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www.nedesigns.com has many amazing parks, mostly RCT2 but also some RCT1 parks.

I really hate the name, but the coaster looks fantastic. I really like the dive over the escalator, hopefully its as good as it looks. Cant wait to ride it next year

Allot and Lomax did Thundercoaster, while Stand Company made Robin Hood and Loop-Garou. Thats why Thundercoaster is completely different from those two rides (probably alot rougher too). I belive Vekoma actually had very little to do with these rides. Probably just the trains and the technical stuff like brakes and such.

I have never ridden Thundercoaster in the front seat actually, but I have ridden it 15 times in the last two cars and its pretty good there. The last car has quite alot of airtime. And those I know who has ridden it in the front, says its better in the back. The only advice I can give you is to avoid sitting over the wheels as it can be really rough in those seats.

You can find an onride video of Sequoia Adventure, the new S&S Screamin Squirrell at Gardaland, on http://www.lifthill.de/html/sequoia.html Video link is in the bottom left corner

Here you will find pics and a video http://www.wimmerl.com/HP/UPA.html

Great pics. Walibi Belgium may not have the best rides, but it seems like a very nice park. Do you know whats happening to Tornado? Will they take it down or will it just be standing there rotting away?

I have ridden Stunt Fall, the Deja Vu clone in Spain and its not that bad. Everything happens very fast and its over in a a few seconds. I wouldnt be too worried

Found some more pics of the looping waterslide. That thing looks crazy, I would never ride anything like that http://www.thrillnetwork.com/boards/attachment.php?attachmentid=11082 http://www.thrillnetwork.com/boards/attachment.php?attachmentid=11083 http://www.thrillnetwork.com/boards/attachment.php?attachmentid=11084 http://www.thrillnetwork.com/boards/attachment.php?attachmentid=11085

Im not a big fan of waterslides. Im not afraid to go on them, but I dont feel perfectly safe in them as I do on rollercoasters.

Haha that was funny. Last weekend I saw a program about rollercoasters on TV and they showed the opening of Manhattan Express. There was this guy who had won the first ride in the front seat on an auction, and he had been looking forward to ride it for 4 months. Even though he was holding on for dear life during the ride (I never saw him smile on it), he said it was a great ride when it was over.

I think its funny that no matter how rough and painful a coaster is, you'll see people riding with their arms up. Manhattan Express, Viper, TOGO Standups, etc.....

When I started getting interested in rollercoasters, I thought MCBR's were 'fake stations' to make the passengers think that the ride was over

Im going on that ECC trip Wild Train looks like a very fun coaster, looking forward to ride it. Im downloading the video right now... Edit: I just saw the video and Wild Train looks crazy. Cant wait to ride it this summer...

I usually let people belive what they want. It can be quite amusing to listen to people sometimes. A guy at the place where I work said he had ridden Uppskjutet at Liseberg (S&S spaceshot) and that it was probably a 100 meters tall. I guess it wasnt that far from the real height (56 meters )

Looks very good so far. It will be very interesting to see the final result

Great update. Silver Dollar City is one of the parks I really want to visit sometime

Ive visited Tusenfryd 5 times. Its the only park I have been to more than once.....

I dont know if it can be called 'weird' but on Kanonen last week they had serious problems getting the copper fins on the launch down.

I have only ridden Kanonen so I'll have to vote for 'other'. I loved it, great ride!

<- A simple pic showing the fantastic corkscrew on Tusenfryd's awesome vekoma looper

Heres a small video of me and another member on Kanonen on our first and only ride. Its filmed inside the station so you only see the beginning of the launch. Im the one closest to the camera looking slightly nervous Kanonen2.zip Me on my first launched coaster ever!

One thing I forgot to mention: With the exception of those working on Lisebergbanan, the ride-ops at Liseberg were working somewhat slow. Especially those working on the S&S tower were very lazy. They walked slowly around the tower, switching between talking and checking restraints. When I was at Tusenfryd last year, the ride-ops on Thundercoaster were running to check the seatbelts and restraints and the queue was only 15 mins. The queue on Balder on saturday was 30-40 mins.

Heres a few pics from our great trip to Liseberg

The last coaster I rode was Lisebergbanan at Liseberg, a fantastic Zierer - Schwarzkopf coaster