TDR62
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Thanks Robb
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I am heading out to Orlando for a week next month and found out that Mako is due to be opening while I am out there.
As you obviously attend a lot of opening events I wondered if you could let me know how busy it is likely to be compared to a normal day?
Thanks in advance
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I prefer option one as is looks like an evolved page whereas the massive picture in option 2 is quite distracting
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Confused about where the dodgems are going to sit. I can only think of two places given that this land will be smack bang in the middle of the park. The 4D movie will obviously go in the 4D theatre thats been sitting empty for 2yrs and with detonator backed up against Nemesis Inferno I can only think of indoor dodgems in the building with a shark in it or outside squeezed between the theatre and Tidal Wave...
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Saw this earlier which seems somewhat unlikely to happen in full but in part perhaps could be interesting.
It’s been less than a year since Lucasfilm was bought, but it looks like their new owners at Disney may have big plans for the franchise at their theme parks.
A new report at Theme Park Insider, citing multiple sources, says that an entire Star Wars Land will be added to Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando, FL. Don’t get in line just yet – Theme Park Insider says Star Wars Land is projected to be a five-year project, meaning it wouldn’t open until 2018, though there is a possibility of that being accelerated by a year.
Disney of course plans to open a new Star Wars movie every year beginning in 2015 with Episode VII, so regardless of whether it opened in 2017 or 2018, there would be a new Star Wars film to piggyback promotion onto. The Hollywood Studios park is where Star Tours already resides in Walt Disney World, so essentially, Star Wars Land would be expanding onto that. For those familiar with the park’s layout, Theme Park Insider says Disney is currently considering having Star Wars Land either replace the Muppet*Vision 3D theater and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids or, going the other direction, it could be placed where the Backlot Express restaurant and Indiana Jones stunt show currently sit.
Cars Land meanwhile will probably replace the Lights, Motors, Action auto stunt show and Catastrophe Canyon, extending off of the Pixar Place area that is already part of the park.
Cars Land has been a massive success for California Adventure in Anaheim, CA, giving a much-needed boost to what had been a struggling park for Disney – the lines are still formidable in Cars Land, a year after it opened. With Hollywood Studios similarly suffering from a lack of identity, the one-two punch of Cars Land and Star Wars Land would be pretty massive to say the least.
As Theme Park Insider notes, the competing Universal Orlando has had a lot of impressive growth Disney would love to combat, beginning with the Wizarding World of Harry Potter opening a couple of years back and plans for the near future that include the addition of Transformers: The Ride, a Simpsons-themed area opening soon and a major expansion to Harry Potter next year. Walt Disney World does have the strong addition of New Fantasyland to boast at the Magic Kingdom, but Cars Land and Star Wars Land would be even bigger, in terms of attention-getting, franchise appeal, and change the perception of the Hollywood Studios in a major way.
Of course, with word of such a major investment of Star Wars at a Disney theme park comes the question… what about Marvel? Disney’s owned Marvel a lot longer, but there hasn’t been any major US theme park presence at the Disney parks as yet. Keep in mind that Disney can’t do anything with Marvel in Orlando or anywhere on the east coast, thanks to pre-existing deals with Universal. But as for the original Disneyland, in California, there was the first step of adding the Iron Man armor display this summer and there continue to be rumors about bigger plans, even while an entire Marvel area is planned for Disneyland Hong Kong.
This seems as good a place as any to throw in a funny personal anecdote. Last week, I was being helped at the Apple Store Genius Bar by a guy who turned out to be a fellow Disney park aficionado. He told me he’d heard they were going to tear down the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage ride at Disneyland and replace it with an Iron Man ride. I’m not finding any info online about such a thing in the works, rumor or otherwise, so there's nothing to back up what he said. But if it ends up being true, then damn, the Genius Bar guy knew what he was talking about!
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Hi. Having been to Chessington in the last fortnight I thought I would submit some of my Zufari photos and also the new facade for the burger restaurant which has replaced Burger King, new this year.
Entrance by the medical centre
Ride Entrance
Pre-ride green screen photo hut
Entrace to pre-ride video hut
Pre-ride video hut
Ride vehicle photos
Animals from onride
Rhino from onride
New Burger Restaurant facade
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The point worth making about England is that Blackpool is some distance from London, etc and will likely cost you in excess of £100 to get from Blackpool to Thorpe. Coupled with the fact that Alton Towers is mid-distance between the two and harder to access without a car you might want to prioritise which area of England you plan to visit
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I would assume that like most businesses each park is given a budget and the park management is allowed to do what they will with it. The advantage a chain would have however is that the corporate management would be able to make a deal with a manufacturer to get multiple coasters, etc for a cheaper price; so, if 3 of the parks came back saying they planned to use budget on a new ride it could be coordinated to get a better deal for all of them.
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Can I assume that this is a new ride properly not an upcharge attraction like some of the other zoo tours are?
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As a non-US resident this seems like it would penalise non-US citizens.
My thinking behind that comment is that data roaming charges on mobile/cell phones are far too high to leave on waiting for a fastpass update.
Likewise, due to the cost of using cards abroad I would be skeptical about the payment method when I would have had to change money to Dollars for all my other spending.
That said the idea as a whole seems neat in its ease for people who can easily link everything.
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PortAventura is usually visible flying into Reus airport and Heathrow is close enough the Thorpe, Chessington and Legoland in the UK that it wouldnt be surprising, albeit with that said Stealth is the only 'big' ride at any of those to look out for
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I see a woody with a vertical loop!
I noticed this but... they say this would be 4 times the size of the olympic park... that woody wraps itself happily around 50% of that picture... Seems unrealistically large.
It certainly would be nice to have another park within 30min of me (Thorpe, Chessington and Legoland already) but I doubt this will progress.
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From TowerTimes. It would appear that they have sources that suggest the ride (SW7) would be going for a 'most inversions' record. As the track layout is mostly known and shows 8, people supposed that there may be some in the building but it was unlikely given the space. It now seems that there may be a section where the track itself inverts/rotates (an unknown number of times) so as to give the feeling of a heartline twist style inversion.
See TT for more; I don't want to detract from anything they have reported; I just thought to liven up the discussion I would add this.
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These are 3 I grabbed from a recent trip to Brean in the UK; pretty hard to capture much more than this.
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Some of those Photos are really nice (some could do with a bit of WB adjustment), making me look forward to my trip at the end of the month even more.
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I was wondering if anybody could give me an answer to the following question. If I was to book a trip with a plan to stay in one of the PA Hotels but having not booked through PA or any of the traditional travel agents in the UK; would I still be eligible for free park entry? Has anybody done this before, how does it work? Do you get tickets/armband when you check-in?
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Great report so far.
What is the 'King Kong' holding a train carriage? Looks like a really nicely themed ride.
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Ill be taking a trip to Thorpe by the end of April to try out the Swarm
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Seeing as that the discussion has moved to this topic I feel it would be a good time to ask.
For those people from the UK. What is the best way to get to the park in your experience?
I have been looking and certainly it appears that flying in: Switzerland, France and Germany are all viable in terms of distance.
In terms of accommodation also, and this is for all; what is the cheapest and (bearing in mind student budgets) likely to be the most pleasant: a) Staying at the parks on-site camping (added complication therefore of bringing camping gear), b) Staying in Rust in a B+B (not sure what availability and pricing are like August/September), c) other.
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Well..actually the plans state the colour...and it's black/grey.. ei. a dull moody colour.
LIKE EVERY SINGLE SINGLE COASTER MERLIN HAVE BUILT! (Saw, Thirteen, Krake, Raptor, The Swarm) Every single one of them is either black/grey or some moody colour.
Meh guess it suits the theme. I just with they were abit braver with colour.
Yes, every single ride. Air, Rita, Colossus, Nemesis Inferno, Corkscrew... Unless you just mean the new rides. But to be honest I don't think that dark and moody is a bad thing. I generally think it makes the ride look more menacing...
The rides you mention were not built by Merlin. Air, Rita, Colossus and Nemesis Inferno were all by Tussauds whilst Corkscrew was constructed when Alton Towers was in private ownership.
And to be fair Merlin have since managed to repaint rita to match their favoured scheme
But on a serious note. This will certainly see me up there come 2013, and probably more than my usual one annual trip.
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Hello again. So after my HDD crashing and a lengthy process of getting things back to normal, with a bit of necromancy and in an effort to join the Christmas spirit I bring a gift of pictures. Over the course of the week Ill bring you a complete update from the next park.
But to get things rolling.
And I mean literally, see... the station!
Your sterotypical English station building.... [wishful thinking]
And some significant circles which act as a warning to avoid London next year.
And the final picture from the home soil; lets see who can be the first to correctly identify the target park.
And to follow, more pictures as the update begins in earnest.
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Thank you both.
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Quite simply, has anybody got a good program, which I can legally and freely/cheaply download which will enable me to re-size photos to comply with the forum rules.
I attempted a TR but in order to keep under 100k the photos will be pretty tiny whereas I notice with other peoples TR's, there are good sized photos.
Essentially due to the kit I use my photos come in around 4000x3000 pixels and 4-7mb each, sizing them to 800x600 as per forum rules isn't a problem but the will still exceed the kb size. Is there a program that allows both criteria to be met?
Many thanks to any help rendered and I hope I can repay your help with some quality photo reports.
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If you live in the UK get yourself over there. Over the course of a weekend Thorpe, Chessington and Legoland are within 30min drive of each other so you can have a good couple of days.
Regarding the progress of the next park; Im looking for a program to resize my photos because they are a little on the small size I feel.
Europe 2016 - Robb & Elissa Traveling Around Riding Stuff
in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
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At some point I need to get around to posting the last few years of trips; hopefully I can add a couple more photos to the great ones that Robb and Elissa have taken here.