Your Least Common Opinion?

[MackMan]

In the depths of the off-season in the UK and seeing all the content on Falcons Flight, it has got me reminiscing of how (ignoring Hyperia) borderline rubbish all of the rollercoasters are in the UK.

We don't have a choice, I guess, but Nostalgia or Lore, or whatever you want to call it is the only thing keeping UK enthusiasts visiting our parks.

Least Common Opinion, there's a few which follow but overarching opinion (which I imagine is becoming more common)....Alton Towers, our flagship park, is rubbish.

Take Nemesis for example, is it even good any more? It looks nice now, but it rides terribly. Do we all yearn for how it made us feel in the 90s and 00s. I think we do.

Wicker Man doesn't do anything, ever. It smells nice and that's its greatest quality. Never experienced airtime on there. Just lats. Lats don't get my juices going.

Galactica - get rid of it. It makes me incredibly sad. Remember the advert that came out and the shockwaves it sent through the community!? Back in the day it had a bit of wow factor. But I've grown to realise it's pathetic and it doesn't even smell nice (it smells rancid, actually).

Smiler is the rollercoaster equivalent of a flat ride. It's impressive, but you have to queue up in a rusty cage stood in dirty puddles and the theme, ride experience and roughness all combine to give you a headache.

Soft spot for Oblivion, it's the OG and still quite thrilling.

Actually feel like RITA is the best ride in the park because it's quite thrilling and in recent visits I've had a bit of flojector on the two hills.

Thirteen is a gimmick and the first drop is a literal trim break, wtf.

Horrific operations, terrible food and the walking is an absolute joke.

I don't know I feel like we have not a bad lineup to be honest. Sure it is not Germany stacked, but our lineup eclipses countries like Italy. Alton has indeed declined horribly agreed, but I feel Thorpe has kind of taken the 'best park' title now, and you have other players like BPB and Paultons to keep it interesting. Merlin are a mediocre operator but they do sometimes come through, building a Mack Hyper is evidence lol. Aramark obviously is the worst food ever, but operations I feel aren't too bad, at Thorpe anyway. Hyperia and Stealth seem to always be doing impressive dispatches.

 

[English Coaster Guy]

I don't know I feel like we have not a bad lineup to be honest. Sure it is not Germany stacked, but our lineup eclipses countries like Italy. Alton has indeed declined horribly agreed, but I feel Thorpe has kind of taken the 'best park' title now, and you have other players like BPB and Paultons to keep it interesting. Merlin are a mediocre operator but they do sometimes come through, building a Mack Hyper is evidence lol. Aramark obviously is the worst food ever, but operations I feel aren't too bad, at Thorpe anyway. Hyperia and Stealth seem to always be doing impressive dispatches.

Thorpe nailed operations last year, I agree. I'd never seen trains get smashed out on Stealth so quickly.

Part of the reason why I think Alton Towers has gone down the pan, and I only think it gets rated higher than Thorpe due to the nostalgia and lore of it all. Nothing is impressive there any more give or take some nice theming and immersion.

 

[kristalic]

my least common opinion is probably that i'm not bothered that i didn't get to ride either original top thrill dragster or kingda ka (there's no real way to say this without it sounding like i'm coping really hard ). i ride stealth and i'm like... yeah okay that was fine. i don't really care for the tophat-only layouts. then i ride formula rossa and think "wow, ka and dragster's launches must've been great too, and this ride has an actual layout afterwards! even better!"