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    I assume you are staying off property? That is good that you were stil able to find open times.....I wonder what the availability would have been for park opening time though.... When I was there during week of July 28....most early morning slots were gone unless you had planned ahead for them, which we did....maybe Disney is purposely allocating a certain amount of fastpass times for folks that cannot book 7 days out (non-resort guests)? I hope so because otherwise paying for the app is pointless and a waste of money... Those late time slots you selected were available throughout the day up until maybe 1pm or so each day....then only really late slots were available in the app...of course, with kids heading back to school it should open up availability for all rides across WDW.....
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    I was able to ride the new Tiana's Bayou Adventure re-theme during my recent trip to WDW.... Splash Mountain imo was better...but that is probably my nostalgia for it having a greater sway on my opinion... The Bayou Adventure is fun, colorful and the music is great...but it just seems to be lacking that villian-danger factor that Splash Mountain had....they could have easily included Dr. Facilier and his signature song as you are about to go down the drop....the ride itself is the same...so still good fun
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    Ok...then definitely stick to Disneyland and pack in everything specific to CA vs FL.... Holiday Haunted Mansion Matterhorn Space Mountain (ok...only the music during the ride is different but imo much better than MK) Indiana Jones Temple of Forbidden Eye Mr. Toad's Wild Ride Snow White's Scary Adventures The rest are more or less the same as the FL rides..... Of course, this is just IMO....it can be argued that the entirety of California Adventure is unique and not available in FL....but personally if you only have one day....it's gotta be spent at the original Disneyland park!
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    I can burn through $500 via some pay to play rides or a couple of table restaurants at WDW.....not sure how far $500 goes at Disneyland....you'll get to experience the Haunted Mansion Holiday since Disney seems to kick off Halloween earlier each year! I would definitely hit all the Disneyland specific rides and attractions first....and definitely all of California Adventure since it is specific to the West Coast Disney park...as for food...the only "in park" restaurant I have always liked at Disneyland is the Blue Bayou....specifically their Monte Cristo during lunch...didn't care much for the Downtown Disney restaurants...but I am sure much has changed since I was last there....either way there will be no way not to enjoy your visit...just stay healthy before your trip starts!
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    The one thing that was interesting was the idea of bringing Indiana Jones to...Animal Kingdom? With the dismantling of Dinoland....maybe they will just convert Dinosaur to the Indiana Jones ride from Disneyland....if so, and with apparently a new "Cars Land" coming to the Magic Kingdom....yet more reasons not to make the trip to Disneyland....ugh...I still want to make it out there during their Haunted Mansion Holiday though....which will probably never get brought over to Florida...lol
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    I like the boxart....I'll pick one up on discount at a US retailer if it goes below the jpy msrp....
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    Not only is it fugly....it's also pre-yellowed....so you can immediately fast forward to your eventual dissapointment...
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    Apologies accepted, Captain Raikkonen...
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    Is there something new about these? The KC LV's have been out since December last year....a LV VF-1J...or at least a freebie "head" unit....might be interesting...
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    Probably not....but the sculptor may have been inspired by a Super VF-1 shown in the MtF manga...
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    I would like to see one done using Yamatos....a proper MtF custom...
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    Hard pass
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    Just went through the new Disney lighting lane multi/single pass process for WDW and I was very impressed....I had a bad feeling that Disney was going to mess up on its first day of roll-out...but it actually went very smoothly.... Not only was I able to get everything I needed...but I also was able to get everything I wanted....initial ride picks for each park and park hops are all setup with the times I needed to coincide with my lunch and dinner reservations.... I had already mentally prepared myself to get up each day of my visit to pick all my rides using Genie+ and then had a feeling of dread when they announced that Genie+ would get lauched today just a few days before our trip is to start...luckily I already knew what parks and rides I was going to go for...so getting all that done ahead of my trip was an unexpected bonus!... With that said....Still need to snag our virtual queues for the few rides that are still available....not going for those free virtual queues, under the current pay to play system, is like leaving 100's of dollars on the table....at least that is how I see it....luckily they are fairly easy to snag...at least they were the last few times we have been at WDW....
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    Roy
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    FIrst requirement.....FAILED Second requirement.......FAILED (mostly), clearly it will take a second season to 'clean' this up...but with the last second 'reveal' the hole just got dug deeper.... Final requirement...........PASSED (sort of)...too bad that a show sold to everyone as a 'Sith' series took 8 episode out of 8 total in the series to finally reveal what I can only assume was Darth Plagueis...or at minimum the actual Sith pulling the strings..... I feel that if they had just wiped the entire cast clean by the end of the series' Season 1, it could have then started a good ALL SITH Season 2 or it could have just ended somewhat reasonably.....eliminating the Witch Mountain ladies was a good start....but now that our little green friend is involved, it just makes things even more muddled.....so many new plot holes with just that last second reveal....and worst of all, if there is no Season 2....now the line about no Sith seen for a millenium is at best just another 'certain point of view' remark....maybe Disney will take one from the George Lucas playbook and retcon the line.....'There hasn't been a confirmed encounter with the Sith for a Millenium'...LOL
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    Well, for a brief few seconds, I had hope this would have went in the right direction to keep the series as one self-contained story...but NOPE...
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    I can see many companies failing with this approach....you can't just dismiss the competition, especially if they have a better product....perhaps your company is at the top of their niche so maybe you are looking down at the competition most of the time, but I am sure someone in your company still is 'looking' nonetheless to avoid getting surprised and outdone.... As for the direct successor, I was referring to the 1/60 Yamato VF-1 not the 1/48 Yamato VF-1 (which is technically further back in the 'DX' chain of VF-1 evolution)....and yes, the Bandai DX is better at the moment, but not by as much as one would expect after 10+ years of the Yamato V2's introduction)...again, irrelevant of scale
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    From Bandai's point of view....I guess...they only want to consider their own merch when making such a proclamation...still, would that mean they consider their own HCM as a step backwards? LOL... But in terms of the entirety of "DX" VF-1's produced as a category...I'd say the current Bandai DX is a direct successor to the Yamato VF-1....and it's not even that giant of a leap forward IMO....
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    Cinemark popcorn bucket...
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    So now that we know Bandai has no issues with releasing DX VF-1's w/SSP combo sets...will we see the M&M VF-1J's before we get the VE-1? And which one will be retail vs Tamashii Web?
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    I would have grabbed a backpak if it had the SDF-1 graphic like the t-shirt....instead grabbed the SDF-1 baseball cap... https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?scode=GOODS-04507532&page=rt_02&_gl=1*vrrcrd*_ga*NjE0OTUwNzE5LjE3MTc0MjAwNDU.*_ga_80SCWMLC86*MTcyMTEwMDA0Ni41LjEuMTcyMTEwMDE2Ni4wLjAuMA..
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    Everything is more or less very easy to get these days....this one to me does not feel as special as the original 1/55 VT-1...actually nothing since the Yamato VF-1 V1 actually feels like anything special for me....it's probably a combination of nostalgia and the difficulty in acquiring the original 1/55 outside of Japan during the mid 80's....back then there was no internet or instant payments via Paypal....we had mail order catalogs and paid via checks and money orders and somehow it worked! That's how it was and we liked it....we loved it!
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