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They're free for the first hour, then I believe it's $3.00 for every 30 minutes past that. It is a little more complex than just free for an hour. The length of time they are free is based on the line length for where it is located. If the ride has a short line then the locker will be free for an hour. If the line is 2 hours long it will be free for 3+ hours.

I am pretty sure here is a complete list of all the rides that are not screen based. Which means in total both parks only contain 29 rides and more than a third are screen based. 1. Caro-Seuss-el 2. Doctor Doom Fearfall 3. Dragon Challenge 4. Ripsaw Falls 5. ET 6. Flight of the Hippogriff 7. Rockit 8. JP River Adventure 9. Twirl n Hurl 10. MIB 11. Red Fish Blue fish 12. Barges 13. Flyers 14. Mummy 15. Storm Force 16. Cat in the Hat 17. Seuss Trolley 18. Hulk 19. Woody Woodpecker Coaster I just am not excited about Universal Orlando as I used to be. I really do like Harry Potter and I think everything Potter related has been good so far. But the building for Kong is better than the ride itself, I have been on it twice and that was enough unless the line is short. I did not enjoy Fast & Furious in Hollywood and I doubt it will suddenly become good in Orlando. I have not ridden Fallon yet, so I will not comment on the ride itself. But the "queueless" wait for Fallon sounds more like a forced 45-minute wait no matter how busy or slow the park is.

If there is a gift shop I am not sure where it will be located. As of right now there is no new buildings except the station and shed visible on the webcams. Also there was a blueprint image going around a few weeks ago which showed the line and exit. The exit basically dumps you onto the exit for the train. There is a very small new kiosk which I assume to be for photos. There is still a lot of work going on so it is possible a gift shop will pop up last minute, but I doubt it.

Cedar Fair purchased the Paramount parks in early 2006. So from 2007 to 2017 here are the coasters Kings Island, Carowinds, and Canada's Wonderland have received. Kings Island 2007 - Firehawk 2009 - Diamondback 2014 - Banshee 2017 - Mystic Timbers Canadas Wonderland 2008 - Behemoth 2012 - Leviathan 2014 - Wonder Mountain Guardians Carowinds 2009 - Flying Cobras 2010 - Intimidator 2015 - Fury 325 Except for Cedar Point, Kings Island is getting more coasters and I would argue more money then the rest of the chain. The park might have not gotten a giga right now but look at what they have received.

Cedar Fair tested this at several of the smallest parks last year, it looks like this is the expansion of the idea.

So far all of the parks except Cedar Point which have updated to the new website design have listed Season Long Fast Lane plus as an option. Except you can look at this another way and notice that the add-on is also appearing several weeks before the opening day for each of these parks. So I am not sure if it is still too early to actually draw a real conclusion. Kings Island, Canada's Wonderland and maybe even Cedar Point might still offer this add-on. But those 3 parks are on a completely different level in attendance from the rest of the chain, so it makes sense that it might not be offered. Carowinds gets 2 million guests a year. While Cedar Point is around 3.5 million, Kings Island 3.3 million, and Canada's Wonderland 3.6 million. Of these three parks, I still suspect guests spend a lot more time per a visit at Cedar Point since it is more of a resort destination instead of just the local park.

Websites like TPR and coaster clubs like Club TPR require the assistance of the parks. That is how TPR is allowed to produce the on-ride videos, and participate in park events. It is in the best interests of this website and others like it to follow the rules of the park.

^^ I completely agree. Disney has this tendency to have amazing ideas then typically start cutting corners and slashing budgets. Just look at the amazing Pooh's Hunny Hunt from Tokyo Disneyland and compare it to the Winnie the Pooh ride at Disneyland which was built three later. Hunny Hunt is a fantastic example of what Disney could build in 2000 except it cost $130 million, and the other was a waste of $30 million. Seeing your pictures really makes me want to travel back to Japan. Tokyo DisneySea is my favorite park.

Before California Adventure was built, Disney had two basic designs for a second west coast park, WestCot, and DisneySea which was supposed to be part of a complex called Port Disney. Disney even announced Port Disney would be built in Long Beach, California. Obviously, that never happened. Instead, WestCot which was originally supposed to be a clone of Epcot kept morphing and turned into California Adventure. Much of the design of Tokyo DisneySea is based on the design for California and is part of the reason why the park has so many unique attractions.

Pretty sure this is a Pachislo machine. Basically the slot machine version of a Pachinko machine, they are "legal" in Japan because they are skill stop machines and not regular slot machines. They are actually pretty reasonably priced in the US since there is not a huge used market for them, around $300 - $600 dollars. I want one of the huge Japanese coin pushers, I could easily see myself wasting hours playing one. But then I have two Pachinko machines and do not spend a lot of time playing them.

You are giving the ride system a level of complexity that does not exist. The restraint checks occur in the station while the train is stationary. Once the train starts moving it no longer is in communication with the ride, any data the ride has from the train is then from on track sensors which are to detect location to prevent block violations.

The problem is that it is complicated. The paper cups are unlikely to be recycled. Typically the cups are actually plastic lined which is why they are waterproof. Separating the plastic from the paper is very difficult and very few recyclers even have the ability. The good news is that the paper industry uses trees which were planted specifically for paper so it is just another crop like corn or wheat. The trees are even capturing a small amount of CO2. The bad news is paper cups are almost never made using recycled paper. Instead let's look at it from an energy perspective. The energy needed to make one reusable plastic cup is enough to make 30-50 paper cups. Also the energy usage assumes you never clean the plastic cup. The more frequently it is cleaned the less likely it is you will ever be able to save enough energy to make using the bottle better than paper cups. Basically how many times will the cup be used? If they are only used a handful of times then it will be better for the environment to just use paper cups. Once a plastic cup has been used 50+ times then you can consider it better for the environment to use the plastic cup. But if all of this was really being done for the environment then it would be better to use higher quality cups and keep them year to year instead of replacing the cups every season. My cup shrunk at least a half inch just due to being stored in a hot car. It was interesting seeing cups which had been run through a dishwasher because the hot water caused them to shrink and they ended up at most half the original height.

They are showing the zoning of the surrounding areas. Disney does not own the property they are highlighting and hotels have already been built on the majority of that land.

GCI: I want to say Gwazi but since it is closed, I would have to say Apocalypse at SFMM. Every time I have ridden it the ride runs like complete garbage. Not sure if it is the parks maintenance or the dry weather but it is just extremly rough. B&M: They have a number of boring rides out there but I have to go with Rougarou as the worst. It is a head banging terrible time every ride. I get a head ache every time I make the mistake of ridding it and I just have a better time when I skip it entirely. Intamin: Green Lantern First Flight at SFMM, never been on any other ZacSpins but I found this to be much worse then the version from S&S, and frankly down right uncomfortable. I can see why Six Flags decided to only install one.

http://www.toledoblade.com/Retail/2016/12/07/Cedar-Fair-chief-Matt-Oiumet-talks-future-of-fun.html Don't. You. Dare. Personally I still think the "shed" is going to be either screens or projectors. WIth the video being done by Triotech. My guess is that it will be random so it is different every ride in some way. The themeing is a saw mill which appears to be getting overrun by plants, which could make for an interesting ending to the ride. My hope is that they do not try something crazy and it is interactive using motion tracking, I just cannot see that turning out well.

A large percentage of the visitors to Disneyland are Annual passholders. The best way Disneyland can control attendance is to change blackout dates and pass prices. For example the cheapest pass has gone from $124 in September 2006 to $329 today, plus can only be used 170 days a year. That is 195 blackout dates, weekends, summer, and holidays are all blacked out. The cheapest pass for someone who does not live in southern California has gone from $239 to $599 over the same 10 year period, even that has 50 blackout dates. Around a year ago they had almost 1 million passholders. Which means the park is close to capacity if just 8% of the passholders visit at the same time. Because Disneyland is so dependent upon local visitors the fastpass changes are not going to be anything like what we have seen at Disney World. Last I heard the plan is for people to book fastpasses the day of their visit. It will not be possible to book fastpasses days or weeks in advance. Disney World has over 30,000 hotel rooms to fill, while Disneyland has around 2,500.

The Cars Land soft openings were extremly limited. They wanted the grand opening to mean something and mostly the previews were for cast members plus their friends and family. Few members of the general public were allowed in early. The entire park was closed the day before the grand opening so it could be showed off to the press in private and to make sure everything was perfect for the opening. If Star Wars land has an opening similar to Cars Land it would be a mistake to attempt a trip before the official opening.

The rumor has been Nintendo will replace the kids area in the studios. The only place I think this could appear in IoA is toon lagoon, if this is where it goes I would be surprised if ripsaw falls survives. The only large unused plot of land in either park right now is the corner of the studios between MIB and kids area. This is where the two sprung tents which are used for HHN are located. This would provide a lot of room and gives easy expansion options. For example change the theme on MIB or expand towards the current kids area. Also another possibility is the fabled third gate. They recently repurchased a huge chunk of land and this could easily form the cornerstone of a new park.

Ant man is a replacement for Buzz. This is one of the few Marvel properties which should be able to appear at Disney World. We might end up seeing it at Disneyland or Disney World. Also looks like there will still be two easy expansion locations left after this work is done. There will still be a gap between Toy Story Land and Frozen, plus an area next to Grizzly Gulch.

They are spending a LOT more than 65 million in capital expenditures annually. These numbers are for all capital expenses not just rides. Except I have not seen numbers which separate attraction spending for any chain. 2014 - $108 Million 2015 - $114 Million 2016 - $123 Million I will admit this is still a lot lower than Cedar Fair which is spending around $150 - $175 million annually. But enough money is being spent every year to afford at least one or two major coasters in addition to all the flat rides and 4D coasters. Six Flags has decided instead of building large expensive coasters to go a different route and is spending the money on Battle for Metropolis. Which I have never seen an official number but based on the cost of other Sally attractions Battle for Metropolis will cost $10+ million each, and it is being installed at 3 different parks next year.

I feel like if the PR individual stated that there are no RMC coasters opening in 2017 then it is a pretty definitive statement. I have been thinking 2018 for a while now. This just helps confirm it to me.

The file is still available the problem is that the link has an extra https// in it. If you copy the link and fix the error or just copy the text it works.

Here is an interesting quote from the Cedar Point Spokesman Tony Clark. www.wkyc.com/features/what-will-happen-to-all-that-mean-streak-wood-at-cedar-point/315488209 Not sure if I would take that at face value. But it makes it sound like the ride is getting torn down. But then the rest of the article is speculation about what is going to be happening which includes the possibility of the ride being modified by RMC.

2017 for express and 2018 for Breakers.

^^ It cost over $50 million for the renovation. You are correct how they paid for that project. To my knowledge the land at Wildwater Kingdom is still for sale so at this point I do not believe it could be paying for any project.