Recent content by Hixee

I must have been at the park at the same time as the poster there - my photo from the observation tower has the digger in exactly the same position. Can confirm the drfit thing was operating, but I was quite hungover and the thought of it made me feel sick, so I skipped it. :D They're also...

Nah, wasn't up to much. ;) It was fabulous. Finished mopping up the other creds now, so going to take a few more laps. It's possibly better than Taron, actually. Need to have a look at my rankings in a few weeks once things have had time to settle.

1. Dragon - Legoland (2001) 25. Incredible Hulk - Universal Studios Islands of Adventure (2006) 50. Stealth - Thorpe Park (2008) 100. Racer - Kings Island (2010) 200. Renegade - Valleyfair! (2012) 300. Gold Striker - California's Great America (2013) 400. Intimidator 305 - Kings Dominion (2016)...

Tornado For some reason I was expecting this to be a janky, but it was actually surprisingly good! Famous for its heartline rolls, and they actually deliver pretty well. It was smooth, had some decent forces and my only real criticism is that it seems to hemorrhage speed somehow. But I'm glad...

Three from today (Junker was technically the last). I'll try to follow up with a proper trip report, but may take me a week or two to get to that. Junker I've heard good things about this, and I was pleasantly surprised. Punchy launch, solid airtime and a stall built before stalls were all the...

The Merlin approach would be to delay the opening of the rest of the rides for an hour. 👌

People smarter than me use lots of PowerBI at work to achieve similar sorts of interactive data visualisation on projects, and I'm always quite impressed by it's capability. I've just never found the time (or project need) to 'learn' it myself. I've always liked the idea of coding things like...

Blimey, they're notably different aren't they?

Rubbish. Deleted.

I didn't ride it when I went. I didn't realise it was cred-like. So... it's not a cred. Can't be self-spiting now, can I? :D

San Francisco is fab, and I loved seeing your sunny photos of the city. Great trip overall too - nice one!

I hadn't clocked the first drop first time round. :O

Rita is fine. It's impressive enough off-ride, and the ride experience is fine, but for me it doesn't suit Alton's vibe at all. It doesn't feel remotely 'unique' to the landscape (which is contrary to all the othe big coasters at Alton), and had always felt a bit "plonked" to me. I know we'd...

I didn't really do much research on this before/during my visit last year, but did think it was a bit odd it'd been SBNO for so long. Good to see it's finally open, I suppose. Shame they couldn't have had it ready for me last year... ;)

That's a bit of a shame, cos I do love that ride. It does have a very poor throughput though, so I do at least hope they replace it with something as enjoyable.