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9th September 2024: Travel Hi guys. Today was an exciting day; the start of my big foreign theme park trip for the year. This year, that trip is my first ever trip to PortAventura World in Spain! This will be my first time ever experiencing the likes of Shambhala and Red Force, amongst other...

Yes; we’re currently in Barcelona Airport waiting for our transfer to PortAventura itself!

As I’m currently waiting to set off on my next theme park adventure, I think now might be a good time to post reviews from my trip to Drayton Manor on Thursday! New coasters Gold Rush (#124) I had quite low expectations for Gold Rush, but I was very pleasantly surprised; I thought it was an...

A rather unpopular opinion I’m not sure if I’ve ever posted in this thread before is that Euro Mir is Europa Park’s weakest coaster (Ba-a-a Express aside, as I didn’t ride it). It often seems to get quite a bit of love, but I did not care for it at all. It was horribly violent and rough, and I...

@Rob Coasters To me, it sounds as though you’re simply someone who prefers quite an explicit, known storyline in their dark ride. And that’s fine; we all have different opinions! Truth be told, I’m somewhat similar to a degree. There are also a lot of people who prefer it when storylines aren’t...

Hi guys. This year, Hyperia, the UK’s tallest, fastest and “most weightless” roller coaster, opened its doors at Thorpe Park. Manufactured by Mack Rides, the ride has taken the UK industry by storm and garnered rave reviews. But in all of the hype, it’s easy to forget that Hyperia is not the...

Congratulations, all! (Sorry, I'm a bit out of date with this thread...)

For those interested, I returned to Drayton Manor yesterday for the first time since 2022, and resultantly managed to ride Gold Rush for the first time. After my initial gut take yesterday, I promised a longer review, so let me properly delve into things, having had quite a few more rides since...

It looks like Universal have been doing some business visits around Bedford with the local mayor in recent days: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewlr5vqk25o Hopefully this is a promising sign that Universal are invested in the region!

Chessington has today announced that it is holding a public consultation on 19th September regarding “updates on current projects” (I’m assuming this means the waterpark) as well as “new developments”: Seeing as they’ve already had a consultation for the waterpark, as well as the fact that the...

That's not quite as drastic as I’d feared, to tell you the truth. Not having entrance hosts could make things difficult for people like families with young kids who need to be measured, but other than Galactica defaulting to one station (which could be mildly concerning for throughputs on...

The Looping Group have definitely improved things at Drayton Manor since some of my earlier visits. The new areas are really nice, and Gold Rush in particular is an excellent new ride addition!

Date: 5th September 2024 Park: Drayton Manor Roller Coasters: 24 (14x Gold Rush, 6x The Wave, 4x Jormungandr) Front/Back/Solo/New-To-Me: 13 (1x New-To-Me for Gold Rush, 8x Back, 4x Front) Water/Dark/Flat/Other Attractions: 7 (1x Maelstrom, 1x Wave Swinger, 1x Thor, 1x Sheriff's Showdown, 1x The...

5th September 2024: Drayton Manor Hi guys. Today was an exciting day; the day of my solo trip to Drayton Manor! With my last visit being in 2022, I was returning to the park to check out Gold Rush, the final new-for-2024 UK coaster for me to ride, as well as The Wave following the sit-down...

I’ll do a longer review later, but I’ve had my first ride on Gold Rush… what a fab little family coaster! Given some of the muted initial reviews, I went in with quite low expectations, but on first impressions, I thought it was great fun! It’s definitely not the most intense coaster, but it’s...

Coincidentally enough, I believe it was actually the publicity that a day of poor ride availability received that saw them remove the queue times from the public domain…

I managed to watch it this evening. It’s always fun to see theme parks on TV, but as theme park TV programs go, it was on the weaker end of the spectrum for me. It seemed like it was mostly random celebrities reacting to recent viral videos of theme parks, and I didn’t learn an awful lot from...

A height restriction of 5ft? A fair few shorter adults might be shut out of that! I’d agree with you that that sounds like the highest minimum height restriction I’ve heard of… While it has odd, uncomfortable restraints, Velocity isn’t even a particularly intense or rough ride. I wonder what’s...

Am I right in assuming that this means they’re getting rid of any “front of house” staff who aren’t absolutely safety critical? So all bayloaders, entrance hosts and such? That sounds like it could cause problems with operations…

Great report @Ollie! The Gulliver's parks have never really been on my radar; the "no lone adults" policy automatically rules me out from ever visiting, I don't generally do kiddie coasters anyway, and I don't personally live anywhere near any of them. So as I don't know a lot about the...