Some information about Lotte World and Everland

[Tim2009]

-Before starting, I got really important information regarding Wild Wing in Wild Tours.

Wild Wing is now available to riders ONLY who made reservation using Magic Pass app or Kiosks.

So, if you want to ride on Wild Wing, be sure to make reservations first!!

-There are some issues of pigeons...

What a chilly weather...

Lotte World Game Factory, located next to Tomb of Horror: Death to Escape, got new game!!

-With various 4D effects like wind and chair vibration and 3D glasses, this game will make sure you became sweaty, and heart-pounding.

Are you dare to step inside this game, and challenge yourself to stay alive?

-2,000 won for starting the game, 1,000 won for continue

-There are total four levels and one final level, waiting for you.

-Be sure to destroy CCTV Cameras, many as possible, to make final mission easier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o03m8IXHVb8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhtfoJw0NQg

 

Now, Let's change the scene to Everland.

Thunder Falls became one of the popular attractions in Everland, along with T-Express and Horror Maze.

Even it has great theme music that can be heard on waiting line and observation deck, where you can see boat splashing down.

I managed to go there and filmed some scenes while hearing great background music.

Official Theme song lyrics of Everland Thunder Falls available in this link: http://www.everland.com/web/everland/wow/music/1213462_14812.html

-Click the video above for official theme Song for Everland Thunder Falls

-Everyday Wonderful Thunder Falls Everland Thunder Falls...

Are you ready for exciting river rafting in Humboldt County, California, USA?

Prepare yourself for amazing river rafting adventure in Mystic River, located in Magic Mountain.

-Did you know that there are three ways to move around in Everland?

There are total three I know: Human Sky lift, Sky Cruise Gondola, Moving Way moving walk.

Moving Way moving walk, one from Magic Land, one from Zootopia will help you go up the hill.

According to one Korean Blogger, T-Express will reopen in Feb. 5, while Amazon Express and Thunder Falls will reopen in Feb. 26. I will update the news if opening date changes.

[Garet]

 

Interesting to see this, like T Express's constantly changing policy with it's reservation only times and tickets, I get the feeling this isn't going to be a permanent change especially since it's only on one of the 3 wild simulators (even if wings is the most popular). With temperatures below 0F currently most of the outdoor rides have had to remain closed until this cold front blows over so obviously the indoor rides are taking in a lot more crowds than usual. Winter is always a lot busier even when outdoors is open because people want to stay in the warm anyway. I remember when Dream Boats opened and that was reservation only because every family wanted to try the new boat even though it was just an oval with 4 logs.

 

Also the magic pass is still in very early days. Like when Disney started with theirs, it could be a case of taking certain rides, such as wild wings in this case, and testing to see what works with the system and what doesn't. Looking at the crowds today for the first 3 hours with temperatures of -15C there was absolutely no need to keep the reservation only policy on. When they announced magic pass they listed I think 12-15 rides but visiting the park every ride has a magic pass line even the tiny kids rides like the tiny mini-viking, that underground train outside and frog hopper and these never have a line. Makes me think that the park is in a test and adjust period seeing what works and what doesn't.

 

The announcement for Wild Wings reservation is here: http://www.lotteworld.com/notice/view.asp?cmsCd=CM0051&ntNo=287 It does look like they plan on adding an end date.

[Garet]

Sorry to hijack the tread but wanted to post my thoughts on the new system and didn't think a 4th thread on the subject was warranted since I didn't take any pictures to do a TR. Again it's a new system so like I said above they could still be testing and adjusting.

 

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  -Used the mobile app, not the machines. Couldn't find the app on my store but thankfully my wife had a Korean Apple I.D. Only allowed 3 reservations for the whole day.
   
  - The app never once wanted to access my location like my Everland App does. OP mentioned you had to use the app in the park but I don't think that's the case since it didn't check for location once. You need to scan your ticket to reserve but I guess for season passes you could reserve before you've arrived or before gates open as long as you've picked up your ticket.
   
  - I've mentioned on my previous TR's that fast passes can run out early afternoon even on quiet days for the most popular rides but even with more rides now under fast pass, the app was insanely quick to run out. All the rides literally fell under two categories: Popular rides like Atlantis, Pharoah, Aeronauts, Comet etc. etc. that were full reservation pretty quickly after opening. All the other rides were rides that reservation pretty much at the same time as the current one but also had lines short enough that you didn't need the fast pass in the first place. Every time I clicked a popular ride it said Full Reservation after the opening hour, even at TDS you could grab an evening fast pass as a 2nd fast pass for the popular rides if you were there at opening (and sometimes a 3rd).
   
  -The OP said that Wild Wings was reservation only but it's since changed to Wild Jungle being 100% reservation only, as I said I think they are testing and adjusting and seeing what works. It seems a shame though that if you arrive at the park at opening and the popular rides are available that you have to sacrifice one of your 3 passes or can't ride at all especially since with it being reservation only it had a high allocation and seemed to match with current time even into the afternoon. At least with Everland each reservation ride is separate from each other so you can pick up tickets for each without sacrificing anything or in the case of something such as T Express they open the standby line after 3PM so you still have a chance with a regular queue at the end of the day if tickets have run out if you arrive much later after opening.
   
  -The kiosk has a different system, the old one. Scan your ticket, get only 1 fast pass and a time on which you can get your next pass. Considering how fast tickets were gone and the app not being too widely available, I think using the old system might be a huge disadvantage. You'd have to run at opening to a kiosk and get one popular ride since others would have reserved before gates open and they will go fast! Maybe it has a seperate allocation from the phone but it didn't seem like it. If it is the same as the phone, tickets will probably be gone by the second pass time comes up so choose carefully and don't be tempted to grab the reservation only ride first. On the flip slide I haven't heard anyone mention the 3 tickets a day limit on the kiosk so you could probably grab more for the quiet rides than phone users. Perhaps in the future they can have separate allocations for the two systems (if it doesn't already) or combine into 1 system and allow kiosk users to grab 3 at the same time for the day instead of 1 at a time to even the playing field.
  

[Garet]

So.... they made Atlantis the reservation only ride now.... not sure how I feel about this, I really hope it has a lot more allocated tickets since it was sold out pretty much at park opening last time I visited, and unlike T Express's reservation only which ends at 3PM giving you a chance to join the queue, this one runs until closing. I will check the app periodically at work tomorrow and see when it sells out on a quiet weekday. Thankfully it seems this trial will end in 3 weeks before they move on to the next attraction, If you're going on a weekend before then.... good luck!

[Garet]

Looking at the app and other peoples blogs, weekdays the passes seem to be gone around 1pm but for weekends the passes have been gone pretty quick on the app and you might not even be able to make it to a kiosk on busy days to get them before they are gone. However it seems Atlantis became the next test subject due to floor construction in that area on Magic Island meaning there was almost 0 queue space while they redid the pavement fora month so with the test ending the same day as construction, fingers crossed we won't see it becoming a fast pass only ride again for a while.

[Garet]

Sorry for my 5th post in a row but since there isn't a Lotte World discussion page I felt this was probably the best place to put it since most of the discussion has been about magic pass.

 

Lotte World have announced a new premium magic pass. 30,000 won gets you 5 magic passes to be used anytime on the day (the free ones have time limits) or 100,000 gets you unlimited rides for the day. There is a catch however as the 5 pass is limited to only 70 people a day and the unlimited pass is only allocated for 30.

 

No English version up but here's the link: http://www.lotteworld.com/notice/view.asp?cmsCd=CM0051&ntNo=320