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  1. themagician
    The park has officially released some of the concept artworks we’ve seen before They also confirmed in this video that you’ll enter a room and decide with coaster you want to head to. Then you follow a path (that’ll be themed to set up the story for the coaster you’ve chosen). When you exit the coasters that will take you to the main plaza where the Emerald Castle will be. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/rggNR5vh6jwzmtho/?
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    Serpent Slayer was meant to reopen today, but this morning it’s reopening date has been pushed back another month
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    Very little, but Movie World also has very little merch for their rides (even the park itself). I’d just like to see more park/attraction based merch in general instead of just having IPs on it.
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    Yes! Doesn’t have to be for every kids rides, but I’d expect merch for Rivals, Superman Escape, The Flash, Green Lantern, Justice League 3D, Batwing, SDSC, Wild West Falls, Road Runner and maybe even Marvin the Martian since that’s there newest kids ride. Even Roxy Theatre and Hollywood Stunt Driver could have something.
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    Huh? Five people, £150 in total. £30pp = $57pp.
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    $50 each isn’t that bad for a theme park considering it has a lot of rides (even if it does feel worn)
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    This project is the perfect example of Disneys budget cuts. You just have to look at the concept artwork vs reality Yes concept artworks are almost never a reality, but for Disney they generally are
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    I think this is temporary because the ride isn’t officially open yet
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    I lot of it I like based off this POV, but it’s a shame they didn’t include Dr. Facilier (the movies villain) in the lift hill to include that villain aspect to the ride to make the build up the big drop more dramatic. I believe Disney said the rides story is based around being after the movie, so that’ll explain why, but it does feel a little lacklustre story wise. It felt like they kept telling us that they needed to go to this party, over and over again, which isn’t exciting from a story perspective. It does also feel like there’s some dead spots where there’s not much happening (like they ran out of money). The use of screens is nicely done though and the animatronics are impressive. I understand why Disney felt they needed to do this. Is it a worthy replacement of Splash Mountain… maybe. With the budget cuts and lack of depth to the story, it comes across as a swing and miss (just). Either way, people are still going to ride and a lot of people will love it. I’m sure I’ll still enjoy it when I get to ride it one day.
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    3 words 😉 But seriously, good reviews overall. Do you think all three are good value for money and what would you rate them out of 10.
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    That is a very narrow entrance pathway for an all new world-class world-first land
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    Just to be clear, this isn’t the station. This is an element within the ride experience. The station will be a standard flat section of track like all other coasters on the GC
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    While I agree with everyone in saying that Disney would too be my first choice as their Japan parks are probably the best in the world (DisneySea is in a league of its own being probably one of the best theme parks in the world). And while Disney does have its classic dark rides, it has so much to offer and has some rides that you can’t find anywhere else in the world. However, if you and your group would rather more exciting thrill rides and appreciate the thrill more than the theming, then Universal is the way to go. Not to knock Universals theming because the Wizarding World is insane and all of the rides have been done very well, however Disney just takes it to the next level. These were my first B&Ms too. Flying Dinosaur is an absolute must, I’d pick this ride over anything else in the park because of how insane it is. Hollywood Dream is fun, but if the queue is too long (even with Fast Track) I’d prioritise other things first because I didn’t find it anything amazing.
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    There are people on here who have more experience visiting these parks, but from my experience, both Universal and Disney can be just as busy as each other and there can be just as long of queues to get into Universal (Disneys queues just make good content online because of the vantage points you can get on the entrance). If you’re visiting Universal, you should definitely invest in Fast Pass because it’s near impossible to get on a decent amount of rides without it. When I visited, Flying Dinosaur had just opened, but there was a 5 hour general queue and with Fast Pass it still took about 40 minutes (which is obviously significantly better, but just for perspective).
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    I’m pretty sure they do this every year so they can inspect the track a lot easier
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    It's great to finally see additional night events being offered because other than Happy Halloween, I believe the last time they did an 'After Dark' event was back in 2018 (They had one scheduled for Easter 2020, but we all know what happened). The event is on 5:30pm to 9pm, so for $10 for annual passholders that's good value. And $49 for general tickets makes sense when a day ticket is double the price and double the time. I hope it goes well for them and they have these after dark events more reguarly throughout the year.
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    But why? They sell indivual tickets to each park, so they should all be for a good standard on their own. If for example, Movie World was of world class theme park and everything about it was perfect (remeber this is hyperthetical), but Sea World, Wet 'n' Wild and Paradise Country were all awful, falling apart and had nothing to offer that doesn't mean it's okay because they are 'whole' because they all have the same owner. Obviously that's exadurating things a little, but just because Village operate four parks doesn't mean they can all be mediocare because together that doesn't make them great. In the case of Coast Entertainment, yes they have less properties/gates, but if DW was great and WWW was awful, that doesn't make it okay. Obiviosuly their main focus has been on DW to past few years, but that is their 'hero' park and it needed it. I'd hope from next year (once Rivertown is complete) they look back at WWW and expand the park so it's attraction count can have a good boost. In both instances, the parent companies definitley shift their focus in investment year to year because they don't necessarily have the financies to invest into them all at once and that's okay (if they don't let the other parks fall in quality, while their main focus in on another park). Village for example spent 2016-2017 investing in MW (Doomsday & Rivals), their focus shifted to SW from 2019 to 2022 for The New Atlantis, and now it has shifted back to MW with Flash, Wizard of Oz, Scooby, etc. But I'd argue while they were focusing on SW, they lost sight of MW and it has shown, meaning they are now trying to play catch up.
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    It might not be ‘all new’ because they’ve been open for 15 months now, but it’s their newest thing, so they’re going to keep marketing them as new until something newer opens. I’d argue that Trident has been closed more than it’s been open, so in terms of its operating lifetime, it would only be a couple months old and therefore new. DW are also currently marketing they have 11 new attractions. They really only have 4 brand new attractions, but the other 7 are refurbished/rethemed, so they’re counting them to bump out the number for marketing.
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    What’s wrong with generating buzz/hype with older photos? If they shared up to date photos it would be hiding most of the coasters track because of the buildings and scaffolding now on site. For the last few months they’ve been focusing on promoting/sharing BTS for The Flash, so I don’t see what’s wrong with waiting to share these photos. They’ve got to give their posts some breathing room to maximise the reach of all of their content, so it doesn’t overload viewers and then not perform as well. They did also show current progress on site in their updates video last week, but these photos just add to that and provide much more pleasing to the eyes photos. Scaffolding almost never looks good no matter how well you photograph it. I’d assume it was taken from the exit from of Superman Escape looking over the fencing into the former AA building and one of the roller doors was up at the time this photo was taken.
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    Destination Dad & Daughter shared this on their socials Zoom in and look closely for a look at the project’s site plan
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    Here's so photos of it during construction and stills of it in action
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    More BTS photos shared by the park
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    Rivals has reopened today (which is a month earlier than planned)
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    Dreamworld have shared their first construction updates for Jungle Rush. They shared a reel and some photos
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    The first HSD
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