Recent content by Gavin

I thought it was better because there were fewer zombies. The whole running away from zombies thing has been done to death, so I think it's better that these films are moving away from that. The one thing I didn't like was the scene at the end. It didn't need it and felt a bit too forced and a...

Meh, it was f**ckin' s**t, so good riddance.

I've got absolutely no idea what's now happening with the land for the second park. You're right that Disney lost the option to buy it (at a very low price considering land costs in Hong Kong) since they renewed the option so many times and wouldn't commit when the government gave them a...

I think it's because visitor numbers for Paris are already massive, and people are still going regardless whereas Hong Kong is still trying to build those numbers up. Paris has got the new Frozen and Lion King stuff on the way, but it's been a very long time coming. The Hong Kong park is also...

There's finally (probably) some construction on the "new for 2023" Avengers ride which changed into a Spiderman Tower of Terror ride. Behold the crane! There's also this quite large building going up in the space between Toy Story Land and Frozen Land. There used to be some temporary...

Ouch on the prices for those mall creds. I'm currently creating a plan of attack for those, but now reconsidering some of them, or whether to go for them at all. Ok, let's face it, I will be doing a fair few of them, and I've paid silly money for stuff before, but not when there are so many of...

The shopping mall dark rides were at the total opposite end of the mall than the park end, in a basement. From memory because I can't be arsed to check, there was a ghost train and a shooting ride. This is going back over 6 years ago though. I hate to be "that person", but I thought the other...

I don't have links to verify anything at the moment, but apparently there's some information flying around on Chinese sites about this place also having some kind of zoo/safari park under construction and plans for another theme park very close by. The names currently being thrown out are...

I'm really not sure about the water thing. I'm assuming you just shoot water at other riders. The train ride lasted a pretty long time (maybe as much as half an hour?), and they were sending them out every few minutes, so yeah, there were a lot of them.

This is going to be my mindset next time I get to Orlando. IF there's a major new attraction at one of the Disney parks, I might day-ticket it, but I'm not going to tie myself into multiday/park/hotel packages again.

I think that first "giraffe castle" thing was originally supposed to be a centrepiece to the park / park entrance. It's the first time I've seen that second image of the hotel though. I wonder how much of it has to do with Legacy Entertainment. The Zhuhai parks have both turned out to be pretty...

There will be lots of pictures for a park that only has one small, family coaster. Chimelong Forest Kingdom was announced years ago, with some amazing looking concept art. They started importing animals soon after, but the park/resort only opened fairly recently. It’s potentially doable as a...

I don't put up decorations. I never have whenever I've lived by myself since I just can't be arsed and I'm always away for at least a week over the actual holiday anyway. There's soooooooo much Christmas tat all over Hong Kong anyway, and I actually quite enjoy it, but it's also nice to have a...

I think there were supposed to be screens, but nothing was working, so it was just dark apart from at the top (nowhere near the top) when it opens up to look out of a dirty window. I think I've only done one other (Chengdu?), and I can't remember enough about it to tell if they're similar or not.

I lied. CNY is mid February, and I've just booked it, with a stopover in Doha for a couple of days. It's also Ramadan, so I'm hoping that will just make the whole thing more of an "evening / night time" thing rather than cause any major problems. Everything's refundable up to a couple of days...