The big day arrives as The Parks for the Thirty-Fourth – Tokyo Drift gets properly underway with my first visit to Tokyo Disneyland for my birthday! This celebration includes a Mickey Waffle for breakfast, showstopper E-Ticket attraction The Enchanted Tale of Beauty & the Beast, Walt Disney’s classic The Jungle Cruise, Pooh’s Hunny Hunt – Disney’s first trackless dark ride, Country Bear Vacation Jamboree, buffet lunch at the Crystal Palace Restaurant, Star Tours, Mickey’s Magical Music World, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, Mickey’s PhilharMagic, my first time seeing a Disney electrical parade in over a decade with Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade Dreamlights and more!Continue reading →
The Parks for the Thirty-Fourth – Tokyo Drift gets underway at last! This trip takes me to Japan to celebrate my 34th birthday by visiting not one, not two, not three but five theme parks – including the bucket list dreams of Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea at the Tokyo Disney Resort! But first, I had to get there! I flew with Turkish Airlines in Economy from London Heathrow to Istanbul Airport aboard an Airbus A321neo and then on to Tokyo Narita on a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. You’ll see my lunch at Carl’s Jr in Istanbul, all the food and seat facilities onboard each flight, my lunch the next day at Saizeriya in Ikspiari at Tokyo Disney Resort, a look around my hotel room at the CVS Bay Hotel and all my first day purchases from Bon Voyage, the Disney Store and my first visit to a Japanese konbini (convenience store), Lawson!Continue reading →
A quick taste of what’s to come in my #Japan #Vlog Series, The Parks for the Thirty-Fourth – Tokyo Drift. This trip includes flights between London Heathrow and Tokyo Narita via Istanbul, Tokyo Disneyland, Tokyo DisneySea, Universal Studios Japan, Nakashima Spa Land, Fuji-Q Highland, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, journeys on the Shinkansen, a load of Japanese food and more!Continue reading →
My London Area Theme Park Week concludes with a visit to Chessington World of Adventures, the park I’ve least recently visited previously. I went in without doing much to refresh my memory so I could have an explore and discover some things for myself on the day. It paid off quickly when I stumbled across the World of Jumanji headliner Mandrill Mayhem – an incredible launched shuttle wing coaster.Continue reading →
My #London area Theme Park week continues with a visit to the UK’s most popular Theme Park, LEGOLAND Windsor. Headlining this trip were my first rides on the new duelling (and racing!) family shuttle coasters of Minifigure Speedway – Team Legends and Team All Stars. Other rides on the cards included LEGO Ninjago The Ride, Flight of the Sky Lion – the UK’s first flying theatre ride, The Dragon, Dragon’s Apprentice, Fire and Ice Freefall, Haunted House Monster Party, Laser Raiders, meeting with the fishes at Lego City Deep Sea Adventure, LEGOLAND Express & the Hill Train.Continue reading →
I returned to Thorpe Park later in September following my day riding every roller coaster in the park for a more relaxed mid week visit, figuring I could check out the Ghost Train for the first time while I was there. Did I manage to get it done? Let’s find out! While I was there, I of course also made sure to revisit the major roller coasters again, with spells on Hyperia, Colossus, SAW: The Ride, The Swarm, Nemesis Inferno, Stealth & The Walking Dead: The RideContinue reading →
I’ve joined the Merlin Annual Pass club and to celebrate my newfound freedom to visit theme parks whenever I like, I hit up the UK’s most thrilling theme park – Thorpe Park – with the goal of scratching my roller coaster itch. Would I be able to ride every single roller coaster at the park – all eight of them – in one single day, on my first try? Join me on this vlog to find out the answer.Continue reading →
This summer Madame Tussauds unveiled a collection of new Taylor Swift wax figures for some of their venues around the world which celebrated the record breaking phenomenon of the Eras Tour, including one right here in London depicting the iconic Lover Era Bodysuit which she opened the show with. So naturally, I had to go and check that out and I shot some video of everything along the way. Continue reading →
Testing out my new DJI Osmo Action 4 camera. I picked up the Osmo Action 4 to use for things like capturing footage onboard theme park rides where using my DJI Pocket 2 or my iPhone 15 Pro Max handheld wouldn’t be possible or at least impractical. In this sample footage, I test out using the camera for vlogging, walking chest-mounted, in low light, using slow motion & a walking hyperlapse. This video is in HLG HDR and the levels from the Osmo Action 4 have been adjusted for HDR presentation.Continue reading →
Join me for my visit to the V&A Museum in London to check out the Taylor Swift Songbook trail, a series of installations straight from The Tortured Poets Department…Er, I mean, @TaylorSwift ‘s archives showcasing clothes and other items from throughout her music career. Then, we head over to Wembley Park to check out installations for Swifites attending The Eras Tour at Wembley Stadium like the famous Swiftie Steps and the “Get Ready For It” mural.Continue reading →
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