>Last Thread: >>2862057Cups edition>What is this thread? Why are there two generals?/rcg/ was initially created as a way for the roller coaster enthusiasts on here to discuss all things roller coasters and theme parks. While roller coasters are the main focus of these threads (and the title of the general) there is also discussion on other theme parks, their rides, as well as the parks themselves and trip planning too. That's where /tpg/ comes in.>Can I talk about Disney/Universal parks in this thread?Absolutely! Disney/Universal discussion of all sorts including rides/resorts/dining/trip planning is OK.Park Crowd Tracker:>https://queue-times.com/en-US/parksCurrent and historical wait times tracker:>https://www.thrill-data.com/Roller Coaster Database:>https://rcdb.com/Amusement Park News Sites:>https://www.themeparkinsider.com/>https://www.screamscape.com/>https://www.coaster101.com/Disney Park News:>https://www.wdwnt.com/>https://www.wdwmagic.com/>https://www.allears.net>https://www.mousesteps.comUniversal Park News:>https://www.insideuniversal.net
>new zealand only has 4 coasters>the only one that isn't a family coaster is an arrow corkscrew from 1986grim
Guys, I have a perfect idea on how to incorporate Marvel into Animal Kingdom
>>2867258grim (the situation not the player)
There's a bench here in Celebration FL that has Adam The Woo's name on it. A theme park youtuber is getting his own special memorial
HOLY TOON LA-FUCKIN-GOON WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I LOVE TOON LAGOOOOOON I LOVE RIPSAW I LOVE BILGE RAT RAFTS WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>2867260>playerwhat
>>2867265popeye's does not fuck around
>>2867267When I was a kid Popeyes was the first ride where I really felt immersed. Sucks you cant get a good ride through video since its always trying to drown you
huh, looking at the actual emperor's groove rollercoaster scene, there really isn't that much visually interesting going on, seems pretty basic so it would be weird to make a whole ride based on something this brief and visually dull, it's a funny gag not a blueprint for an actual ridehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU2dmckqkyU
>dinoland is going to get replaced with spic stuffthe brazilians were suppose to be an invasive annoyance IN the parks not APART of the parks
Based and BGT cup pilled
Pretty funny that if Disneyland Saudi edition was open it likely would have been bombed today Imagine fucking dying on big thunder mountain
>>2867284For a Disney Adult that would probably be an honor. I learned today that The Haunted Mansion is one of the most popular places in the world for people to spill their ashes. It’s so common they even have a code for it, they call it “Code Grandma.” To the Disney Adult, the supreme honor in life is to have your body burnt and then spilled onto a children’s ride, only to then be vacuumed up by a severely stoned 16 year old
>>2867268It really is. I've ridden several wild river gorge rides but you're unlikely to get completely drenched on any of them, except Popeye's, where it's all but inevitable. I also wondered why both water rides were walk-ons last Sunday when the park was packed. It was 70 degrees out which didn't seem to me that cold. Well 4 hours later my t-shirt was still wet, so I guess that's why.
>>2867286Rookie mistake. I always take a spare change of clothes (or two) and shoes for just that reason. Just pop back to your car and change if you’re getting too soggy
>>2867281Apparently the UK Pavilion at Epcot got banned from making ride-themed family crest displays they were making each month because they made one that said RIP Dinosaur and some leadership got pissy about it
>>2867290I hate Disney so much it’s insane
>>2867274They're not going to do this (in part because it doesn't fit the land) but a gringott's style ENG dark ride with a roller coaster track that has a short true coaster segment could work
I wonder how much longer Rougarou has. It's been 10 years since the floorless conversion and that only gave it a short lived boost in popularity, it's one of the few Cedar Point coasters no one seems to like. Not sure how long the trains last on those but I bet when the time comes that the park has to think about buying new trains they may decide it's not worth it and remove it.
>>2867285So there are disney adults who are jealous of that kid who got eaten by an alligator while on resort?
>>2867284Cedar Point should pay the mullahs to strike Falcon's Flight so TT2 can have the height record
>>2867300Checked and yes. Their entire existence is in service to Disney, of course dying there would be legendary for them
>>2867310I found out today that more childless adults now visit Disney than children and families. That is depressing AF. On the bright side, since Disney adults don’t have kids, I guess that means they will just be a passing phenomenon as they gradually die out
Stardust aint opening this month
so how did everybody enjoy MAGA day at Disneyland? Apparently it was gay days, maga day and some chicano protest.
>>2867332Going to a park purely to publicly signal support for a political ideology or sexuality is fucking retarded>>2867323Issue is it incentivizes corporations to press on the government to massively increase immigration which is part of how we got in this mess to begin with. Parks require a steady population increase year over year to drive their long term profitability and do not give a fuck if the money they receive comes from an American or an "American". Disney adults are closer to being your people than the mexigoblins who pump out 3 kids they financially offset with EBT. The solution that actually improves the nation is "disney adults" growing up and having kids of their own and the government doing whatever it can to incentivize that and make it as easy as possible.
>>2867393> Issue is it incentivizes corporations to press on the government to massively increase immigration which is part of how we got in this mess to begin with. Parks require a steady population increase year over year to drive their long term profitability and do not give a fuck if the money they receive comes from an American or an "American". Disney adults are closer to being your people than the mexigoblins who pump out 3 kids they financially offset with EBT. The solution that actually improves the nation is "disney adults" growing up and having kids of their own and the government doing whatever it can to incentivize that and make it as easy as possible.Really well said anon. Agree 100%. They need to hurry up bc soon Disney Adults will be too old to even have kids (at least the women)
>>2867265One of the best ride facades ever made.>>2867268I love Popeye's. The best place to chill out at IoA is that little walkway behind the ride entrance. You get to watch everyone get absolutely fucked by the steamboat element.
>>2867299CP was absolutely slammed the Saturday I went last year and that thing was still on walk-on. I didn't even ride it because it looked really generic.
>>2867393>>2867399Corporations aren't pressing the government for more immigrants so Disney parks stay full, /pol/tards. And Mexico's birth rate is well below replacement so you can stop scapegoating their women.
>>2867431It does look like a plain old B&M looper, just scaled up. The parcel of land it's on isn't that big, but it's not tiny either. I can see Iron Dragon and Gemini sticking around longer than Rougarou, hopefully anyway. Both of those are still fun rides.
>>2867433>Corporations aren't pressing the government for more immigrantsYes they are. They overwhelmingly support candidates that flood the nation with low-skill workers and consumers.>And Mexico's birth rate is well below replacement so you can stop scapegoating their women.23% of all foreign-born people in America are of Mexican origin and 59% of those receive some form of government assistance. Numbers aren't on your side.
In terms of weather, is visiting Carowinds/Kings Dominion/Busch Gardens Williamsburg in the middle of July a bad idea if I am a northern baby who is uncomfortable with high heat?
>>2867446Everywhere gets hot and humid in the summer, esp in the South… I can’t speak for the other parks, but Busch Gardens is very shaded with lots of big trees and goes out of its way with fans and misters everywhere (they’re actually kinda known for it). There’s also lots of stores/ restaurants/ shows/ etc if you get too hot.
If anyone experienced it or has opinions of this ride outside the Disney Adult sphere, I am interested Was Journey Into Your Imagination (the 1999-2001 version) really as bad as people were saying as one of the top 3 worst Disney attractions ever, or were people just assblasted they removed Figment and made an entirely different attraction?
>>2867444>>Corporations aren't pressing the government for more immigrants>Yes they are. They overwhelmingly support candidates that flood the nation with low-skill workers and consumers.Nice job cutting off the rest of that sentence, retarded chud. Concession accepted.>>And Mexico's birth rate is well below replacement so you can stop scapegoating their women.>23% of all foreign-born people in America are of Mexican origin and 59% of those receive some form of government assistance. Numbers aren't on your side.And just completely dodging Mexican women's low birthrate. Another concession accepted.
>>2867525I tried out the current ride for the first time in my life 4 weeks ago, and it was definitely the second lamest ride of the trip only beat my Minions Villain-con. The room with all of the Figments to be kinda alright from not expecting so many animatronics in one scene, but it probably only stood out when compared to the rest of the ride..So if the previous version didn't even have THAT, I can absolutely believe it was worse. But I never rode that one or the OG so I can't say, which also means I have 0 nostalgia for it or Figment.
>>2867527>Nice job cutting off the rest of that sentenceThe rest of the sentence was fucking irrelevant so I ignored it. All major corporations support globalism and mass immigration. Bloated populations of consumer cattle are very much in their financial interests. Disney, being a corporation, loves immigration. They were behind the altering of the travel visa system Obama did to flood the parks with Brazilians in the winter months. They also all support mass influxes of H1-bs to undercut pay for American-born workers. Fuck you >And just completely dodging Mexican women's low birthrate. Another concession accepted.Again, irrelevant. They tether themselves to the US by having kids here then expect the """american citizen""" they gave birth to to anchor them here. Fuck you again. Take your faggot libtard ass somewhere else.
Press F to pay respects.
>>2867549S to its pastS to its futureRide a real rollercoaster
>>2867444Checked and trips of truth
>>2867550Here's your limited edition elmo busch gardens sippy cup, now fuck off
>Oh the big kids' rides aren't fun anyway. That's why I don't get on them. And I know they wouldn't be fun at all. Now, I'm not afraid of them it's just they don't have theming and that's really important to me plus they're not scary in the first place, at all
>Liking one ride means you have to hate all rides of lower intensity >>2867553What color is your favorite fedora in your collection? Is there a single shirt you wear that is below an XL? Do you fantasize about one day knowing the touch of a woman?
>>2867549FBroke my inversion cherry
>>2867552Somebody’s jelly >can’t automate animals. Such shame.
Isn’t it kinda weird that I think Mario Kart could’ve been reworked into being Mario Galaxy, Luigi’s mansion, or some other Mario ip?As someone who rode it, my own mother is always super confused about what is going on and I think the whole shell system is kinda wildly limiting by how confusing it is at many instances on when I gain them, ran out of them, and what enemies give me coins or not. The system makes the majority of enemies worthless besides the koopalins and the bowser boss stages.I think the ride system itself is pretty good and offers a good amount of intensity I get from Gringotts’ back car when it’s moving from the transitions, making those rough and swingy turns. The system worked better than it did in MIB and the Cat in the Hat. It’s just when it’s implemented into a shooter, it always feels really intense regardless of how slow they try to make it be. Likewise, I find the constant and drastic transitions kinda wild most of the time by how randomized it all feels. That I would prefer something like Luigi’s mansion just for the gameplay alone so everything will feel less distracting and everything would be far more clear in what I’m supposed to do.And it doesn’t help that in most of the land, it’s always really flashy and filled to the brim with highly interactive elements that I would’ve preferred the more laid back Mario Galaxy as an experience for the main attraction of SNW. It would’ve shown off similar elements that couldn’t have been given to SNW’s main hub in a very different and less noisy experience. And the line could’ve moved a lot quicker if they didn’t have to juggle it up with the AR.
>>2867525I've ridden all three versions It made the ride worse, I've only vague memories from the differences between that and the newest version, felt they made figment pretty annoying when they added him back in. But then I also wasn't that butthurt by the removal of the dreamfinder, giving that area a unified theme to go with the Honey I shrunk the Audience made a lot of sense.
>>2867299I think it is next to go but has awhile, probably half a decade at leastSix Flags has far bigger fish to fry right now before more Cedar additions. Even after they get the Enchanted Parks split off Cedar is one of the parks they need to focus on the least on rebuilding or adding attractions to
>>2867640The parks that make the most typically get the most. They can't afford not to put in new rides at CP for very long. I think managers have looked at the ride's future maintenance schedule (as they do for all rides) and reviewed how much they will need to spend on it and what the ride really does for the park... It's not much and they know it. Some of the older coasters that seem short on time might not be. Iron Dragon, Gemini, and the mine train are all mild to moderate thrills and have low height requirements, so they check off boxes for families and kids' first "real" coasters. They're pretty simple too, which keeps their annual maintenance costs within reason.Rougarou is a straight up extreme thrill ride but it isn't popular or unique. I imagine they have already master planned its retirement based around upcoming maintenance intervals. When the current trains get worn out and need replacement (just as an example) or some other major work will be needed, that will be the end of it imo. I doubt its annual maintenance costs are very high though, which is why I think its future is hinged upon the replacement of a major expense. Five years sounds about right, I would be surprised to see it depart in the next 2 or 3 seasons.
>>2867601The shells need an auto-replenishment with a timer of however many seconds are balanced. It's shit when you go through all your shells too quickly and can't do anything to get more back at what appears to be arbitrary points.It's a shame that the theming is actually pretty good during the ride, you just don't can't see it because you're focused on the AR stuff. Maybe at some point they'll tune it better.
If Iran bombs Falcons Flight the record goes back to top thrill
>>2867549RIP TO A REAL NIGGA, BEHEAD ALL DISNEY CREATIVES
How is Disneyland Paris so incapable of making anything approaching a good menu? I just don't get how they keep making really nicely themed places, then filling it with the most boring shit imaginable that's also terrible quality.
>>2867679>"What's an authentic beer from Norway that is sure to be a novelty for all of out European visitors that they'll happily pay €10 for... I know! Carlsberg!"For comparison, the same resaurant at HK: https://www.hongkongdisneyland.com/restaurant-menu/golden-crocus-inn.pdf
>Disney adults reduced to complaining about slopHow grim
Reminder that Animal Kingdom used to sell shit snacks
>>2867692They still do
>>2867557Same. The pre-ride spiels about heart conditions scared my child ass so much I tried to back out, but my dad literally picked me up, dropped me in the seat, closed it, and told the operator I was fine and to just go. Came off that ride completely changed. Haven't backed out of a coaster since.
Prediction: Hollywood Drift is gonna be the new downtime king and make Stardust look like a Maytag washer. The spinning aspect still has not been dialed in and watchers are reporting cars getting stuck sideways
>>2867663It’s an attraction that put itself into too many directions. It’s a surprise they’ve never at one point considered to simplify the ride or retheme it entirely.Cause as you and I have mentioned, the theming is great but counteracts with the gameplay heavily. I often mixed it up with the gameplay to waste my shells.
>>2867692You have to be demon possessed to make something like this.
>>2867743I dont understand why people are pushing for Luigi's mansion so hard. Shooting galleries fucking suck. MIB and to a much larger extent Mario Kart you can only hold either game focus or world focus. The only good way to do a shooting gallery is one where you shoot animatronics to make them play animations. Seamlessly blend the ride design with the gameplay so you dont miss either and are incentivized to look around for stuff to shoot before firing. Cant think of a single one that does it that way though.
>>2867263I still can't believe he's gone. He never got to have kids. He would have been a great Dad.Attractions Mag did a video of the Newest NYC Toy Fair: https://youtu.be/Ik0_3jsLrmI?si=GpMv5Su5rrVIE7P4Its really sad they put a Muslim in charge of NYC. Especially after 9/11.
>>2867281They haven't had a white princess since 2012 and they replaced all the old princesses in the live actions with anyone but a pretty white woman.
>>2867393Walt is spinning at this point.
Liberals-san has arrived... Let us see if he laments the glories of Gatorland...
>>2867393Supporting faggots at a place meant for bunch of children and families is a bit worse than the other. Imho.
>>2867749Just ignore him. Hide his posts. I'll see you boys tomorrow.
>>2867745With Luigi’s mansion being a genuine plan Universal studios has, I wonder why Mario kart was chosen at all to be a main attraction, especially as a shooter based one.
>>2867257Gonna give you a secret. Don't get your cup at the first store upon entry. Get the Wild Adventures ones near Cheetah. They hold cold longer and have more depth. They're better made. The top suctions on while you have to hand twist the other ones.
>>2867751Bye faggot
>>2867751Don't come back. You don't belong here.
>>2867543Just ignore them. The whole point of liberals is to destroy anything that makes people happy, including Disney World. They pour in these illegals that stab and rape white women. Just yesterday pic related a Muslim they poured in stabbed a white woman standing at public transit. This is her and her kid. He'll never see his Mom again thanks to liberals.
>>2867257In more good news, Commieflix failed to acquire WB.
What's the WDW shrubbery situation like these days? Haven't seen an update in far too long
>>2867257Nothing beats Harry Potter Land
>>2867760Can we get a man on the ground to give us a Ficus update?
>>2867692indians would love this! >until they bite into it and realize it’s chocolate
>>2867754I’ve never been to Wild Adventures but always see it advertised on TV and the radio. Is it worth visiting?
>>2867836I thought non-alcoholic beer was just for alcoholics
>>2867749gatorland is fuckin sick. for locals its probably not a huge deal seeing gators n shit but as a bong i fuckin loved it
>>2867867Based and gator pilled. I’m also a bong (Scot) and fucking loved Gatorland. It’s def a great way to spend the day. If you ever get up north, the Alligator Farm in St Augustine is also really good. It’s the only park in the world that has every single species of crocodilian in existence
>>2867871Wait, you’re telling me there’s /pol/tards at the alligator farm now?! Nowhere is safe!!!
>>2867867>>2867871Third bong who also had a great time at Gatorland
>>2867867>>2867871>>2867900>Bongs in GatorlandI love it lol. I like seeing regular people (especially foreigners) having fun at places like Gatorland. If you listened to Disney adults itt you'd swear there wasn't anything worth doing off property. Meanwhile you guys were having a blast at a classic Florida attraction.
Darkmoor-chads we literally cannot stop taking the fattest Ws in Theme Park History. We are on a generational run. Having the greatest dark ride of all time on a sub-10 minute wait was just the beginning.
the completely remodeled the sfot Mr. Freeze queue, freezchads we're so fucking safe
>>2867900Checked
Sorry for the delay, not much to report this timeThreadly list of Disney/Universal announcements and dates for your convenience:Florida:>Monsters Inc. at Studios opens 2027?>Dinoland EXTINCT>'Tropical Americas' replace it in 2027>Rafiki's Planet Watch partially closed as of Feb 23 for retheme to Bluey by summer 2026>Front Tire Land replaces Tom Sawyer Island circa 2028>Liberty Belle Steamship future unknown, intact as of late Nov 2025>Big Thunder Mountain (Florida) refurb finishes by 'Spring' 2026 w/ Rainbow Caverns>New Frozen ride animatronics NOW>Walt Disney robot coming to Carousel of Progress>Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin reopens Spring 2026 WITH MOAR SCREENS>Rock N' Rollercoaster Aerosmith CLOSED>Muppets retheme by Summer 2026>Volcano Bay closed Oct 26, 2026 thru Mar 24, 2027>Lost Continent demolition underway>Replacement for Poseidon's Fury to be built by Intamin>Jurassic Park River Adventure closed thru Nov 19 2026>RRR Replacement early 2027?California:>Fast and Furious Hollywood coaster "Summer 2026">Mr. Lincoln and Walt truly on rotation NOW>Mike & Sully closes 2026, becoming Avatar ride>OT characters in Cali Galaxy's EdgeBoth:>Soarin' Over 'Murica by Memorial Day>Millenium Falcon: Smuggler's Run rethemed to Mandalorian May 22, 2026Europe:>Frozen land and Rapunzel teacups, opens in Paris March 29, 2026>Lion King Splash Mountain water ride at Paris Studio park, late 2027 at the earliest>New scenes in Rivers of the Far West in 2026>Universal UK set for 2031>Disney-Adjacent Bluey Roller Coaster at Alton Towers Spring 2026Asia:>Multi-launch Spider-man coaster at Shanghai DL>Spider-Man Drop Tower at Hong Kong DL, Doc Ock>Wreck-It-Ralph omnirover shooter replaces Buzz Lightyear in Tokyo by Spring 2027>Tokyo Disneyland Space Mountain currently closed until 2027 for ground-up rebuild>Tokyo maybe razing Adventureland 2026 or later?Did I miss anything?
>>2867909>Did I miss anything?Nope you included all relevant information for the parks that actually matter. Thank you for your service. If anyone replies to this post after me with an angry tone they can go fuck themselves.
>>2867908>>2867904Sometimes there's just a "5 year old me would have thought this was the best thing ever... and he wasn't far off" element to these things.See also pic related. Never heard anyone who hated diggerland.
>>2867549I have a great idea for a replacement brand
>>2867909Why don't you ever include news from parks besides Disney and Universal? This thread was NEVER about them alone - it is /rcg/ + /tpg/ and always was.Start your own /dug/ thread if that's so difficult for you.
>>2867909Disney Adults get the rope. Why not share news about parks that ACTUAL human beings go to. See >>2867915
>>2867910Go fuck yourself your childless loser
Aviktas looks huge as fuck, does really well with the dense park setting and overlooking the beach. shame it got beaten for the record but it's still impressive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOpMbvxuqk0Rumours BPB is getting a family coaster to replace the autopia clone
>>2867553I look like this and say this
>>2867760It got brutally freezemogged by the coldmaxxing weather. everywhere just looks worse than usual
>>2867922Nauseamaxxers we are eating good
>>2867923What does your wife’s boyfriend think about everything?
>>2867257Six Flags without ghetto types taking over is sparkling: https://youtu.be/LeSSI-Hb7KU?si=rVce2ARxWs6ngYlA
He was a themepark youtuber, calm downhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHLk4NDguyE
>>2867263Rip adam
>>2867915>>2867917
>>2867944To be honest I'm still having a hard time with it. I'm so frikkin sad. I feel like he never got to have a family ect. All these assholes of the world are alive while a guy who brought joy is gone. I hate Reddit so much for bullying people I love.
>>2867944It bothers me so much that I can't go find his latest uploads. Like why tf is this affecting me so much ? I guess because all the other ones aren't as good as he was. I had no idea I liked this guy so much until I found out he died alone in his bed! I wish that Daphne was with him that night he should have stuck with her she loved him at one point.
First look inside Hollywood Drift (CA)'s station as well as the full train
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>>2868046a bit underwhelming, I hoped some props from supercharged would be decor. It's just West Coast Racers.
>>2868046>black orange blue orangewhy tho? That looks fucking stupid. They had so many cool cars to choose from and they picked two almost identical ones. The green Mitsubishi Eclipse would have looked good at the back.
>>2868049I would have liked to see Brian's Skyline and Sean's Evo
>>2868070The skyline is there it's just the blue version which kinda sucks.
>>2868071Yeah I meant to specify the one from 2F2FMaybe Orlando will get location exclusive cars or liveries
>>2868072I wouldnt hold your breath. They didnt bother to change the name despite the new coaster existing in new york so they could save money on signage and merch. There's a less than 1% chance
If Daddy D'Amaro does not give the monorails and stations a refurb during his tenure he will have achieved nothing
>>2868076Need to extend the skyliner to Disney Springs too
>>2868079Also it needs to go to SeaWorld and Universal so people can easily go in between parks
>>2868079>>2868080They could even expand it all the way to Busch Gardens with a stop off at that little dinosaur park off of 75. That would be sick as hell
You guys joke but imagine a monorail extension to MCO as a replacement of Magical Express.
>>2868083Would literally never ever happen for a million different reasons
Just got accepted for the Disney College program this fall at wdw. It's going to be weird since I'm 28
>>2868085How much per hour do you make after housing is taken out?
>>2868085Congrats. Fuck all the princesses for us
>>2868085I thought you had to be gay and brown to get accepted there?
>>2868086I already live in Orlando so I turned down the dorms. 18 dollars per hour
>>2868079>>2868080>>2868081>>2868084Just go to the florida politicians and make them.
>>2868092That's only in California, You'll scare th' locals.
>>2868097Florida politicians have one job and it's to suck boomer dick. That's all they do.
>>2868097>>2868099Brightline is currently being extended to Tampa, so you’d really just have to figure out how to get to and from the parks to the train stations. Knowing Brightline they’ll probably have free transportation
>>2868094That's not bad then. Why'd you do the college program instead of a normal application?>>2868098Being gay is a requirement to work at most theme parks
>>2868101> Being gay is a requirement to work at most theme parksNot 6 flags. I think the requirement there is to be the most ghetto, stoned, unhelpful, rude, nigger possible
>>2868101I heard that it's easier to get a job at disney through the college program then through the career website since almost every available job opening gets immediately taken
should I spend a week at cedar point in early may or late august?I have the all-season fast lane but I hear the park gets filled with school children on field trips in may, is that true? should I avoid that kind of riff-raff even though I have fast lane?I am well-acclimated to hot and humid weather, I'm okay going at anytime weather-wise.
So what do you think will replace Simpsons at Universal Studios Hollywood?
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>>2868177No way Disney sell them the licence. Not impossible that becomes the Wicked land. Whatever they replace it with, they need to replace their fucking projectors if they keep the ride system.
>>2868177I am yearning for something that will never happen.
>Six Flags Entertainment Corporation announced Wednesday it has entered into definitive agreements to sell seven of its amusement parks to EPR Properties for $331 million in cash, subject to customary purchase price adjustments.>The parks included in the transaction are Valleyfair in Minneapolis, Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Michigan’s Adventure in Grand Rapids, Schlitterbahn Waterpark Galveston in Galveston, Six Flags St. Louis, Six Flags Great Escape in Queensbury, and Six Flags La Ronde in Montreal. >EPR plans to partner with Enchanted Parks to operate the six domestic properties and La Ronde Operations, Inc., a company owned by Kieran Burke, to run Six Flags La Ronde. EPR will retain rights to use the Six Flags brand through the end of 2026, subject to certain requirements.https://www.investing.com/news/company-news/six-flags-to-sell-seven-parks-to-epr-for-331-million-93CH-4543965
>>2868215Was inevitable, one of the first things they mentioned following the merger was trimming the fat from the chain, which almost certainly meant selling off the lesser-performing parks. On one hand I'm hoping this means they'll receive larger and/or more consistent investments, but on the other hand I'm skeptical given how Darien Lake has gone to shit under Enchanted. I guess we'll see
>>2868215Man, hopefully that means La Ronde will get SOME shine back. It's my home park and it's sad to see how much it's fallen off, to the point of even getting rid of it's iconic log ride. At least Goliath is still cool.They do say not to expect any change for this year, but I'm still hopeful that it can't get any worse.Now the question is, which Six Flags park will be the worst now that La Ronde is no longer with them?
>Tom Sawyer Island and Riverboat got removed for a Seven Dwarves clone and ANOTHER flying carpet rideImagineering is fucking shit and HAS BEEN SHIT for a long time now.
>>2868274The real reason is the merch stores that will sell endless ursula shirts to the art-hoe landwhales that have made disney their entire personality
>>2868198It almost didhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century_Fox_World_(Dubai)
>>2868274I don't understand why Disney can't make more BTMRR tier coasters, instead of Slinky Dog/Seven Dwarves.
>>2867257I was wondering if anyone here has clips from inside the Ghibli park?? They're hard to find. I've been recently watching a lot of their movies.
What is the meta for riding Cosmic Rewind with minimal wait? Taking my sister Monday who has never been on it but the ride isn't even worth a 40 minute wait. Hotel guests will beat us to the punch, so is fighting the rope drop crowds even worth it?I'm betting it's going to be quite crowded that day but we'll just make do. Plenty at Epcot to do with minimal waits. Will have a big dinner at Biergarten.
>>2868085I thought you're supposed to be 18-20
>>2867549So passes another ride not based on Disney Plus. Why couldn't it have been the Beatles or Taylor Swift?
>>2867648I feel like a lot of parks keep an old Arrow around just for nostalgia - I will always ride Dahlonega Mine Train and Loch Ness Monster even though they're shit - but CP is packed with Arrows. They can't value all of them. I wish they'd replace Magnum with an Intamin hyper but I'm sure they won't because >muh history.
>>2867281Poseidon Entertainment just pointed out to me how retarded you have to be to get rid of a dinosaur area in a park that targets children.
>>2867757Wow anon that's crazy. Do you happen to have a link to a news article regarding this totally real event? I'm not getting anything when I search for that image. I'd like to donate to the gofundme for that kid.
>>2868215Go B&M go broke.
>>2868301Rope dropping will get you a 50-60 minute or so wait time. Here's the real secret: the line flies at parking closing, I guess because no more lightning lane splitting the flow. I got in in 35 minutes even though the posted time was 110 minutes. I disagree that it's not worth 40 minutes though, that coaster is fun as fuck.
>>286831615 years ago B&M were elite. What happened? Nemesis at Alton Towers got a retrack and is now unrideable in one moment with a huge rattle just before the end. On top of that they look stuck in the past offering dive machines with over the shoulder (dull) while the others are offering LSM with lap harnesses
>>2868320They were only elite in the 90s, a period so bad for coasters that shitty Arrows and Vekomas were popular because there wasn’t much else. B&M has changed it up very little since the 90s, so they’ve been left behind by the companies pushing things forward: Intamin, RMC, Mack, and even Vekoma now.Considering how bad their new ride quality is now, I would not be surprised to see them go the way of Arrow. Surely Seaworld is not going to keep buying from them after they delivered Penguin Trek.
>>2868322Zoomer moment
>>2868323I mean feel free to look it up, unc. >hyperfirst was 1989, B&M in 1999>floorless1999>dive1998>invert1992>stand-up1990>siting looper1976, first B&M 1993>flying1997, first B&M 2002Their only innovation 26 years into this century is the surf coaster, and the seats are the only innovative part of that coaster. They also made a wing coaster in 2011, copying an Intamin idea from 2007. They're just perfectly content to do the same thing 30 years in a row, and that's why they've been left behind.
>>2868325>I meanLow self-confidence indicator
>>2868164It’s probably an intamin theater attraction.
>>2868164Probably Pokemon
>>2868289>Possible archer land/attractionthat would have been cool. too bad it was going to be in the sand city of alkarakbad
>FIVE UNDERRATED attractions at universal Orlando>lists the horror makeup show and Spider-Man????They’re the reasons I go there. Also we’re 25+ yrs on and Disney still haven’t matched a ride as good as spiderman
>>2868346i think transformers is almost as good as Spiderman but everyone i see online dogs on the transformers ride
>>2868294Because it requires a divine spark that modern """educated""" cosmopolitan art-fags that constitute Disney Creative do not possess. Original Disney: autistic men who took their natural interest in things such as pirates, ghosts, or pulp jungle stories and were given a blank canvas with which to explore them. They had no real credentials beyond their output. They operated on feeling, gut, and moxie. They didnt filter every creative decision through 10 subsequent meetings where questions such as "what will an african american transgender wheelchair bound middle aged man think of this bathroom we designed?" they just fucking built shit Disney now: A faggot that went to a state school is aggressively overpaid and will soon be replaced with ChatGPT and no one will be able to tell
>>2868349If Spider-Man never existed, it'd be more respected, but as it stands, it's just kind of "Spider-Man but a bit worse."
>>2868325I keep seeing UNC thrown around on this thread. What does the University of North Carolina have to do with B&M, or rollercoasters in general? Do they have a good engineering program that a European rollercoaster construction company poaches talent from or what? I don’t understand
>>2868294Because theme parks have become the main generator of revenue as cable is dying and that means it is most beholden to shareholders wanting returns, when before it was a bit of a sustaining side thing allowed to do its own thing as long as it was not bleeding money with its budget.So now every ride must be “optimized”. It must all be family friendly Slinky rides that bring in the lightning lane, it must be themed to an existing IP for promotion and “connected synergy among media”. They are not allowed to breathe and put in an offbeat original theme or a long ride that will take out LL interest. Even the originals like Haunted Mansion or Pirates that have built in popularity need these live action films every few years to justify their existence to corporate for the “synergy”.That is the theme parks under Bob Iger, and seemingly Josh if he is thinking a Villians land cannot have a ride more thrilling than Seven Dwarves in Fantasyland
>>2868313It didn't happen. Chuds are like Jussie Smollett except their hoaxes are online instead of in real life.
>>2868310Fuck that Commie anything he says is dogshit. Hes a massive faggot.
>>2868310>Poseidon Entertainment Adam is dead while that guy lives
Expedition Everest is the last great iconic ride from imagineering it seems
>Disneyland Paris night show is removing the dronesThat's the thing that made it the best castle park show. I know they're adding a show with drones to Adventure World but that uses different ones so it's a weird choice.
>>2868385I’ll never forget when he visited a European theme park and went on a tirade about how racist, colonialist, xenophobic, problematic, and triggering it was. He talked more about that than the fucking rides. What is it about living in Orlando that turns everyone into such an insufferable faggit
>>2868394Defunctland is also like this. I'm surprised they haven't made videos about how exploitive and colonialist Disney's Animal kingdom is for theming itself around Africa
>>2868407Expedition Theme Park and Andrew Platt are the least pozzed theme park jewtoobers I’m aware of. ETP is great too bc he makes full documentaries about rides/ parks etc etc instead of just walking around and giving review like most of them
>>2868391Mystic Manor
>for their latest video, timtracker spent over $800 on top level fastpass at disney world for one park for one day for two peopleI hate people who play the "What would Walt think?" game but seriously what the hell. Don't need to preach to the choir ranting about LL but what will it take for Disney to shift away from it? The value proposition at WDW particularly is just constantly nosediving and honestly it's delusional to think Josh will make a dent in the iceberg. Isn't the economy in the gutter right now? How are people affording all this?
>>2868440I just go to a regional park near me
>>2868440For what people pay for one day at Disney I could spend two weeks on a beach in SE Asia in a 5 star hotel
>>2868442Yeah but then youre in southeast asia
>>2868443Or South America. Or twice as long in Africa
>>2868354Apparently all the talented Disney people left for Universal.
>>2868368That’s UNC not unc
>>2868440Check the attendance. It’s still 15% below what it was in 2015-2019. They’ve made up for that with higher prices but their goodwill is shot.
>>2868450>It’s still 15% below what it was in 2015-2019Really doesn't feel like that when you're in the parks, admittedly I wasn't going often around that time.
Welcome to /dbg/ - Disney Bitching General>Ohhhh Disney sucks so bad now. Boo hooWhy not just stop going?>I CANT JUST NOT GOThen don't complain. Complaining online won't change shit
>>2868449I fail to see the difference other than capitalization. I mean, it’s a good school but I don’t understand the meme why everyone is talking about it. >t. Went to Duke
>>2868448Disney still has a lead on universal and I'm saying this as the designated /tpg/ universal simp. Disney's problem is they are too hamstrung in corporate thinking. They have amazing ideas and amazing tech and it just never materializes in the way it should due to shit planning and executive meddling. See: Galaxy's Edge
>>2868440That $400 LL pass is the most retarded scam ever Getting the regular pass helps cuts a few hours, but you can get close to everything without and get pretty much everything with. Even if you get the couple additional single ride passes that is not breaking the bank, but the $400 pass for one ride on everything is retarded when it is 10x more than the regular with very little extra benefit
>>2868472Liberals guy is the fat one getting reflected by the glass
>>2868310>Poseidon Entertainmentkill yourself
>>2868472You really captured the spirit of the gen. I updated it a bit to emphasize the posting experience
I hope they nuke this general. Once the Disney adults came prancing in it really went to hell
>>2868385>>2868386>>2868394He seems pretty spot on about Disney other than the frontier area being >muh genocide, which he hardly mentions.
>>2868456Capitalization changes the meaning of words
>>2868457Maybe overall but are you really suggesting Disney’s offerings in the last 8 years are better than Universal’s in the same period?
>>2868310I’m assuming based on his name that Poseidon’s fury is his favorite attraction, in which case I’m glad it’s gone
>>2868407>>2868394I don't know. Yea Defunctland was also like this. A lot of people don't realize that there are two types of Disney haters. The old Disney haters were all liberals who hated the wholesome, all American attitudes of Walt Disney's Park. They couldn't stand that there was a recreational park for families to have fun where employees had no tattoos and weird piercings and the men had short hair and were very clean cut looking. The abhor it when Americans and children are having joy.
>>2868476I'd rather be fat than promoting Poseidon Entertainment.
>>2868443They'll never understand this feeling because its not just a Japanese obsession anymore. Its about promoting every Asian shithole out there. They don't understand how comfy specifically our own American white culture is.
>>2867257What is y'alls favorite pin? I sold all mine a while ago. I was really down and out. I most did Mickey and Donald pins.
>>2868454>stop complaining about my beloved disneyquality has dropped significantly in the last 20 years. deal with it.
>>2868510>>2868442>>2868443SE Asia is the brainless "find myself" tourist destination nowadays. I dont get the appeal when beautiful beaches and winter sun can be found much closer to europe
Some interesting news about the new Enchanted Parks>Six Flags St Louis is being considered the flagship park for the new chain>Originally was not part of the sale but they pushed to have it included>Wants to invest in new attractions frequently, said it was underperforming due to lack of investment by Six Flags >Mid-America by Enchanted Parks is the current tentative name for the park starting 2027https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/business/article_636bf6f9-fa77-4197-98f9-f18a80436291.html
>>2868513>quality has dropped significantly in the last 20 years. deal with it.People have been complaining about it online for longer than that. Hasn't changed anything.
>>2868551>Wants to invest in new attractions frequently, said it was underperforming due to lack of investment by Six FlagsI looked at what exactly EPR is, they seem to be a big company with a diversified portfolio of entertainment options (Topgolf, movie theaters, and other venues). Looks like they're getting into the theme park sector with this purchase, and acquiring all those parks for $330 million is a steal. Good luck to them but I think they'll find it's more challenging to get people in the front gate than they think. While it's true they didn't get much investment under CF/SF, just adding new rides alone and cutting everything else was the strategic mistake SF made. I hope the new managers consider rounding their parks out with more security, more theming and landscaping, bigger ride crews, and better in-park entertainment options. Nearly all of these parks are in the central US, so perhaps that will offer them an advantage they can capitalize on.>Mid-America by Enchanted Parks is the current tentative name for the park starting 2027Too long and they really need to drop "Mid" from the name.
>>2868553So?
>>2868554I went to SFSL on a Sunday last year and it was absolutely slammed. If they’ll do that for a shitty park I’m sure they’ll come up once it gets some care and new rides.
>>2868551Also forgot a very interesting reveal>They are in talks with Warner Bros for licensing IPs for the St Louis park, maybe the whole chain. Unclear if the sale allows them to negotiate for continued usage of DC/Looney Tunes, if only for a temporary period to stopgap changes, or if they are going for different IPs that are not used in parks (such as Hanna Barbera, Wizard of Oz, horror themes for Halloween, etc)>>2868554EPR will own the land and is leasing to Enchanted Parks as operator. They get paid the leasing fee and some income. These parks will get more direct focus now so hopefully they can clean up the operations and make them clean parks. Most importantly, they only need to profit, there is no need for consistent quarterly profit gains to make the stock go up like in Six Flags>Too long and they really need to drop "Mid" from the name. The real theme park name would be Mid-America. That goes back to its original name Six Flags over Mid-America. The unfortunate part is Mid-America would not be a bad name, if “Mid” did not get a new connotation in the 2020s
>>2868555Wasted trips>>2868556Worlds of Fun is the better park between the two imo. Not saying SFSL was bad though.
>>2868564I’ll find out later this year, but SFSL’s lineup looks much better.
>>2868551I’ve never been there but I drove past it on the way to Branson. Looked like a good location with the Ozark hills and far enough away from the city to have a problem with black riff raff. I still think it would need a lot of work to increase attendance… the dwindling population would need it to be a destination to draw people to drive longer to visit (like SDC) but I don’t really see that happening here. I dont think most of these parks will be around in 10 years. This Ureka area used to have more touristy things and stores that had all closed in recent years
>>2867640>Six Flags has far bigger fish to fry right now before more Cedar additions.Cedar Point is the crown jewel of the chain. It will always get additions. The amount of butt hurt over Sirens Curse going there was absurd. It’s Cedar fucking Point, the only real destination park they have with multiple resorts and and sports complex and a beach. In the middle of nowhere, Ohio yet it gets 4 million visitors a season. The other parks will be fine now that it’s mostly just all major parks. The SF parks need work and will get it but Cedar Point still gonna get additions
>>2868569I get it, just boils down to personal preferences. If you're used to medium/large parks, SFSL will probably seem better. The problem I had with Six Flags St. Louis was that it came with Six Flags problems: Closed rides, single train operations, less than stellar operations although they weren't as bad as other SF parks. Despite being one of Cedar Fair's smallest parks, WoF was well landscaped, clean, and well run. WoF did some single train bullshit but they would actually put 2 trains once the line got out of the station, something Six Flags seldom did.WoF has fewer coasters than SFSL, but both parks have a number of who cares/one-and-done coasters, e.g. boomerangs, spinners, and family/kids coasters. I'll take Patriot and Mamba over Mr. Freeze and Batman. SFSL's 3 woodies easily beat WoF's, although Prowler is my favorite wooden coaster. Neither park has a real stand out attraction unfortunately.>>2868572I can see KC growing at a modest rate while St. Louis stagnates. Seems like KC has more going on but that's just my guess.
>>2868575Given the operating losses, the ceo resigned and most of the board resigned due to 2025’s performance I do not think that giving Cedar Point all the additions and wanting those 4 million Ohioans to offset all the other parks becoming low tier minnows getting cuts everywhere was a good strategy
Siren's Curse really should have gone to another park in the system.
>>2868580It’s not just Ohioans though. Michigan and Indiana and also some western Pennsylvanians. And a few people from farther away. People in SE Michigan go there all the time and have never been to Michigan’s Adventure which is farther away. I agree that Cedar Point shouldn’t carry the chain and it won’t, but they still need to keep giving it additions because it’s a destination park. Now that they got rid of almost all the small parks (except for the couple EPR parks they still manage) I think they’ll do what they did to Carowinds and Kings Island and Canada’s Wonderland to the other SF parks since they’re all big parks that have been run poorly for too long. >>2868583Well too bad so sad, it didn’t. Plus many of the parks people said it should go to were literally the garbage-tier parks that the just got rid of. That would have been a fucking waste. Can you imagine if they put it at SomaliFair only to sell it to EPR/Enchanted? Would have been such a waste
>>2868601>Well if you look at the situation through my arbitrary requirements, I'm right!Not an argument.
>>2868583You guys need to stop looking at it like a chain that should balance investments around the chain. That’s not how it works. Post merger the entire chain is carried by Cedar Point, Kings Island, Knott’s and Canada’s Wonderland. Knott’s doesn’t have a lot of space and has to go through permit approval hell to build anything but those parks are where the money is going to be mostly spent (and Magic Mountain)
>>2868605Looking forward to the next giga dive showing up at Cedar Point
>>2868601Cedar Point is obviously going to get consistent attractions lol, not all of them have to be big attractions they can get flats and kiddie rides What I am saying is they just got two major coasters and are at the top of the game & in a monopoly for the market, they do not need additions when the rest of the chain is struggling The real retarded move imo was not even giving Cedar Point Siren’s Curse, it was giving them the same year TTD came back. What a waste to not give them separate time to hype up interest then drop the other a few years later
>>2868579I didn’t experience any of that, it was just crowded. I thought the ops were good. I still remember the girl on American Eagle making cute rhymes before dispatching (she’s red she’s blue she goes 62…”. I found Mr. Freeze to be elite, but I might be in the minority there. Even though I didn’t ride it Catwoman Whip stands out to me. There are only a few like it on the continent.Patriot just looks like a batclone and Mamba I heard is a clone of Steel Force, which I wasn’t impressed with, but I only rode it once. Looking forward to Prowler though.
>>2868608They gave it to Cedar Point because of the TT2 situation and also because it’s Cedar Point. Otherwise it should only have gone to a park that deserved it like KI. Not a garbage park that they want out of the portfolio like a lot of thoosies wanted. Cedar Point should have gotten a larger version like that Saudi Arabia tilt with 3 trains but it’s still pretty great and now the want to clone it at other parks anyways which should be cheap
>>2868605>Post merger the entire chain is carried by Cedar Point, Kings Island, Knott’s and Canada’s WonderlandThat Magic Mountain and Great Adventure are not there (or really any legacy Six Flags parks) shows how poorly managed they were under the old Six Flags but also how the new Six Flags is not doing a great job with them With Great Adventure in particular I am confident the bulk of the hundreds of millions of dollars of losses for the entire chain the last 4 quarters are from Great Adventure and how the new company managed and strategized handling that park
>>2868611Great Adventure’s attendance has been declining for years and it was already dead on days it should be busy two years before the merger. Removing Ka sucks but it had low ridership and high maintenance. The park was too over built for the attendance it was getting. There is also no good reason why the attendance should have collapsed over the years. They fucked up and conceded the region to Hershey. But I’m optimistic there is a lot of opportunity for growth here. They did re-do restaurants and kept rides that were always closed like Houdini open last year. Flash shouldn’t have gone here either but it’s pretty great. Spinda Ka will be good. GAdv will be fine
>>2868609>Patriot just looks like a batclone Night and day difference. Patriot isn't going to be anyone's favorite invert but it's more enjoyable because it has less intense moments between the inversions to give riders a little break. BTR is just too much too quickly for me now, but when I was younger they weren't anything special compared to custom inverts of the day (Raptor, Montu, Top Gun, Dueling Dragons, etc.)>and Mamba I heard is a clone of Steel ForceCedar Fair's Morgan hypers are all similar and they're patterned after Magnum, but they're not clones. I liked Mamba and I'd take it over most B&M hypers since they reduced the trimming action in the block brake and the bunny hills have some punch to them. I wish the company would consider buying different trains that are more open when they're due for replacement, but they're still not bad as-is.>>2868611It's unreal how much the company de-prioritized Magic Mountain even before the merger. They were positioning it to beat Cedar Point for the number of coasters (and they did for a while) - then they just gave up. I suspect some of that is throwing in the towel with regard to California's red tape. If the company isn't showbiz or tech, they really don't give a fuck if you go out of business.
>>2868613I just call all inverts batclones because I don’t find any of them distinctive except Alpengeist.
>>2868511This lil nigga. Child me traded some random ass Winnie the Pooh pin to another kid in exchange for this. Turns out, it was pretty rare and people would constantly try to trade me for it. They'd offer me multiple pins, but thankfully, young me wasn't swayed, and I still have him.
Imagineering is fucking hilarious. They will build out a fully operational prototype for a Bantha ride take a photo of it, then kill the project They probably spend more money on failed prototypes than other parks spend on entire expansions
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>>2868617>8 rider vehicle>animatronic character people mover How did this even make it to the concept art stage?
The people who think Disney is only doing all the shit they do for money are missing one thing: Disney doesn’t even make money. If you had invested $100 in Disney stock on July 20, 2015 and reinvested all dividends, you would now have $93 in stock. So it can’t be about money. What is it about then? Is /pol/ right and Jewish subversion is the real goal?
>>2868612Great Adventure was fine and competing pre-Covid, it had always been in the top 20 for the US (including all the resort parks) and was pretty much level with Hersheypark. This is despite mismanagement, because it had cool rides in one of the best areas for a seasonal park ever. Underperformed but still did numbers. Post-Covid it declined in attendance because they increased the price and the quality simply sucks. Bad employees, bad food, bad maintenance, bad strategy, bad management, high prices, requiring lockers they make you pay for, and of course bad clientele. Hershey beat them at all of that. Really it has always been used (along with Magic Mountain) as the piggy bank to fund the rest of the failing chain so did not get proper funding past 2007.The thing was the ride lineup was not the problem, the problem is the quality sucked. They could just invested to get quality of operations up to par to bring those numbers back. Instead Cedar Fair decides the solution is to demolish a quarter of the park and their only reason to go ride to reduce costs and keep the same quality because the location means they will still come and fund the rest of the company. Then acts shocked when no one comes in 2025 and goes to Hershey, and then cuts events further. A lot of it was Six Flags mismanagement but their issues could have been resolved, Cedar Fair caused where it is now. At this point I don’t think they can stop this death spiral they caused which turned off the entire region.
>>286862220-25 years ago Great Adventure was, for a while, either the highest grossing or most attended park in the Six Flags system (I don't remember which but yes it was beating out Great America and even Magic Mountain, which together were the "Big 3" SF parks). Hersheypark was clearly the lesser of the two. How time changes things, I didn't foresee a day when Hershey would be serious competition for Great Adventure let alone surpassing it to become the dominant park in that region.>The thing was the ride lineup was not the problem, the problem is the quality sucked.That's what managers and executives struggle with because it's so intangible and means so many different things to guests. You can't just buy it. Good operations and cordial staff are built over time. And even if executives see it they have to convince shareholders to buy into their plan and even if they do, after 3 quarters of subpar returns and they'll be calling for a management shakeup. Next CEO comes in and starts cutting... Leaving them right back at square one.Also, after the 1998 sale, Six Flags had mostly ineffective leaders. Story, Burke, Shapiro, and the rest, they were all just axe men with no real vision.
>>2868622GAdv used to have almost 4 million guests and for the past several years (PRE-merger) its best less than half that. Nothing to do with the merger. It’s a fantastic park even in its current state and they need to figure that shit out. Also Ka sucked when compared to El Toro
>>2868638El Toro is too based to attract GPs though. Pure thoosie coaster.
>>2868617Research & Development is a way to reduce your tax bill. This is a similar thing to what another anon said earlier in thread. Imagineering/Disney scrap projects that have low capacity. I mean who cares, its better than nothing if youre this far into it
>>2868617Meanwhile their big experiments that actually go to production: A "swinging" coaster where you can't even tell it swings because the layout is so short and does exactly nothing to exaggerate the swinging.
Skydance are considering replacing one of their studio lots with a theme park. Would be a shame if the WB studio went as I had a great time at the tour but it's clear they're just struggling to use it, only a tiny number of soundstages/backlots were in use
>Was scared of Splash mountain as a kid so I only rode it a handful of times ever>was scared of rock n rollercoaster so never rode itIf this trend continues, Tower of Terror is the next major thrill ride to close. Sorry guys.
>>2868649My personal favorite are the walking animatronics that make one appearance to boost shareholder interest, then get archived forever. The Imagineering storage closet should itself be an attraction at this point.
>>2868702I imagine this thing is rotting away on a shelf in Josh D'amaro's new mansion
>>2868702>>2868703how have you guys not figured out that disney is a wing of the military industrial complex used to launder money into R&D? wait until that bunny is stomping on your head because you broke curfew
>>2868708That's exactly how I want to die.
>>2868700How much of an effeminate woman can you possibly be
>>2868625Hersheypark was even lesser than Dorney Park 25 years ago. Speaking of Dorney I’m glad they didn’t sell it off. I like that park plus it’s historical and has a great flat collection. Six Flags is only Six Flags in name only, the company is Cedar Fair with the Six Flags name and the few SF execs who stayed on have mostly left. I kinda wish the merger never happened but now that they dropped most of the small parks, I’m optimistic. Most of these other SF parks are big parks that have been ran poorly for far too long. Give them the KI/Carowinds/Canada’s Wonderland treatment and in 5-10 years they’ll be fine. Great Adventure will probably benefit from the region pass that includes Dorney and KD. I would like to think parks like Great Adventure and MM will for sure increase their attendance under competent leadership
>>2868702Hey now, I'm sure the Olaf at Paris will be used for hours before it goes into permanent storage!
It is a fun exercise to imagine in some sort of modern US civil war scenario what locations and assets on Disney World would be valuable for military purposes. >North Of course, target #1 would be the energy plant, monorail station, nearby essentials in the backstage of Magic Kingdom. The monorails would not be good for transporting personnel since anything on tracks is an easy target to enemies but since they can be automated they could feed supplies to the southern front of battle. For transporting personnel in this region you would grab any boats you can find, even the ferryboats. >BattlefrontsTTC down to the Speedway and Bus depot with another front on the East where Southern soldiers come up the river from down near Port Orleans coming up to Fort Wilderness trying to bypass TTC and attack the Northern base of operations, but North has the upper hand on water and can easily blockade >SouthSouthern base of operations would be in Disney springs due to I-4 accessibility but with an extensive base at Epcot due to its accessibility to most everywhere else on property. They could grab the Mickey solar farm for themselves but it is dangerously close to the front lines and likely to get taken out of play. It is possible the veterinarian sections of Animal Kingdom may have useful medicines or tranquilizers but realistically that probably wouldn't contribute much. Considered Living with the Land's food supply but similarly I don't know if it makes much of a dent in the daily needs. The skyliner is practically useless, as a basic IED drone could derail a pylon. The south struggles with more land to defend but worse access to the different areas to transport equipment and troops.South would hopefully have a bunch of buses that were left hanging around. If there happened to be a monorail or two left at Epcot station they could attempt to rig one with explosives and remotely take out TTC at night. I don't see the South winning but if you have anything to add, shoot
>>2868727This is the type of post I want to see from this general. Autism-sama, I kneel.
>>2868638That is what I am getting at. The ride lineup was there, prior results were there, the dip in attendance was only due to absolute shit quality experience under Six Flags the last half decade. All the park needed post merger was Cedar Fair to come in and slowly run it like a Cedar Fair park and it would rebound back after a few seasons Cedar Fair screwed itself so hard with the 2024 removals and the events cancellations of 2025 that now I’m not sure it will ever rebound even if it cleans up, the cost cutting was the worse possible move to do when people were at the end of their tolerance and the rival park that has its act together is right there. The spinner looking inferior to Ka won’t help them.
>>2868742I think they’ll be fine. Hershey’s better but GAdv is still a good park even after the removals. Hershey is still 2.5 hours from GAdv and if you have to contend with Philly rush hour it will take even longer. But Hershey has hotels and is a destination park with overnight stays while GAdv is not (except the overpriced limited glamping sites). Spinda Ka will probably be more GP-friendly than Ka and the entrance will be easier to get to. They sent out a survey about the Christmas even coming back, I think it will be back. The cost cutting was chain-wide… hopefully the worst of it is over. Still not as bad as “United” Parks cost cutting to all their parks that aren’t Discovery Cove. Give it 5 years, I think it will be fine. I enjoyed my visit last year
2 weeks until my Carowinds-BGW-KD-Dollywood road trip.
>>2868708>Mr. President, the conflict with Iran isn't going as smoothly as we planned.>Deploy baby Groot.
What was the last B&M that didn’t have quality issues? Of their recent ones I’ve ridden Penguin Trek, Iron Menace, Wrath and Phoenix and they all the rattle.
>>2868770Try not being a little pussy
>>2868617>They probably spend more money on failed prototypes than other parks spend on entire expansionsThey spend more on failed prototypes than the worth of entire other parks Even for finished rides, Guardians coaster cost about 170 million more then the entire sale price of the Enchanted Parks
>>2868771They’re gonna get Arrowed if they can’t figure it out bro.
>>2868777I don't care about that. I want zoomers to stop being wimps about a little vibration.
>>2868778The point is that B&M isn’t trying to create a vibrating roller coaster. They’re trying to create a smooth roller coaster (as they’re known for) and failing. They’re incapable of doing what they want to do. Meanwhile their competitors are putting out glass smooth rides with interesting features. They look very much like 90s Arrow right now.
>>2868770Pipeline or the family wing coasters maybe, I think people started talking about quality issues with their 2024 coasters. Then again I don't remember Phoenix Rising being very rough.
>>2868782No one except zoomer enthusiasts complains about being shaken a little bit on a roller coaster. Sounds like you are just having a circlejerk. Enjoy
>>2868611Wasn't Great America one of the best-managed and best-performing out of the legacy SF parks?
>$110 oil Goodbye theme parks lol
>2868785I’m not interested in your generational angst sorry.
>>2868793Then stop being a bitch about vibration on a roller coaster. It's that simple
It's not gen-z bitching about rattle on coasters. It's the overweight gen-Xers that havent yet come to terms with being 50
>>2868795Just stop being a bitch dude.
>>2868796Shut the fuck up thoosie
>>2868771Now we know Tampa autist and B&M apologist are the same person. Likely because BGT has lots of B&Ms, so when you insult B&M, you’re implicitly insulting BGT, from which Tampa autist derives his self confidence.
>>2868799You don't have to be a bitch. You chose to be.>Wahhh I feel vibration onboard a moving objectSad!
>>2868727What about in the event of a zombie outbreak? what tactical value would wdw have?
>>2868804t. Tampa autist
>>2868812I haven't mentioned Tampa at all in this conversation. You have, more than once. Curious
>>2868810Spaceship Earth may be the most heavily fortified zombie bunker ever made in world history
>>2868824>t. tampa autist
>>2868727>>2868810>>2868828>zombiesHang that one up, uncs
>>2868828What if it was a Crossed outbreak?
>>2868833Shut the fuck up. >>2868835Disney would be a scene of mass rape the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Aztec Empire and Nanjing Massacre
>>2868829>>2868836>t. tampa autist
>>2868810WDW might be the best place to be for a zombie outbreakThey will not have a ticket to get in so they will turn 360 and walk away
So stardust racers is getting some fairly massive work done but they don't seem to actually be doing any reprofiling.Microfracture problems?
>>2868620> Is /pol/ right and Jewish subversion is the real goal?Do poojeets shit in the street?
>>2868710Lame. I want to be crushed to death between Xenia Onatopp’s thighs
>>2868824TOTAL TAMPA DEATH
>>2868893>Miami>red
>>2868896Yeah the map is old. The only parts of FL still blue are Tallanasty and Orlando due to all the fags and ricans there
>>2868898I think it has something to do with the education system in Orlando and the proximity to Disney, but literally every single man I’ve met from there was a little onions boy. They’re the anti-Florida man
>>2868893>t. Tampa autist
This general has one rule which is talk about theme parks and rollercoasters and you fags cannot manage
>>2868914My favourite rollercoaster in the entire world is Montu, followed by Dueling Dragons, and then Cheetah Hunt >honorable mention for Kumba night rides
>>2868916It’s giving rarely leaves Florida.
>>2868918I’ve been to over 60 countries but sadly have never visited a theme park outside of Florida. I really want to though. For some reason trips and theme parks never really align. Do some people travel just to go to theme parks?
>>2868919Dam girl. And yes I have 8 different vacations planned out which will center around parks:>Orlando>Los Angeles>Missouri and Texas>Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia>Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ontario>UK>France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany>Spain and Saudi Arabia
>>2868916>followed by Dueling DragonsThat might be the only demolished coaster I really miss
>>2868921Nice! That’s a good itinerary fren. My top theme parks I want to visit outside of FL are Silver Dollar City and Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
>>2868923Oh and of course Cedar Point
>>2868921Hoping to do eftelling late autumn, small chance I'll also do Disneyland Paris
>cedar point>blackpool>busch gardensplease everyone. stop being off topic. disney/universal = good, everything else = bad
>>2868926>t.
>>2868923>>2868924AND OF COURSE Dollywood and Busch Gardens Williamsburg… how could I be so stupid to forget
>>2868928I've heard BGW is much better than BGT, what do anons who've been to both think? Probably completely true for the last 10 years.Dollywood is overrated to me. It's good but still lacking in the coaster & ride department. Landscaping and operations makes up for that I suppose.
>>2868921Are you actually going to do this? If so, that’s fucking epic.
>>2868923For me it's>Dollywood>SFMM>SFGAm>Knott's Berry Farm>Toyko DisneySea>Energylandia>Europa Park>EftelingI'm from the Mid-Atlantic and am kind of a theme park noob so I haven't really been to many parks outside of the region. Blessed to live within driving distance of BGW and Hershey, both of which are know for being some of the best non-Disney/Universal ones in the country. Have also been to SFA (rip) Dorney, Kings Dominion and SFGAdv. Outside of the region I have visited Cedar Point and Kings Island, thoroughly enjoyed both and plan on going back to CP hopefully in May or June
>>2868933Forgot to add Fuji-Q Highland as well my bad
>>2868933Ever thought about hitting Carowinds?
>>2868935Shit, should've mentioned that one as well. Yeah definitely, especially for Fury of course
>>2868931BGW slaughters BGT in theming, pic related. It's not even about Europe being better than Africa. BGT simply does not give a fuck about Africa. I don't care about animals but I imagine BGT is better there. They have a Serengeti. Coasters, Iron Gwazi is considered one of the best coasters in the world, but for me personally I have it on par with Apollo's Chariot and Pantheon. I don't think BGT has much of value beyond IG. Cheetah Hunt and Cobra's Curse are kind of mid and the rest are similar to rides you can find elsewhere. BGW has Verbolten, which is pretty unique, and Alpengeist, which is my favorite invert because of the way it interacts with the landforms. There's also Darkoaster which I didn't ride because it was down.BGW is considered to be one of the country's most naturally beautiful parks. The entire thing is in a forest and close to a bay, which you overlook from its dive coaster, Griffon. BGT has a very jewish locker policy for IG. Operations are better at BGW. BGT has probably the worst maintenance department in the country with frequent ride closures.
>>2868937Yep. I quit my job so Europe will have to wait until next year, but I'm going to use my free time to hit just about everywhere I haven't been to east of Denver. It'll actually be surprisingly cheap thanks to Six Flags and United basically giving away annual passes, which I paid for last year. This will be less around $4,500.
>>2868923>Blackpool Pleasure Beachwhat is it with yanks and wanting to go pleasure beach? i havent been for years and it was run down back then, i cant imagine its gotten any better. maybe i should go back soon
>>2868937The reason for this is BGT was originally themed around Colonial Africa which obviously doesn't fly in 2026. Africa also isn't exactly a cultural powerhouse so outside of the brief colonial history, the majority of their history is tribal shit that people would freak out about being portrayed even with a romanticized historical white-washing. It's just drum circles, war masks, and warnings about trickster spirits. They should just drop the African theming altogether and theme it to animals or biomes. They kind of already have done this with turning Timbuktu into Pantopia (which is like colorful Wakanda if you haven't been).
>>2868937>BGT has a very Jewish locker policy for IG.They fixed this btw. The IG lockers are free now
>>2868939I’m actually a Scot ex-pat turned Floridaman, but I’ve heard great things (not about Blackpool but BPB). It’s totally different from anything else available. Please report back if you go
>>2868939Don’t they have a nice woodie collection?
>>2868940Fucking kek. And they basically already have switched to animal theming. Sheikra is an animal. Tigris is an Asian river but it’s tiger themed, and tigers are not related to animals. Cheetah is an animal. Cobra is an animal.
>>2868941I heard that was a glitch. Did they keep them free permanently?
>>2868938meant for >>2868931
>>2868937meant for >>2868930
>>2868944It's a crime that they got rid of the Wooden Wild mouse but they've still got 3 solid historical woodies
>>2868938What is in Birmingham? If you head to Atlanta you can hit Six Flags and Fun Spot.
>>2868945They kind of fucked themselves with the colony theming and that's a large part of why the park feels soulless now. The animal heads in the Zagora Cafe for example had to be taken out and nothing of substance replaced it so it's just a big blank wall. Cant have pith helmet adventure be a theme like the African Queen ride cause pith helmet adventure is "white supremacy", etc etc. Should have themed it to America or like Birds or some shit.
>>2868954Found the pic I was looking for. Tidal Wave used to be just a straight up river cruise through an African village without the flume part similar to Jungle Cruise. The guide on board would talk about life as a native in Africa. It was deemed boring so they retrofit a flume ride onto it that inexplicably took you through an abandoned village on the congo river before an olmec head cursed the vehicle and threw you over a waterfall Probably would still be around if the 2008 financial crisis never happened
>>2868951My home. I’m going to Six Flags and Fun Spot soon but that’s more of a day trip than a vacation.
>>2868954I don’t buy that Africa has no culture they can use. They have no problem using fake culture so why not find some real culture? Just scroll through African dictionaries and find a suitable word that means “roar”, don’t tell people that’s what kumba means. I don’t think leftists would be a problem if it’s done respectfully.
>one nigga suggests we actually talk about theme parks and roller coaster>30 posts in 2 hoursWhy didn’t we try this before?
>Legoland Windsor is 30 years old this year>I went shortly after it openedIf theme parks could stop making me feel old that would be nice
>>2868939>>2868942>>2868944its got an insane amount of charm. That something like Big Dipper is still open is amazing. Feels dangerous every ride (obviously isnt). The Big One is one of those coasters you laugh all the way round tooPeople overrate Icon though. Its not the best coaster in Britain. Its a good modern coaster, thats about it.
>>2868939There is a nostalgia for boardwalk amusement parks, and Blackpool is this on steroids plus many classic attractions intact
Speaking of the UK, Hyperia came and went quickly. It looks good except for the short duration, which is probably what hurts it the most.
>>2868939>what is it with yanks and wanting to go pleasure beach?In the 90s when Disovery Channel and TLC started making programs based on thrill rides, Blackpool was featured a lot because of The Big One. If they weren't featuring Blackpool then they would show something at Alton Towers, in particular Nemesis when it was also new. Apparently there was a big rivalry between the two parks then, don't know if that's the case now.
>>2868970it needed 30 more seconds and would be top 10 in the world. The drop is probably one of the best Ive done.>came and went quicklytell people in Britain this. 5 minutes after rope drop it has a 60+ minute queue until the park shuts. Express pass is £20 each time. The best thing about the ride is it makes the other good rides less busy the first 90 minutes of the day
>>2868954I agree but I think your view is a bit outdated. People would love if they went whole hog again back into colonial theming, esp as so many foreign tourists now visit that actually like colonialism, like Brazilians. If they were smart they would embrace the theming and go full Rhodesia
>>2868955I’ll never forget the angry African that popped out of one of the huts with a fucking machete and started yelling and threatening people. One of my formative memories for some reason, lol. Haven’t relaxed since
>>2868974Operation Eland would make a fine shooting gallery ride.
>>2868975Please tell me it’s on youtube
>>2868974I dont think the Taxidermy would go over well in a post-Blackfish world. I personally love the colonial African aesthetic and never really associated it with racism (unless you think civilizing an untamed continent is racism which I'm assuming leftards do). There was a noticeable shift after the park went private equity in the naming conventions of the coasters. Kumba, Montu, and SheiKra are all single African words describing something about the ride. Cheetah Hunt was the first addition post-acquisition and always stood out to me as a moment of transition due to how differently it rolls off the tongue and how it describes the ride.
>>2868980A fun thing to do is to go to youtube and type in [Park Name] Family Vacation [Year]. There's hundreds of videos of old VHS camcorder footage from dads in the 80s and 90s that recorded their family vacations. The videos have less than 1000 views and are basically a time capsule. You can find extremely rare footage of dark ride elements that operated for maybe a year before being shut off forever. You can see animatronic systems operating in their physical prime. You can also see direct observable proof of America's cultural and demographic decline but I digress. The VHS camcorders usually have pretty shit low-light visibility which sucks, but there's a whole goldmine out there of rare footage sitting on youtube waiting to be found. Vacation dads were theme park archivists and had no ideaWe should start mining these and post rare pulls. Here's the dolphin show at BGT before they moved them over to seaworld and turned the arena into a 4D theater. https://youtu.be/FK5-vGtqR6w
>>2868973>tell people in Britain thisI'm sure it gets a line since it's one of that country's few hypers, but it didn't move the needle much in the enthusiast world.>>2868974>>2868982>I dont think the Taxidermy would go over wellNobody gives a shit irl
>>2868984It’s top 40 in golden ticket awards and votecoasters, fuck you mean
>>2868983>go to youtube and type in [Park Name] Family Vacation [Year]I do this, it's fun. Think I've seen all of them from my home park by now though.
>>2868984>Nobody gives a shit irlYou dramatically underestimate the power of angry terminally-offended women and soys who love nothing more than to call customer service Also the HR-brained corporate consultants that justify their existence by sanitizing everything potentially or hypothetically offensive to someone someplace in the world at any time
>>2868985>golden ticket awardsLooks like pay to play>and votecoastersNever heard of itI guess when there are only two hypers in the country you can't be picky
>>2868988Sea World still has orcas
>>2868991Only because they cant return them to the wild without them immediately dying. They ended their orca breeding program and once the animals live out their life expectancy and die of natural causes that's it. No more Shamu
>>2868992So Sea World still has orcas. Thank you
>>2868993Very retarded attempt at goal-post moving. Would you rather they pull the orcas out of the water and gut them like a Japanese fisherman? They cant move them anywhere. They cant return them to the wild. They have responded to blackfish by ending the breeding program and setting a permanent end-date for orcas at seaworld and have transitioned the park to a coaster park. Go ahead and continue being intentionally a dipshit tho
>Hyperia cost £18m in post covid world>Icon cost £16.5m in 2018why are Merlin so cheap?
>>2868995>Very retarded attempt at goal-post movingI stated they still had orcas, you spilled your spaghetti over it
>>2869002>hurr durr im fucking retarded with the brain of a squirrel derrrrrrrrrr- you
>>2868995Tens of thousands of Orcas and other whales are killed by japs and chinks and other assorted nons every single year yet nobody bats an eye. Thus is the power of Jew propaganda. If a couple dozen orcas have to live in a gilded cage eating good food and chilling with hot White women like I do, so fucking be it, if it means all the retarded zoom zooms learn to love whales they will never actually see in the wild bc they live in pods. As the most conservationist man you will ever meet, I 100% support orcas at SeaWorld
>>2869003Settle down autismo
>>2868983>t. Got to see the false killer whales there. They were insane Doubt that footage of them actually exists but they were bigger and badder than the dolphins
>>2868980Found it and it's better than I could have possibly imagined https://youtu.be/H9acbC40Wu4?t=548>live bird on the back of the boatIt was a different time
>>2869007UNBELIEVABLY KINO
>>2869004It's cruelty to animals no matter how you cut it. It's an animal that has a territorial range in the hundreds of square miles being constrained to a tank the size of a small family home. Imagine spending your entire life in a bathroom. I dont care how much food they pass through the door and the white women they send in to blow whistles at you, you'd go crazy after the first 4 days.
>Alton Towers have said water rides only opening in Mayfucking hell>Runaway Mine Train, Monorail and Sky Ride closed for "essential maintenance"would you believe these rides have been closed for 6 months and NOW (opening weekend) is when they plan the maintenance? Its a load of lies isnt it. More cost cutting from SHAMerlin
>>2869011You’ve never lived my life, fren. I live in a 7,000sf house in a very nice part of the world and I can’t leave bc of family stuff. It sucks but it’s not bad. I want people to understand whales and people are getting dumber by the day. We need face to face interaction, esp for small children
>>2869011>It's cruelty to animals no matter how you cut itWhiny bitch. Mask off moment
>>2869013>t. Has been to both the north and south poles and saw the abundance of whales there. Normal people don’t give a shit about what’s going on in the poles. It’s only bc of places like SeaWorld that people actually care
>>2869015Animal cruelty is third world coded. You are spiritually pajeet or bug person. Thankfully you represent the minority dissent on this issue so your dumbfuck hillbilly opinion can be dismissed as easily as it was belched out.
>>2868990>https://captaincoaster.com/en/ranking/?page=2>https://coasterbot.com/votecoasters-fullresults2024Top 40 in both the big thosie rankings.
>>2869028Shut up bitch
>>2869033No. I'd throw you in a fucking tiger cage and see the tiger experience the best day of its life
>>2869035>I'd throw you in a fucking tiger cage and see the tiger experience the best day of its lifePost wrist
>>2869036
>>2868940That's weird since DAK has an entire section of the park themed after a colonial african town
>>2869041That's post colonialism as evidenced by the graffiti and crumbling infrastructure.
>>2868937I think BGT’s theming and landscaping is underrated. BGW is built in the woods with a large natural creek. Nature is doing the heavy lifting. BGT is in the worst part of Tampa with only the hotels across the street and the USF campus standing out as nice. The rest of it is a dump but you wouldn’t know that from inside the park, especially in the original gardens area
HAPPENING>Walt Disney Co. is close to naming Thomas Mazloum as chairman of the company’s parks, cruises and consumer products division, succeeding Josh D’Amaro, according to people familiar with the matter.>An announcement about Mazloum, who has run the Disneyland resort in California since March of last year, could come as soon as this week, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-09/disney-is-said-close-to-naming-mazloum-chairman-of-parks-unit
>>2869050It doesn’t matter right? I’m assuming all these people want basically the same shit.
>>2869047What do you like about the theming? The fake myth about the creature with the body of a lion and the head of an animal that doesn’t live in Africa? Oh wait they changed it to crocodiles now because who cares. The fake Swahili word? The Asian river? The Greek mythological bird? The many nuggets of African culture like… um…?
>>2869052He just means the landscaping is nice. Not everything requires a sarcastic take down
>>2869052>What do you like about the theming?It's just nice. I like to enjoy my time at parks instead of being an Aspergic looking for things to complain about on a Laotian needlepoint forum
>>2869033Based and checked
>>2869047> BGT is in the worst part of Tampa with only the hotels across the street and the USF campus standing out as nice. It’s bc it was a brewery so it was in the industrial part of town. Makes sense for a factory but not for a world class theme park
>>2869051> I’m assuming all these people want basically the same shit.No need to assume. They all bow to their blackrock/ vanguard overlords and suck jew/ satanic dick
>>2869058Animal abusing third world jeet
>>2869052If I was them I'd just theme it to greek mythology but with a focus on the african (or Aethiopian in this case) stuff found in it.>Memnon was an african king who fought in the Trojan War>Andromeda was an african woman (explicitly stated to be black by Ovid although other accounts may differ) that was being sacrificed to a sea monster and saved by Perseus (who famously slew medusa and lead to the birth of Pegasus)>Hercules had some myths that took place in Africa (although I think they all occurred in North Africa) and Hercules himself could have possibly been part black through his aforementioned grandmother AndromedaNot sure if there's alot of angles here for the animal/beast aspect if we want to keep the zoological concept intact
>>2869063Shut up bitch
>>2869066Witnessed + based lol
>>2869066>>2869067Dirty shit covered hands typed these posts /tpg/ and /rcg/ stands with all of god's creatures against inhumane treatment.
>>2869068>t. has PTSD from riding Montu
>>2869065actually come to think of it, they'd probably just do this insteadhttps://blackvoicenews.com/2005/02/07/hercules-a-black-african/
>>2869071
>>2869070>thoosie is an animal abuserColor me fuckin surprised
>>2869073Explain to us again how supporting animal conservation and environmental education makes one an animal abuser? It’s almost as if you’re dishonest… are you by chance, a poojeet? >disneys animal kingdom killed more animals than any other park in history before it even opened due to gross negligence and mismanagement. Look it up
>>2867257Well. It is now March. The parks will be absolutely jam packed with all these spread out Spring Breaks. See you next February.
>>2869074You're defending keeping orcas in tanks the size of a small grocery store. Do not try to change what this is about. You can argue the overall ethics of presenting animals to a voting population while underscoring the need for conservation programs all over the world. There's an argument there, but an animal as big as a killer whale should not be constrained to such a small square footage. Gotta side with the libtards on this one. It always was evil.
>>2869079Its crazy because an insane amount of liberals work at SeaWorld but the ecofascists from their own party caused them to lose jobs due to Commieflix's spamming of the Blackfish propaganda. The absolute damage that liberals cause to happy places is really quite endless. Seriously? Go fuck yourself. https://youtu.be/slnKjx8rDsw?si=fFJOlvu1enQITNQq
>>2869079Shut up bitch
Why is it that BGT discussion in particular brings out the worst posts? You don't see this when someone posts about Disney/Universal, nor do you see it during the rare occasion when Cedar Flags parks (or other coaster parks) get discussed
>>2867257Reminder that Japan proved that Great Whites can live in captivity but the eco fascists shut it down.
>>2869085Because liberals stir up shit and cause chaos everywhere they go. Are you retarded?
>>2869089Case in point
>>2869085There's 3 mongloid thoosies that post here and have a competition to see who can be the most abominable fucktard. One is libtard guy and the other two are undefinable but equally retarded. I think perhaps long term exposure to G-forces causes atrophy in the reasoning centers of the brain. A university should come here and run a case study on them. >>2869084Slit your wrist faggot
>>2869091>There's 3 mongloid thoosiesThat's your 3 personalities from getting brain damage from the rattle on a 2 year old B&M
>>2869091>the other two are undefinableThe guy with a hateboner for B&M is another
>>2869086No they didn't. It's a lie just like everything else you believe about the world. Kill yourself you fucking mongloid
>>2869093He's one of the 3. Literally without any prompting he beings up B&M cause it's his autistic hyperfixation >>2869092
>>2869095Is the thoosie scared of a little shaking? A little jostle is too much for anon to handle?
>>2869096The most damaging shaking you've experienced in your life is evidently when your mother shook you as a baby and for that you have my sympathy
>>2867508Busch Gardens is so beautiful all year round but especially in Spring.
>>2869090Retard confirmed. Why don't you shut the FUCK up and stop ruining people's lives for your SHIT ideology?
Is Busch Gardens Tampa the Chris-Chan of amusement parks?
>>2869101>libtard internet jargon from 2010 psyopSeriously, atheist libtard Chi-Com, ShutThe fuckUp
>>2869094>chatgpt told me soPlease shut the fuck up already
>>2869059Tell me what resort to stay in near Busch Gardens.
>>2869103>>2869104No I'm going to spread pro-Muslim propaganda at a Disney park. I'm gonna make fake twitter accounts and astroturf social media campaigns asking for an atheist Disney Princess who is also gay. I'm going to swear my lifelong loyalty to the people's republic of China and work to implement communism in whatever manner possible as a registered voter in a swing district in Florida. I will send letters to local city leaders hoping to raise taxes on tourist attractions and make sure that Busch Gardens Tampa further declines and lowers their landscaping and water budget budget so all the plants die. All because of you.
>>2869106The street with the other crackheads
>>2869050A fuckin Muzzie. Dear God these fuckin Muslims are taking over the world. Women are going to be in the Middle Ages. Why did I have to be born in this timeline? I hate liberals so so much
>>2869106Clearwater Beach
>>2869107Tldr except for the part you're blaming Me somehow for the fact that you're a piece of shit Communist who doesn't ever shut the fuck up about your parasitic destruction ideology.
>>2869112Correct. Every single one of your deranged theories as to who I am is true. I am personally responsible for every bad thing you've ever experienced in your life and I delight in this fact.
>>2869084Fuckin based
>>2869113God SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU COLOSTOMY DUMP
>>2869094I agree with your sentiment but using fucking AI as a rebuttal is pretty gay, dude
>>2869115Is it normal for christian men to post photos they've ripped off some slut's instagram?
>>2869103Is that one of the ones next to the old beerhaus/ pavilion? I love those little goobers like you wouldn’t believe. They’re so friendly and vocal too
>>2869116I dont respect him enough to type out a response. Not like he's gonna read it. For posterity sake, that was Grok not chatgpt so even the AI for chuds is saying he's incorrect
>>2867332The guy who posted this really thought he was winning
>>2869106Anywhere on the beach. White sands and clear waters, unlike the alligator filled swamps of Disney. They came close to building an on-site resort but it didn’t come to fruition. There’s rumblings they are going to actually do it now, but unconfirmed. Pic rel
>>2869117Don't ask me about what Christian men do unless you want to find out what we do to Communists.
>>2869118Yes, they're beautiful. I love the birds they have at BG.
Do you think rollercoasters or themed dark rides could have worked here?
>>2869121Its a 47 min drive to BG from the beach tho
>>2869122Bend over at the hip and allow them to have their way with you, usually. >>2869124I think it was ahead of its time hilariously enough. If it came out now during Turning Point culture war America they'd probably have a ton of business from these types >>2867332
>>2869124It would have survived better. They really made the park cringe and boring. I say this as a Christian.
>>2867332Wtf is a chicano and why is it protesting?
>>2869127No we kill them like ICE has been doing to you guys. Christians love violence btw how do you think we got to the top of the world? It wasn't by being Communist faggots. You should be way more scared than you are. But you're too stupid to know that.
>>2869130Absolutely based >my favorite theme park restaurant is the one at sea world where you eat inside the shark aquarium. My second favourite one is the big tree at islands of adventure
>>2869128Well, christian tourist attractions have gotten really interesting as of late, they even have a VR ride where they go back to the time of the dinosaurs and Jesus's crucifixionhttps://youtu.be/alFxQsKCG2Q?t=720
>>2869130I have a very strong suspicion you struggle with tasks as basic as tying your shoes so I'm not to worried. Guess I'll just keep ruining your life unopposed. >>2869121If the pool is facing busch blvd you can see all the street walkers sell blowjobs to married dads while sipping margaritas. That's family entertainment you cant get anywhere else in florida
>>2869119That's why you wrote a five paragraph essay about how you're motivated to do all kinds of Communist work "all because of me "? God, you're so illogical and stupid. Grok is run by jeets and Chinese that Elon hired because they're cheap labor. Its no different from chatgpt and he's fooling himself if he honestly believes it is.
>>2869133Tell that to Renee & Alex
>>2869134No I just typed that one out for the pure love of the game.>>2869132For me it's the Ark Encounter at the Creation Museum where you can see animatronic dinosaurs on Noah's Ark and realize people want your tax dollars to teach kids this.
>>2869131I've always wanted to watch fish swim by while eating them . I think they have one at Epcot too.
Does anyone know when F&F is going to open
>>2869135You can tell them yourself when you meet them in hell for using the F word earlier. >>2869139Summer 2026 is all we got.
>theming your rollercoaster after a rape victim
>>2869136I've been there and had a great time. Thanks for showcasing it.
>>2869140Like you would know about heaven and hell you stupid fuck . I am truly hoping you burn in Hell forever.
>>2869136Lmao I remember when a bunch of fat atheists protested the park outside the entrance. It really accomplished a lot.
>>2869142My fav part is their dioramas
>>2869143Bold words from a man who commits one of the 7 deadly sins on a weekly basis. (wrath)
>>2869145>This is what christards actually believe That being said it would make an amazing dark ride so I hope ken hamm finds the money for that
>>2869145>>2869146Telling a Communist that Christians enjoy killing them isn't about wrath. Its a basic fact. Read about the Spanish Inquisition or witch burnings. You really assume we are all gentle.
>>2869147>This is what christards actually believeWait until you find out what dune coons believe… boy, you’re in for a doozey
>>2869145What's this suppose to be? A Roman gladiator arena? Minoan Crete? This would be great for a gritty Dinotopia reboot however
>>2869147Says the person who believes this
>>2869151
>>2869150Pre-Flood culture. Humans and dinosaurs coexisted.
>>2869148I'm saying you're a spastic faggot that takes out angst in his personal life on a Bengali Yoga Discussion Forum and has been getting effortlessly trolled by me for going on weeks now. You're also wrong in your interpretation of wrath. God's divine wrath is different from human wrath. When god is wrathful for the sins of mankind it's divine, when you're wrathful because you saw a brown person it's a sin. Dumbass. >>2869151Get serious
>>2869152Isn't South Park the same cartoon that mocked Americans for not wanting their jobs to be replaced by illegals? They really made it about racism against Mexicans, not the economy. What an awful show.
>>2869155You need to go back to the pile. Fucking gooback
>>2869154You can't be liberal and Christian so STFU you lying disgusting Communist. Go lay flowers on Renee's grave.
>>2869156Says the guy posting cartoons that mocked Americans because we wanted to feed our children and not a bunch of shithole criminals.
>>2869156You first fuckback. Join Alex. Hes cold down there!
>>2869154>MY PRECIOUS BROWNS
>>2869158Southpark is entirely jewish. Always has been. In their first season they had a whole episode promoting homosexuality and allowing gays in the Boy Scouts
Liberals guy makes me wish rosalina-anon was still around. I wonder what happened to him.
>>2869121Is this real? If so, that would be so damn awesome
>>2869161Its a disgusting show. They've hurt Americans a lot and ALWAYS use the racism shaming tactics.
>>2869163Good now maybe you'll stop bullying people, fuckface. Kiss Renee's corpse in the lips for me!
>>2869163Violence is the only thing people like you understand.
>>2869141I mean technically most disney dark rides are themed to incredibly fucked up subject matter if you go back to the original source materials before Disney romanticized everything they stole from public domain. The little mermaid in particular
>>2869166>>2869168Have a pleasant evening retard *kisses ur fat retarded lil head*
>>2869170You really think I'm done? Not until you're gone. GO FUCK YOURSELF
>>2869171See you tomorrow bitch-tits
>>2869172Stop raping Renee's dead body
>>2869172Wait I saw a brown guy you need to protect save him from me before I oppress him
>>2869168Violence is the supreme authority, from which all other authority is derived
>>2869172Don't leave. YOU HAVE BROWNS TO SAVE
>/rcg/ - /tpg/ - Roller Coaster General | Theme Park General
>Epic Universe sold out next weeklmao I wonder if they delay Stardust Racers opening again
>>2869179The thoosie in me was so pissed when they rug pulled the reopening until after my trip last week.That ride is cursed though, the park has barely been open a year and it's constantly down. Makes me nervous it's gonna get retooled or worse.
>>2869177Good morning everyone. Do you think Renee liked Disneyland when she was alive
>>2869182I've never seen a big amusement park have such low ratings on Google Maps. Whats behind it? I always assume something political.
>>2869172Will white men kill all the browns? This keeps you up at night
ALL TQQN LAGQQNERS REPORT IN.LIBERAL VAMPIRES HAVE ENTERED THE THEME PARK GENERAL. DEFEND THE 'GOON AT ALL COSTS.#WWG1WGA
>>2869202Extremely long lines and low ride reliability. A lot of people go and aren’t able to ride much of what they wanted and they get upset. Imagine waiting in line 2 hours only for the ride to break down before you can get on…
Sorry for riling him up guys. He's like a big retarded ogre with a brain the size of a walnut so it doesn't take much. Merely disagreeing with him is enough to set him off.>>2869202Normal admission is a miserable experience without express more often than not. It's very low capacity. If it rains, half the park closes and it rains all the time in Florida. So what you end up with is an experience where normal admission is the economy experience while the express upcharge feels more like a normal experience which rubs people the wrong way, as it should. I'm sure comcast loves the idea of a 500$/person theme park day but for most guests that's egregiously jewish, hence the low ratings. You can only squeeze consumers so much before they drop your product all-together.
>>2869225>t.
>>2869235Do you have any idea how hard it is to get through a metal detector with all that shit hanging off my face and those signs lodged up my asshole? Disney security is very tight
>>2869179I don't know why they're taking so long building the next land/expansion.The park is in desperate need of stuff to soak up crowds.
>>2869238Cause they need to do it right. Epic isn't like other parks where you can slap down whatever. The level of theming necessary is much higher and just pushing something out fast is how you get Minions Blast and Supercharged
>>2869051>Had to shift through all these shit posts to find this again to reply Anyway it kind of does, it depends what you value. He is not making the big general decisions like Avatar Land is coming, non-IP rides can get made or what Disneyland Park 3 will be themed, that is Josh. They do deal with the smaller details he won’t have time to bother with like how to implement those demands, what entertainment will exist, pricing and park strategy, what parks will be budgeted, general lead up of ideas form Imagineers for Josh to approve, how to implement ideas and delegate to the resort presidents, etc. So a lot of the little stuff that makes a complete park
>>2869211Reporting in. We are prepared to defend wimpys from woke.
>>2869242>entire character is centered around abusing the charity of othersWimpy is a prototypical communist, I'm sorry to say
>>2869239The issue is more they haven't even started on anything which means, even with Universal being much quicker than Disney, any new ride is a minimum of 2 years away.
>>2869248>The issue is more they haven't even started on anythingI understand that, but Islands and Studios are both getting things and that will help with the epic crowds so help is on the way.
>>2869248Wtf is this? What sort of ride is this?
>>2869252Flying theatre but it rotates and each vehicle moves independently.
People are getting one shot by the moonshine cocktail at Wizarding Paris. I look forward to being one of them.
>>2869307Shame US absinthe is shitty
niggas in cedar point be like "yeah, lets wait in this"
>>2869323What's the theme? Petroleum refinery? Livestock processing facility?
>>2869323This kind of design works well for something like Siren's Curse where it's suppose to be a shipyard or something like that.Honestly, you can't expect a disney level queue for a basic outdoor rollercoaster that has no other interesting visuals besides the park view.It's sure better than fucking Pantheon, you have a greek mythology themed ride and then you do this shithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnNO21-OUe4
>>2869324Based on the name "raptor", I thought it was a dinosaur theme and I assume the queue was suppose to be a jurassic park like facility or whatever but it's actually about a bird apparently?
>yoshi debuts at epic universe>entire crowd is adults with maybe 3 children
>>2869334Universal adults = Disney adultsTake the regionalpill
>>2869053He said theming and landscaping. Is this a samefag, otherwise why are you performing shitty damage control for someone else’s post?>>2869055What’s nice about it?
>>2869335>regionalpillI am neither poor nor mexican >>2869336I'm calling you an asshole because you're being an asshole.
>>2869334Imagine when/if Waluigi debuts
>>2869329Raptors are a classification of birds of prey that the dinosaurs are named after because they have the same sort of claws
>>2869070t. tampa autist
>>2869083We watched Blackfish for homework for the safety course in my industrial engineering degree. We discussed how OSHA would deal with jobs that require swimming with killer whales.
>>2869339I don't think most park goers would know this or even be able to infer that. Talon would have been a better name for it
>>2869338It would be very immersive if they spray painted a fat italian guy yellow and dressed him like Wario and let him loose to steal people's wallets. You think Disney can top that shit?
>>2869336>>2869337>Oh dear.... I don't see much theming. Now, I'm not afraid of getting on those big rides. Just making that clear. It's just that I can't enjoy stuff if it's not immersive. Nothing to do with the ride being too fast and tall. That's not scary to me, at all. I'm completely unafraid of them
>>2869342>Has had a bird on the logo since day 1>How would anyone know?Zoomers, everyone
>>2869344t. Pablo Santiago Ramirez Hector Suarez Domingo Rodriguez
>mogs rally racers at Epic Universe
>>2869324>B&M>theming
Was at Epcot yesterday with my sis who had never been. It was quite busy but I suppose I wouldn't call it slam packed. Didn't have time to ride soarin, figment or test track. We tried doing Test track before fireworks but it went down. They gave us the option to wait so we figured we'd try. About an hour later just hoping the ride would come up eventually, a CM came around telling everybody that "as long as you're in line we will let you ride it if it comes back up even if you're not an extra magic hours guest" (park was open til 11 for resort stay guests) then like half hour after he said that they just kicked everyone out of the queue anyway. They were giving out LLs but sister and I were only there for the one day and it was already too late to use them for anything. I wish I had bitched a little and gotten at least an equivalent value gift card or something but I didn't realize our LLs were useless til we left the queue.At least they kicked us out with enough time to see the fireworks. But then I heard Test track running as we were exiting the park and Thrill-Data says the ride was up after 9pm. Felt scammed by that.It does not surprise me at all that Test track is a such a fragile ride system, I just wish I knew what usually causes the downtime and why it takes so long to recover.
>>2869349
>>2869085The Tampa autist spergs out whenever someone gives BGT (and to a lesser extent the other United parks) anything but unconditional praise.I suspect he is also the one that always chimps out about this poster: >>2867909
>>2869324>>2869323detroit 2038Actually pretty KINO tbf
>>2869099When I was 7 I didn't realize this was an interlocking corkscrew, I thought it was just one, so it blew my mind that a coaster could do this. I didn't ride it until a few years later.
>>2869350It's got something like 4 levels of redundant blocking systems to allow for the fact that the cars control their own speed and could potentially slam into a stationary vehicle at speed. Probably a bitch to reset too.
>>2869349>Coaster manufacturer>themingSomeone else's concern, retard>>2869350Waiting in line during a breakdown is a gamble. Personally I give it 10-15 minutes then I leave. Waiting in line is one thing, waiting in line to wait out an indefinite repair is another. No way for certain to win.
>>2869141I remember thinking this ride would be completely forgettable before I got on it and it was. I wouldn't have known where it was without reading your file name.
>>2869356>Waiting in line during a breakdown is a gambleYeah. Sunk cost fallacy just got to me. And earlier that day we had a similar but less extreme situation at Spaceship Earth that worked out in our favor so I was riding the high. The alternative was to jump out of Test track and then wait another 50 minutes for Soarin
>>2869328Pantheon's queue is based.
>>2869337Holiday World has 0 Mexicans and only lets in 20 black people per day.
>>2868801>Tampa autist>Tampa autist>>2868812>t. Tampa autist>>2868829>t. tampa autist>>2868840>t. tampa autist>>2868909>t. Tampa autist>>2869340>t. tampa autist>>2869352>The Tampa autistRENT FREEENTFREE
>>2869356>Someone else's concern, retardYeah and those people never buy from B&M when they want good theming. That's why like 40% of the world's B&Ms are owned by Six Flags while 0% are owned by Disney.
>>2869360It's a fence with pictures of tridents and thunderbolts on it. They could do something interesting with it, like have greco-roman statues (small penis included) and painted greek vases depicting orgies and other pederastic acts. like COME ON
>>2869337And before you were incorrectly saying that anon (totally not you) did not mention theming, which is why I mocked you.
>>2869364>not reading about the five gods on which the ride is based to immerse yourself in the mentality of the roman republic
>>2869363Just saying ride manufacturers typically do not do any theming work. That's someone else's responsibility. Rookie mistake on your part.
/rcg/ hours = retarded shitflinging/tpg/ hours = autistic armchair imagineering
petition to change to /sag/ - Soarin' Appreciation General
The robotic Olaf that won't be seen in Disneyland Paris past the opening day of Frozen runs off of a Raspberry Pi. I don't know why I find that amusing, it makes a lot of sense given how godly they can be at controlling electronics.
>>2869371Forgot the image
>>2869370I like Soarin because it's not as scary as a roller coaster
>>2869373
>>2869371Probably because of the libraries already set up and the ease of just hiring people who are already familiar with the system rather than developing ground up. Wouldnt be shocked if raspberry PIs are all over the place in theme parks now
>>2869375Also I imagine if it blows up you can just buy another one for €50, stick an image on an SD card and get it up and running again within an hour or two.
What's the most fuckable animatronic in Orlando?
>>2869377Boring tier: Elsa and AnnaCultured tier: Victoria Frankenstein
>>2869378Generational fumble.
>>2869380only count ones that are around today. otherwise the true enlightened answer would be one of the sexy dancing bird ladies at the end of Splash Mountain.
>>2869381She's the easiest one to fuck. They have her stashed away in an office near a window as if someone isnt gonna break in with condoms. Morons. FOOLS.
>>2869382>condomsSo you're homosexual then?
Speaking of, we did not give Disney enough shit over shariah compliant Jessica Rabbit >>2869384>fucking a pirate wench unwrappedEnjoy your drug resistant syphilis my boy
>>2869386That could actually work if she flashed the riders or something
>>2869387Instead they opted for the dumbest possible woke interpretation of the scene where she is a detective trying to solve the mystery of an empty trunk she used to be held captive in
Can't wait to get on this thing
>>2869389I find it funny that they keep getting shit for carpark coasters but keep doing it
>>2869390>carparkYour country doesn't even have a giga
>>2869367Do you think the theming of a coaster is independent of the design of the coaster? Why would you think that?
>>2869396The rollercoaster manufacturer will design the ride to the customer's specifications.
>>2869396I mean yeah, Rock n Roller Coaster and Taron both have clones with no theming
>>2869371>>2869372it's very clearly powered by an nvidia jetson ai computer
>>2869362>t. Tampa Autist
>>2869392Not true. Dracula Land will have a giga when it opens in a couple years and will not only be the best park in Romania, but possibly the entire world. It will actually be scary, unlike “villains land” or whatever
>>2869411Scary because of the locals, maybe
>>2869411it will get stolen off the lot
>>2869398You missed a step. Which coaster manufacturers are selected for highly themed coasters in the first place? Ones that are capable of meeting the challenge. Aka not B&M. The most B&M can do is delay the beginning of the ride for a brief preshow (Baron 1898, Thunderbird etc.) but after that, your coaster is going to look very much like the rest of the ones of the same model.
>>2869387To be fair, only support leg is in a carpark. The rest is in some generic gravel area with a few trees.
>>2869413>>2869414We don’t have niggers in Romania, nice try
>>2869415Regardless, B&M is a coaster manufacturer. Other parties handle theming elements.
>>2869418You have Romanians tho
>>2869411>Dracula Land will have a giga when it opens in a couple years>when it opensNot a giga
>>2869419B&M designs coasters, and the design is usually integral to theming. B&M is incapable of designing coasters with good theming, which is why parks interested in good theming tend to avoid them and parks that don't care about theming tend to love them.
>>2869422>B&M is incapable of designing coasters with good themingB&M doesn't design the theming. They design the coaster to the client's specifications.
>>2869423You're arguing with a guy who is likely wearing a diaper that is escorted through public by his elderly parents on a leash.
>>2869426I haven’t had to wear the leash since i turned 35 and got on new medication, nice try though…
I think the original plans of SNW in Florida potentially had ET on the table of getting scrapped for an expansion.Since the arm bands we’ve found in the data had reserved DK and Diddy for their attraction, and Rosalina and Toadette would reasonably be reserved for a final third expansion in a nearby area (if possible) or room for a Pokemon attraction space. And it was planned this way just because of the lack of land they’ve had back then, before Epic Universe’s opening, and some limitations they’ve had under their contract. As in they cannot make another Mario attraction without it debuting in USJ, which means they’ve could’ve looked over at USJ’s spiderman and space fantasy as those spaces to debut new Nintendo themed attractions. And with space fantasy being a former ET, it and Florida’s ET could’ve been the spaces for a new Nintendo based ride that was near-identical to save space, time, and money.
>>2869386I do not care much because I think this ride is out by 2030They were going to replace it with a Ducktales/Duck Comic ride but COVID reduced the budget for new Toontown so it stayed. But it is at the age these get replaced and now Disney does not even have much Roger Rabbit rights besides the designs and original film (they cannot really advertise with the name since the original author got the names back).Either the Ducktales ride is put back up or the earlier pitch for the Oswald ride happens in promotion with the upcoming show, but I do not see it lasting much longer
>>2869465Return of the King
https://abcnews.com/US/fbi-warns-iran-aspired-attack-california-drones-retaliation/story?id=130973820Chances the Cali parks get droned?
>>2869465oh damn it actually fits in there
>>2869594Studios being slated to receive both this and Ministry of Magic and losing both to Epic is really depressing. It's just forever doomed to be the Mummy park with HHN.
Stardust is now set to be closed through April 5th
>>2869626When will the jenny nicholson 5 hour deep dive on the failure of epic universe come out
>>2869632She makes like 1 video a year despite it ostensibly being her fulltime job and I dont think she's gonna waste it on something non-Disney
>>2869639>he doesn’t know how to watch her monthly patreon videos for free
Why not use Wally West?
>>2869648I hope someday the real story about Skyline comes out. All we hear is "they're crappy" but I want to know how bad it can be when a coaster for children gets installed and SBNO'd in a year. I would guess that the only reason they're standing is because they're going to be part of a civil case against the manufacturer.
>>2869626Mack are fucking shit. Im pretty sure Hyperia had similar problem. When this reopens it will be unrideable.
>>2869597Studios is a park that is often overlooked because it doesn’t have the big roller coaster it desperately needs. But honestly, SNW would’ve been way too full for the lack of capacity present on its rides.Did you know that Mario Kart has a capacity of a 1000 people per hour because of the sensitivity of its fragile vehicle system?
>>2869653Studios could use a B&M
>>2869658That company isn’t in a good state right now. Studios is already in the development of getting its new coaster.
>>2869665>That company isn’t in a good state right now.Great time to buy one
What the fuck was going on at Disneyland tonight?
>>2869672Apparently some shitty streamer got swatted while inside the park, supposedly in Pioneer Mercantile. I am surprised they did not validate it with an official in the park before swatting in Maybe it will finally get them to deal with livestreamershttps://ktla.com/news/orange-county/disneyland-mass-shooting-hoax-update/
'gooners... tell me its not true. tell me hes being alarmist. universal arent going to let the contracts run out? right bros?..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=940Ktcij258
>>2869688Not watching 25 minutes of this but I bet this renewsCannot be an expensive IP to license and they have too many upcoming projects and lands to develop before this is an issue, including building Epic up to scale. As water rides they hold on their own even if the IP is not a draw. In the IP race park fans forget it is not solely dependent on what IP is bigger but what types of rides might attract people I bet they renew once and this land goes away around 2039.
>>2869690Counter point: Universal is positioning themselves for aggressive expansion and has an incentive to swap that area with a more lucrative IP ASAP. I think if you were to make a chart showing what lands sold the most merch last year, toon lagoon is most likely the weakest of the currently operating lands at Islands. I'm saying that just based on the shirts I see people wearing at the park. Tons of potter, tons of seuss, tons of JP, very rarely if ever popeye/betty boop. That's a big part of Universal's profitability.2029 will presumably be after the Lost Continent replacement is finished and the timing could be perfect to swap in something like SpongeBob or (god forbid) anime. If you think about it, what else is there to build after the Lost Continent replacement is done? It's the next most obvious thing and the timing is almost perfect.
>>2869706> (god forbid) animeThe fact that you even THINK anime could be chosen for a land in an American theme park tells me you spend WAY too much time on this Armenian shrimp farming forum. Most Americans don’t even know what anime is
>>2869713On a related note, the Naruto coaster should open in Parc Spirou 4th April. Looks a fun enough coaster but it's another family launch + spike coaster.
>>2869706does toon lagoon merch even exist? i swear the wottamatta U (i dont remember the actual name) store just sells like dreamworks shit
>shartdust racersGood thing Epic Universe has many other rides to soak up their at capacity crowd next week
>>2869724Isn’t Betty boop one of the highest value IPs of any cartoon? I wouldn’t be shocked if they sell more of that than anything else besides HP
>>2869724i got curious and had a look if ebay had anything cool and found this. its cool just a shame how ugly it is kek
Im gonna post some cool theme park stuff im finding on ebay since im on a bit of a roll. please let me know if this is irrelevant and/or cancer and ill stop.i thought this was that mini doc they did on the building of isles when it first opened but its some other promotional thing. some guy uploaded it all into a playlist here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-yHO92honI&list=PL1EWyTqnnllTm-uFmzeMg3ZQho75wofNs
What’s operations at Seaworld Orlando like?Do I need to get quick queue if I go at Easter?
apologies for shitty photoshop im trying to reduce image posts. the coin is really cool but fuck that for 100 bucks lol
>>2869744FUCK i forgot the image
>>2869736Is this a serious question? Are you asking if Jurassic Park and The Grinch sell better than a niche cartoon primarily enjoyed by rockabilly hipster girls?I go to universal at least 10 times a year and I've seen someone wearing betty boop stuff maybe one time despite it having land representation. Wicked has zero representation outside of a pop-up store and I see way more of that
>>2869746> rockabilly hipster girls?tell me more about these women. Where can I meet them
>>2869706But the thing is, is it really an immediate issue? They have other issues. They have Lost Continent’s replacement which will likely open end of the decade, they have to replace Simpsons which leaves next year (unless they are keeping that which is very unlikely), Supercharged needs replacement after closing next year, they need to expand Epic, and the main park needs help overall. All comes before Toon Lagoon, and these are expensive additions in which the budget needs to balance for additions especially if the economy is going in the shitter. The timing is not matching up where a replacement for this is moving dirt in 2029 so it is simpler to just renew and remove it and void the agreement when ready, which is looking mid 2030s. The benefit is this is a cheap IP to keep as they need it more than Universal does, while IPs like Harry Potter and Nintendo they are paying out of the ass for. So renewing it for a few years is a cost savings as it frees the funds for the big Pokémon and whatever else additions which will then funnel income to this and then free up scheduling to give it a good replacement Again, the rides drawing people in but no one knowing who the fuck these characters are otherwise does not mean it is urgent for removal.
>>2869756Dive bars in any city's downtown area, drag shows, instagram burlesque tags, diabetes clinics. >>2869763All three parks have individualized management and individualized budgets. What goes on with Studios has limited impact on what happens at Islands so the Simpsons and Supercharged situation is irrelevant to IoA. Lost Continent will go walls up later this year when JP is finished and should be finished 2028 then after that the most obvious move at Islands is revamping Toon Lagoon with a modern money-making IP. It's no longer about the rides alone and Dudley and Popeye are great water rides, but they don't generate additional purchases like Jurassic Park, Potter, and Seuss do Opportunity cost becomes a factor.
>>2869771> Lost Continent will go walls up later this yearIs Poseidon still open or has it already closed? I’m a sucker for those water jet tunnels
>>2869776Closed back in 2023 sadly
>>2867285Because they want to claim the title of "1000th Ghost" as if the kayfabe of "The Haunted Mansion was built by Walt to be a retirement/foster home for ghosts that lost their old houses to war and urban renewal" was real.
>>2867525Even outside the purging of Figment, the ride's plot was "Eric Idle calls you a retard and puts you through a funhouse to try and make you more imaginative or something".
>>2869779Do they still have the sinbad show at least? That, Poseidon, and the fountain were the only things in the lost continent. Dueling dragons was in an entirely different section
>>2868307What, you didn't watch the Electric Mayhem streaming show that was mostly about their Pajeeta manager?
Rumba Rapids is closed at Thorpe Park now. Would've been 40 next year. Frees up a pretty large area in the park. You've got to assume they're going to put a family ride where it is, the park desperately needed a new one even before they closed this.Family Launch coaster is probably the most obvious choice, can't see an SFX coaster given that Chessington is getting the Minecraft coaster. Wild Moose? Rocking Boat?
>>2869795Sad. I never got a chance to ride it but you gotta agree a big splashy water ride in the UK is a ballsy move. Was it popular?
>>2869795>dickheads fuck around on rapids constantly standing up>kid dies>tory quango steps in and demands rapids need staff every few metres telling you to remain seated>f/forward few years>tories decide to lower age for minimum wage from 23 to 21>labour decides to up minimum wage twice as well for fun>even when hiring 18 yr olds the parks are spending a fortunethis is where we are now. Theme Park industry in UK is fucked thanks to the perpetual nanny state government. Rapids rides are ridiculously expensive to operate now.
>>2869797Was very popular when I was a kid, use to be one of the better rapids even though it got a bit neutered a few years into its life when a girl fell out and somehow lost an ear.>>2869799Yep the shit Drayton manor got from the government when a girl fell out because she stood up and ran across the raft to avoid getting splashed has probably doomed these rides in their current form. The legoland one was SBNO and is getting demolished this year, imagine Alton Tower's will be next.The minimum wage and national insurance hikes will be hurting UK parks bad but we'll only find out how bad when the parks ramp up for Easter.
>>2869799Imagine getting paid £23 a hour to sit in a shack and play on your phone….. BILLIONS of people do that for free
>>2869802Back in the day that would be like $50 an hour. To do nothing. That’s insane
>>2869799I can understand why the UK is broke
>>2869804Wage compression is horrendous in the UK. Minimum wage has skyrocketed but productivity has flatlined. The minimum wage increases aren't being paid by productivity, they've already sacked as many people as they can so where does the money come from? The middle earners. Lowest get their 5% payrise, middle earns don't get one, and they see lots of middle roles get merged so they can't get promoted into a higher salary either.To bring it back to the TPG. Merlin have insanely bad opening hours at offpeak times because of staff costs. 11am-4pm ride operating hours is pretty common for non-event days in autumn.
>>2869805You’re saying that MINIMUM wage is now almost £50,000 fucking wuid when just a few years ago that’s what city workers made. The whole economy has gone tits up. No wonder everybody voted for labour… now that things are worse what options have you got? Reform showed their arse with the poojeet stuff. It’s just like a death spiral. They say restore but idk if I trust another posh tosser. We trusted Boris and look where that got us. Highest immigration rate ever
>A new report out of Puck News suggests that Paramount Global may be exploring a surprising new direction for its Hollywood real estate following its planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery — and it could involve building a Paramount WB theme park.>According to reporting from Puck News journalist Matthew Belloni, insiders say Paramount executives have discussed potentially transforming portions of their studio properties into a theme park-style attraction.>Belloni wrote that he has heard the company could consider adding “theme park–style experiential entertainment on one of the lots, à la Universal Studios.” Paramount declined to confirm the report when asked.https://thatparkplace.com/rumor-paramount-wb-theme-park-could-be-built-on-studio-lot-following-warner-bros-discovery-merger/
>>2869813>and it could involve building a Paramount WB theme parkpic rel lol
>>2869814Same when WB owned Six FlagsThey hedged on regional parks when for IPs the gold was actually in spending for year-long immersive resorts in Florida and California. This sounds like it would be closer to those resort parks
Nevermind, apparently Lost Continent is going walls up much sooner than we thought. All Hallows Eve Boutique is permanently closed as of today. Press F to pay respects.
>>2869771Yes, but it is all adding up to one resort budget they then distribute to the individual parks. It can be more or less than the other parks and be changed, so it is not necessarily evenly distributed. See how all the Disney World parks are getting new themed lands with new build attractions, Magic Kingdom is getting two, and Epcot has nothing on the pipeline right now since they got a few rides. They pull budget towards a park that needs it.In this case, if that one replacement is Pokemon then you are underestimating the scope of the one replacement. That is the biggest IP on the planet and to nail a land on it they might just make the most expensive land ever at a park. That would cover its allocated budget for a long time, and the increase in attendance just for that would mean it is not the park they need to focus on building up. At that point Toon Lagoon does not need to be touched for years until the hype slightly subsides
Has anyone seen the overlay for Sapfe fantasy in its Club Zed form.It basically takes all of the old assets of the ride for a new music based experience with the track changing throughout the ride.I wonder if this means they’re done with the VR gimmick they’ve done on it over the years and just resort to using the screens and speakers already present on the attraction.
>>2869834>Lagoon does not need to be touched for years until the hype slightly subsidesI disagree, but we'll see over the next 4 years. I think after Epic the gameplan for the future of the parks is way different. I think the way IP is treated now by media companies has more in common with how assets are treated by investors. The amount of companies that call universal hoping to get their IP featured is probably immense. I know Paramount is gonna be heavily motivated to get a return on their WB purchase, for example. Don't be surprised if things like Looney Toons and Batman begin eyeing some of the legacy rides for removal, or even a 5th gate. I agree that Pokémon is the biggest IP potential in theme park history and if it's done right it's gonna be what Harry Potter was for the park but multiplied by a million. The rumors for the japanese version didnt really excite me that much but rumors at universal are as good as written on tissue paper. A potential problem is that Nintendo is run by evil dipshits now and the soul of the company died with Iwata and Reggie leaving. Miyamoto is just kinda the mascot at this point.
Mario Kart could’ve been a higher capacity attraction if they ditched the gameplay element entirely.
>>2869791Closed in 2018, they use the arena for Hagrid overflow queue
>>2869845When they said they were doing a mark kart ride my initial thought was "oh cool an indoor coaster". I'm still mad it isn't that.
>>2869847I thought it was going to be an epcot racetrack thing
>>2869771They also don't have the motivation to keep promoting the Jay Ward stuff anymore since the rights went to Wildbrain.
>>2869806Minimum wage for 40hrs/week is somewhere around £26,500 a year from next month. For anyone over 21. For perspective 5 years ago it was £17,000
>>2869847Nope. They cheaped out and just made a trackless dark ride with a VR gimmick. It’s all flashy bullshit with no actual substance. Rode it once, never again
>>2869829It's a damn shame to see the only original land at Islands go. It was a beautiful land that never really lived up to its potential attraction-wise (outside of duelling dragons). I would have loved to see them revamp the land rather than replace it, but obviously that'd never happen in today's consoomer environment. I just hope whatever replaces it is good and keeps the fountain in some way.
https://www.reuters.com/world/seaworld-sued-over-alleged-mishandling-sesame-street-brand-2026-03-12/Who is getting the Sesame Street park rights?
>>2869916They could move the fountain to Port of Entry
>>2869920I'd like that a lot. They've been expiramenting with interactive characters there the past few years, so maybe there's hope.
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>>2869362Liberals literally have nothing to do but come here to troll and destroy the happiness of others.
