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Iconic Amanda being iconic. Legend.

You've missed the main point there completely, which is that unless someone is really trying to stand out, they're probably not going to get clocked as gay because the assumptions are very different. It's such a taboo that it doesn't cross people's minds.

In countries where being gay is more of a taboo, people don't assume "gay" regardless of behaviour and mannerisms. It's just not as socially coded as it in countries that are more open. Yeah, it's s**t for the people who live in those places, but potential tourists worrying about getting...

As I said before, Ganzhou was the original plan for this trip before I ended up with a couple of extra days. It’s not going to be on many people’s radar - it wasn’t really on mine - but there’s one of the newer Fantawild parks there. There’s also a fairly new high-speed train station, so once I...

Bruges and Ghent are both such nice little cities. It's kind of weird how Belgium's capital is such a s**thole, but the rest of the country is lovely.

How am I only now seeing that name? Outside of North Korea, I'm struggling to think of a coaster that could be any less American than this one.

The next day was another new park, one which I knew pretty much nothing about other than it had one of the newer Vekoma coasters. Dragon Valley As with the previous day, I arrived to find quite a few groups of young school kids, but very few people other than that. At the ticket booth, the...

I wasn't planning on doing any parks in Guangzhou. I would have just been there for work. I've been there a number of times and done all the major parks around there, including Sunac. I went there quite soon after it opened, so they were actually running both sides of Dueling Dragons. Well, not...

Yeah, I'll probably end up going. As much as I could sit here and list off human rights issues, I've been to plenty of other countries with far from ideal track records, but I guess they're not as well known, or people don't care as much about them. I had absolutely no idea that Uzbekistan, as...

A couple of weekends ago, I ended up taking a four-day trip to China to get some new parks. Originally, the staff from school were taking a trip to Guangzhou on the Friday and Saturday, and we were given Monday off. I booked a train up to Ganzhou for the Saturday evening, after the work crap...

Just been filling in my goon sheet and realised that I recently hit my 200th Vekoma: Jungle Dragon at Dragon Valley - basically the same model as Abyssus, but without that little faffy bit at the start.

No. Sorry, but you're going to have to give us a bit more than that. What lists?

Long report coming up, but with loads of pictures. The plan was to hit up this place the weekend before we actually went since there was a public holiday in Hong Kong which could’ve meant a hopefully quiet Monday at the park, but then a friend decided to change the date of their wedding (who...

I was at their Nanjing park yesterday, and Light of Revenge (Cheetah Hunt clone) was closed even though the website had it as open. I'm going to hazard a guess that it's because of this accident even though "having a launch" is the only thing remotely similar. I'm about to head to a park with...

RMC and Intamin were literally my first thought as well, but I went more with the "maybe we'll start seeing them in Cedar Fair parks" angle. I didn't really consider the other side, but now that you mention it, it could be a worry. I guess it depends who at Cedar Fair are particularly...

This. They look great from off-ride, but are actually dull crap.

I'd call it stupid rather than unfortunate, especially given the manufacturer in question. Some very poor decisions made with this park.

The most shocking part of this is that a Happy Valley park was running more than one train.

Yeah, that's looking pretty s**t. I was also expecting a lot more of an indoor section, but there's nothing. I get that the park probably needed a kiddy coaster, but what a wasted opportunity.

Viper at Six Flags Great America (excellent) compared.to White Canyon at Yomiuriland (terrible and, luckily, demolished). They weren't exactly the same, but were both based on the Coney Island cyclone.