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  1. thepoweroften

    Last Cred Review

    Returned from a holiday in Amsterdam with my best pals last week. Finally time to review my creds from the day trip to our first park outside the UK…Efteling I was in you. Only had time to ride every coaster once (there were huge parts of the park we didn’t even touch, we were on a tight...
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    Worst coasters you've ridden (Bottom 5/10)

    Turbo on Brighton Pier is the only coaster I’ve ever ridden that was so unbearably bad I’d probably never ride it again - I don’t mind rides that are a bit rough but it’s really something else and it’s obviously not an interesting enough ride to be worth that roughness. Honourable mention to...
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    Why queue for hours?

    It really depends on a few factors for me - what time of day it is, who I'm with, whether I've already been on plenty of rides etc. I think the longest I've ever queued for a coaster was for SAW at Thorpe, which I don't even actually really like (it's my least favourite coaster there by a...
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    Thorpe Park | Hyperia | Mack Hyper Coaster | 2024

    I don't have plans to ride in the imminent future (and content to wait until my time off work coincides with friends who can visit with me/the queue times and initial rushes have died down just slightly), but reading people's reviews on here and seeing ridercam/POV videos dropping is making me...
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    Last Cred Review

    This one isn’t really worth writing home about, but it was my first new cred in a little while so I’ll review it anyway: Mad Mouse on Clarence Pier. As pier coasters go I rank it above Brighton Pier’s horribly, evilly rough Turbo Coaster and below that same pier’s terrifying...
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    If you count coasters, what is your most tenuous counted roller coaster?

    One of those tiny, fifteen second travelling mine train coasters (I forget the exact one but I think I have it logged on coastercount, which I rarely update tbf). It technically does count but I feel kind of dirty counting it lol
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    Thorpe Park | Hyperia | Mack Hyper Coaster | 2024

    Watching the test videos and I still just can’t believe a ride like this is about to exist here in the UK lol 🥲
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    What ride do you have the most intangible love for?

    Colossus at Thorpe Park. I don’t know why and I know people hate it/find it rough (although I haven’t been on it since the retrack) but I just love it and never get tired of it, it’s pure non-stop fun for me.
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    Most ridden coasters & most visited parks?

    I couldn’t tell you exact numbers but my most visited park is definitely Thorpe Park and my most ridden cred there is probably…I mean, it’s probably Flying Fish on a technicality given the short queue times and the fact my friends and I rode it about 15 times in a day once when we were...
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    Rank the Thorpe Park coasters

    Updating my ranking here now that I’ve ridden them all as of finally doing Stealth (and re-ridden a couple of others)… 1) Swarm 2) Colossus* 3/4) Stealth and Inferno, tied 5) TWD* 6) Fish 7) Being pushed down the stairs in a trolley 8) SAW *These are the only two I didn’t get on yesterday...
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    Last Cred Review

    Late to the party for this ride, but my last new cred was Stealth at Thorpe Park… I’ve been to Thorpe 5 times now (over the course of over a decade lol) but had never been on Stealth before this trip. I’m autistic so I’m interested in coasters in a very intense, nerdy, researcher sort of way...
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    Ride Related Dreams You've Had

    I once had a dream wherein a new coaster was installed on Brighton pier and I was sat watching it from the window of a seafront hotel and witnessed one of the trains derailing and flying into the sea, complete with riders. But instead of calling an ambulance I just started reassuring fellow...
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    Your Least Common Opinion?

    Colossus is my favourite coaster at Thorpe x
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    Which Coasters Have You Had a Zen Ride On?

    Just Cliffhanger at Blackgang chine (RIP). Although technically I wasn’t the only person on the ride, my friend was there as well, but as we were together I feel like that counts. We rode twice at different times of day and both times we were the only people on the ride lol
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    Blackgang Chine To Close Cliffhanger Coaster

    Only just heard about this! Fond childhood memories of the Cliffhanger and actually went back for a nostalgia trip with friends over the summer - glad I got to ride it one last time then. I’m sort of gutted it’s not being replaced with another coaster (especially as I’m not a big fan of spinning...
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    Your UK top 10, 2021

    1. Flying Fish (Thorpe Park) 2. Flying Fish (Thorpe Park) 3. Flying Fish (Thorpe Park) 4. Flying Fish (Thorpe Park) 5. Flying Fish (Thorpe Park) 6. Flying Fish (Thorpe Park) 7. Flying Fish (Thorpe Park) 8. Flying Fish (Thorpe Park) 9. Flying Fish (Thorpe Park) 10. Steeplechase (Blackpool...
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    In your opinion, what's wrong with Derren Brown's Ghost Train, and why did it fail?

    The biggest flaw for me personally is that I’ve been to Thorpe about three times since it opened and I’ve still never been on the bloody thing (and not for lack of trying, when it first opened I thought it sounded sick). It’s always either closed/not working, has an 8000 hour queue or both. The...
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    what do you want your first cred back to be

    Since I assume my next park will be Thorpe (it’s closest to me & I have friends who want to go soon), Stealth. It’s the only cred there I don’t have. It’s never spited me or anything, I’m just very scared of heights, but I’m determined to woman up lol
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    First park you’ll be going to

    Thorpe Park is my closest (major) park and the one I'm most likely to be able to persuade friends to tag along to, so most likely that. Might try and get to Alton Towers or BPB at some point as well, maybe in 2021. I would have been going to Nagashima Spa Land and Universal Studios Japan if my...
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