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So according to Miceage rumours (micechat.com/44830-disneyland-das/), Astro Orbiter will go away, the Rocket Jets spinner is to be plopped on the Space Mountain queue deck and Autopia will be removed for an Endor-themed speeder bike ride, with pre-show and queuing in the Innoventions building. Also a Millennium Falcon walkthrough and Chewbacca meet & greet to be built on the PeopleMover station. Is it just me, or does this all seem implausible?

Of all the coasters to derail, I would never have picked a half-pipe. I mean it's basically a flat ride, straight track so the wheels don't even need to turn! I'm curious to find out the cause of the accident.

Ironman Aquatrax Experience!

If all the light up toys were "glow with the show" enabled, that would be pretty cool. At least they would add to the show rather than be an annoyance.

Thanks for such a comprehensive update. Can't wait to ride Projekt Helix next year!

Having visited for the first time recently I totally agree with this advice. At a park like BGW where the entertainment and food offerings can be on a par with the rides the day fills up very quickly. Even with arriving at park opening and smaller crowds due to questionable weather, having a Quick Queue save us even 10-20 minutes per ride meant we didn't have to rush to see everything we wanted to.

Merimbula's Magic Mountain is well off the beaten track. Assuming you're in Australia to begin with, it's 6 hours drive from Melbourne or Sydney, for one Pinfari credit. I was very impressed to see TPR include this on their Australia trip a few years back!

I really like that I can see who has been visiting my town and haunting/leaving gremlins. Makes it much easier to know who to leave gremlins for!

39. Interesting mix of coasters on the list. Surprised to see Movie World's Green Lantern in there but it is definitely a great little ride!

I'm not losing any either, which is good to see. I've read the rewards top out at 10,000 ghosts, so collecting around 250/day should be enough to get them all. This seems fairly doable - especially if Bart, Milhouse, Lisa, Martin, Marge and Homer are always tasked on their ghost-providing jobs.

So does this mean that if you release a gremlin in someone else's town you will actually 'steal' their GOO? Or does it just give you bonus GOO?

I'd agree with those who've said Xcelerator has the best launch. Fun to ride and even more entertaining to watch. Overall, I'd probably pick Volcano for the complete ride experience, with Maverick a close second. Honorable mention to Jet Rescue for easily being the best 'family launch' coaster around (although I suspect Juvelen might top it, will find out on the Scandi trip next year!).

So there is a 'global' ghost tally as well, which will unlock even more prizes. Quite enjoying this update so far, seems like they've taken the best Whacking Day ideas and refined them.

So I was honestly trying to convey "mock horror" rather than any real complaint, sorry if it came across differently. I'm always intrigued by foreign interpretations of local foods, and agree that if it works, who cares if it's not 100% authentic? I don't think Australia can be too precious about our cuisine, given that this mostly involves barbecuing something and calling it a national dish.

^Crowds might be lighter than usual if the APs are scared off by the ride closures. Also, if what I've read on certain fansites is correct, the disabled community might well be boycotting the park by this point in protest of the new DAS program. So fewer scooters around too...

Windy

^I saw some pictures of the Pavlova - it's being served with custard instead of whipped cream. Heinous!

I completely understand that sentiment. Instead of swinging/non-swinging they need to designate the cars as motion sickness/no motion sickness!

I think as far as the standups go - most of the ones I've ridden are decent enough designs, it's more that the restraints make for an uncomfortable ride. Perhaps new trains with a vest-style OTSR rather than the current version would make them more rideable? I can't see CGA's Vortex heading anywhere soon. That park only has a handful of coasters anyway, and it's definitely not the worst one.

Slowest would be Grizzly at CGA. We used fast lane and still waited 40 minutes in the station.

^^They put faces on the water dummies!

^Oh, I absolutely intend to! After reading your, Chuck's and Robb's TRs I am completely convinced that this is somewhere I *need* to visit!

^Kind of annoyed that I missed that one. It was at the *wrong* end of the park and I only had a few minutes to grab photos before we needed to get going. This day was such a blur... mostly I just remember being excited that I actually fit on Bizarro and it was all an adrenalin rush from there!

Part 7: Six Flags New England, Lake Compounce, and Quassy! Once we were done with New York we collected the rental car, ready to begin the next part of the coaster tour. Our original plan was to hit up Quassy and Lake Compounce on the first day and spend the night in Enfield. But the weather had other ideas and it rained so heavily that both parks were closed, so our wet-weather standby of going to the movies had to suffice. Not one to want to miss out on a credit I formulated a plan that would see us hit up all three parks on the same day, before heading to our overnight stop in Utica. Ambitious? Absolutely. But it was also one of the best days of the trip, and we fit in a stack of great coasters. Some observations: - Bizarro absolutely deserves it's place as one of the top-ranked steel coasters - it's got the airtime of an out-and-back with the high-speed turns of a spaghetti bowl. We had a Flash pass (because it was Memorial Day weekend and I'd expected the place to be packed) and managed to get in five rides in the few hours we spent at SFNE. - Batman is underrated - I thought this was definitely one of the better B&Ms of the trip, not sure why it gets a bad rap sometimes - Gotham City Gauntlet was the most gentle wild mouse I've ever been on. It was very relaxing. - Thunderbolt was surprisingly rough for a small woodie. If we'd had more time I would have liked to re-ride to give it a second shot. - Boulder Dash was awesome, not as smooth as I was expecting for such a highly-rated coaster but great nonetheless, awesome use of the surrounding terrain. - Wooden Warrior was definitely worth going out of our way for. It would be great to see more parks add a 'small' woodie to their lineup that isn't a museum piece. Stats at the end of this leg: 8 parks 41 coasters (33 steel, 8 wood) 4 boomerangs 4 log flumes 5 rapids rides 5 drop towers 2 rides themed to Superman 1 night spent at a Red Roof Inn On to the photos! (Wish I could have taken more, we were on a pretty tight timeframe!) Still a bit cloudy but the rain was gone, so with Bizarro's lift hill teasing us we were ready to start the day at Six Flags New England! I think we were the first people of the day to ride this. The ride ops were really happy to see us! Despite it's name containing the word 'gauntlet', this wild mouse is notable for its gentle nature. Thunderbolt pretty much won the prize for having the most difficult-to-find Flash pass queue. The key is to ignore the signs pointing to the entry. Catwoman with whip. Best kiddie coaster theming ever. Bizarro totally lived up to expectations. Best of all, the ride ops were on their game and dispatching trains very quickly. Gotta love a giant lift hill. There is not a single part of Bizarro I didn't like - it completely delivered from start to finish. Look at all these happy people! After four hours gunning it through SFNE, it was time to head down to Lake Compounce. At this point the sun made an appearance, and so did some lens flare. Only three coasters but there's plenty more to see at this park. Wildcat was pretty good for an 'older' woodie, especially the sections that had been recently retracked. Check out all the new wood - so smooth! Despite the fact that it was Memorial Day weekend, the park was almost dead. Lines were short! I'm always up for a shooting dark ride. Some of the targets on this were definitely broken, but the theming was pretty cool. I especially liked the little demons taunting guests. Boulder Dash was worth the visit alone - really, really good use of the terrain to create a great coaster. So many little hills... so much airtime! I didn't have the patience to wait for a train to come along, so apologies for this picture of just track. Some tasty depth of field. The awesome theming on the Pirate ship was marred only by the fact that it wasn't open. Boomerang #4. Better than the one at SFNE. Don't ask me why, it just was. We arrived at Quassy about an hour before they closed, but this did not deter the carpark attendant from charging us full price for a parking spot. The park was empty, and (after some searching) I found somebody to sell us ride tickets. It might only be ten metres high, but Wooden Warrior packs more of a punch than coasters twice its' size. I'd only bought a couple of ride tickets, but the ride ops were awesome and let us go around half a dozen times since there was nobody waiting. I thought this was a great example of how good design can win out over raw height and speed on a coaster. At this point in the day it was just us and the staff in the park, so by the time I took this they'd shut down the ride. So another ugly track shot with no train. You'll have to enjoy the lens flare instead. I'll end with a glamour shot of the rental car, our trusty Chevy Impala. This thing had 200 miles on it when we picked it up at Newark airport, and close to 3000 when we returned it. That's all for this update - next up is Waldameer and Cedar Point!

^I've seen the same exact article that Robb posted on multiple news sites here. Everything is syndicated these days.