Jak

I've met Tony Hawk and Bucky Lasek at a skateboarding competition.

I think the park your on about is La Ronde.

My favourite drop tower is detonator at TP.

My phone is a Sony Ericsson k300i. http://www.sogi.com.tw/park/PIC/567/IMG_5760.jpg

*best new ride for 2005: Rita: Queen of Speed *best wooden: I have never been on a wooden *best steel: Rita: Queen of Speed *best park: AT *best water ride: Loggers Leap at Thorpe Park *best flat: Vortex (chance revolution) and Detonator (fabbri drop tower) both at TP

Do you know of any signs that are false advertising at a theme park. Here is one. http://themeuk.net/Project_Stealth/July05/Stealth17.jpg It says stealth at Thorpe park is going to be 625 metres tall.

In the UK a meal would cost about £3.

I personally think that its wrong to ban her from all the rides. Yes, maybe for rides like kumba and montu, but not the all the rides. I think she would be perfectly safe on some rides.

Please can you change mine to Las Disney.

Heres mine. Las Disney

We tryed to use single rider queues but they were quite big, also I was in a group so I wanted to sit next to my friends. Here is the link to my video: http://rapidshare.de/files/3173300/Altontowerstrip.wmv.html

I might be able to meet you at thorpe or chessington, At the moment I'm just organizing it with my parents.

It also says that it has a vertical drop .

I made a little video about the trip. edit: it won't let me upload the file?

Thanks

I was just wondering, I have made a movie on windows movie maker and I wanted to know how do you save it as a movie file, not a windows movie maker file?

Rita: Queen of Speed Both are Intamin Accelerators Both are under a minute long

Air I don't think can be ranked with Nemesis and Oblivion because its not really that intense. Yes, i do admit its a very good ride but its more relaxing and fun overall.

I personally love rocket coasters. I've only been on Rita: Queen of Speed, But it is my favourate coaster of all time. The launch is excellent. The only down side is it doesn't last that long.

^ thanks , and yes they have put bins in the queue line for Rita but I still saw a lot of rubbish on the floor.

Yeah, Winjas does look really cool. Elissa, What did you think of Winjas?

I did ride spinball whizzer last time I came, but it isn't as good as Dragon's Fury at Chessington.

13.7.2005 Alton Towers So the day started off with a two and a half hour drive up north to Alton Towers, we got stuck in commuter traffic for a bit but apart from that it was a smooth run. We got at the park at 9:50, and bought our tickets. We got into the park at 10:20 and we ran to the new ride Rita: Queen of Speed. By the time we had got there the queue was already quite big, and in the end we waited 1hr 40mins. All I can say about this ride is WOW, the launch feels so intense and the ride is filled with air-time. By the time we got off it was 12:20 so we decided to have a quick spin on corkscrew. One of the only good things I can say about this ride is it was a walk on, it’s quite rough, especially before the corkscrews. It was now about 12:30, so we decided to have a go on oblivion. When we got into the X-Sector we had the shock of our life. Oblivion had a 60 minute queue. The times I had come before it had only a 15 minutes queue, so we decided to come back. We then headed over to forbidden valley to ride some of the parks best roller coasters. When we got there we got fastrack for Nemesis and went in the single rider queue for Air. There was only one problem I had with Air. The ride has dual stations but the single rider queue only went into one station. But saying that we got on the ride after only queuing 15 minutes, and I got to sit next to one of my friends. Air is one of my favourite rides. Even though it isn’t that intense you get some good air-time on the first drop. So after Air, Blade had a short queue so we decided to go on it. This pirate ship isn’t really that intense, but it’s a good ride to go on with your mates. Then we went for a spot of lunch at McDonalds and after that it was time to go on Nemesis with our fastracks. We had only queued 10 minutes when we got on the front. This ride is defiantly better on the front, the views you get of all the valley and the blood waterfalls just adds to the rides experience. By the time we went back to X-Sector to see if we could ride Oblivion. The queue time had gone up to 70 minutes by now so we decided not to ride. So then because we were in the area, we decided to ride corkscrew again. Again, all I can say about this ride is its rough. After that we only had one hour and a half until the ride queues closed so we decided to go back on Rita. We opted to go in the single riders queue instead of the normal queue. It was now 5:00 and the rides closed at 5:30, so we thought we wouldn’t get another ride. But then they closed the single riders queue and let us all on, 6 at a time. After our second ride on Rita it was 5:15, we had originally thought we were going to go on Air if we had any spare time. But if you know Alton Towers it’s a long way from Ug Land to Forbidden Valley, so we went back on Rita. We had gotten off Rita at 6:00, and all the rides were closed. So we headed to the souvenir shop and I got a cool Rita t-shirt and then we hoped on the monorail back to our car. It only took us one and a half hours to get back so the car journey was quite good. We didn’t hit any traffic or anything. Overall it was a great day and I had done out what I had set out to do (to ride Rita), But the only bad thing was Oblivion. I didn’t understand why it had such a large queue. But apart from that I really enjoyed myself a lot. Here are some pictures: Rita Main view of Rita Nemesis on its vertical loop Oblivion Spinball Whizzer Rita again Nemesis Air doing it's inline twist Air This is Rita's launch section Rita in the station Me queuing for Rita Rita: Queen of Spped of one of its banked turns

What I sometimes do is put my head forward, so if I do get knocked around my head doesn't hit anything.

Rita: Queen of Speed - yesterday