Recent content by Fleetwood_Mack

Looks short. But the trains at least appear to look a lot better out in the light of day.

I think the trains are ugly, and that "Hyper Coaster 1" would have been a much more aesthetically suitable name for this coaster. But whatever, I'm not about to lose any sleep over it. Hopefully the ride experience will more than make up for the lack of literally anything else.

How's Samurai been running the past few years? I haven't been on it since 2014/2015 but back then it was barely worth riding. You sort of just... moved around a bit. No force whatsoever. Flamingo Park in Hastings had a top scan briefly (maybe around the same time) and I remember stumbling off...

Yeah - in my experience it's never been uncommon for ops to either not write the full queue time down or even just say "don't worry about it"... especially towards the end of the day when they all start looking like they're losing the will to live 😂 I would like to see these systems tightened...

At one point the Merlin parks did have it so that you could only ride with one person using RAP, it just didn't work if you were in a group of people unfortunately. The whole "have your friends wait in the queue and try and get on the same train" theory was an absolute ball-ache in practise. If...

I don't know if it's the same across all Merlin parks, but when I was at Chessington last year they were rolling out a mobile app as a replacement to having the card/booklet. You'd select a ride on the app and it would either give you a time to get on or tell you walk on through. After you'd...

That's exactly why I avoid peak days, opening weekends or any "events". I didn't know RAP queues could reach 2 hours. That's insane if true. I struggled with them a little at Towers a couple of years back, and most of those were 10 minutes max on a quiet weekday in June. If I saw a 1-2 hour RAP...

It sounds like you might not have fully grasped the concept of not every disability being visible. Also, the RAP is not a free form of fast track. After we've been on a ride we have to wait the queue time of that ride before we can rock up to the next. What's unfair about that exactly? As...

This might be the first coaster in this country to genuinely terrify me, not counting the innumerable janky seaside creds we have. I'm ready for it!

This 1000% had to be cost cutting over any type of creative decision. Nothing about that mess says stylistic choice. I'm more worried about when they'll get it open currently. I was eyeing up a late April or early May trip but might leave it a bit later. June/July when the brats are still at...

You've got the Flying Fish pottering about on the other side of the park like the apocalypse isn't happening right next to it. I'm sure Saw will be fine 😂

I love how if this park does go ahead - despite being 60 miles further north it'll be easier to get to from Brighton (or anywhere on the Thameslink Bedford > Brighton line) than Thorpe Park. Just one train all the way up. Whereas Thorpe for me as an epileptic who has been asked not to drive, is...

Spa areas cost an arm and a leg and then another arm and another leg to keep running. Spas in general started dropping like flies during the whole energy crisis last year.

Probably a cost cutting thing. Spas are notoriously expensive to run and maintain. Things like these are closing left, right and centre at the moment. I absolutely love a spa and visit them regulalrly, but I didn't even know towers had one! It's just not something I'd wanna do there.

One of my closest friends lives in Marston M and I visit regularly. It definitely already has that "weird kind of desolate town situated right next to an airport" vibe locked down, so it's the perfect location for a major park like this!