BrianLo

We visited IOA Dec 30/31 and Universal Jan 2. I opted ahead of time for the express pass on the 2nd only as price fluctuate depending on the day. It would have been a complete waste of money at IOA, express pass lines were similar wait times to normal lines. IOA was especially weird in that because it lacked a night show we saw Harry potter land go from being a capacity controlled 2.5 hour wait to get inside the land (inside... Let alone even trying to ride forbidden journey), to forbidden journey literally being a walk on by sunset on the 31st. So ya... I would actually recommend IOA for New years if you arrived around 6-7pm. The Q bot would certainly help in keeping those lines capacity controlled, I would have been highly upset forking out an additional $60 for essentially nothing. But the studios wound up being fairly busy the 2nd (Jaws of course... This trip was planned well before the closing was announced) and we found our express pass to be a great boon. Zipped past every line in under ten minutes. Moral of the story, we had a great express pass experience, but I simultaneously saw an awful one at IOA. The capacity and timing control of the Q bot would fix that hopefully.

I actually think it was an assumption. The best I've managed to find is a Disney park blog entry saying most elements will be ready 2013/phase two would likely be ready late 2013. Sounds like Disney isn't quite certain when it will be ready at this point.

Are we sure that's in reference to snow white? I almost read it as an unannounced element. After all steel is already going up for the mountain structure and they've been saying 2013... It doesn't seem like it has fallen behind schedule... Larrygator is right, why so vague?

That is a Malaysian taxi cab I believe. Plus that cyclone coaster is from Genting? That's all I've got

Been having fun lurking this thread and I'm going on a fairly similar trip in May, so thought I'd join in. I'm also onboard the Hong Kong/Shenzen and maybe Taipei train. I really think a lot of the pictures are a reference to Windows of the World in Shenzen. All the famous landmarks are done in "miniature". Hence all the pictures of buildings, plus the "Size matters" picture. The ticket counter picture I think is actually supposed to be "ticket window" fitting in with the Windows of the world. The cookies are a reference to Happy valley. I think Happy in the bottom of the picture is key. Or maybe Disney (happiest place on earth). The key element from the Facebook poster is the water, in reference to Ocean Park. Ghost blasters may be in reference to the new Arctic Blaster coaster they are in the process of building there. And well the guidebooks are a selection of possible places... but Hong Kong is one of them. Early on in the thread I think there was reference to driving on the other side of the road/London which would fit with Hong Kong being a recent former colony of England. Finally, the last two pictures. I think the one is from Tung Chung, and the other Air China just referencing the fact HK is in China.