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    WTF Merlin?

    I think it all comes down to the AP holders to be honest. The vast majority seem to have RAP. So when you get a ride opening day or a special event, the rides just get overwhelmed. The parks could counteract that with say, better reliability or rides on full capacity but all three of the Merlin...
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    Best Coaster in Europe

    I'd usually have Nemesis right at the top but as that doesn't exist in its original form anymore its fair game now. 1. Ride to Happiness 2. Toutatis 3. Untamed 4. Oz'Iris 5. Batman: Escape from Gotham 6. Blue Fire 7. Helix 8. Katun 9. Baron 1898. 10. Wodan Europe has some stunning rides...
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    Milestones in Your Counts

    1. Runaway Mine Train - Chessington (1992) 50. Silver Star (2006) 100. Bruco (2011) 150. Tornado - Bakken (2013) 200. Big Thunder Mountain - Disneyland (2014) 250. Family Rollercoaster Walygator (2017) 300. Millennium Force (2018) 350. Wild Mouse Grona Lund (2022) 400. Alpengeist (2023) and...
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    CWOA | Mandrill Mayhem (World of Jumanji) | B&M Wing Coaster | 2023

    Vampire in particularly has done a stunning job in carrying the park really.v I'm really excited for this area. If it can pull of the theme and the story, I think it will be a real success for the park. I think it's been really undersold how right a lot of this investment is with a big new...
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    Rank your Ridden B&M Inverts

    One of the most dependable ride types. Even the bad ones are just average and nowhere near awful 1. Nemesis. My Number one coaster. 2. Katun. Giant but so good 3. Oz'Iris. Unique. great layout 4. Raptor. Feels downright powerful 5. Monster (Grona). loved this. Unique 6. Monster (Waly). Big...
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    Your B&M Count

    With Monster ridden last month, I'm now on 50 B&M's. 2023 should be a bumper year if I can get to do Americas East Coast.
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    B&M Inverts, Best to Worst

    1. Katun. Only by a tiny smidgen does this come first. Great ride. 2. Nemesis. The classic and one of the greatest rides ever built. 3. Oz'Iris. I'm a big fan of this even though I know others aren't. I love its theming which really helps. 4. Black Mamba. My memories are a little hazy as I last...
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    Heide Park | Flug Der Dämonen | B&M Wing Coaster

    Re: Heide Park | Unknown | B&M Wing Coaster I've always assumed its down to competition. Take the UK, The Smilers competition this year has been a Volare at Flamingoland and a safari ride at Chessington. Compare to the parks that Heide has to compete with in Germany and it naturally has to up...
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    Milestones in Your Counts

    1. Runaway train at Chessington 25. Oblivion 50. Silver Star 100. Bruco - Rainbow Magicland 150. Tornado - Bakken Currently on 169 with Falken at Farup Sommerland.
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    Other changes at C:WoA 2013

    I always achieved 650 (well 640) or so with three laps, the majority of the ride is spent on speeding the train up at the beginning and slowing it down at the end. The flying lap adds 25 seconds onto the ride and when you consider you do 17 complete cycles an hour, the third lap doesn't really...
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    Other changes at C:WoA 2013

    Thats 650 people per hour when you have two ride staff on the platform and an operator who is particularly good at parking (and no I don't mean speed parking!). Unfortunately this is rare and it's more likely to get 400 pph as Runaway is never a priority for ride teams. 1000 per hour is...
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    B&M Inverts, Best to Worst

    1. Katun 2. Nemesis 3. Oz'Iris 4. Black Mamba 5. Chinese Fireball 6. Montu 7. Nemesis Inferno 8. Hungarian Hungtail 9. Batman La Fuga Thought I'd been on more then that but the memory must lie.
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    What is the Best B&M Inverted Coaster?

    1. Katun 2. Nemesis 3. Oz'Iris 4. Black Mamba 5. Hungarian Hungtail 6. Chinese Fireball 7. Nemesis Inferno 8. Batman La Fuga The top four are all in my top ten. It's not so much a bias for the Inverter, it's more that on that first ride, they blew me away with their quality and intensity.
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    Cedar Point | "GateKeeper" | B&M Wingrider

    It was just a tounge in cheek comment from the Park.
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    Port Aventura Park and Water Park + Barcelona

    Great to read another Shambhala review, I really think that if it had an interesting queue line it would be further up in my top ten because the ride itself is such a masterclass of getting the most out of every single hill, drop and turn around. Agreed with you about Dragon Khan, maybe the sit...
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    Parque Warner Madrid - August 4th & 5th 2012 - PTR

    Pretty much agree with you on Parque Warner, it's an amazingly under-rater park, particularly when compared with Port Aventura or other major European parks. Superman de Acero has been my favourite ride for over five years now, I just feel that whilst it isn't majorly intense, it just has so...
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    Longest Queue Time?

    I queued 2 and a half hours for Storm Surge. What was I thinking. :oops:
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    B&M Wing Coasters - Fad or Fab?

    I don't see the wing rider being a fad. Partly because of the amount of potential you have with them. The four so far are all very different beasts, in fact the only two that have any kind of similarity are Swarm and X-Flight and even then, the theming of Swarm characterises Thorpes, whilst...
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    Parc Asterix |"Oz'Iris"| B&M Invert

    The only other B&M I've seen the same thing on is Silver Star.
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    Canada's Wonderland |"Leviathan"| B&M HyperGiga

    Maybe so, but unless you are clued up on these things, the GP won't be thinking "I wish this was more intense"as you come off the lift hill, 300 feet above the ground.
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