Recent content by Matt N

Congratulations @Hixee! Was Taiga any good, seeing as Taron appears to be your #2 according to your signature?

I’ve only done Infusion at Blackpool Pleasure Beach of the standard 689m models, but that is truly the bottom of the barrel and deserves every ounce of criticism it gets; it really is vile, and so, so rough! I’ve also done Kumali at Flamingo Land, however. Kumali is a Shenlin model, and that...

Apologies for being late, but I just remembered that I had a series of throughput timings to share from my trip to Blackpool Pleasure Beach last month. Due to relatively short queues, some of the averages were not as comprehensive as I might usually have liked, but the throughput timings I was...

Having never watched any of the prior seasons, I watched the first 4 episodes of Season 4 of Clarkson’s Farm last night on Amazon Prime. Whatever you think of Jeremy Clarkson as an individual, it is surprisingly entertaining for a show with such a simple premise where so little happens on the...

That’s an interesting one! The stance on generative AI changed quite considerably between undergrad and postgrad, I found. At undergrad, I never used it, as I always felt a little like I’d be selling my soul if I did… but at postgrad, the academics have been surprisingly liberal regarding...

It’s encouraging to hear that B&M has seemingly taken some feedback on board regarding the recent rattles; Big Bad Wolf is seemingly a lot smoother than Phoenix Rising, and Wrath of Rakshasa looks a lot smoother than Iron Menace! Maybe B&M’s rattles were just a brief blip rather than a long...

I really need to get around to learning PowerBI at some point. Loads and loads of jobs in the data analysis space seem to want it. I was wryly told by a coursemate of mine that my academic background in Computer Science would mean that I’d “master it in about two minutes”, and I’m hoping that...

I think I’d actually go a tad further @TheAverageJuel… I’d say that the old Intamin OTSRs with the hard plastic are not even that bad either. If you’re talking about the ones like on Rita and Stealth, they honestly don’t bother me that much. They’re not my favourite restraints, and I’d...

Hi guys. On Saturday, Paultons Park announced their heavily hyped-up Vikings area after months of speculation. The new land generated a lot of excitement... but the choice of a Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter, Drakon, for the area's headline coaster has heavily divided opinion, to say the least. Some...

Hi guys. I wasn't entirely sure where to put this, as it's not explicitly park-related, but I did something recently for one of my university modules that I thought people might be interested in seeing! Basically, I did a module this semester on Data Visualisation, and one of the assignments...

Even though I can clearly see it’s been erected… part of me still can’t quite believe that Falcon’s Flight is both real and on the verge of opening! It looks almost like a Planet Coaster fever dream…

The previously undisclosed proposal to reopen Oakwood has now been revealed as being led by Richens Leisure Projects (RLP). Aspro Parks and the Welsh Government have both been consulted on the proposal, and negotiations are ongoing...

Congratulations @TheAverageJuel!

Going off topic a tad, but I think that AA petition was over 10 years after it closed and the entire park had been removed… This Oakwood thing, on the other hand, does sound like someone has a legitimate plan of some description and has presented it to the current owners. There’s at least some...

This might seem slightly paradoxical given that I’ve been somewhat critical of Paultons’ recently announced Euro-Fighter, but for this park, this seems like a nice installation! Their current largest ride appears to be a Zamperla spinning wild mouse, so this will be a real step up for them! I...