ThemeParkRider

I've never been myself, but I get the impression that this expansion is desperately needed. I'm actually most interested in the Frozen themed area. Since Disneyland Paris only has two gates, there's still the right amount to work with where they can integrate these IPs in a way that won't upset the existing themes of the parks as a whole. 

Well said haha I highly doubt the existing bus and boat transportation would be anywhere near sufficient for the kind of attention that area will get.

I just saw some potential designs on WDW News Today for a new 350 room hotel being constructed next to Swan and Dolphin, same owners.

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The new hotel, which will be leased to the Tishman Hotel Corporation just as the Swan and Dolphin are, will be adjacent to Fantasia Gardens Mini-Golf. The yet-to-be-named hotel will be 13 stories tall, contain 350 guest rooms (151 suites, 199 standard), meeting space, a fitness center, elevated pool deck, and a rooftop restaurant and lounge.

The rooftop restaurant and lounge will feature a dedicated ground floor entrance and elevator for those not staying at the resort. It will be a 375 seat upscale restaurant with a partial expo kitchen. The bar will have about 40 seats. The windows will be floor to ceiling to provide a great view of Walt Disney World, including a rooftop trellis area for unobstructed views.

The pool will be about 2500 square feet in size, featuring an inside and outside bar.

The new parking lot will accommodate 321 vehicles, with 50 spaces reserved for mini-golf parking. The Fantasia Gardens mini-golf will continue to operate mostly unchanged, with the exception of the entry area and some new backstage facilities necessitated by the new construction.

No completion date for the project has been given, but construction is set to begin soon.

To my fellow Disney history buffs, here's a little video I made from my family's vacation videos. Twenty years later, it's surprising what's entirely different and what's exactly the same. This one just covers what I had of Magic Kingdom, but I plan to make another one of Epcot and Animal Kingdom (which had just opened at the time) when I go back in June.

At the same time I'm surprised to see the Gondola system speculated to open by 2019, which is relatively quick given they just announced it last year. I feel like that may have been a case where they waited to announce it to play it safe. In fact I didn't hear any rumors of it floating around until right before the announcement.

On 2/20/2018 at 4:42 PM, Viper26 said:

I wonder if Disney could install a communication based train control system (CBTC) on their monorails similar to what the MTA has done to the 7 line where an operator isn't required and trains run using radio circuits.

On 2/16/2018 at 5:14 PM, GAcoaster said:

Guests have not been allowed to ride with the pilots since the accident in 2009. That is/was for safety, and we are hearing it may change back again soon since positive train control was added a year ago. Of course there is less room in the nose since one of the four seats was removed for the massive computer control system. 

I think I'd heard that the monorails are almost entirely automated now, and I may have seen them running some tests with the new system about a year back, if my memory serves me right?

10 hours ago, Pineracer said:

 

The resort's open year round actually, which i thought was weird because it tends to snow in Paris.

Many of the attractions close for rehab in what we would consider their off-season. At this moment there's at least 6 major rides that I can count closed between the two parks.

Awesome, I'll check it out!

That is a pretty good job on those, especially considering you are using original scenery. I do admit, it is quite shocking when you realize just how many things weren't included with the base game. Thank goodness for RCT2's ability to have custom scenery!

 

Biggest suggestion I can make when it comes to building in RCT2: don't worry about diagonals. Instead, "play by the game's rules" so to speak. Map everything out as if it had to be on a 90 degree angle. Yes, this will cause some pain and heartache (I'm sweating bullets about the Movietown curvature myself as I install Lakefront into my rec), but it will end up looking much better and probably lay out better overall if you only worry about things that are facing dramatically different directions.

That's what matters, and I wish more people just built for themselves. If I had to suggest a platform if you move on, Planet Coaster would be the way to go if possible. Some of the things people have made in that look absolutely incredible! Of course, in my biased opinion, I would say stick with RCT2 and see what else you can conjure up. You have a very solid RCT2 skill-base; the creative solution of representing the hot air balloon with an observation deck was great! I would suggest trying to find some custom scenery and seeing what you can add with a second version, and then a third and so on. Just my two cents though. Great job on a very unique RCT2 project! Hope to see more work from you in the future!

KC

 

Thanks for taking the time to read this! I'm glad to have people read this who play the game and understand the process. You have some good advice. It was definitely a learning experience too. Custom scenery would be very helpful. In the past I've been too lazy to really look into it, however in the future I would like to if I ever get the time to do this again. I've never really done much custom scenery except a little bit in RCT3, and I used to use a website called modstothemax on games like Ultimate Ride Disney Coaster many years ago. Planet Coaster seems like a great game, years ago I pre-ordered a game I was very excited for at the time... Roller Coaster Tycoon World. I haven't played it much. So you've built GA on RCT2 before, I can see! And it sounds like you've done the whole park?

Moving the park entrance to its new location in 1976?

Talon closed is surprising I do not think I have ever saw it closed out of all the times I have been to the park.

I know that heavy rain warrants closing for Batman, I think it has something to do with track lubricant? But I could be totally wrong. Maybe its for the same reasons.

I thought they got rid of all the Voodoo merchandise in 2008, I bought 4 different shirts when they were 75% off that year since I thought that would be the last chance to get them.

I thought so too. Many years ago I bought a pack of four magnets: Hydra, Steel Force, Talon, and Voodoo. They still sell them along with a Tshirt!

Made a quick trip to Dorney on Sunday, 5/7. It was supposed to be fairly cool with a small chance of rain, so knowing Dorney I didn't think we would have any problems getting on anything.

My girlfriend and I arrived at the gates for opening at 10. At the metal detectors, they do have you raise your phone above your head. However the security guard noticed that my phones and cameras didn't even set it off.

Our first ride was Possessed. This was my first time on this ride since I could never get anyone to on on with me in the past. They were finishing up the test ride as we walked up. We sat in the middle. It was a nice ride but nothing worth re-riding that day.

Stinger was closed for technical difficulties so we walked down to Steel Force. They were only running the black train today. Got on the front row, literally no wait. Steel Force is great, probably one of my favorites.

Next we did both Dominators and Demon Drop. Demon Drop was.... rough, but not necessarily as bad as I remember it. But its a great ride, I really do enjoy the experience. All walk-ons.

After we rode Hydra in the back row. No wait for this either, except they were only cycling one train. I love how quiet Hydra is, you can barely hear the train go past if you're standing in line.

We walked up to try and ride the train by the White Water Landing, but that was closed today.

Checked out some of the merchandise in the shops. Its been almost 10 years since Possessed opened and they STILL sell items that say Voodoo. That's crazy!

The Kaleidoscope was closed, and there were cherry pickers and construction equipment in the ride area.

At around 11:45, we ate lunch at the Coasters Drive-in along the midway. My girlfriend and I shared a double bacon cheeseburger with fries. They clipped us at $15, but I must say it was delicious. Wasn't dry at all and way superior to anything they sell at Six Flags.

By this point it started to rain some more. We checked out the overhead ride called Snoopy's Rocket Express. Cute and relaxing, I actually would enjoy this a lot if it was a little longer.

I practically had to pry my girlfriend on ThunderHawk. Also a walk on, and also only 1 train. Sat on a non-wheel seat in the last car. Definitely much smoother than sitting in the front.

Earlier I had seen Stinger running in the distance. By the time we got to the entrance, the ride was down again. Not surprised.

Rode Steel Force once more in the back row, then we walked over to the Snoopy Gift shop and grabbed an ice cream cone. They sell these fudge push-pops which looked very interesting. Has anybody tried them before?

We rode the Dodgems next, which was a very interesting experience. It seemed like they had way too many cars in such a small area. They were having problems with people driving in the wrong direction, which would frequently cause block-ups and traffic jams. At one point it was so bad that they had to stop the ride and spend 5 or 10 minutes moving all the cars around. They called it their first major traffic jam of the year.

It was raining pretty hard and was getting quite cold. It was 2:45 by this point.

Talon was closed so we walked over to the carousel. The girl running the ride was allowing re-rides, probably because there was nobody there to know otherwise

The rain wasn't letting up and we had done everything we had wanted to, so we decided to call it quits. It was a very successful day, and the park was empty. I just don't do too well in the cold, it makes me tired. I took some video but not a lot of photos, it was very grey and not photogenic.

I would love to finally make a trip back in the Fall to do the Haunt. I've never been and I hear that its pretty good.

Ride Count:

Possessed

Steel Force x2

Dominator (both towers)

Demon Drop

Hydra the Revenge

Snoopy's Rocket Express

ThunderHawk

Dodgems

Antique Carousel

That's awesome, can't wait to see it!

They still haven't confirmed it publicly, but they have commented saying that they have "exciting announcements" in store regarding future transportation. There's a few different sites with various self-made diagrams on where people theorize the stations will be exactly. We know that there will likely be 3 separate lines with 6 stations.

I was wondering about this house too. I drive past it very frequently.

This coaster is also a clone of Flight of Fear at Kings Dominion, right? Has that one had any issues?

Fantastic idea. The new changes to both Hollywood Studios and Epcot will be bringing in much more traffic. I love the bus system but I think that it's starting to show its limits. Hopefully this will also make Art of Animation and Pop Century a bit less isolated.

Does anyone know of any buildings that have attics or basements that are interesting? I know teepee had a tunnel, anything else?

The teepee had a tunnel? I know the air was pumped from below Best of the West.

Yeah El Toro 's station is a disaster. I just meant the line, though.

I was surprised that they removed the Chiller's queue. The way they used it for Fright Fest always led me to assume that whatever they ended up putting there would one day use that line too.

I think '05 and '06 happened to have a good combination of older attractions on their way out and new attractions. Just by circumstance, those were two years I didn't have the opportunity to go to the park but I imagine to be able to ride Hydro Flume, the Chiller, and Toro all in the same day would have been amazing.

I'm not a big Avatar fan either. I think its really bold and weird move for them to suddenly make a huge investment in this after so much time has passed. But I feel like I'm going to have to relax and trust that they know what they're doing, they clearly have a lot of faith in this. I was saddened by Maelstrom's closing but Frozen turned out to be great. And I look at what they're doing with Hollywood Studios and I couldn't be happier about that. I also would have rather seen a Beastly Kingdom, but just because I dislike the Avatar movies might not necessarily mean that they don't make for an immersive Disney experience. Its also not going to be like the Star Wars expansion in Disneyland where if it flops (which I highly doubt it will) it could ruin the integrity of the park. If its bad, Avatar at Animal Kingdom wouldn't really change anything. And at the very least it could finally give me a reason to stay at the park for more than a couple of hours.

I would like to see a wooden coaster with lights on the track like they have at Hershey.

Jolly Roger

My kids were very worried about today's mist harming it.

I had the same fear, a little OCD with my theme park book collection haha.

there was an Observation area? wow, Coaster Studios Parody makes it sound like that never even existed. I'm guessing the switchbacks now are where that observation area was or around there.

Maybe he didn't even know about it, it didn't last long and today its well-hidden.