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Spin wall whizzer start worked great for me. Also, its good to go on rides when people stop for lunch!! Slightly off topic, but is corkscrew still open at alton? I hate that ride, it kills your head!

I went to Movieland Studios last week and it is fair to say that I was extremely disappointed with the place. I have been to MGM studios, and Univeral Studios, and I knew it wouldn’t reach those standards but hoped it would hold its own… The park opened at 10:30, and everything seemed fine, although I was slightly concerned at the lack of people visiting. The first thing I saw was a snippet of Grease being performed, complete with a director sitting on a truck and a cameraman. Still fine. Next I went to the Terminator 2 show. Now that was strange. I have never seen movie, but I think it was part of the movie acted out with special effect etc. The only real action was when the platform the viewers were standing on jolted foward at the end. Wow. After Terminator 2, I struggled to find something else to do, as nothing was open. One end of the park didn’t open until 11, many shows were running only once each day, at around 3 or 4, the Hollywood Action isn’t completed and there were no other rides to go on. I couldn’t even go on Terminator 2 again, (if I’d wanted to,) because that wasn’t operating again for a four or so hours. The park was dead. People were milling around trying to find something to do, and many employees seemed to be wandering around trying to look useful. I did manage to watch the Blues Brothers show, was ok. It was more of a dancing show, with lots of clips from Blues Brothers 2000 movie, (the poor sequel to the original,) on a large projector. I was quite disappointed as I hoped for singing and music reminiscent of the Universal street show. After an hour and a half in Movieland Studios, I headed nextdoor to Aqua Paradise as I had luckily bought a 2 days 2 parks ticket. I wouldn’t recommend MovieLand to anyone; it’s a waste of time and money. One thing that summed it all up: the Powerpuff girl characters came out to dance and have pictures and autographs, and not one kid went up to them. They even waved at me taking a picture of them from across the park they were that desperate. It’s sad.