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Coffee is vile. Even the smell of it makes me feel sick. Hot chocolate is only acceptable if made using milk and a decent cocoa-based powder (preferably liquid based, but that's a rarity). With tea you just can't go wrong.

Excuding minor parks, 3 instantly spring to mind. Like Jer mentioned earlier, Six Flags America. Horrible layout, mediocre selection of rides, almost no shade and no atmosphere when I visited with CF. On par with SFA, Darien Lake. Went on opening day with Taylor and the park was just dead. The...

Although my overall thoughts have been 'meh' so far, I'd have to disagree with that statement. Th13teen was disappointing as it was billed as something it most clearly was not. Instead of being a "psycoaster", it was just a family coaster with a gimmick. If anything, The Smiler is much more of a...

1. Leviathan (I'm counting it, deal with it) - just amazing. The height, the speed, the massed of lovely floater airtime... just amazing. Definitely more of a front row ride though for the best airtime. 2. Nitro - Just bliss throughout. The dirty helix I personally enjoyed. 3. Behemoth - This...

Re: Alton Towers | The Smiler | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1 That's genuinely how I feel Joey, so you can either accept my opinion as my genuine thoughts on the ride or just go and ride it yourself. The area is claustrophobic (mainly due to the endlessly long metal cattlepens and the low...

Re: Alton Towers | The Smiler | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1 ^ Genuine average response at your service ;) Having ridden it twice today, I can safely say it's very "meh". What I expected. Nothing mind-blowing or world-class, but nothing so terrible it's torn a hole through the already...

As much as I feel the same way, the restrictions placed on the park in terms of noise and height (mostly noise) by the council as it lies directly by a housing development might be a set back for the park to develop into something like - let's say - Paultons. Wipeout the last time I visited...

Re: Alton Towers | The Smiler | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1 Consumer programme which airs on BBC in the UK that handles cases about customers being **** over by companies. I doubt The Smiler will open tomorrow, but I'd love to be proved otherwise. I can see it opening in the coming...

Re: Alton Towers | The Smiler | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1 That is one of the reasons I picked up a couple at the Live... just to be a goon. But I do agree. Leading up to last Thursday I wasn't overly excited by the coaster, but was excited enough to warrant visiting on opening day. Since...

Unless I missed it, nobody has thus far mentioned the S&S Free Fly coaster. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQRN3KJzCTI I haven't ridden it, and seeing S&S attached to anything is often a curse, but visually they look brilliant and the possibility of having a relatively unique family coaster...

I never do full reports any more, so I won't sit here and promise anything of the sort! Despite The Frowner failing, I had a very enjoyable day. It was a very relaxed mince around the park and it was great seeing everybody again, both familiar faces, old faces and new faces. The weather today...

Re: Alton Towers | The Smiler | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1 I've managed to avoid watching any of the footage/reports/POVs that's been released/shown on TV since the short clips that were on Daybreak. I want to have some element of surprise and 'awe' on Thursday. I reserve judgement on the...

Yeah, Sweden did a fab job both with their song and with the ceremony itself. The host knew the audience well and the jokes worked perfectly. Finland was my personal favourite too, purely for it's utter amazingness. How it did so poorly I'll never know, but having seen a few Youtube comments...

- B&M Roar - The sound after a train has launched on an Intamin Accelerator (the rattling of the catwalk combined with what sounds like a flywheel spinning at 1000 RPM!) - Disengaging from a lift-hill - Corkscrew's old lifthill - The sound of an Oblivion car going through the tunnel as a...

I successfully managed to do this, albeit I also had to persuade a random woman to let me ride with her child (after hearing Brad successfully obtained the cred using the same method). Totally worth it. I also attempted to do this at Darien Lake in order to get on the kiddie/family coaster...

Re: Rich families hire disabled people to beat queues at Dis I think it's utter genius - good on the person/people doing it. Just goes to show how the system instead of offering equality and fairness to all guests instead puts those more vulnerable ahead of the majority in an effort to appease...

To only get 50% off your next visit is disgusting. Sucks to hear how awful your day was - the wind speed in Sandusky is TOO DAMN HIGH! And seeing rides like Maverick and MilF valley to me is just surreal and hard to imagine - the winds must have been gale force for something like that to...

The woman who went in the first show I'm almost certain I'd interviewed while Head Boy in sixth form as she was applying for a job at my school... she's from the Milton Keynes area and, well, she was **** in the interview so she never got the job. Lord knows how she got onto The...

Just seen this posted on the PWH Twitter page: Dunno if it might be of interest to you Martyn?

Re: Alton Towers | The Smiler | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1 Blimey, this thing really is faster than I could have ever imagined! I suspect this is going to be forceful through the tight layout... and in a season or so's time, forceful and rough as hell resulting in severe nausea and induced...