Get me the hell out of here.
"Hitachi Presents: Low-Temperature Environments For Proper Food Storage Educational Refrigerator Simulator!" On a skin-meltingly hot and humid afternoon, I'll bet a short, ice-cooled maze filled with oversized plastic vegetables is an E-ticket attraction. Otherwise, it's about as interesting as you'd think a short, ice-cooled maze filled with oversized plastic vegetables would be. Still, better than Drowsy Mountain.
And since I'm not quite finished dumping on Derpderp Mountain yet, Legend of Luxor is way better than that, too. This tidy little horror attraction is just several upright Egyptian "sarcophagi" in a space smaller than most theme park bathrooms. You climb in, they close the lid, and for the next few minutes, you're treated to a bunch of spooky audio-visual surprises, with some occasional rattling of the sarcophagus itself. They even rate your bravery, depending on how much you squeal during the show. In the grand scheme of things, it's fairly gentle, but much scarier than you'd expect from a park that also has something as lame as Dillweed Mountain, so do check it out and that's it, I'm done hating on Dogbreath Mountain.
I did not ride Octopus Panic, but I sure loved looking at it. Great name, great job on all the scenic elements!
If they sold Octopus Panic tee-shirts with this art on 'em, I would have bought one, no kidding.
Steve likes spinny contraptions more than I do; here he is giving Tentacle Porn: The Ride an official endorsement of approval.
Hirakata's Giant Drop wasn't super-tall, but my affection for them has grown considerably over the years and this model offered one more fun way to scope out Hirakata, the city. (And I needed to start warming up for Sea Paradise's Blue Fall, if I was going to ride it at all, which was still an open question because of my vestigial acrophobic anxiety.
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