Recent content by Dar

They'll probably have some anti-car policies in place to drive people to use public transport. Huge parking costs, discounts with a train ticket, that sort of thing. Traffic and congestion are one of the common factors between nearly all ride applications in this country. At the slightest hint...

I imagine the whole 420ft in the air part attracts a lot riders, with the launch just being the way to get there :p

Saw The Hives in Leeds on Wednesday! Such an amazing show, I am a broken man. I'm not a very expressive person normally, but I expressed myself by jumping around and smashing into other people jumping around. They played a massive set compared to their usual outings, 20 songs and plenty of...

Do you mean for storage & maintenance? Because then it's just another stop on the turntable Or do you mean when they put the trains on to the circuit? In that case, I think there's a small piece of track they can remove to get them into the shed. I think they've chosen that spot for how close...

Oh I've given up on UK parks, I was more pointing to our European friends and what magic they can make happen! (and I was being a touch facetious) :p I just wonder if the 'will' is there to really push the parks to be world class again, or if the team are happy settling in to being the...

I can't wait for a Silverstone situation on a fireworks night! (For the Silverstone round of F1, they implemented surge/demand-based pricing, which got itself all muddled up to the point that prices were going up as people were waiting to finalise their tickets so you could have a £200 ticket...

I think it's great they have a space for wheelchair users

The atmosphere looks incredible! The eye seems very Merlin-esque. Obvious pattern of the teeth moving up and down, rather than random. Why doesn't it sync up with trains leaving the station? It could scream and all the teeth open up while the eye follows the train up the lift. Or something...

I was thinking of a boat ride, either round the shire like you say, or the boat ride west at the end of the story! There's so much of middle earth that would make great attractions, like the story of the first song and the fall of morgoth, but I don't know how much the estate is willing to let...

A drop tower themed to the fall of Barad-Dur seems a nice, easy idea to me. Mystery Castle-style, but the walls are screens and you watch the struggle between Frodo and Gollum as you climb the tower. Once you reach the top, Gollum gets the ring and falls (along with a little pre-drop as you...

Confirmation of sorts from Andreas Andersen that the missing person lost their life. :( https://reflections.liseberg.se/thank-you-for-all-the-kind-messages/ As if losing years of work wasn't already gutting enough, to lose a member of the team as well must be devastating. Slides and steel are...

Isn't the Tolkien estate infamously picky and commandeering when it comes to anything to do with the franchise?

Something doesn't quite sit right with me about the engineer's explanation. Were they constructing the whole project with no fire protection or suppression equipment? Was there no ventilation in the building to prevent the gases building up? Obviously this was a catastrophic accident, but were...

I hadn't seen the clip at 0:44 in that video! Was that part of the main explosion, or was it another mini-belch of flammable gases? (also, where was that filmed from? Liseberg offices?) "That is a bit weird, isn't it?"