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The decade's biggest flop; Surely joey on the monkey bars? Rob

Thanks for that advice, I will probably only use it to shoot some culture as I explore Korea so I think I will stick with my current camera and use its video setting put the money away to some better travel insurance, and if i do make it to Lotte World or Everland i'll just shoot with that ala shaky-cam style. Rob

Watching both the POV and the off-ride video it does seem to run flat after the drop for a couple of seconds before splashing down, I wonder when they are finished tweaking how much of that splash-free run will remain, if it splashes down straight from the drop I reckon that splash could be quite impressive, not that there is anything wrong with it's splash now would just be interesting to see how much difference a couple of metres makes. Rob

It's because when he started these forums someone was already posting with the name Rob on the end and he didn't want people to get confused. Everyone knows i was really here first Rob

Do you guys use a seperate camera to take your still pictures or do you use one of your video cameras and take stills with that or do you extract stills out of the footage at all? I ask because i'm not sure about whether to get a video camera to take with me to Korea or stick with the 7.2 megapixel camera and take that with me, I will probably end up taking more stills than videos, but would probably like the option of shooting footage if i feel like it or even shooting footage then extracting stills from it if that's possible. Many thanks, Rob

Someone correct me if i'm wrong but I believe that same model of fabbri spinning mice is here in the U.K. as well, i think it replaced Storm the old pinfari at Bottons Pleasure Beach in Skegness, i definitely remember the lift hill with a corner Rob

Cheers guys for your replies, they really hepled me out, cheers lou for getting me answers out of the umm "woodwork" To be fair my main dedication will to be to the job so I wouldn't be getting many park visits anyway, the main two i want to visit where Lotte World and Everland since I shall be fingers crossed based in a city attached to Seoul by the subway line, that and I have a whole year to get round to it (even if i only get weekends off) 3 years gaining a degree was definitely worth the almost free trip to everland Rob

This just makes me more excited about going to Korea, hopefully queues won't be too bad considering I can only go when kids are not in school Rob

Sorry to bother with this question if this has been asked before but I ran a search and couldn't find the answers exactly I was looking for. I am hopefully going to South Korea for a year to teach english, its all in planning at the moment and nothing concrete but hopefully leaving in November time, I was wondering if you had any experience with the travel systems between the big city or you used private coaches, was just wondering if i'm based in a city that isn't Seoul it would be interesting to know how accessible Lotte World and Everland is (the two parks i really want to visit). Also when during the year would you guys personally recommend visiting? I'm not too fussed as teaching is my main goal and the parks would be a really amazing extra but if i could find out answers to this, I might keep my eyes open on where the places i'm offered are. Many thanks for your help, Rob

As always sorry for the bad quality, i only had paint but again as always the idea made me chuckle and hoped putting what i saw in my head would make some others laugh. Rob Official entry

Looking back at Johnnyupsidedowns Manta construction pictures and comparing it to the 1st picture they do look sort of similar Isn't B&M flyer a bit flatter than Hyper and inverted track, if i remember dive machines had almost completely flat track compared to the middle beam, then flyers was slightly more curved out from the main beam and then hyper and inverted was even more curved out than that... excuse the lack of technical terms i can't remember any. Rob

I don't know didn't Alton Towers only just submit their plans? Would be a bit soon for it though i could be completely wrong and they were approved weeks ago... haha I would be careful using the term SW6 around die-hard Alton Towers fans so much debate over whether it is the next 'secret weapon' or just corkscrews replacement coaster though personally i'm not that fussed about plan names as i'm pretty sure the marketing department won't name it either of those things wen it opens. Rob

I'm a fan of the Blackpool look with rides goin under and around each other and shops etc but thats mainly because with so many rides all going round at once it always seem to make the place seem so full of energy... either that or i'm biased and nostalgic because it was the place i got my 1st ever season pass. Rob

Could not agree more i never enter these things with the idea of winning in mind, i always feel that if my picture makes at least 1 person laugh or enjoy it then it was worthwhile. Rob

Jeff is still alive in 2028?? Wow modern science will have come a long way Rob

Haha, then i consider my picture a job well done. Rob

Thought i would bring a whole new level to the find the manta track game, official entry Rob The managers of sea world are desperately trying to locate a missing track piece of manta that got shipped to the wrong theme park, unfortunately for them the manager of the park, Wally, was nowhere to be found

So after last years trip we decided to head back to Thorpe Park, unfortunately with Collosus and Tidal Wave two of the big crowd soakers closed as well as Rush it looked like we were in for some long queues.... and i was quite pleasantly suprised, for a busy peak day and as i have said with two of the bigger rides closed the operators were extremely efficient at dispatching and though the queue boards said 60 minutes for most rides we never waited more than half hour for anything except for maybe stealth and Nemesis inferno which was a 40 minute wait at most. Warning spoilers for anyone that hasn't seen Time Voyager.... New for 2008: Time Voyagers, i have to say i really did not enjoy this at all, pirates 4D worked for me as a 10 minute film but this just seemed random things thrown together, one minute it was a spaceship port then the next it was a aztec area then a dinosaur comes from nowhere then suddenly we were underwater, i'm sure there was a story to it but we could not understand a word any of the characters were saying and all 7 of us are from different areas of England, from most of the mutterings i heard around me from children and people they agreed the same, i was to busy laughin at the fact we were supposed to believe we are in a spaceship wen the walls all still have the pirates theming and rum barrels on them. Anyway rant over i have uploaded the few pictures i managed to take but the weather was not great so i didn't get so many this year. Thanks guys for another awesome year Vortex Another year... another colourful shark won Action shot Samurai I hope... there didn't seem that much going on in the construction area while we were there, though from what i have been told eurofighters are pretty quick to build Detonator station shot Vertical loop goodness If you can see 3 roller-coasters in this picture... please contact your opticians Some Nemesis Inferno shots Time Voyagers Another year... another soaked group picture Product placement alert Slammer And another More queue shots From the queue shot We headed straight to Stealth since we missed this credit last year .... it is, its Thorpe Park! ....could it be?... .... and she has spotted something in the distance.... Lucky our photographer is awake.... Our navigator this year... again we are screwed Another year... another pair of sunglasses at 6am

Six flags trying to make the park a more family friendly ride by combining there most extreme coaster with a ride that they knew the whole family loved. Official Entry The decision to make X2 a indoor ride, complete with animatronics and music was not met well by some enthusiasts

I believe it closed end of 2004, i'm assuming it's that year as i remember riding the whip, the same day i rode bling but i'm not 100% sure Rob

Anyone got a pic of the new inverting lift texture thing not sure what thatis Rob

I think AIR is the only flyer with a predrop, as for my above comment, thats what i get for flicking through wikipedia! Rob

Yea but then why are there still predrops on the B&M coasters with curved drops, its only the straight ones that don't have them anymore, surely you could do the same thing even if it had a curved drop?

In TP's defense they gave us advance warning that Stealth was goin to be closed a week in advance, because of essential maintenance.

Didn't take any pictures on log flume, it was the only ride we didn't go on, as for permission i did ask ride operators on Collosus and Rapids, they were quite tolerant and said it was fine until the rapids left the station, then to put it away which i respected and did. As for Collosus that photo was taken at the very end of the ride when it had come to a complete standstill, i kept the camera secure for the whole actual ride as per instructions. As for pirates 4D with one projector, its awful with the glasses, one goes pitch black so you can't see anything and its just blurry and trying to focus on it gave a very bad headache