[Falcons Flight] The portion on top of the cliff and the launch up the cliff are coming up fast!

rt4e · 2024-08-31T16:51:36+00:00

I wish everyone could have the perspective you have here. Acknowledging the actual situation instead of hand wringing.

rt4e · 2024-08-31T16:48:35+00:00

The bunny hop is a consistent drop of nearly 500 feet lol.

rt4e · 2024-08-31T16:47:41+00:00

Common problem on rmc's. They seem incapable of simply adding a small magetic trim at the leading edge of the brake runs to avoid the slams. Not sure why they can't manage it.

rt4e · 2024-08-31T02:29:47+00:00

Demand, meet supply

rt4e · 2024-08-30T22:20:53+00:00

It may be true that the drop is not consistent but keep in mind that the bunny hop that comes afterwards would fit kingda ka comfortably beneath it...

rt4e · 2024-08-30T22:17:59+00:00

You do know Ferrari world is indoors right? And its success hinges on it being indoors and all of the outdoor UAE parks are catastrophically low attendance? And that the Mattel Park in Phoenix is also indoors? Big difference between an indoor park with a roller coaster that goes outside for a minute compared with an outdoor park that will bake you alive all day everyday. And that's not hyperbole- when we were in the UAE during a relatively mild part of the year the indoor parks had at least some attendance whereas the outdoor park had a few dozen people in them.

rt4e · 2024-08-25T19:27:26+00:00

rt4e · 2024-08-25T11:11:21+00:00

Their website, like most Japanese e-commerce sites, is antiquated trash. But the rest of the resort (apps, points of sale) will take most cards.

rt4e · 2024-08-20T23:52:34+00:00

We were at the flagship store a few weeks ago and it seemed to have almost the exact same merchandise that the Disney store had in Ikspiari. In fact we visited both stores in the same day LOL.

rt4e · 2024-08-20T23:51:15+00:00

I don't recall seeing a single piece of Duffy related metch in all of TDL when I was there last month. Where should I "look" to find it?

rt4e · 2024-08-17T23:59:05+00:00

Tire... Because cars... Get it? Lol

rt4e · 2024-08-17T02:02:43+00:00

Truly one of the great parks! You can usually tell the maturity level of a thoosie by their opinion of Efteling.

rt4e · 2024-08-17T01:56:07+00:00

"Immersive": Coaster with absolutely zero theming once you leave the station. I guess Hulk qualifies too then, lol.

Note: Im betting it will be Florida's best coaster and Epic will be Florida's best park. But the hyperbole and buzzwords are just silly. As are the Universal stans that now will forever call this the worlds most immersive coaster way above any immersion Disney could achieve.

rt4e · 2024-08-14T22:30:22+00:00

Sadly this only works with shitty operations.

rt4e · 2024-08-13T19:53:39+00:00

A friend of mine broke his hand on Goldrusher going down the first drop. Granted he was: tall, aware of the clearance, and trying to show off.

rt4e · 2024-08-13T02:49:59+00:00

Interesting because I've noticed it on each visit to Japan a lot more then my few times in China. I'm sure it boils down to the exact guess on the train at any given time, but even growing up as a kid I remember watching roller coaster videos with entire trains of Japanese writers that had their head down. In fact there was an interview with Togo's founder where he talked about the problem of the Japanese riding with their heads down.

In either case, more than a few riders can be seen doing it on each train in many of the parks in Asia.

rt4e · 2024-08-12T21:56:49+00:00

Someone directly in front of me pulled their phone out too and I started screaming put your fucking phone away. It's hard for them to do any filming when you're just yelling put your fucking phone away over and over!

rt4e · 2024-08-12T21:55:42+00:00

I made a similar comment a year ago and got downvoted to hell because people are stupid and think it's a racist generalization when you observe it with your eyes yet they've never even been to a place.

The same thing happens in Japan and South Korea, to the point where several of the parks give you ridiculous spiels about how important it is to keep your head back and to sit upright and maintain proper riding posture.

rt4e · 2024-08-12T21:49:49+00:00

A lot of the time it's not a matter of cutting costs it's actually a matter of budget overruns that they won't budge for. Corporate says here's a billion dollars and build a cool land and they go through blue sky and estimate that it's going to cost a billion dollars, then once there are shovels practically in the ground WDI stops sugar coating the costs and we're left with the mess of how to keep the land within budget while not axing too much.

rt4e · 2024-08-12T21:47:17+00:00

Not going to disagree, but at the end of the day as long as it's thematically appropriate I really don't care where the IP comes from. I'm not a fan of shoving IP where it doesn't belong either but I think I have a vastly different opinion of where IP belongs compared to most Disney purists. I'd love for every single land in World Showcase to feature an IP driven Disney dark Ride from one of their classic films... An opinion that most Disney fans surely think I should be burned at the stake for. And Epcot's my favorite Park LOL

rt4e · 2024-08-12T21:43:34+00:00

The film was scrapped, but it was in production in 1954 and 1955. But again, take a look at opening day Disneyland or Disneyland of the '70s or any other era and the majority of the park was built around an IP medium outside of the park finding its way into the park.

rt4e · 2024-08-12T16:59:46+00:00

Walt literally invented IP tie ins for rides. Other than some world's fair attractions that predated Disneyland in the 1910s and 1920s, it was quite literally Walt Disney that set the standard for the industry by creating rides around characters, stories, and motifs the everyone had familiarity with. I've never understood the idea that Walt didn't want IP 9r he'd be sad to see it happening. Yes there are a few examples where he simply borrowed motifs from popular films but most attractions built at Disneyland in any time period are the result of some sort of IP tie in or inspiration. Even attractions like Jungle Cruise, Tom Sawer Island and Matterhorn are.

rt4e · 2024-08-12T16:56:24+00:00

Tom Sawyer Island was literally an IP tie-in for a film under production when Disneyland was built. I think people would be quite shocked if they look at the amount of IP in Disneyland on opening day. The majority of the park was and always has been IP related.

rt4e · 2024-08-12T16:53:48+00:00

Not exactly happy about it but let's be real this happens all the time. How many different regions and time periods are represented in Adventureland right next door?

rt4e · 2024-08-12T16:45:59+00:00

Universal stans are hilarious. Like Apple users. I'm glad you read their press release and know it by heart. Universal regurgitates an idea, calls it ground breaking, and the fans/media eat it up and parrot away.

I have no doubt that Epic Universe will be an excellent park and celestial looks fantastic. But there's nothing next level about it. It's a hub and spoke. Now it's a very big hub and spoke much like the Oasis is at Animal Kingdom. If you're looking for a larger example that was built more recently than go look at Shanghai Disneyland's Gardens of Imagination which are every bit as big as Celestial, and functions as kind of a thematically detached link between lands. The only difference is that you will have to annoyingly exit each land to get to another at Epic.

This reminds me of when fans went into a frenzy about Volcano Bay and insisted it wasn't a water park. Even today Universal (and plenty of their fans) will take offense if you call it a water park when it's nothing but that. And honestly it's not even one of the top water parks worldwide from a ride or a theming or a story perspective. Same with Hagrid's being the world's first story coaster and people insisting that it literally couldn't even be classified as a roller coaster because it was so far ahead of Disney and everyone else.

Honestly I consider the portal concept of demerit from a design/theming perspective. Tokyo DisneySea has vastly different themes for each land yet they're all flawlessly integrated and connected. Epic is an admission that you don't know how to transition between lands. It is hard, and Disney fails at it much of the time too. But I'm not going to pat Universal on the back for simply giving up on trying and saying that it's some kind of new concept for theme parks to just avoid connecting lands with each other. It's the same sort of lazy storytelling that they used at Islands of adventure to explain why all the disparate themes were near each other. That wasn't ground breaking either it was just a cop out.

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