Recent content by CoastinBear

I was really keen to get involved in the restoration and subsequent running of Dreamland. At the first "Open Gate" event, I happily signed up as a volunteer. I then returned later that month for what I thought would be the first of several "clean up the site" events. A day spent scraping weeds...

Re: ACCIDENT At Dreamworld Australia! Re-opening on Friday 28 October? Quicker turnaround than Alton Towers after The Smiler. Still, it's just small rides and animal-related stuff with the gate proceeds going to the Australian Red Cross, which is - better(?) - and it's being named as a...

Re: ACCIDENT At Dreamworld Australia! Reports now coming in that a mum and three of her friends were on the raft, and her two children saw it all happen as they waited at the exit ramp with their father. Report from Courier Mail I can't even... :(

Re: ACCIDENT At Dreamworld Australia! Makes sense, TilenB. There was a boat at the disembarking platform, one after it having just come off the lift, and the raft that overturned would have been on the last section of the lift which would, presumably, stop until the mechanism that holds the...

Re: ACCIDENT At Dreamworld Australia! The Mirror are showing pictures of the Buzzsaw rollercoaster with the following:

Re: ACCIDENT At Dreamworld Australia! Those slats on the conveyor are rather widely-spaced - not seen a gap that big before. If there was any tipping backwards of the raft due to the raft in front getting stuck, for example, then the rear part of the tyre could have got wedged between the...

Re: ACCIDENT At Dreamworld Australia! The media reports have been all over the place, trying to confirm "facts" that they obviously do not have. Our own trusty Sun and Mirror are calling it a rollercoaster. The park have now confirmed three deaths and another critically injured. Very sad...

The European Coaster Club posted on Twitter yesterday (26 Sept) that Olympia Looping has been confirmed for Winter Wonderland. Hope that's the case, but earlier in the day, someone else (didn't recognise them) had Tweeted that the contract had been signed and OL is going to be there, but then...

The BBC, rather unhelpfully, have missed the essential part of that statement by the Health and Safety person. Preceding the "a 1.5 tonne family car travelling at 90mph"part is the phrase: "the train had kinetic energy equivalent to...".

Re: Blackpool Pleasure Beach: Project 2018 Isn't Alexander one of the jugglers from Eclipse?

Revolution at BPB first, Thunderlooper second.

Ah! Mister Twister! So many happy memories of a crazy evening back in '92 where I rode the old beast at the original Elitch's Gardens again and again. That was the only time I went to the park - so pleased I managed to ride the original. And, more recently, the removal of Cyclone at...

Revolution at Blackpool Pleasure Beach back in 1979!

This sounds like the accident that happened a couple of decades ago on one of those side-friction water chute rides - like Vikingar (it didn't happen at Blackpool, I must add). The lift, 180-degree turn at the top and the descent had metal arches going over the track which were covered in...

The Big One at Blackpool - opening season, riding until 1.00am, again and again. Then pizza. Ah! The good old days...