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This is tragic. I believe the justification is it’s mainly pre schoolers visiting on those days and those 3 rides get lower ridership due to the height restrictions. However look at these queue stats from June 15th last year which would have hit the criteria for these off peak closures. Tiger...

The second photo could be Tiki Waka, love the funky profiling on this. Will be a great headliner for a small park.

I’m currently attempting it on one train of four rows operating. Here’s the end of the queue, been here 20 mins so far and barely shuffled forwards. Edit - Took 75 mins in the end. After park close (at 4PM!) the queue went a lot faster when there was no fast track merge. The ride itself was...

Rob I am so excited to read this trip report, what a year you’ve had hitting the foreign trips hard.

I had a similar epiphany with Tulleys last year, been going every year since 2016 and while fantastic it’s the same thing every time. I just can’t face handing over seventy quid to go through The Cellar, Chop Shop, Cottage, Hellements, Coven, Island/Colony and the clown one for an eighth time, I...

I’ve been on 7 and my top two are Griffon and Sheikra so my vote goes for the wideys. Along with Intamin accelerators these are the only things that still make me nervous and give me that tentative feeling going up the lift hill. While there’s something a little bland about the layouts they’re...

A few years ago I listened to pretty much just metal so this is nice to see confirmation I’ve branched out and blossomed my tastes. Still love metal though, it’s the only genre that puts fire in my belly and gets truly under my skin but I have to be in the right mood for it now.

201 - Dragon's Apprentice (Dubai) 251 - Odyssey (Fantasy Island) 301 - Loup Garou (Walibi Belgium) 350 - The Tickler (Coney Island) 400 - Lightning Racer (Hersheypark) 450 - Family Coaster (Hyde Park WW) 500 - Emperor (SeaWorld San Diego)

Walk on Stealth and a magnum in the sunshine, you're living the dream Matt. It's always nice when you have one of those 'this is what it's all about' epiphanies at a park. Glad Thorpe delivered and you had a great time matey.

Very excited that this part of the theme park season is fast approaching. Tomorrow I'm flying to Los Angeles where I'll visit Universal Halloween Horror Nights, Knotts Scary Farm and Six Flags Magic Mountain Fright Fest. Never been to any of these parks before and I cannot wait to be there...

It's a park where the current coaster headliner is a spinning wild mouse. Bring on the Eurofighter, great investment for the place.

I found it a needless faff when I went last Wednesday (24th). The park was quiet and you could book slots up until around 4:30 and I believe the booking didn't close at any point in the day. I booked 5 slots throughout the day and the longest wait for the QR code was about 30 mins. Sometimes the...

I rode Mandrill Mayhem at Chessington last week. The best way to describe the ride and area is everything is 6/10. There's nothing awful, there's nothing magnificent, it's all one flat and slightly bland stretch of 6/10. The first 15 seconds of the coaster is fun, there's dispatch audio and you...

Nice report Rob, you articulate your joy and excitement so well. My number 1 and 2 are Untamed and RTH too. What's your plans for the rest of the year, will you be hitting 200 soon?

Interesting discussion. I keep track of my milestones but make no effort to make them significant coasters. Feels that if I'm interested enough to count creds in the first place then getting good milestones should also feel satisfying to my brain but no. My lack of desire has led to #300 being...

Ride to Happiness (Plopsaland) Probably the coaster that makes me shout, giggle and whoop the most. It's so euphoric, I especially love when you enter the zero G roll or flying snake dive facing sideways and the inversion whips you head over heels like you're on a Top Spin. Great airtime...

Tonnerre 2 Zeus, was closed all day today. Never rode the original either. Pretty disappointing but I find a main ride spite isn't too bad when it's at a decent park with lots else to do as was the case today with lovely Asterix. Elsewhere last year I was spited by Flying Turns at Knoebels and...

Top work as usual on the trip report Matt, that was a warm fuzzy read. Hope you have a blast tomorrow and fingers crossed for the manor.

Hersheypark. I can't fully put my finger on why but it felt so sterile, corporate and soulless. A lot of fault lies with myself as I assumed it was more of a theme park, for some reason I was expecting stuff like Western theming on Storm Runner and Great Bear having a station that looks like an...

I've been going to the Towers buy out weekends since 2011 although stopped going in 2020 as the operations and ride availability were awful and way more miss than hit. In that time Sub Terra and Ice Age did not open for it in 2012 and neither did the Smiler in 2016 for it's big reopening after...