Recent content by Gavin

Yeah, I'd say that one of the reasons that we never got another Aquatrax is that it basically evolved into those tire-launch straddle things, which are more family friendly and a lot cheaper I guess. The seating is pretty much identical. The drop tower never used to have the shields. They were...

I had an early flight from Seoul to Takamatsu. There was a direct bus option from the airport to the nearby theme park, but a flight delay coupled with a fairly long immigration queue meant that I missed it by about 5 minutes. The next one wasn’t until about an hour and a half later, so I took a...

Who else has been at this long enough to remember when Adlabs Imajica opened and everyone thought it would be the start of a massive park/coaster boom for India?

I wasn't a fan of this place, I couldn't see any conceivable reason why I'd ever go back, and if any of their parks were up for the chopping block, it's not surprising that it was this one, but it's still a bit s**t to lose a pretty major park.

Absolutely. It wasn't the best rapids ride, but it was themed really well, and the fact that the whole thing was near the top of that huge building was really impressive.

I wasn’t going to hit up any of the parks in Seoul seeing as there were no new coasters at any of them. Then I remembered that there was a new Legoland park, which wasn’t particularly close, but doable as a day trip. Luckily, I looked into the opening hours before just getting on a train. Unlike...

I remember even the lift hill being rough. Awful, awful thing.

As previously mentioned, I was done at Lotte World much earlier than expected. I thought about doing some sightseeing in Busan, but I’d been a couple of times before and couldn’t be bothered to look into whether there was anything new worth seeing. Instead, I just headed to Gyeongju a few...

I checked out of the hotel, but left my s**t there and headed out to Lotte World Busan. The original Lotte World used to be my home park and was partly responsible for getting me into this stupid hobby in the first place, so I was interested to see what they’d do with a new park. It’s all very...

Just been updating my count and realised that I've just hit my 100th B&M: Draken at Gyeoungju World (Griffon clone).

I’ve just had my Easter holidays, haven’t I? I rode some coasters, didn’t I? I’ve just taught a class on tag questions, haven’t I? I’m going to write a report that I’m going to quickly get bored with, aren’t I? This trip ended up not being exactly what I’d had in mind. My original idea had...

The stand-up coaster was only running the backwards sit-down train. Would've massively preferred the stand-up, but I'm not sad enough to count it twice, so all good when it comes to the numbers at least. That "Chupy Coaster", or whatever it's called, was closed though.

Got number 2,000 today: the Togo ultra twister at Washuzan Highland. I was half expecting to find it closed.

Glenwood Caverns is a fab little park. Both parks in Denver are f**kin' s**te. Thanks for reading my in-depth response to your trip report.

I think it's the first one I've come across that wasn't open, but I've seen surprisingly few of them so far (3 or 4? Maybe 5 including this one?). Believe me, the patience is wearing very thin. I was almost not enjoying it. Obviously it's all a load of crap, but I've quite enjoyed doing these...