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Theme Park Review 2013 Trip Reports

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Part Four

Hirakata Park, Fushimi Inari-taisha, and More

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The third credit we all grabbed was the park's Crazy Mouse coaster, which is directly across from Red Falcon. According to the RCDB, this is a Reverchon spinning mouse but for the life of me I don't recall any spinning.

I like this pissed-off fairy chick.

BASSH, the flume ride, gets bonus points for the elephants and the kinda bloody monster head carving you go through at the top of the final lift hill.

No one will mistake BASSH for Kali River Rapids, but this "Journey to Asian Jungle" does have some decorative elements and static animal figures, like the wicked-big snake in the tree above...

...and this pachyderm trio alongside the splashdown trough – they tried a little, gotta give them props for that. Do the elephants squirt water when it's really hot? I hope so; they didn't for us.

In this shot above, you can see a bit of the monster head behind the trees. Totally respectable.

The rapids ride, on the other hand, is forgettable. Let's get the last two credits out of the way.

 

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