jray21

Those beds are awesome! I wish I had that when I was a kid.

Yes, they'll plant more gardens. Are you excited for BGT's Falcon's Fury drop tower?

It's still a little warm for my tastes, but it's been really nice. Sunny and 80!

I cleared out a bit of the island, but that was so I could have more tropical plants to harvest. Kind of like another area to farm.

Which tours did you find best? I kept on playing the butterfly and then the bug one, but it seemed to only rotate between 4 fruits. I agree, the island is awesome. I paid off my bridge and second house expansion in one day!

Supposedly, it's a Spot pass thing, so it's one per 3DS. http://www.technologytell.com/gaming/112935/best-buy-gets-exclusive-animal-crossing-new-leaf-dlc/

I found that the best tour to collect the fruits is the butterfly one. It takes a bit of time, but I was able to get a bunch of different fruits. All the fruit you collect during the bug tour stays with you when your finished. The fishing one is the same, but the maze and matching dont let you keep anything. Then, you put them in your storage basket to the right of the tour desk counter. When you get back to your land, they will be in the fishing basket on your dock. Also, the fishing and bug catching on the island is amazing. I got a crap load of sharks and giant bugs. You just have to ask the fire hydrant looking guy outside and he'll loan them too you. It takes a bit of time to get everything from the dock to the store/museum, but I got over 175,000 bells yesterday! I also got a ton of coconuts, durian, lychee, lemons, and mangos and can trade to others, but I won't be available until about 2:30 pacific time. Oh yeah, I have the shark displaying in my room! Edit: I forgot to add that I did the butterfly tour about 15 times. Each time it seemed to rotate between about 4 fruits. Also, below is a picture for the Best Buy promo. I don't know if you just have to walk by like a street pass, or if you have to do anything. AC:NL promo

Finally got to the island. I got a ton of great bugs, and lemons, lychee, mango, durian, and coconuts!

For some games you can streetpass and unlock items or things like that. As you walk past someone with a 3DS it will quickly exchange information and when you open it later it tells you who you met. If they are playing any of the games that have streetpass, you will be able to go into the game and get them. For Super Mario World, you can get items, for Super Mario Kart you can ghost race the player. Nintendo also has it's own mini game where you can get hats and collect puzzle pieces. It sounds pretty lame, but it's kinda fun.

Definitely the XL. The 3D effect is some much easier on the eyes with the bigger version. Mario Kart is another good game for street passes. Amy and I take ours everywhere for street passes. The absolute best place, except probably Japan of course, is Disneyland. WDW is pretty good as well, but Disneyland is amazing. I get about 50-70 a day while I'm there. I just unlocked the island and have been getting a bunch of medals!

Apparently, theres a glitch with building the boardwalk pieces and people visiting. If someone taps your boardwalk piece, it makes it disappear, and they will now only get money and XP. In other words, DO NOT click on someone else's boardwalk pieces because they will lose them. You would think it would speed up the task like with the farm, but it doesn't.

Yeah, there were a few scenes where the audience in the theater I was in laughed out loud because of how ridiculous some stunts were. Although, I did like it more than a lot of the previous ones.

Yeah, that was a problem for me too. I put the Itchy & Scratchy store in my storage after it was built, pulled it back out and it triggered Bart and Millhouse to shop at the store for 4 hours. A weird glitch i think. I did the same thing, but it never asked me to have Bart and Milhouse do anything. The dialogue seemed to repeat, and then it asked me to build the next thing.

Glad to see the area refreshed and a flat ride thrown in! It's really great to see the massive amount of work Universal has been doing to their parks.

I love the unique sound it makes. It's the one ride that no matter where it is, I know exactly what it is. I had a great time at the Coasting for Kids event this past Sunday. It was very well organized, and a lot of fun. They really did a great job at organizing it this year. We got first rides on Gold Striker, which was and awesome surprise benefit, and had the second row saved for us the whole event. Some people were able to get the same number of rides for the entire 8 hours last year in just 4 hours this year! The lunch was a chicken dinner, and it was really really good. Then, they gave us each an enormous funnel cake! I think they were really trying to see who would vomit first! We were able to raise a ton of money for a great charity, and had an absolute blast! I ended up getting 45 rides on Flight Deck, and 40 rides on Vortex! Can't wait to do it again next year! Thanks a ton to CGA and Coasting for Kids!

^ That was annoying the crap out of me! About them possibly not getting ready in time. Remember, this isn't SFMM so there is a very good chance they can get it done.

It's too bad to hear all these reviews of the new ride. I wonder how long until they just let people go in to see the penguins instead of waiting for the ride portion.

The weather has been perfect, but I'm stuck inside doing a bunch of junk.

Great report! Thanks for the unique perspective. It looks like they are really stepping up their game for guests with disabilities!

Thanks for the update. Can't wait to see things starting arriving and going up sometime soon!

Marvel is good, but there are a ton of other things that Disney owns that could bring in the money. I would love to see a total refurb/update to GMR. It's been way too long, and only us older people and film students even know what all those movies are!

Very interesting! Weird to see it without one. Thanks for the update.

Happy super late Birthday. Amy and I just went to Claim Jumper to get her $25 birthday reward from the Landry's Club!

Gold Striker at CGA, after riding Vortex 40 times!

What a delicious apricot.