck wild with it. If I want to still go to Cedar Point, get there for early entry, crush the usual rides in that hour, then bust out the secondary attractions that will tend to not have queues before splitting early and doing something more practical with your time.

I think so. I was too busy going on stuff because there were few lines and they all move hilariously fast. Walkup only. NSSHP is like going to Disney World circa 1990 in all the good ways and none of the bad.

I honestly can't think of any coasters in that park that have. As bad as TTD is, Shoot The Rapids might be worse, which is saying a lot. The Huss Giant Frisbee has had a lot of issues, but Huss is also a shell of itself today because their quality dropped so dramatically in the 2000s. Someone actually asked the maintenance guys this ("Are the Intamin rides less reliable?") at the tour I was on during the Winter Chill Out this year, and they flat answered "Yes." But then stopped, backtracked only slightly, and said, "Well, yes, but they're also more complex," followed by a description of Dragster's launch/braking system. RE: wind - usually if Raptor is down due to weather, I see MF and Magnum down too. A couple years ago around opening day, the weather was atrocious on that Sunday and practically everything was valleying and no coasters ran. It took until around 12 noon for the park to remember that Wicked Twister's raison d'etre was to valley, and that was the first coaster up. Both WT and Maverick often do run in less fantastic conditions among the big rides because they have launches that help push the trains through windy conditions. Everything else though....well, that's why if the forecast looks even so-so, I think about finding something else to do other than go to the Point.

The Oculus Rift stuff is significantly better in terms of quality than the sets of 20 years ago. I know a lot of people who play racing simulation style games on the the computer swear by them and won't even consider monitors any more. The ability to track movement and the weight have dropped tremendously.