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This is going to get out of hand very quickly, so I have locked it for now.

Yes, they have. I don't recall the name, but it was sort of Bigfoot-themed. The scares were pretty light, and riding at the end was optional. We actually did, and were a bit surprised that in the final tunnel of the rapids, they had a Bigfoot-character standing over you, and it would though a huge boulder at you (which was attached to a bungee cord). That was a cool highlight, but I'm sure not many people got to see it... it was mostly too cold for most people to justify riding a rapids ride at night in winter (this was before current global warming trends). It was called Bigfoot's Revenge.

The first two generation 2 pokemon have arrived! You can hatch Togepi and Pichu for sure along with "several others" that they didn't name. You can also catch Pikachu with a Santa hat.

Of course it is. You can do whatever you want with it after purchasing.

https://www.usj.co.jp/company/company_e/2016/1212.html Conceptual Rendering of the Land

I wouldn't be opposed to them carving out space in each land with kiosks and proper queues instead of individual attraction kiosks, but I am sure if they made every FP available at every kiosk rides would all sell out too quick---everyone would go straight to the closest FP kiosks to reserve FP's.

I guess the author of this article never played super metroid...

It's been moderately busy the couple of time I have visited. It's all they have in the San Diego area, and with how hard they are pushing annual passes...I imagine they got a return on their investment.

What about also including AP's whose tickets have been scanned at a park's entrance that day? Make the AP's register their pass with the Disneyland app (like many already have), then only open access to the FP reservation portal in the app once that pass is activated for entry at the turnstiles. Can't cheat at that without violating non-transferability rules, and can't advance reserve Hyperspace Mountain every single day of the year just to have one whenever they want. I imagine they will do that too....but I would still guess they won't initially roll out any changes to the AP program in order to make sure there is a real big tangible benefit to single day tickets and booking a hotel.

It was a female. Earplugs had nothing to do with it. She tried to jump across when she shouldn't have and the chain drive design didn't allow the train to stop quickly enough.

Nope. That was before my time as a roller coaster fan. Even the death was long before my time as a roller coaster fan (1996).

They did that until an operator died when he fell trying to crossover and the train was dispatched forward.

People like to bitch about nice things they can't afford is a more accurate way to describe it.

I hope he likes their uniforms...

I wouldn't be surprised if fastpass reservations ONLY apply to single day tickets and hotel guests.

population growth =/= attendance growth The simplified version of every theme park business model is this: no matter what, the cost of doing business will be high. You can fudge the numbers a little bit by closing some venues, but you're still looking at high costs to operate and maintain what you do have open. You can also only guarantee one revenue stream: admission tickets, which generally should cover your operating costs or come close to it. Food, merchandise, and premium products are how you make a profit. That is why parks will never stop introducing new products that don't come with high costs to them---front of line tickets, VIP tours, cabanas, hard ticket events, premium parking, different annual pass tiers, limited edition merchandise, seasonal food items/festivals, express buses, character dining, etc.

I think you are overestimating the cost. I also think you are severely overestimating how much an average family will spend in a day---it probably isn't $649 (admission is not included with the cabana, so that doesn't count). I'm all for Disney finding every which way to make more money without having any impact to the average guest experience. I have no doubt these will sell quite well---they wouldn't bother with testing it if they didn't already know there was a market for a place where people can go and relax away from the hustle and bustle of the park without having to go all the way back to their hotel.

Again, there is a limit to how many fast passes you can claim per day in Florida---you literally can't book an entire days worth of rides in advance. I also imagine they have some caps attached to those advance fastpasses to ensure fastpass is available day of and the rides have plenty of standby capacity.

I would assume that it will allow them to sell 5-10k more tickets a day. That's terrifying.

Except Florida has caps on how much you can book in advance, so that will never happen.

The 2D video looks great, much more clear than the 3D was---I think it's HDR.

The missions are back in the park. Good to see KBF bringing what they can back.

Only tickets bought from the USH website qualify for early entry, though they usually let in everyone else 15 minutes early.

Which is ironic considering ABC Family/Freeform is a subsidiary of Disney... Those rights are shifting to Universal (guessing that wasn't a coincidence). But more to the point: Harry Potter is the Star Wars of the "millennial" generation. The books and movies came out when people who are now 20-30ish years old were growing up.

They are just snatching up popular brands, since that is the name of the game now. Prior to buying Dreamworks, Universal had pretty much exhausted their own collection of "famous" brands, so it made perfect sense to go out and snatch up big names that no one else owns the rights to.