ReviewTyme

2020 was a weird year in the world of Theme Parks, with countless attractions delayed, cancelled or paused, it is becoming incredibly difficult to keep track of all that is happening. Thankfully, if everything stays on track we may see a very eventful year in 2021 for theme parks around the world.

The Disney College Program, a dream for many students all over the world but more than that a dream situation for Disney.

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is an absolutely breathtaking addition to Disneyland and Walt Disney World... but was it the right addition?

20th Century Fox World Dubai would have contained a wealth of attractions from incredibly popular franchises, from The Simpsons to Alien and even one of the most adult franchises ever to be included in a theme park

Join us as we step foot into Fort Snobbish, and reveal the story, secrets and behind the scenes magic that makes Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure so incredible.

The concept of Fastpass seems like a no brainer, remove guests from queues and they’ll be happier but overall the benefits aren’t as clear cut as they seem.

The Tokyo Disney Resort is one of the best Disney Resorts in the entire world, which is rather ironic as... it's not Disney. So how did they manage to convince the Disney company to go against Walt's wishes and proceed to create one of the best Disney resorts worldwide?

Dubai Parks and Resorts, opening up in 2016 is the largest scale project ever undertaken in the history of themed entertainment but when it opened, no-one came...

Shanghai Disneyland and its respective resort was an absolute monstrous undertaking for the Walt Disney Company and would become one of the biggest single investments in the history of the company. But how did this resort come to be, how did it secure it’s premium location and why China anyway?

The Sydney Royal Easter Show is back! After a year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia’s largest annual ticketed event has returned. But is the show in this slightly different format still a great day out for the whole family?

Tokyo DisneySea is ReviewTyme’s favourite theme park in the world, and in just a few years, it’ll be even better!

Islands of Adventure at the Universal Studios Orlando Resort, one of the world’s greatest theme parks and one that almost failed simply due to a poor marketing decision.

In 2018, 31 amusement parks opened their gates to the public across China. 79 projects were under construction during the same year and 45 were planned to be constructed afterwards. Considering that during this same time period, only 2 amusement parks opened in the US, it’s clear to say that the country is experiencing a domestic theme park boom.

Opening with the theme park on September 4, 2001, StormRider was nestled at the back of ‘Port Discovery’ and whose show building made up much of the vista of the land. As a whole, it was a simulator on steroids, the next evolution of attractions such as Star Tours, but was it a worthy successor?

Over 20 years before Volcano Bay opened Disney was planning their own water park surrounding a Volcano.

On May 1st, 1989 Disney-MGM Studios opened. The park was physically much smaller than both the Magic Kingdom and Epcot, and it only featured two attractions at opening, The Great Movie Ride and the Studio Backlot Tour but rather surprisingly given these facts it opened to overwhelming success.

Most of us know Winnie the Pooh as a slow-moving traditionally styled Fantasyland Dark Ride but in Tokyo Disneyland, their version implemented a brand new never before seen ride system.

Space Fantasy: The Ride opened to the public on the 18th of March, 2010. What is essentially Universal’s answer to Space Mountain at Disneyland, the story itself is far more complicated than it’s Disney counterpart and features a dying sun, a space fairy and a bunch of cute stardust characters that are embracing the sweet release of death in a pact to save the sun. As somebody who speaks no Japanese, this ride has lovingly received the name Fever Dream: The Ride, and will leave you grinning ear-to-ear thinking ‘What the f-’

Taking over the entirety of the Walt Disney Studios Park for a number of nights each Halloween Terrorific Night was Disney's largest ever horror event.

What makes a theme park good? Is it the rides, the theming, the uniqueness or a combination of all of those factors? Why are European theme parks so good? Let’s explore that on this episode of ReviewTyme.

Universal Studios Japan is one of the world’s most popular theme parks, visited by over 14 million guests a year. But the 20-year history of the park has been anything but smooth sailing.

Disney is at war... but not with who YOU might think.

In the early confused years of DCAs history, though seasonal holiday offerings contained some truly bizarre holiday decorations and even a show so poorly received and impossible to see it only lasted for a single season.