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A slightly different question: are old coasters capable of causing permanent damage to one's back? I ask this one, because my back hurt for about a week after a day with about 12 rerides on Blackpools wild mouse and 16 rerides on Grand National (quite a few backseat), among other rides of course.

I really hope they fix the ride, it is totally awesome when it runs fine.. Same thing with Tonnerre.. In april I had a (in retrospect) mediocre run (I found troy to be far superior), but my reride last saturday was entirely different.. I have TdZ as my favorite rollercoaster. Oz Iris on 2, because of it's "issues", #1 if they fix it, ##FarDown## if they can't fix it or 'fix it' by putting it into the 'modern B&M' mode instead of the 'B&M Classic' mode. The strange thing about Oz Iris in slow mode is it is slow throughout the entire ride. I have quite some experience with slow runs on Robin Hood in walibi holland (season pass) and you can see and feel the difference very well (seeing is mostly on the return curve).. That one slows down meter by meter, like you'd expect. So on hot days robin hood is a really wild thing on it's way back.. Oz Iris doesn't have this effect at all, it's slow in the diveloop, slow in the overbanked (which is awesome when it's fast), slow throught the loop (epic hangtime though), slow through the immelman (trimbrake was off - luckily), and the zero-g-rolls were neg-rolls backseat.. Which means the hangtime in these rolls must have been epic in the middle of the train, but not something I expected from that ride, not after the 12 runs I did in april (not too busy that day).. Getting that experience after such a long wait is very disappointing. We were just passing by later that day so the person I went with could get his bingo and we saw it run faster than imaginable, so after hesitating for a long while we joined the 2hour+ queue.. The queue could be worse, because we saw it improve run after run, faster and faster and faster and faster . When I first read your posts a few months ago I couldn't believe and thought you were just being selfrightious or stupid, but in retrospect.. You were right, it does sometimes suck badly.. And if you read reviews about it being totally awesome (which it is if you're lucky) and they keep telling you you're wrong afterwards... Aww, you really had bad luck.. Well, luckily you do lots of rides (I don't), so don't feel too bad about it.. Just go back someday (preferably in early season, it's really crowded in the summer and also in sept-oct-nov).. Asterix is awesome

I rode it last saturday - two times.. One in the morning and one around parc closing.. Total queuetime for these two runs: 3 hours... Experience First Run: Summary: custom SLC with barely any forces. Weird headbanging in the first drop and a very slow ride experience. I think it was about on-par with vampire in walibi belgium. Experience around parc Closing: My absolute #1. Awesome ride, forceful, epic rolls, nice forceful turns. Totally awesome and #1 new ride for this year in my opinion (behold, I only did 2 2012 coasters so far: dragonfly and Oz Iris).. Asterix / B&M has a big issue to fix, this can't be right..

It was my first non-vekoma Invert, so bumpyness was not an issue to me (I still enjoy riding El Condor @ Walibi Holland), and I found it to be a really well-balanced ride with very nice zero-g-rolls (really zero-g). It wasn't extraordinarily forcefull, but it's very well-balanced and runs through a very nice environment. But perhaps the fact that there was barely any queue (only a front-seat row, they had problems filling the other rows, yet continued running with two trains) for the ride and I did it 12 times really helped. Maybe asterix tried putting different types of wheels on the ride (cheaper ones maybe?), and that ruined the ride experience, I rode it april 30th.. Tonnerre ran really bad in the morning that day, but in the afternoon it kicked the ass of all other woodies I've done so far (7 ). Tonnerre really needs to run with two trains, just like robin hood @ walibi holland. 2 trains keep the track hot and thus they really improve the ride. I saw robin hood running nicely fast at 10:15, because it ran with two trains at the start of the day. But.. If you like very intense rides, I doubt oz irix is your cup of tea. I think an SLC is more intense, even though it shakes..

The name zero-g-roll states you will feel zero-g. If the speed ain't right it may as well be a 2G roll .

Steel: goliath (46 meters) Bobsled: Trace d'hourra (40 meters) Woodie: Balder (36 meters (?))

Well, last monday a train stalled on the lift around 15:00 and it didn't reopen that day.. You'll never end up here? It has a brilliant woodie AND now a brilliant inverted coaster as well.. Don't underestimate tonnere de zeus, it's pretty much impossible to overestimate that track . Here some random parc asterix images The images link to 12 MPx versions of the same images.. License: Chicken Dance Public License OR CC-BY-SA.. Nice theming.. Nice overbanked! There's something on your face.. IT IS PAIN! Well, it's more fun then it looks like from offride A piece of art Nice, calm station Well, that's not the busiest station ever Nice! Ie-ie-ie-ie-ie-ie-ie-ie! Oh, well, not during this run, because the track was a bit moist of some light rain just before that run.. It really runs much better after some light rain and a warm day . It was not as bad as I expected, but still quite bad Pity it's impossible to take pictures of tonnere.. That's all

KingRCT3: Don't mess with Goudurix, it's an awesome coaster. If you can't stand 2G laterals in a vekoma train, don't run it, but it IS a very nice and fast vekoma with lots of unique elements. The trick is to find the way to sit right in Goudurix.. One of the worst coasters ever? It outperforms quite a lot of coasters in my opinion, just by it's track design.. And: I really enjoy the laterals.. Oz'Iris is the best coaster of the park, period. Tonnere is the second one - period. Goudurix is third in my opinion, trace de hourra 4th, vol d'icare 5th, rest doesn't matter .

One thing: robin hood is a rollercoaster that really goes faster during the day.. At the end of my visit last year I was even thinking about placing it on par with Balder.. But, as it groes faster it groes wilder and rougher.. It really is a mean monster near closing time.. The Xpress had corroded launch magnets by the way (those white blocks in the middle of the track).. That wasn't supposed to be possible, but appearantly it is and it takes a factory 9 months to make new ones.. So that's what Xpress has been doing last year.

If you're a fan of attractions and not so much of theming (like me), don't bother with the Efteling.. The rollercoasters are (with the exception of Joris) mediocre at best. Vliegende Hollander (Flying Dutchman) is too short. The theming is nice, but the ride itself is not good. Walibi-parks: only Walibi Holland is worth it for a big trip, because of goliath, but don't underestimate some of these vekoma's there, with the exception of El Condor they're quite smooth.. Ok, robin hood is rough as well, but not painfully rough.. Xpress is not painful at all and neither is the boomerang in Walibi Holland.. Both parks are one-day visits though, don't expect them to be worth more then one day, both only have around 30 attractions, walibi holland has 6 rollercoasters a few thrillrides and kiddie-stuff, Efteling had 6 rollercoasters and a few darkrides and kiddie-stuff.. Both walibi holland and Efteling have their own bus services from (different) railwaystations near the park. Walibi Holland has a bus service from Harderwijk, Efteling from Tilburg. Both run at least 2 times every hour, first one arriving at the park 15 minutes before park opening, last one leaving 15 minutes after closing time.

Ehmz.. A death count of 10 is a 'joke' compared to the Titanic (1592) and the Dona Paz (4500).. That last one was in 1987, biggest naval non-military crash ever. That's not the year, it's not the length in decimeters, it's the deathcount.. Shit happens.. Especially with banks, because they tend to move. Software get's outdated and makes mistakes, humans screw up. Remember.. 100 years after the first flight, still lots of planes crash.. I urge you all to wait with having conclusions on who's to blame, it's very easy to come with that question, but first the entire situation should be reconstructed, so it's clear under what circumstances it happened. I don't know who said it, but it's true nevertheless: "The less you know about something, the easier it is to form an opinion on that subject". Maybe nobody is to blame. Maybe it's the captains fault, but he didn't do it with mal intent, in which case he shouldn't be punished in my opinion (If we accept stupidity as a crime, it opens a whole brave new world). By the way, ships don't just capsize, it requires time.. Maybe those 10 went belowdeck to get their stuff, in which case it's their own fault.. 10 out of 2400 is 0.5%, which is actually not a lot.. Titanic was around 30%, Dona Pas around 99% (crashed into a full oil tanker (which breached and set the scene on fire) which didn't use light signals and sank in a minute flat, so no time to launch lifeboats); 10 survivers out of 4500. Also: the computer is the only reliable source to control big ships, captains would make much more mistakes. In most modern ships you can barely SEE what's happening anywhere without using computer-backed information systems. The ship is just too big and the bridge is not high enough above the water.

Ok, this has to be the ugliest coaster in the world, but who cares, the lay-out looks great .

Yes, it did have a bad season, but.. All stalls were caused by one and the same problem: User Error: people keep trying to climb fences and when the operators notice that they press the emergency brake button. Thus the train gets the brakes applied fully and stops. Usually it stops in the location between the looping and the chain lift, but some cases it doesn't, because the train is already half-passed the emergency brakes.

Eddies funhouse of fear is a rethemed version of Club Roxy, Psychoshock is an all-new maze. It's way too crowded in my opinion, I would never wait more then 1 hour for a ride, never ever. My record is 45 minutes que time for Balder, but I don't want to wait more then 1 minute per second ride time.

Official: Walibi Holland gets a new ride next year: a 5D cinema. The movie is probably going to be Rokken Roll (dutch edition). The big question is: when do you call it 5D? Both the french walibi Parks got 3D cinemas in 2011, Walibi Belgium already had a 4D cinema. What's a 5d cinema? Rotating seats?