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Josiah
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PDX. Designer. Theme park fan. Sometimes seminarian.
I still can't tell if there's any sort of official licensing involved? They use the term "Grinch" but the rest of the campaign feels like they're trying to get as legally close as possible without getting sued.
December 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Truly, who is in charge of stuff over at Dr. Seuss HQ? I haven't seen something this tone deaf since this regular SUV was deemed "Lorax approved."

www.npr.org/2012/03/02/1...
The Lorax Speaks For The SUVs
The Lorax is a tale of saving the trees — which makes it a little surprising that one of the merchandising tie-ins for the new film is with Mazda SUVs.
www.npr.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Ah, watching a walkthrough revealed a cool part of the land story. She’s trying to trap and control monsters (Dracula breaks out and frees the others). The tower at land entrance is her trying to tap into Celestial portal power for her experiments (thus the blue lines running to and through castle)
December 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Same. For us it was the final Dracula and Victoria, and the crossbow Victoria/bride. Upon watching some POVs after, we also realized there were a few figures that had been entirely pulled off stage.

In the end still glad I was able to ride it. Wasn't entirely what I was expecting, but very neat.
December 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Sadly the Monsters finale and other parts weren't working when we rode (and then they closed it for a whole day to, I suspect, fix things for the IAAPA party…).

Really well-themed land (and that portal transition!), but really achieves a cool vibe after dark.
December 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Round up the Save Toad crew, we're goin to Spider-Man!
December 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
In typical Touring Plans fashion, did you first smell all three Podcast The Ride hosts and then rank them?
December 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Go into the app. For me, games is the second row, but there's no dedicated area. There's no way to see genres or new releases ala Apple Arcade.

The main call-to-action is "My List" but if you've never added games to the list, it's empty.

Is this row all the games? Maybe! Users have no idea!
December 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM