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This is actually banter for once... ;)Not my fault she de-tagged herself and originally left a rude comment on the pic...

De-tagging, it's not for everyone...

Unintentional hilarity GO!

Since Merlin are constantly expanding their portfolio at a unbelievably high rate (for better or worse opinion), I think it's time to collate all of these news bits and bobs into one little topic...Sooooooooo to begin with, Merlin are hitting up the Japanese market with a Tussauds and a Discovery Centre...http://www.blooloop.com/PressReleases/Merlin-Entertainments-Group-Global-Leisure-Giant-comes-to-Japan/2909So, is it a good thing that Merlin are expanding worldwide at this rate? Or should they be focusing on their current attractions and go for quality over quantity?

Pictures on my Facebook... Hell yeah!http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150665107675220.699370.558160219&l=53862a264eIf I can be arsed later, I will do a trip report... But I'm too tired and it's too warm...

I wish I could believe this, but if the staff consider that the PA has been turned down, someone needs to actually pay attention...The fact that the actual fencing vibrates with the announcements is an absolute testament to how stupidly loud the operator's PA is, and that something needs to be done...As an aside, I believe that the Conservation Evening appeared to go very well, but suffered from a lack of organisation with some of the feeding events and a distinct lack of food places... More of these kind of events need to happen though...

Gorgeous?No... It was TOO WARM...*dies*

OMG IT WAS SO GODDAM WARM...I took a fair number of pics so expect them tomoz, since I cannot be arsed tonight...*collapses*

Weird Al for the win!

Yeah, reschedule it on the day of the meet! Btw, Nicky's well enough, huzzah!

No mods, the trip will descend into anarchy where TPM will take over Pirate Falls and begin a cull of all the children...And all because there were no mods or mature people...

Massive chance me and Nicky will not be attending tomoz now, since she's extremely ill... I shall text Peter in the morning to inform him of what our plan is, but could well be not attending...

It has 4 floors... I only went on two, which is lucky cos I probably could have spent my entire account worth of money in there...

Meanwhile, at Fuji-Q...

^Happens for a lot of image types... It's annoyingly random it seems in what photos it allows...

M&M World opened up in Leicester Square this week... And it's AMAZING <3So much merch and chocolate over FOUR floors... Can spend soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much money in there... As proven by this £11 bag of M&Ms...

The Rock approves of Splash Mountain...

Depends how pushy management will be for getting it back up and running again...Splicing will obviously be a lot more technical and complicated... Tricky to see what way they'll go with this... Be good as a quick fix...

^You got priority passes cos you had a fat boat?Goddam disabled posers...

I wasn't the only one...

It's way too hard to predict how much wear and tear will occur to part of an attraction... It obviously passed the start of year checks, but it couldn't be predicted that it would then later become unsafe...It's exactly like any other breakdown...Closing the area wouldn't make much difference, and indeed would cause mass issues with routes to Katanga, and based on seeing how annoying it was for everyone with the Spinball/Oblivion pathway shut the other day, it's not a good idea...And come on, why did the ride have downtime the other times? Oh yeah, it caught fire... Not exactly unreliable mechanically is it?

The 80s, providing so many guilty pleasures...

A rather unique construction update from the Theme Park Guy of Hong Kong Disney's expansions...http://www.thethemeparkguy.com/park/hong-kong-disneyland/

It looked AWFUL... Never saw the appeal of looking like a pillock in front of the entire Mexicana area...

Riddlesdown? That's Purely, NOT Croydon...(Ok, technically I'm the same, but Thornton Heath is MUCH more Croydon than Purley )