This photo was just a gag, but I'll bet you that Japan offers real flying broomsticks for sale before anyone else does.
Hearing this talk was a rare opportunity and was certainly one of the major premiums of the trip. (Dan Cuffe, one of the trip participants, helped to arrange both this presentation and the Spider-Man walk-through; thanks so much again, Dan!)
And before we were let loose into the park, Robb handed out a whole bunch of Express passes and other V.I.P. materials that pretty much assured that we'd wait on almost no lines that day. Sick. 
On the one hand, much of this park will look familiar (at a glance) to anyone who's spent time in a U.S. Universal park. On the other, "Biohazard" is what the "Resident Evil" games and movies are called over there and why doesn't this poster feature my girlfriend Milla Jovovich? That's just not right at all.
Rain or shine, you can always spend time shopping up at the front of the park, thanks to this fairly stunning glass and steel canopy.
My photos don't capture how big that structure really feels when you are under it. Very neato.
But you can see, minus the canopy, this area does look very much like a Universal park, but with a far greater level of detail than we're used to here in Southern California, that's for damn sure.
The rain was a bit of a drag, but it did mean that the park was not very crowded at all. Here's our group walking along one of the New York streets.
With a mild drizzle working up to something wetter, Hollywood Dream was indeed closed, so the first order of business was getting our butts wedged into this park's newest and truly one-of-a-kind coaster.
Put a roller coaster in a big box and throw down with whatever environmental design you can afford, even just a few flashing lights, and I'm as happy as a clam. So I was primed to enjoy myself on Space Fantasy. Little did I know. |
