Darren B and I went to Brean on Saturday. Apparently Somerset had loads of snow. There was evidence of snow slush but no coating. The park itself was soaking wet. HUGE puddles covered the pathways, wellies were required for this park.
Anyway, it's a typical seaside sort of affair - spin & spews, cloned coasters, dodgems, arcades.
Four creds to be had!
Astro Storm is the old Space Invader Deux from Blackpool. It looks quite lovely with a new paint job and no decapitated heads laying about. An impressive coaster for a typical seaside park. I found it slower compared to when it was at Blackpool. No burdenous stair-based queue line either!
Spinning mouse cred. I hate these coasters, this was no different.
Shockwave - spot the loop behind the station. A fab little ride. It's not going to make anybody's top 10 (unless you've been only been on this and 9 others coasters) but it's good fun and the loop is tight in intense, reminded me of Klondike at Hayling Island.
FYI, the big pool of water in the middle of the coaster track is a counter weight. Darren thought it was to pour on the ground in case the puddles ever dried up.
Caterpillar Coaster. I had to ask them to open this for us. No shame! Darren said it was his first caterpillar coaster. This one doesn't have a static shock apple, instead it has a Disney tent.
There's quite a lot of Disney characters dotted about the park. I guess it means they can justify charging more by bringing a bit of of Americana to the west coast.
Not content sloshing around in the puddles, Darren went on the log flume.
We went on the dodgems twice. Both times we bullied the young children riding with us. I felt proud of myself. They enjoyed it anyway.
We went to the nearby Wimpy for lunch. It was awful although this made us laugh.
The Sky Diver drop tower was 'mazing! We went on this about six times. Loads of willy lift and a cute ride op as well.
Sky Diver is probably the best ride there imo, although Terror Castle - the ghost train - comes a close second.
I was expecting a lame, old fashioned ghost house experience similar to the one at Blackpool but NO! Terror Castle was brilliant from start to finish. BOOM! It starts with the screams and jumps immediately. I loved the different scenes, the noise, the animatronics and frantic pace of the ride. It chopped and changed direction so quickly, there was a scare every second! Brilliant! It's always rewarding to go to a park and find a little gem of a ride and this was it. It took me by surprise, I loved it!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUXAP0jTGEI[/youtube]
We spent about £5 each on the 2p machines.
We ended up winning two toy skateboards and keyring thing. We also won loads of tickets!
We fed our tickets in the ticket munching machine....
...and ended up with 214 tickets!
Each ticket is worth 1p off in the gift shop so we bought ourselves a large nougat bar thing each. We could have bought 10 for the amount of money we put in the machines, but where's the fun in that?
I was expecting Brean to be anything special so I wasn't disappointed. Now I've "Brean there, done that", it's not a park I'd rush back. There was enough there to keep me entertained for a few hours, staff were friendly, four creds to add to my count, but best of all was Terror Castle. Now that is a ride to write home about. Thanks for reading.
Anyway, it's a typical seaside sort of affair - spin & spews, cloned coasters, dodgems, arcades.
Four creds to be had!
Astro Storm is the old Space Invader Deux from Blackpool. It looks quite lovely with a new paint job and no decapitated heads laying about. An impressive coaster for a typical seaside park. I found it slower compared to when it was at Blackpool. No burdenous stair-based queue line either!
Spinning mouse cred. I hate these coasters, this was no different.
Shockwave - spot the loop behind the station. A fab little ride. It's not going to make anybody's top 10 (unless you've been only been on this and 9 others coasters) but it's good fun and the loop is tight in intense, reminded me of Klondike at Hayling Island.
FYI, the big pool of water in the middle of the coaster track is a counter weight. Darren thought it was to pour on the ground in case the puddles ever dried up.
Caterpillar Coaster. I had to ask them to open this for us. No shame! Darren said it was his first caterpillar coaster. This one doesn't have a static shock apple, instead it has a Disney tent.
There's quite a lot of Disney characters dotted about the park. I guess it means they can justify charging more by bringing a bit of of Americana to the west coast.
Not content sloshing around in the puddles, Darren went on the log flume.
We went on the dodgems twice. Both times we bullied the young children riding with us. I felt proud of myself. They enjoyed it anyway.
We went to the nearby Wimpy for lunch. It was awful although this made us laugh.
The Sky Diver drop tower was 'mazing! We went on this about six times. Loads of willy lift and a cute ride op as well.
Sky Diver is probably the best ride there imo, although Terror Castle - the ghost train - comes a close second.
I was expecting a lame, old fashioned ghost house experience similar to the one at Blackpool but NO! Terror Castle was brilliant from start to finish. BOOM! It starts with the screams and jumps immediately. I loved the different scenes, the noise, the animatronics and frantic pace of the ride. It chopped and changed direction so quickly, there was a scare every second! Brilliant! It's always rewarding to go to a park and find a little gem of a ride and this was it. It took me by surprise, I loved it!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUXAP0jTGEI[/youtube]
We spent about £5 each on the 2p machines.
We ended up winning two toy skateboards and keyring thing. We also won loads of tickets!
We fed our tickets in the ticket munching machine....
...and ended up with 214 tickets!
Each ticket is worth 1p off in the gift shop so we bought ourselves a large nougat bar thing each. We could have bought 10 for the amount of money we put in the machines, but where's the fun in that?
I was expecting Brean to be anything special so I wasn't disappointed. Now I've "Brean there, done that", it's not a park I'd rush back. There was enough there to keep me entertained for a few hours, staff were friendly, four creds to add to my count, but best of all was Terror Castle. Now that is a ride to write home about. Thanks for reading.
It was also my first Booster as well and it was amazing! So much fun!
