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Here's something to fuel the FastPass+ discussion: EasyWDW.com posted an article back in December about the new Star Wars stuff at DHS. http://www.easywdw.com/easy/blog/new-jedi-training-academy-trials-of-the-temple-signup-star-wars-launch-bay-strategy-chewbacca-and-vader-meet-and-greets-path-of-the-jedi-new-food-options-at-backlot-express-royal-guard-burger-and/ Apparently, though they're not turned on yet (or at least not as of the time the article was written), there are FP+ readers both at the entrance to the Launch Bay itself and the entrances to the character meet-and-greets inside. So it seems likely that if and when these attractions are added to FP+ (if they haven't been already), those making a reservation for the Star Wars character meet-and-greets will face the dilemma of either burning a second reservation on the Launch Bay itself, or else waiting in a potentially long line to get into the Launch Bay and hoping that it doesn't take so long that they miss their meet-and-greet window. This doesn't seem like it would make for a positive guest experience.

I have next to zero interest in park photos but at $40 for the season it's almost worth it for the heck of it. Ditto. If I had a season pass for this year and a little extra money, I'd definitely be buying this. As it is, I will wait and hope it returns in 2017.

If going to Soak City is important, be aware that Soak City does NOT open until Saturday, May 28. It will be closed on Friday the 27th.

According to Paula Werne in the HoliWood Nights Facebook group, both GCI and TGG submitted bids. More specifically: So it sounds like Gravity Group's bid just came up short.

The announcement was just posted on the HoliBlog: http://www.holidayworld.com/holiblog/2016/01/14/the-legend-reborn/ Video: Basically, all three are getting track work to make things smoother in spots, and Legend is getting a new double down element for increased airtime and a new tunnel where it crosses under Frightful Falls. No inversions, thankfully.

With regard to water rides: all of the water rides at Universal will leave you completely drenched. So not a good idea in 60°F temperatures (unless you're malem ). As for Disney vs. Universal: for a single day, I'd do Universal, because as kingsislandfan1972 said, you'll probably get more stuff done. Also, the Harry Potter lands are amazing; I saw Hogsmeade in 2012 before I had ever read any of the books or seen any of the movies, or even had any interest in Harry Potter, and was stunned at the level of detail. Now that I have read the books and seen the movies, I want to go back and see it again along with Diagon Alley.

At the holiday party, the lower floor of the slide tower (the tube slides) also had only 1 dispatcher for all four slides and 1 lifeguard at bottom for three of them (plus 1 for the toilet bowl, most likely only because it's physically impossible for one lifeguard to cover all four). So that made them take almost as long as the upper floor (coaster/raft). I actually felt that the upper floor lines moved faster than the lower floor lines. Also, I was not impressed by the fact that they had one single lifeguard covering the entire wave pool. IMO a wave pool of that size should have at least four lifeguards. Bottom line: their staffing levels suck.

Huh? The Action Theater building is not vacant. It houses a Halloween Haunt attraction.

First link was broken (why do so many links get a non-breaking space appended?); actual link is here: https://twitter.com/altontowers/status/686846462450397184

I'm told it happened on the Saturday night before closing day in 2014. I left the park that day around mid-afternoon and did not return. Too cold for coaster riding for me.

Also known, at other times, as LeSourdsville Lake Amusement Park. My parents took me there as a kid a few times, but I have no memories of the place.

Last time I was there on an operating day (2014), Rough Riders still had its center divider. The only adult bumper cars I've ridden without a center divider are Cedar Point's Dodgems in 2013. I don't recall whether I rode them on my 2014 visit.

Incredible. Even though I know almost nothing about the Island Queen, I got chills watching that. The only thing I could nitpick about is a small historical inaccuracy: the American flags atop her appear to be the current 50-star flag, but back in 1947, there would have been only 48 stars, as Alaska and Hawaii did not become states until 1959. Otherwise, I love this.

Yep, there's a thread about them here: http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php/topic/31281-cedar-fair-pickers-scour-europe-for-vintage-amusement-park-rides/ No posts since August, though...

Opening day indeed used to be the last Saturday in April for a while, but it was moved up to the third weekend in April in 2014 for Banshee's opening, and it's stuck there ever since.

I didn't pay much attention last year, so that may indeed be the case. However, I am nearly 100% certain that if that is the case, then that is a very recent change. At the very least, I remember that back in 2010 when I bought my first gold pass in early May of that year, I briefly debated between regular and gold since both were available (before realizing the obvious benefits of gold outweighed the extra $10).

In past years IIRC, that has only been the case through the end of the fall sale, with regular passes then being sold as their own tier for typically about $10 less than gold. I find it interesting that regular passes are not currently available, and wonder if they are indeed doing away with regular.

Working link: https://content.sixflags.com/haiyan/ (the link above has a non-breaking space appended to it )

The parking tolls would be best IMO. They would work better as a horizontal banner, and make a nice metaphor as the "entrance" to the thread.

For the past few years, Magic Kingdom has been about $5 more expensive on a one-day ticket than the other three parks. So the others are probably $100 exactly. I read something quite a while back (I don't know where that article was, though, or if it was just a post here on KIC) about the fact that Universal tries to keep their ticket prices on par with WDW, because they don't want their product to be seen as cheaper and thus inferior. Hence Universal's $102, roughly averaging the MK ticket and the Epcot/AK/DHS ticket.

And since my previous post, I am no longer getting Tapatalk push notifications for PMs or watched thread replies. This was particularly annoying at Great Wolf Lodge. I thought it was a Tapatalk issue, given that I'm experiencing a similar issue on another forum that started around the same time, but with the newest reports in this thread, perhaps not?

I seriously considered that last year, but decided against it. Probably a good decision.

Some of those users are under more anonymous screen names, like you, and are not as well known in the industry as Terpy. Given my username includes my real last name, and first/middle initials, I still wonder why my 2015 season pass was never mailed to me and I had to go to the season pass center at the park in person three weeks later to get the actual pass printed for me...

On New Year's weekend? I can hear your wallet screaming in terror from here.

Terpy was turned away on opening day this year. Most believe it was due to the posts he has made in this thread. I'll let you connect the dots from there.