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Woah, symmetry. Can't be having that now can we, things looking all balanced and erm, harmonious.

There are 11 in my Top 10 too! In no particular order... Space Mountain Cosmic Rewind Soarin (any version) Spaceship Earth Test Track (any version) Horizons Journey Into Imagination (v1.0, obviously) Tower of Terror Dinosaur Mission Space Thunder Mountain Hmm...7 in EPCOT. And Maelstrom only...

Yep, I've stayed there too and also thought it was cool!

And Europa Park, and Phantasialand, and Heide Park! And the best thing is...not a move IP in sight. True storytelling and placemaking from people who still know how to do it.

I've ridden Oblivion while it was snowing, they're not made any differently. But no, I wouldn't expect coasters to run with passengers with ice or snow sticking to the tracks. However, this is what happens when they do run...

Alton Towers' Hex is another fine example.

I visited in November, as part of a WDW holiday. I had bought my tickets online about 8 months in advance, I picked a "quiet" day specifically for lower prices. It was $130 for entrance ticket with all day dining, plus taxes etc. Pretty sure the all day dining was at the lower end of your scale...

Well, Disney did exactly that with Harmonious! Nothing screams experiencing other cultures more than getting them to sing "our" songs. But no, of course I disagree too, the shaman has her own song to sing.

I like to think there is a difference between imagined and fictional. As DavidDL implied, imagined can be synonymous with mythological, i.e. something which is not real but is believed to be real, in folklore and legends etc. It's a real thing in peoples' minds and might even have a base or an...

Yes, you're right. It's so tiny compared to everything else, it's not the focus of attention at all in those first few moments. It took at least a couple of rides before I even realised it was there. And unless you happen to be looking at it when it disappears, you probably wouldn't have known...

There's also an immersion and narrative breaking moment when we're told we must urgently make our way to evacuation shuttles, then we go through the doors to find another group before us in a huge crush in that waiting room (err, where did they come from?) and have to hang around for about 15...

The narrative through the pre-shows is fine (if people are bothered to watch them instead of chatting or looking at their phones, or rushing to the right hand side of the room to face the doors instead of watching the pre-show - another small design issue), what is sometimes unclear is what is...

My hearing is not great, on-ride narration is one of the things I struggle with, like not being able to understand someone talking directly in my ear in a roomful of other people talking. I'm nowhere near deaf though, it's certain frequencies and an inability to distinguish sounds in a noisy...

I've only just binge-watched the "first" series from last summer over the weekend, it was just languishing on my PVR for...various reasons. Anyway, FWIW, I thought the first few episodes were a bit naff but, OMG, 73 Yards. The best psych horror since Blink?? Dot and Bubble also was very strong...

I think, aesthetically, it needs a drop tower bolted to the side.

Hmm, I wrote something recently about a survey I received after my visit in November: https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/cars-themed-attractions-at-magic-kingdom.984443/page-374#post-11094189 TLDR: These surveys encourage people to say something positive rather than negative. People will...

Test Track 2.0 queue Soarin (original) soundtrack Spaceship Earth soundtrack Space Mountain star tunnel queue Reflections of China soundtrack

So does irrelevant IP. You have to let go of your opinion of Communicore Hall. It is what it is. It is the future. The old Communcore is dead. Don't write about it, because others will criticise you in bold letters for having an opinion.

Well, I hope it closes soon... (jk) In November I made a point of marathoning it ten times one afternoon as it would be gone by my next visit, so I've said "goodbye". And due to a quirk of batching on my very last go (due to getting delayed exiting the pre-show room while chatting with a CM) I...