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Just realized something odd the other day... I was looking over the websites to Southern California waterparks and couldn't for the life of me find one that appeared to have a 'shotgun' slide in it's waterslide arsenal. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, a 'shotgun' slide is the type where you slide sharply downwards and then fly off the slide, generally freefalling about 10 or so feet into a deep catch pool. They were always my favorite as a kid, and frankly it's weird that Southern California seems to be missing them. So..... am I wrong? Is there a hidden smallish water park in Southern California that still has one of these cool slides? Here's two waterparks in Northern California still sportin' shotguns: Raging Waters - San Jose (as Shotgun Falls) http://www.rwsplash.com/attractions Six Flags Waterworld - Concord (as DIABLO FALLS) http://www.sixflags.com/parks/waterworldconcord/Rides/list.html

This seems to be the most popular theme park, well, anywhere in the world. Not a single time have I seen a picture of the attraction board which sported less then 2 hour waiting times for ANYTHING. Is there ANY time optimal to visit this park? My last visit, I was there 5 hours and got to go on a single ride.

Yeah, but now I'll never know what the old Space Mountain looked like! EXACTLY like Disneyland's pre-updates. Except their "Space Probe" said "TDL-2000" instead of "DLR-3000", and the 'jets' on the probe were blue lights instead of red. Same deal with the old 'pointy arrows/launch sequence' on the ride. Instead of Red arrows, they were green. Otherwise, the same.... weird huh?

It really was (before this rehab) an *EXACT* clone of Anahiem's. Of all the rides that could be closed in TDL, this is probably the best one to have be closed! Did you enjoy TDR?

It's ironic actually, Tokyo is getting the totally brand-new station we were originally supposed to get at Disneyland before ours was budget trimmed. However, theirs will remain without on-board music (which I actually kind of like). As far as on-ride updates go, just general spiffing up, as well as a duplicate of Disneyland's new ending. I think it's awesome to have 5 totally different Space Mountains!

Nerd nitpick: The TDL attraction is called "Monster's Inc: Hide & Go Seek!". It's yet another one, different from the DL or WDW attractions. (And yes, it's going to be pretty cool.) I think what we're seeing being built now is the result of the old management overkilling on the Pixar license and such... I think even John Lassetter wouldn't go this far. It should get better...

that's interesting to know that Paris' fastpass system is entirely 'disconnected'. anyone confirm this? I may actually try the park in summer if that's the case!

okay...... here's my Wii number (FINALLY): 5748-1744-6020-2579 Please help! I need friends! javascript:emoticon(':mickey:')

I doubt you'll need to use fastpass I went last year in January and the parks were totally empty. Walk-on on every single ride and attraction. By the way... it was a blast!!! Have fun!!

I posted some of this on another board, but hopefully this will clarify some of the rumors regarding that "new disney park" artwork: I remember seeing this artwork 10 or so years ago peeking around Burbank. As far as I can recall... this was 'alternate' DisneySea artwork. I don't know if it's exactly the one I saw, but I do remember the two big lakes connecting like that, with a moved-around Portofino. There were to be show buildings UNDER those lakes. It's quite a cool idea, actually... but the drawback to the design is not having the 'vista' view that you have looking back at Portofino from Mysterious Island as in Tokyo. Anyhow, looks to be about the same amount of space as the planned park in Long Beach (which isn't going to happen). So if this is ACTUALLY a scaled-down DisneySea, I'd guess (if anything) this would be the second park for Hong Kong. Florida is not getting another park for at least 10 years, if not 20. I'd actually prefer they NOT try and squeeze this into the strawberry lot, since I think there would be almost no way to avoid the 'outside world' from that location. I think the most likely thing they will build there will be another huge hotel, and a super-sized water park.... which would actually compliment the Disneyland Resort really well and get the most bang for their buck. As for the other things: yeah.... that lagoon show is "Wonderful World of Color" for DCA... "Carsland" is the concept art for the 'dueling Test Track' ride for DCA..... "Monsters Inc Hide & Go Seek" is going into Tokyo Disneyland... "Toy Story Midway Mania" (the actual current working title of the ride) is going into both MGM and DCA (and DCA's will be MUCH better).... and that pirates island place is indeed the 2nd phase of Hong Kong Disneyland. That fancy-pants 'recreation' glass type building? It's Hong Kong's 'Downtown Disney-area' proposal. Hope this helps!

thanks for keeping this thread alive! (it totally fascinates me for some unknown reason.) Anyhow, can anyone else confirm this? Keep the news coming!

I got one at launch, but I'm not by my wii to give you the number!!! lol... (god that sounds almost porno)

I had a family illness emergency type thing... so I apologize for the lack of my promised updates. I will try to get them up before christmas (starting with my Spaland report in this thread)

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Even from the pics... there's no apparant solution to that maze. lol. I'm glad I'm not just retarded or something. Okay... so you guys really want to know how to get through that section? It's actually pretty clever... I wonder if anyone can guess...

Ah.... yes! That's it! That's the one! The cage in your pics is the 'outdoor prison' area of the walkthrough. So cool to know the name of the park! Your photos bring back vivid memories.

Wow. Um.... I wrote this when I was really tired after traveling a month in Tokyo... so, uh.... I don't know. I thought it would be nice to share something fun.. in detail... with all of you while I work through all my photos and video. On second thought, if I'm so 'unreadable', my apologies that my story made you 'give up'. Perhaps I'll just 'give up' myself and not spend my free time writing anything for the boards. Thanks for putting it into perspective.

Eve Online? Is that a porn site?

I feel... since so much of the ride was built into the mermaid land in Tokyo DisneySea, there really is no need of the actual ride. The basic side system is already used in the park's 20K attraction (overhead monorail) to great effect... and the park doesn't really need two. It would be a perfect addition, however, to Hong Kong Disneyland, and give it a much needed UNIQUE attraction (instead of building yet another Peter Pan.) Plus the animatronic Ursula head at DisneySea (which can be seen from the video on my blog at: http://web.mac.com/okwhatev/iWeb/disneysea/Ursula%20Animatronic%20Head%20Video.html I say build it, but build it somewhere that DOESN'T already have an inverted monorail darkride.

*ahem* take two... the 'fish fountains' from the little mermaid dark ride, that were built into a gift shop in the same land a portion of the *fully built* ship which is in the exact model of the one on the DVD more Ariel's Grotto more Ariel's Grotto more Ariel's Grotto more Ariel's Grotto Ariel's Grotto more Ursula's Grotto more Ursula's Grotto more Ursula's Grotto

Not to mention the whole Ariel land in DisneySea has most of the scenes in the darkride fully built out. Here's pics to prove it: Ursula's Grotto

Perhaps I should’ve entitled this topic “Violent Urinating Cherub”, but somehow this sounded right. Anyhow, there’s this tiny little park near the ‘old town’ park of Tokyo near that big temple where everyone ‘inhales’ the smoke coming out of that well thing. I’m so tired as I type this, I’m forgetting the name…. but it’s all very famous and everything. Anyhow, this very tiny little amusement park (which I also forget the name of), supposedly has been open for more then 100 years and is surprisingly packed with attractions, including an S&S Launch tower and a small roller coaster that winds it’s way around the postage-stamp sized acreage of the property. Anyhow, my partner wanted to shop around the little flea markets that line that area, and me being the dark ride freak, opted to check this little park out, since the map suggested several dark rides and walkthroughs. WOW! What a surprise! There was actually only one true (enclosed) traditional haunted house type dark ride (which was ancient, but very fun) but several one-of-a-kind walkthroughs, pedal-on-a-track-up-high attractions, rollcages and much more. The park is built on a weird three-story structure… since they have no room… and rides are ‘stacked’ on top of each other. There’s also a very charming ‘outdoor’ dark ride that looks very similar to those snail things you guys rode at that Blackpool park in Europe. Since I could see the whole ride from the loading area, I didn’t go on it this time. But OMG! There’s two walkthroughs here that are among the weirdest, and creepiest things I’ve ever seen!! The first is a ‘scary-type’ walkthrough involving mostly dark (sometimes padded) hallways. It gets darker and darker as you go through, until you can’t see ANYTHING, and literally just have to feel your way through things. Doors you may open will SNAP SHUT behind you, leaving you completely trapped, in PITCH DARK, to find some opening, hole, or whatever to climb thru. One park of this walkthrough, literally causes you to trip (landing on mushy slimy stuff) and then turning a corner to find DOZENS of corpses hanging from the ceiling, which you have to walk through (like big kickboxing bags) to get out. There’s really cool sound effects through the whole thing, and it seriously freaked me out (but in a totally fun way). Then the most surprising walkthrough of all… and the one that certainly I had the least expectation for was called “Surprise House”. It’s a take on those fun house type walkthroughs, but is in fact, more like a maze with a seriously perverted (and almost sadomasochistic) theme. Located on the third floor, it looked like the most run-down, and least maintained attraction of the whole park. Rust everywhere, paint-peeling… you name it. “Oh God” I thought “why did I waste 300 yen on this?” The idea is you walk though the maze, passing by several plastic-walled cabinets usually with a little plastic figure that moves and makes sound effects, like most walkthroughs. But then you come to an end and are forced to figure out how to proceed forward. And the route is pretty obvious in the beginning (walls you push on to reveal a door, buttons, etc’) But then you get to the middle… which looks like a prison cage, complete with iron bars. You walk around and around this area, pull at the bars, and are stumped when there is not an obvious path through. I walked around for about 10 minutes (this part is actually outside, on a roof, so everyone else in the park can point and laugh at you) then finally got tired of finding the way through, and turned around to backtrack only to find…. OMG! The door is locked and shut! They literally lock the door and force you to find your way through! I was actually getting pretty nervous that I wouldn’t find the solution through the maze before I had to meet my partner from his shopping, so I banged on the bars and ran my fingers everywhere, looking for a way out. I turned around to find a husband and wife and their little Japanese kid now stuck in the same area as me. They looked for an opening too, and were as stumped as me. They walked back to the door, and when the father turned to his wife in amused shock “it’s locked!!” their little kid burst into tears. I just sat down against a wall and decided to watch them walk around those bars some more. Eventually, they DID find the exit, which was so completely cool, I won’t spoil it for any of you who might visit this one day. So after following this couple after they had discovered the exit, I solved the rest of the tricks by myself (by running ahead), some of which were amusing, and then got to a final room… which…. OMFG still haunts my dreams. The final room is indoors… and consists of a very dark (and moldy looking) Cherub-type boy standing on top of something, behind a plastic wall. In the front of this display are three very large oval buttons. As you walk into the room, a motion sensor lights up the display and the innocent little cherub doll is lit up, along with the buttons on the panel (yellow red and green I think). A cute JR subway-like jingle is played in sync with a lighting sequence on the buttons, and a very cute anime voice (I guess the Churub) says in Japanese (and this is a rough translation for me): “Please choose a button for your reward”. As you reach to press a button, all the buttons immediately switch off their lights, and the Cherub VIOLENTLY SPRAYS THICK GREEN URINE FROM IT’S PENIS DIRECTLY AT YOUR FACE. Now, okay, you may be thinking ‘yeah, so what… a peeing statue… that’s as old as Carnivals from the 1800s…’ But I’ve NEVER, EVER seen one of these things spray like this one. I think the key thing here is not that the statue surprises you at of the blue by peeing, but rather the sheer VIOLENCE and (most importantly) QUANTITY of the putrid GREEN URINE that gets shot out. It must be like 60 gallons (no kidding!!!) It’s so forceful, in fact, that the entire plastic display pushes forward with the strength of the spray. I guess if I could compare it to anything it would be that scene in Team America World Police, when the one puppet vomits for like 4 minutes in the end of the movie. It just keeps going and going and, combined with the LOUD sound of such a spray hitting the very thin plastic…. Not only did it surprise me… but scared the living CRAP out of me. That’s right, you heard me, a peeing statue was the biggest surprise of the whole trip. Needless to say, I backtracked a bit, so I could wait until that couple from earlier walked into the room themselves, to ‘trip’ the whole sequence up again. Sure enough as soon as the little boy went to choose a button for a ‘surprise’ the statue lit up, and the VIOLENT GREEN SPRAY with it’s horrific ‘splatter’ against the plastic gushed forth, scaring the living crap out of the kid. The parents (and myself) could not stop laughing. This has to be one of the sickest, weirdest, and unique things I’ve ever seen at any park. It’s right up there with the Dog Fart coaster and the Escalator Ride. I kick myself, as this was the ONLY DAY I didn’t not have either my video or still camera with me, and there was simply no time for me to go back and get this filmed. So, I ask all of you…. who has been to the “Surprise House” at this weird little park? And if any of you are going… please do check it out, film it, and put it up on TPR so everyone can see the glory of the Violent Urinating Cherub. Anyhow, that does it for today. All my other TR will consist of lots of photos. I’ll do them when I can. Until then…. Feel free to discuss.

When I get a chance to write up my full (seperate) TR on every park (which mirrored Rob & Elyssa's in many ways) I'll get to what I DID like at FujiQ, which includes those weird (and, honestly, seriously cool) walkthroughs. I was shocked, however, that not only was the Haunted Hospital EXTRA, but it had a three hour line. Needless to say... I missed that too.

When did you visit?! It really takes the cake for me as the rudest, most terrible management of any park I've ever been to. I wonder if the park changed hands or something. Hearing your story *especially* made me sick to my stomach, because of how cruel (there really is no other word) they were denying us a ride on the 4D coaster after how far we travelled and the circumstance involved. I'm c'mon, it's Japan, not wartime Germany. It's like some bad "NO SOUP FOR YOU" cliche.

Yeah, it's so seriously annoying that Dodonpa and Eeekajina are at that park.... why couldn't they have been built at *ANY* of the other parks?! Anyhow, rant aside.... how did you like Dodonpa? (I wish I could count the airgates opening and being told NOT to enter the train as a credit.... lol) At any rate... my photo blog has *finally* been updated with photos from Tokyo's underrated Splash Mountain. All non-Disney park photos I took will be exclusive to TPR.