Recent content by Nirya

I feel Harry Potter and Nintendo were much faster builds, but that may be me misremembering.

Maybe it speaks to the general turnaround time Universal has been employing of late, but it feels like this project has taken much longer than previous ones. Obviously, I know this was an engineering feat to put the coaster into the side of a mountain and build around the Starway without closing...

I don’t know where to put this, but I had time so I watched the Tapestry of Happiness thing at Small World for maybe the first time, and they have a section set to Remember Me that has images of Yesterland attractions. There’s the original Disneyland sign, the buckets, House of Tomorrow, and...

I'd say I hit most of the SoCal parks pretty regularly (Knotts and Universal at least once a year, saw Six Flags and SeaWorld for the first time in years this past year), and yeah, I would agree that the comparison point that people make about Disney declining is definitely with the DLR of the...

I do think it depends very much on your personal situation. For example, for locals, the park is still an exceptionally good value, especially as prices for travel soar in recent months. I still think Magic Keys are probably undervalued compared to the value they provide, but not everyone is...

My kingdom for the Samuelis to buy the Angels as well so I can be rid of Moreno.

Just to chime in, Pan at TDS was one of the two rides (the other being Journey to the Center of the Earth) that I wish we had done more than twice when we visited in December. The ride is just so damn cool, everything feels immersive in a way that Transformers at the very least never did. The...

Disney has been trying to kill Sora for years, nice to see they finally something in a way that everyone could be satisfied.

They could try spinning! That's a good trick.

Oh, the Wiggles were huge. At their height they were doing an arena tour and everything, as they hit at the right time for an edutainment music group. They even got their own theme park land and dark ride in their home of Australia!

(I will also note that my takeaway from the experiment was that the original Fastpass system was the best for the resort, as it lowered your average actual wait while increasing ridership at a fair rate compared to no Fastpass, while LL created a monster that had less people riding more...

The Defunctland about lines ran the experiment and showed that Fastpass and LL tended to increase the wait for everything, because you fill your time waiting for your LL/FP by waiting for another ride.

Opposite side, between the pier and the parade route. Theoretically, that water feature on the east side will remain. Would be nice to add a fountain of some kind there just to give something visually appealing.

MY COMPASS

Six Flags/Cedar Fair was always going to cut some parks after the merger to streamline some things, so if there was an underperforming park, there was always a chance they were going to be sold off to a more regional park chain. Throw in Great America up in Santa Clara closing sometime in the...