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  1. Rob Coasters

    3 days at Phantasialand - Day ???: Somehow, forgetfulness

    Been wanting to go to Phantasialand for four years, and for all of 2023 I had every opportunity in the world to go, but just for some reason had it nearer the bottom of the priority list. For every wacky worm I rode on my quest for United Kompletion, the louder the echos of "GO TO PHANTASIALAND"...
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    What is the best park for each manufacturer?

    I don't really have any ideas for an introductory paragraph, the title speaks for itself. What is the best park for each manufacturer? Bolliger & Mabillard: I will have to go with SeaWorld Orlando for this one. With Kraken, Manta, Mako, Pipeline and soon-to-be Penguin Trek it's a no brainer...
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    Rank the coasters you've done that go backwards

    It took far too long to hit 10 of these things. Ideally, the coaster should go backwards for a significant portion of the layout (to stop stuff like Toutatis dominating when its only backwards bit is a very short swing launch section). What you consider to be 'significant' is up to you but I...
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    With Apocalypse closed, what is the UK's new scariest ride?

    Apocalypse at Drayton Manor used to be branded as "the UK's scariest ride". Apocalypse is now gone. So what takes the crown now? I have 3 ideas... Odyssey at Fantasy Island, The Curse at Alton Manor at Alton Towers, and Aerospace at Barry Island Pleasure Park. What else do you think?
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    Two rides with the same layout: one great, one terrible

    What are two coasters that have the same layout but are on entirely opposite ends of the quality spectrum? I'll start: Mad Mouse at Clarence Pier is an inoffensive Zyklon coaster at worst, but Cyclone at Barry Island Pleasure Park is horrible. Same layout, but one is 'passable' while the other...
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    Guess what coaster the above post is reviewing

    My rankings section of my coaster spreadsheet has a short one-liner about each coaster I've done. So I wondered how well it'd translate into a forum game. Post a review of a coaster that you've ridden (could be one or 10 sentences). The next post attempts to guess what ride is being talked...
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    What is your favourite sequence of elements on a coaster?

    For me the main ones that comes to mind are: -The Norwegian Loop -> airtime hill -> Zero G Roll -> 360° twist on Helix at Liseberg -The corkscrew into the helix into the Zero G Roll on Nemesis at Alton Towers -The heartline roll into the twisted hill into the tunnel into the second launch...
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    Lands of the Crowns - Part 8: Sheep Summerland

    So @Snoo I heard you wanted to know... everything? Finally! I'm finally confident in my travels to travel internationally solo, and while this is still a daytrip technically speaking, it's a major breakthrough in this coastering career. The destination is, out of all parks, Tusenfryd in Norway...
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    Ignore

    Accidentally fat fingered the enter key while posting something, please ignore
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    Parisites 3+1

    A few years back I found out that I never went to Disneyland as a kid because my parents didn't know that they had rides, which was actually quite understandable giving it a bit of thought. Does 'Space Mountain' sound like a ride to you? Or a weird walkthrough area where you meet Donald Duck...
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    The best part of each coaster in your top 10

    What is the best part of each coaster in your top 10? Untamed: The whole second half starting from the mini-wave turn out of the turnaround Ride to Happiness: The double-inverting dive loop (specifically front-flipping through it) Cu Chulainn: The twisty thing that goes under the lift hill...
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    I trekked, Utrecht, We trekked to Walibi

    After just one overnight coach trip to Belgium I'm now very comfortable with doing the same thing again but longer, so that's exactly what I did. Next target: Untamed. I don't really have as much to say as what I did with Plopsaland, but I'll run through the basics: I booked a 9:30pm FlixBus...
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    Have you ever 'completed' a park?

    Don't think anything like this has been done before, but what parks have you either: -gotten significantly close to riding all of the attractions there at some point or -ridden ALL of the attractions there at some point? The first park for me where I achieved 100% completion of all rides was...
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    In Bruges (2008)

    (I hope you like words) "Hey." "Hey, you." "Have you heard about this roller coaster... The Ride to Happiness? By Tomorrowland?" "It's at Plopsaland De Panne. In Belgium. It's super obscure. And really underrated." "Built by Mack Rides. They built Icon at Blackpool, that white one near The Big...
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    What makes your #1 better than your #2?

    This might be something that a lot of you have probably already answered in the Top 10(ish) thread but whatevers. My #1 is Cú Chulainn and my #2 is Megafobia. So what makes Cú Chulainn better than Megafobia? Well Cú Chulainn is just simply a bigger, better, faster, smoother, and longer version...
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    (Parkitect) Geometry Kingdom

    After the death of Pleasurewood Acres was caused by building too-small coasters in a too-big park, I decided to rectify this with Geometry Kingdom where I build BIG coasters in a BIG park. The coasters would be picked by a website that picks random Extreme Demon levels from the game Geometry...
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    Celtic Coastering - Day 2: Coastering

    Huh? Me leaving the UK? That's... unheard of. Last time I did that was in 2018 on a trip to Tenerife where I went to the greatest waterpark ever, then sacrificed a Zierer to go back a second time. Worth it, I genuinely do not regret it one bit. If it was a Tivoli though, then different story...
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    Rank the Flamingo Land coasters

    (This hasn't been done before?) If you've ridden a defunct coaster, feel free to rank those too! #1 Sik Rank #8 of #150 Very intense and a lovely restraint with punchy inversions, with the corkscrews especially being my favourite. First drop & loop I forgot immediately though, but the airtime...
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    Your top 10, but wacky

    (Is this the right subforum?) Rank your top 10 coasters not from best to least best, but rather by some unorthodox & unique topics. Examples, you could either use these or make up your own: -Your top 10, but ranked by their colour schemes -Your top 10, but ranked by the quality of the park...
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    And Everything In Between - Part 1: Thorpe One

    Over time I've been thinking of whether to document park trips where I didn't gain any new creds (or I went somewhere without the intention of getting a +1). Expect a lot of Thorpe Park & random silly little funfairs. Some funfair trips I literally have less than three paragraphs to write...
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