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The grandpa woodies at Blackpool. Most of the SLCs (especially Blue Tornado at Gardaland)

Thanks for putting all this effort into Club TPR and Theme Park Review. Earlier you said that there's usually less women joining the trips but how about age distribution and how old is your oldest participant (hope that's not confidential)? About the trips: is the concept all or nothing? With 3 kids it's not possible to be away for more than 4 to 6 days (Bring the whole family you might say but my wife isn't very fond of theme parks).

Stealth, Thorpe Park and Black Mamba, Phantasialand. Very intense and very good. Insane at my home park Gröna Lund is intense but after two seasons it's still no love affair between us. Sorry Insane, never going to be you and me i guess. I'm actually more fond of your little sister - Kirnu.

Guess there's nothing special with Sweden and Norway then. But i must say that i'm impressed by the parks in Finland. 3 really decent parks and most of the coasters are interesting for people past kindergarten age. In Sweden there's an obsession with water parks which i find a little bit illogical consedering our short summers and unpredictable weather. There sure is room for another park with lot of thrill rides. Perhaps another one in Stockholm or why not in Malmö? Sure, the kids must have their fun (i got 3 on my own) but most of the swedish parks are assuming that the parents have no interest in themepark rides. So they call the parks family friendly which means wacky worms and similar rides. Mom and dad can have beer and watch while the kids have their fun. I wonder how they reason in Finland but i think it's worth aiming at. Maybe i'm asking to much of a small country with a population of 9 million but Liseberg and Gröna Lund are always crowded.

Thursday evening - the kids are sleeping and nothing to do. Let's produce some figures with help from RCDB - How many kiddie rides can you expect in the Scandinavian countries? Indispensable or meaningless information? You choose My kiddie ride definition: Up to 10 m height (i exclude powered Mack rides) and moderate speed = up to 35 km/h. Well, here's the list: FINLAND: 11% Kiddie Rides of total 19 coasters (the new coaster 2011 at Linnanmäki included) DENMARK: 26% KR of total 39 coasters SWEDEN: 40% KR of total 25 coasters (the new Twister 2011 at Gröna Lund included) NORWAY: 44% KR of total 9 coasters

It's now confirmed that Gröna Lund will open their seventh coaster in may 2011. It's a woodie called TWISTER and it will be built by The Gravity Group. See below for stats: LENGTH: 480 M HEIGHT: 15,25 M G-FORCE: 3 SPEED: 61 KM/H AIRTIME HILLS: 9 COST: 80 MSEK Liseberg - what´s your response View from the sea Boardwalk by the sea Interaction with Kvasten, Jetline and Vilda Musen. Is this really possible?? It looks tight! POV animation

A list of European launch coasters Stealth - Thorpe Park (Front seat - Awesome!) iSpeed - Mirabilandia (Nice LSM launch) Speed Monster - Tusenfryd (Norwegian loop) Kanonen - Liseberg (Fun but no thrills) Rita - Alton Towers (Nothing really happens after the launch) Xpress - (Lame)