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Yes it may have gone down hill but if it had been built at the time it would be 10byears later. Crazy! One of the positives and negatives of having a kid themed area to a dog that doesn't really have a current series (never saw the movie and honestly haven't seen it on sale prominently for home viewing). No current series to bring the over all value down but no current series to make kids and parents relate to it either. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I loved the baby care center the last couple of years. With a toddler in tow it's nice to have a ACd place (since we don't have many trees cough cough) to sit and let him cool down. Also they had a microphone and changing tables/family rest rooms. I know recently I have become a sort of old man cranky on here about some things but the children's area and this area in particular are out of the world great. Don if you read one post from me all year the crew that have been in the baby/family center and the crews running the littlest of the rides have been outstanding. It's the reason we keep getting passes. Our little guy is too small for anything outside of the kids area. Your crew there honestly makes it one of the best days. Now back to complaining about trees, smoking areas, and trams....lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So my question as a guy who likes numbers etc. It seems that most are making up the numbers the coasters are hitting per hour since no one commenting really knows what they are getting and we only know the hypothetical number at full capacity. So why if every other ride doesn't hit their max would an RMC? So if Beast's capacity is 1200 and some one here say they can only get 1008 (weird bmnumber). Why would RMC reach its potential. Wouldn't a 960 RMC only get around 700? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah at first your body goes "Oh wow water, time to store it" Then it goes "I love this water less flush things out and wow we have lots of water stored let's get rid of this too, oh wow there's more water coming keep flushing" Then the body goes "Wow this works really nice where I get rid of toxins and stuff and can keep all my organs nice a going... Amazing!" Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It takes a few weeks for your body to stabilize with water. At first your body hordes it then it starts flushing your system (that's why you pee a lot) then it balances out and everything becomes easier Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As an SLP the voice is one of the things we worry about the most. Water is your best friend above all else. Water doesn't do what you think it does (coat your throat). What water does do is it allows tissues to stay plump and tender. It also allowed mucosal membranes to do their jobs which produces the coatings to keep things safe. If you don't have enough water your body pulls it's from tissues before organs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Agreed just because you can build it doesn't mean there's a need for something to be built. Look at the Walmart situation. Over built in some areas and now maybe cutting back some stores. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Close... Think of them as 1a-1f Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Depends on the restaurant haha (about line or cashier speed) And look i get not wanting to hurt the youth of America by being overly critical but criticism is a way of life. If they can't hack it at 16 and take criticism about poor work habits, hygiene, attitudes, or engagement when can we criticize them? At 18 when they are in college? 22 during their career? 30 when they have kids? If you have a job you have responsibilities. Who cares if you hate your job, but if you want nice things you work for them. And working with the public entails a certain amount of criticism. Unrelated, sort of, I had a waitress friend state she hates getting refills for people and says she's not there to fill their every need. If you are a waitress/waiter or in the food industry your job is to make other people happy with their food. Now not all kids are terrible workers but for some reason the lowest seem to present themselves mostly in the food part of the park (again not RHOFG, CFA, or Panda). Where is management? That's a good question. Thanks to this recent topic i have restructured what I want from the park. My dream list for KI: Shaded areas to relax on hot days Smoking areas no located in middle of midways (see Coney Mall, Rivertown(?)) Competent and fully staffed food and drink locations Emptied trash cans Parking lines in the parking lot Craters in parking lot filled Trams More shows/entertainment maybe a parade Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You page low rates you get low quality. I have a friend who works in another department who stated how poorly some of the employees are that he is supposed to manage. But he says he has no power to reward or punish he's just more reliable than the rest Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'll be honest having a little guy the new plan makes sense. He gets hungry and hot so it's cool to not have to trek to the car but... Good golly the employees are terrible. I'm sorry if one of them is on this board but the food service is straight up terrible (except reds hall of fame and chick Fil a and supposedly Panda, I never ate there yet). The kids are lazy and unmotivated. This year ill make sure to get names and complain. Last year I remember that one of the employees got off the bus and didn't even look at walked right I front of the cars and flipped off the car that almost hit her (again she walked out in front of the car). Man it makes me upset thinking about how terrible those employees are. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I took some screen grabs for those of us on mobile who get tired of the page redirecting Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I barely remember the original and have no child hood link to King Kong but man this ride seems awesome Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I believe per TOS we need a link or a name, right? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

In total land? No there was more till there wasn't. In terms of actual ride count, maybe?(yes?). In terms of amusement park acreage? Maybe, not sure if you would count all of the land the animals took up as amusement park land. If you mean paved roads/walkways then probably yes(?) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I really enjoyed SOB when it first opened but even then it felt that the pacing (I didn't know this word at the time) get off. The whole ride felt like it was a race to the finish. And maybe with that height there was no way to burn off speed and energy efficiently. I remember the feeling of coming out of the first helix into the straight a (brief?) tap of the brakes and then going down into the loop and back into a helix. That's the only part of the ride that felt real good. The rest felt like the train was going to fast to enjoy anything. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Agreed right after Wizarding World opened the wait was a station wait. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yet Lance at Screamscape says the are going to be refurbished... Who to believe who to believe Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well the people coming from the south look like they will have a continuous right turn lane and the people coming from the north will have lane to turn left. Both are located directly next to the Great Wolf exit. And edit. Just drove back and the torn up asphalt area may actually be he grassy area next to the old entrance. Sorry! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just passed the park. There looks to be a lot of torn up asphalt in the area around the old south entrance. From the road looked to be not just a lane or two but what would look like a good sized Kroger parking lot. Also they are building a wall between the two new entrances by Great Wolf. The turn lane seems like maybe 2 lanes Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As for the changing food price, that would be one way to ruin customer good will Uh sir that's 63$ for the pizza But when I picked it up they said it would be 45 Yes but see after 1130 we go to lunch pricing I have been in line since 1045 Yes but it's not 1135... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There is nothing close to the Wizarding World. I liked the Jurassic Park part but the fact you can't see much outside of the world is a big piece. Trying to think of an area that's even close in WDW...maybe Main Street? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

See it's not called ignoring facts if you don't have one that another person has. In a conversation you try to help and give facts or ask questions. You don't accuse peeps of ignoring facts or making arguments. I kept trying to offer up my info with dates and no one till you (or I missed it) stated any contradictory dates. Just "Disney takes longer". All you had to do was say something. No need to go all Snicker Bar commercial. Plus to be truthful, my original comment was directed towards the semantic conversation one person stated about building and announcing but thanks for joining in. I was looking through some of the Orlando Sentinel Articles combined with some of the Universal Blogs and they stated that surgery Markers were put down in January of 11 and some behind Amity earth moving had begun in July/August (don't remember I was looking on my phone last night) that's why I was going off of that data. You say Google Earth shows it and good sweet, I'm not looking it because it the end it doesn't matter all that much haha. Look if thats true then yes Diagonal was completed very quickly. And then yes that product got turned around very quickly and surprisingly well done for such a short turn. Also to be truthful comparing projects is sort of silly in of itself. As someone on here stated HP at IOA was a massive undertaking and that can really only be compared to the other lands in that park. The Fantasy Land at WDW is great but not the total immersion that IOA offers in any land especially for HP. As for the connection at Universal with HP I haven't seen it but from all accounts once you disappear behind the wall, it's a 1 in the world experience. Maybe SW and TS will be like this, or maybe it won't. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I understand all that. This entire discussion is based around the fact that you challenged my statement that Disney has taken longer to build new attractions and themed lands in their parks than US is recent years. You've since tried to disprove that with incomplete and inaccurate data.Avatar land was announced 5 years ago and won't be ready until next year. New Fantasy Land was completed 5 years after being announced. Universal's major projects are completed in half that time from the time they are announced, yet still produce at a quality that is on par with Disney. Hence my original comment in this thread. And nothing in this post I quoted has relevancy to that discussion. You're going full on straw-man here. If you're trying to argue that Disney doesn't need to change as frequently or drastically, that's fine and I agree. But don't act like Disney takes the same amount of time to produce their new major overhauls in the parks when it simply isn't true. Sent from my SM-G925V using Tapatalk I was trying to bring it all full circle and end in amicably. And also point out that while Universal was upgrading or adding a ride here or there, Disney was upgrading other things. They may not bring people to the park but it makes things slightly more enjoyable.But if you would like some facts about major park expansions. Here we go again. I don't care when something is announced I'm talking about from breaking ground etc. Avatar broke ground on Jan 10, 2014 and is expected to finish in 2017. 3-3.5 years Harry Potter broke ground mid 2007, finished June 18, 2010, 3 years. The second Harry Potter broke ground early to mid 2011, and finished July 8, 2014. 3 years Disney Fantasy Land: started 2011 and finished Nov 2014, 3.5 years. While not officially a rebuild and areas were opened up in stages. Who cares when it's announced. Just because it gets announced or confirmed doesn't mean a thing. I even agreed with you that it's all perception. That it seems to take longer because Disney announced things earlier. But that's hardly Disneys fault if anything they are giving people time to get "last rides". Kong Skull Island a smaller not as involved redo as compared to HP but from what I have seen online ground breaking started around Jan/Feb 2014 and will open mid 2016 so almost 2.5 years. Star Wars is broke ground this year and is expected to open 2018, 3 years. I'm not trying to compare single rides because the Redo of Hulk or Spidey or Transformers is no different than Disney doing the Snow White or KI building Banshee. From broken ground to completion the time lines are almost identical. Disney as a company has historically announced projects early in the design. From the parks to movies to anything. Disney almost enjoys taking the audience on a ride through development. It's almost like they are making money on it. Universal recently has not done it the same way. They make the announcement and then break ground. If I were to take a guess I would think the planning is about the same. So when Disney announces something and then breaks ground 2 years later they probably when through the same process as US. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Jaws was still open in 2012. You'll have to explain again how they broke ground on HP2 in mid 2011.... Diagon is the most immersive land in any theme park in this country. Every inch of it is themed in detail with AA's, fire and water effects. It includes a ride with tech that didn't exist before the ride. Huge themed sets with a lot of rockwork and AA's of better quality than most anything Disney has ever done. It was ground breaking and made Disney go back and change their plans on Avatar and set the bar for what Star Wars much become. They did this in a little over two years. Avatar seems to be detailed, but both rides seem to be using existing tech. and is going to take 3 1/2 years. Fantasy land was, again, nothing new tech wise. A spinner, a coaster, and an omnimover. All things they have done before. 3 1/2 years. Star Wars will not open in 2018. Even with how bad DHS is right now, they are still not going to be able to flip all of the existing buildings and infrastructure into a highly immersive land in less than 3 years. I don't even think Comcast could pull that off. Comcast is faster at getting things done. Period. I like Disney. I'm not knocking the place. But to say they are working on a comparable time schedule for construction as Uni is just ignoring the facts. Survey markers were in the ground in January 2011 as an FYI, official announcement in Dec 11 and Jaws Closes in 12. Other construction can happen that didn't involve the Amity/Jaws area building up to the announcement. I'm not sure how I'm ignoring facts. Please help me out here. As for Avatar and SW... Avatar started construction 14 and state it will be open in 17. I haven't read anything about it being behind schedule so how do you figure it will be open late if all they are doing is nothing new. As for SW I was wrong I gave the time line for the DisneyLand as I was reading the updates there. Toy Story stuff is scheduled for 18 at DHS. Again I'll reiterate my original point, to state that one company is slower than the other when it comes to building something is border line crazy. There are timelines that most people agree upon that it takes to do certain things such as build a building or finish a coaster. One company is not quicker than the other at constructing than the other. From announcement to completion, yes. Avatar was announced much much earlier in the process than say Diagonal Alley expansion. Hence the expansion was finished and opened before (or right at the same time) Construction began on Avatar. Uni from announcement to completion has been between 3.5-4 years while Disney is 5-6 years. Uni from construction starting on major areas they appear to be around 3.5 year on average and the only thing we have seen recently from Disney is Fantasy Land at 3.5. If Avatar Toy Story and SW takes longer then that gives us data points. I'm not attacking Uni in any way. But if we throw out things as fact we need to have some sort of data to back it up. I tried my best to show data (survey markers in 2011, openings dates etc)... But to compare we need to compare apples to apples. Announcement dates to construction dates is not a comparison. Announcement to announcement or construction time line to construction time line is comparable. Just because something is brought up is not meant to be attacked b Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hands down if you are going to IOA get reservations for Mythos. Great little restaurant tucked inside the park. My wife and I made reservations 6 months out(ish?) and when we showed up they told us it would be 10-15 mins. The couple in front of us got the little vibration thing and a 4 hour window.... Anywhos.... Any new pics anywhere of he Hulk ride? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk