Photo TR: Ferrari World, Wild Wadi, Aquaventure and more

[Snowboard246Which came first the turtle or the donkey?]

This place looks sick!! I really want to go but the odds of me going over there anytime soon is next to none. Great photos!

[dammie16@vt.eduMy Mini Cooper > My User Name]

How do you go about the panoramic photos? Those are awesome, I can do it on my phone but was wondering how you did it since they don't look like phone pictures!

Awesome TR, that place is just beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

[RoCoBonafide Donkey Expert]

...I am speechless... freaking awesome report, my friend, just amazing.

That shot of the tiny people on the roof really slams home the epic scale of the building. Fantastic.

And the night shots?

I could go on and on...

[LedgyWhen I grow up, I want to breed donkeys!]

Thanks for the great response, so far!

Don't feel bad about missing V12...it is NOTHING like Valhalla!

Elissa, you must know best after your walk behind the scenes! By the way, you look great in the rain coat , did you take one home for some bedroom games with Robb

How do you go about the panoramic photos? Those are awesome, I can do it on my phone but was wondering how you did it since they don't look like phone pictures!

Awesome TR, that place is just beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

I normally did take those panorama by my HD-Cam and a PC, but like you said, I found a great app for panorama pictures.

I now use my iPhone 4 with the "Autostitch"-App by Cloudburst Research it´s really an great app. You have to keep an eye on the pixel size, in what the picture will be saved. Some apps reduze the pixelrate and don´t keep the original pixelsize - this app keeps the size of every picture, so you get a very large picture with rates above the normal pixelrate of one picture. And it stitches in a very good quality, don´t have many mistakes with this app. I shoot at first the pics with the normal iPhone camera app (with HDR on) and use after that the programm with the before taken pics.

Holger "who really thinks he should have planed the Trip by Elissa, because they visit places, I never heard about in the VAE region, but enjoyed what he planed, too"

[eblTPR's Olden Goldie]

My Droid 2 also has an autostitch application or feature for photos, but I still need to learn how to use it.

EXCELLENT report! I have officially added going there to my kick-the-bucket list.

Eric

[dammie16@vt.eduMy Mini Cooper > My User Name]

I use the droid x app for that as well, I was just curious though that's awesome!

[NoxegonI'm a culture ho]

Don't feel bad about missing V12...it is NOTHING like Valhalla!

I'll second that. V12 is unmitigated crap. TAER IT DOWN!@

(not that I generally advocate disposal of amusement rides, but really, V12 is a sorry excuse for a log flume)

[ChroniqTPR's nicest person EVAR!!!]

I really enjoyed your trip report. The photos we the most comprehensive of any I've seen so far and the panoramas were really impressive. It seems based on all the different trip reports I've read, Ferarri World will not be known for their ride uptime. There were 5 or 6 rides & attractions down during your visit and the place just had it's grand opening. Doesn't seem like a good sign.

[LedgyWhen I grow up, I want to breed donkeys!]

^mmmh, I guess there is something true in it and especially when they sold the park, because of money issues.

But to speak for the park, it was the first day after the Grand Opening and some attractions were closed because of the installations overthere.

The tribune and some other scaffolds were built around the entrance of GeForce, so it can´t be opened that day. They told me the same reason for the "Paddock" and the "Pitwall" attraction, but I didn´t see anything built up there. I don´t know whether the attractions opened the next days, but I hope so.

They told me "V12" and "Flying over Italy" are the only two attractions which aren´t fully functional and can´t tell me, when they plan to open them.
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I think this park has a good chance to get successful, if they can get enough visitors in the first year and I recognize many active construction zones in the surrounding area. For example for the Water Park and I really think for WB Moviepark, but I´m not sure. But the construction zone was at the place I think WB should be.

I hope so and will come back there in the next years. Hopefully with TPR

Ledgy "Who forget the Watermarks in his pictures!!! Sorry for that."
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OK, I´m working on the next part of my Trip report (Wild Wadi, Aquaventure and some City impressions), not that it´s that big and special, but I want to realize some videos again and have to wait for them. So keep on watching

[SLUSHIEIt's hot outside, and I have a headache]

It probably feels different being there in person, since the place is so huge. Looking at it in these photos, the whole look of the place it pretty underwhelming. Absolutely nothing about the place screams high quality and performance. The entrance to the place is covered in a giant piece of red plastic. It has a modern feel, but a cheap modern feel. I bet that IKEA across the way came in handy.

I mean just look at this sign for an attraction.


The illustration doesn't really have good style to it, it just looks like a poor attempt at trying to make something cooler.

I'm not saying they should have built the whole place out of magnesium wrapped in carbon fiber, but the place is too simplistic.

I know they have more cars to view somewhere else in there, but I don't get why they put 4 of basically the exact some model out front.