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It's the same as the Cars Junkyard Jamboree at DCA - just with a different theme. It is quite an intense whip ride for Disney to be honest, nowhere near classic whips, but considering its a family/kids ride, it's pretty good, you get a pretty sharp "whip" action

Fuji-Q is awesome. I really enjoyed Eejanaika with the new S&S Trains, it feels soooo much better than X2.

As an outsider from the UK that rode Apocalypse last month for the first time, I thought it was fantastic. Smooth, fast, fun. One of the best modern woodies i've been on for sure.

It's not, I already tried Found it on a site called "eCrater" but the seller doesn't respond, and shipping is £60 to the UK!!

This is a bit of a long-shot, but would anyone let me pay them to buy and ship a Twisted Collossus shirt to the UK? When I visited earlier this month, they only had it in size XXL. I need a Medium. Send me a message if you can help - the Six Flags store team weren't very helpful when I asked...

Are you kidding?

Big Dipper at Blackpool Pleasure Beach (1923 - 95 years young)

I rode it at soft opening a couple of weeks ago or so. Pretty cool, no 3D glasses and the show really "surrounds you" which is pretty awesome.

Tbh, I visit from the UK with huge gaps between visits usually. We go for 2 weeks, we usually spend 1 day in each park: Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, Blizzard Beach, Islands of Adventure, Universal Studios, Sea World, Busch Gardens. Then a second day in Magic Kingdom near the end. That's 10 full days of parks. Then sometimes we'll go to Aquatica as well, and sometimes a second day in Busch Gardens - you quickly eat up a 14 day holiday, and that's more than the average person will want to do on their holiday. If you spend 2 days per park it would take 18 - 20 days to do them all! Plus there's more to do locally in Orlando/Florida than just the full theme park stuff. Not sure what i'm going to do if they add more parks or if it becomes impossible to do *most* of a park in one day.

It's quite the adrenaline rush! Are they only running with the VR or could you choose to ride without? As someone else said, it's optional. They just had a table set up at the front of the queueline, a lady asked me if I wanted VR or not, and if not I got given a red wristband thing to wear. When I was there, most people I saw chose no VR. It was however slowing down the operations, as the staff were triple checking the VR people were all good before dispatching.

Yeah, exactly. One positive comment I forgot to mention is all the ride staff we spoke to were very friendly, some of the best theme park staff i've ever spoken to. And the Calico Mine Ride kind of blew me away - I wasn't expecting it to be so long and that good!

So, my thoughts after my first visit ever to Knotts... Overall a nice park, but found the clientele to be the most queue-jumpy and rude out of all the SoCal parks we visited. Every queue had big groups of 8+ people pushing through, as well as constantly being hit by people behind us/infront of us just walking into us or turning and hitting us with their backpacks... tiring on a hot day Found SIlver Bullet to be quite average, HangTime feels a lot more refined but a lot less intense than some of the other Gerstlaurers i've been on like Saw: The Ride, The Smiler and Takabisha. I really enjoyed Timber Mountain and the Calico Mine Train ride and the fullsize steam train. It was unique for me to ride the triple S&S tower, in the UK we had a double-shot, shot towers and we have a combo tower - but i've never ridden an S&S drop-only tower (Cliffhanger, our Combo Tower does a shot sequence followed by the drop sequence rather than going straight to the top and dropping) I really enjoyed Xcelerator, however running on 1 train made the queue pretty slow. Montezooma's Revenge was nice and intense, and I found Ghost Rider to be a really excellent woodie, but the queueline was pretty horrendous - they were keeping most of the queue in switchbacks in the big enclosed room below, rather than the airy station. Had a good day but the excessive queuejumping and slow operations dampened our spirits a bit.

I was at DCA the other day and they were testing the Incredicoaster all day - on some runs they had a (new?) audio track playing at the launch. Could also hear lots of sound from the station but it was too muffled to understand.

So I visited SFMM for the first time ever a few days ago. I'd never really spoken to someone who'd been there, or seen what it was like. I'd heard stuff about X2 and Twisted Collossus but that's about this. I absolutely loved the park. Coming from the UK, it's so amazing to be able to ride so many different types of coasters, especially growing up playing RCT2 and seeing the Six Flags scenarios on it. Absolute favourite was Twisted Collossus. It's my first RMC and I thought it was amazing - the airtime and the racing element is fantastic - all we have here is Grand National at Blackpool Pleasure Beach (also love that ride). The ride operators were really trying hard to get it racing, giving constant countdowns and pressure on people to get in and ready. Unfortunately on 2 of our rides, ONE passenger screwed it up (one time it was someone who put their restraints down while wearing a hat, the other tried to bring their bag onboard) - however on the 2nd lap, we got races both times. After riding Eejanaika at Fuji-Q, riding X2 was a big step down - the seats on X2 seem to rotate back and forth constantly in a pretty violent way - Eejanaika was really good for us - intense but the rotating seats felt much better on that ride. On X2 your legs get whipped back and forth into the bottom of the seat. Enjoyed it but found Eejanaika a lot better. We found all of the B&M coasters quite boring really - some of the worst examples. Drop of Doom was great (my first Intamin drop tower barring Falcons Fury) The rest of the coasters were fun, we liked Tatsu and Superman. I see what people are talking about operations, most of the queues were 15-20 minutes but the queue for Superman took over an hour, with a pretty short queue. X2 was run pretty badly too, lots of empty seats on all rides too. Managed to get on everything and then had 2 hours spare to re-ride, that was arriving before opening and leaving at closing time. * Except Revolution and Green Lantern, both closed

It's so good!

Has no opening date for RailBlazer been announced yet?

There's been a lot of people making fun of Icon for looking slow in the POVs/Offride videos. I thought the same, but having attended the media day today, it actually packs quite a punch on that top hat, and the immelman after the 2nd launch offers a really good hangtime feeling. First time riding a modern Mack coaster, absolutely awesome ride. The way it interacts with classic rides is just great. EDIT: Oh, and it does totally feel like Cheetah Hunt but more compact. Lots of *robb voice* TWISTYYYYYYYY!! Icon Media Day 2018

To be honest, I'm not a fashion kinda guy. I have worn cargo shorts many times when visiting Orlando parks, purely to keep my stuff safe.

I am a bit concerned that they'll remove animatronics and replace with 3D screens

Oh yeah, i'm all too aware of not bringing loose stuff on rides, I always leave everything in a backpack unless I have a zipped pocket for a phone. Thanks for the info guys - I need to maximise my time there so being able to mostly avoid lockers is great.

Random SFMM question - I saw a vlog of someone there today, and it seemed like you can only use lockers. Is there an option for leaving baggage in any of the stations, or is it all locker-only? Thanks

The issue is we kinda planned it wrong, we have somewhere rented in Los Angeles so it would be pretty wasteful to stay somewhere in NorCal. Hmmmm

I hope it stays like that until the end of the month when I visit for the first time! LA schools get out on June 7th and Santa Clarita schools end on June 8th, so you should be good. However, there will be Grad Nights on May 17-18, 24-25, 31 and June 1st, so you may want to avoid those days if you can. Thanks for the advice, I think we'll aim for the 30th.

I hope it stays like that until the end of the month when I visit for the first time!

Hi Kristen, What do you love most about Japan? What do you think about Tokyo DisneySEA?