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^ Lol, yes I meant Superman Escape at Movieworld. Here it is guys, I know you've all been waiting with baited breath. Park #3: Paultons Park, New Forest I did a day trip with my UK friend and his siblings to Paultons. Overall I'd say its a nice park. Its nicely landscaped, and would be perfect for young children. Obviously it's lacking in the thrill department, but it's perfect for the target audience. Once we got to the park, we ran straight to Cobra, the park's Gerstlauer Bobsled. After hearing rave reviews about these types of rides, I was excited. However, Cobra was a bit tame. I know it's meant to be a kid's coaster, but they could've let it run a little bit faster. Especially over these "would-be" airtime hills that lacked any airtime. But oh well, it's still a fun family coaster, and the helix after the switchbacks was actually fairly intense. "The Edge" is just another Zamperla Disko, so I was expecting it to be a bit dull, and it was. What I wasn't expecting was for it to be rough! I was bouncing around throughout the ride, it was very odd. Just for Larry - a crappy pic of Magma! Magma was okay I guess. It only really dropped about 10ft at a time, but younger kids seemed to find it quite scary. This thing was EVIL. The seats had no padding, which meant you were thrown into the side of the car and ran the risk of bursting your ribcage. So the only way to ride comfortably without cracking your ribs was to pull yourself to the other side, which was frankly a superhuman achievement. Despite my hatred for water rides, my friend managed to drag me onto the park's log flume, complete with evil water cannons for people to take out their anger on innocent riders. This is an unacceptable amount of wetness. Our final ride before heading home was Stinger. Yay for being a credit whore! We had a fun day at Paultons. Well, a fun two hours. After riding most of the "major" rides and re-riding Cobra a couple of times we were done. Next stop: Oakwood Theme Park. Yay for sheep!

^ Has too much faith in me. < Will fail to confuse. v Is not confused.

Saw the Ride. Alton Towers or Thorpe Park?

I really can't stand all the comments on every video of every Intamin Multilooper and how they're "such a copy of Colossus omg".

Sorry if this has been posted already, I did a forum search and found nothing. I was just browsing rcdb and noticed a database entry for a Happy Valley park under construction in Tianjin for 2013. Apparently, the new park will feature a Gravity Group dueling wooden coaster and an S&S El Loco. After a bit more research (as in, a single Google search), I found a picture of the supposed layout of the woodie on the LA Times (?) Looks pretty good to me.

^ 8/10. I like to spin.

Oh God, don't even remind me of that lol. I made the mistake of going through the Gardens thinking it'd be a shortcut to Forbidden Valley. My God I was wrong, plenty of walking uphill that's for sure, and with dirt tracks and service roads everywhere it's hard to tell where to actually walk.

^ Maurer Sohne already have a launched Skyloop concept on their website. http://www.maurer-rides.com/x-coaster/skyloop/launch/ I'd love to see this become a reality. Not sure who designed the idea, but it's basically a no limits creation of a Skyloop with a non inverting loop. I guess it almost is a reality as the design is very similar to Superman Ultimate Flight.

Not sure why so many people are complaining about Cedar Point possibly getting a Wingrider. I've been on the Swarm at Thorpe Park and it's definitely a good ride, and not the forceless piece of crap people say it is. I have to say, if a park here in Australia was getting a wing rider I'd be squealing with excitement for weeks.

It's probably the supports for the new Dippin Dots stand.

Wouldn't want to scare the Irish all over again now would we?

It's a shame to see Cedar Point lose another coaster, but considering it's going to be replaced by a potentially awesome wing rider I'm not complaining!

On TPR's video of 10 Inversion Coaster in Chimelong Paradise: Well guys, apparently this is what a well educated coaster enthusiast sounds like. "u gay dumbass".

It's a stunning park for sure. I'd love to go back, we weren't there for as long as we'd hoped due to the heat. I also ended up missing out on their S&S Drop Tower and Mondial Jet Force flat ride which both looked fun. Most of the rides are at the top of the mountain and most of the animal exhibits are at the entrance plaza. You can either take the cable car or the monorail, though I recommend the cable car for the views. I recommend going to the cable car straight away though, as later in the day the queue for it gets absolutely horrendous as most people begin at the bottom before heading up. Anyway, here's the next update. Sorry it took so long, my computer's been acting up a lot lately, making it very difficult to post pics without it freezing up and making me lose my work. Hopefully it's fixed now! Park #2: Thorpe Park, Surrey Thorpe Park was honestly my favorite park of the trip. I'm not sure why it gets such crap reviews: it has some great coasters, great flat rides, it's decently themed and the staff were generally quite friendly and efficient: probably the best staff of the trip, tied with Alton Towers. They seemed to run full capacity on all coasters, most of the time. However, I was extremely annoyed to find on my second visit that they were only running one train on the Swarm on a very busy day, causing a line that should've been around 30 minutes to become 90 minutes. Anyway, enough bitching. Time for pics! Welcome to Thope Park and welcome to Nemesis Inferno! Nemesis Inferno was good fun. It was fairly intense and fast paced, and of course fantastically smooth. Zero GEEEE! For a small drop tower Detonator packs a huge punch! Really put a smile on my face. The next coaster of the day was the Swarm. This was one of my favorite coasters of the trip. It's a very fun, graceful ride with some great theming. Sure, its not super intense, but its certainly not forceless. Sadly this is the only real "near miss" on the ride. Bet you've never seen this shot before. Or this one. Stealth was next, and Stealth kicked ass! Sure, it wasn't as good as Superman Escape but it was pretty damn awesome and its launch was insane! This is Stealth. It goes fast. "Hold on Shaniqua, we goin' down!" Stealth also has some pretty awesome airtime right about here. X:/ No Way Out was just... odd. It's basically just a backwards roller skater in the dark with some random midcourse pauses. I got off feeling violated. Rush was awesome. Screamin' Swings are my new favorite flat ride! The overwhelming feeling of insecurity you get staring straight down with only a little lap bar keeping you on is awesome. I have mixed feelings about Colossus. While it's an intense ride with an awesome finale, it hurts. A lot. Each time I rode, I came off clutching my head. Over the airtimeless airtime hill. Into pain OwOwOwOwOwOw Though the rest of the ride is hell, this part really makes the ride. The twists are smooth, intense and disorientating. Best coaster finale EVAR. The final ride of the day was Saw. I was actually a bit nervous about riding Saw, partly due to the vertical lift but largely due to my fear of anything horror movie related. The idea of the indoor dark ride section made me feel a bit ill. But it was awesome! In fact, it was my favorite ride in the park! I'm not sure why people hate it so much. It has good theming, it's drop is insane and it's fast paced and intense throughout. It even features some awesome pops of airtime. Sure, it's a little rough but it's nowhere near as bad as Colossus. "Oh shi-!!!" Airtime! We had a fantastic two days at Thorpe Park. Next stop: Paulton's Park! Yay?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtj0cfx0C4Y This little slide on the Sunshine Coast may not look like much, but it is insane. What makes it insane is the absolute lack of safety! The turns are insanely tight and easy to injure yourself on, the first slide lands in a pool where everyone else waits for the second slide, making collisions inevitable and there are NO rules. You can go on your stomach, linked with friends, on your knees etc and the staff don't batt an eyelid.

45 mins for Infusion at Pleasure Beach was pretty awful, mainly because the ride I was queueing for was an SLC and no wait at all is ever worth it for an SLC (not even if it's walk on). Only reason I queued is because I needed the credit and the line appeared to be about a 10 minute line, however thanks to crappy operations it was 45.

2011 - 12 2012 - 28 (so far)

Two very different situations. For one, it's the same track all the way through, as opposed to RCCA using Premier track for the loop. For another, RMC is going into this fresh off of NTAG. RCCA can never make such a claim even if they tried. So you don't think ANYONE thought Son of Beast was going to be a winner? Seriously? I think what he means is that RMC are much more likely to revolutionize the world of wooden coasters than RCCA due to the fact RMC has a much better track record. Though to be fair they've never made a wooden coaster so we never know I guess.

Holy crap that is going to be insane!

Dark Knight. It may have crap theming, but I'd prefer a mouse in a poorly themed box then a mouse not in a box any day. Arrow or Vekoma?

I just recently got back from a 4 week holiday to the UK visiting family and friends. In between hugging relatives and being too embarrassed to talk to old friends, me and my Mum visited a total of 6 theme parks and I managed to ride a total of 28 coasters, bumping my count from 17 to 45. Be aware that this is my first TR, so the captions are going to be a bit crap. Park #1: Ocean Park, Hong Kong The first park wasn't in the UK at all. On our layover in Hong Kong, we took a visit to Ocean Park. I really liked Ocean Park, it has a beautiful setting and some good rides. It seems a lot as been done since TPR's last visit to the park: there's a new entrance plaza, a new themed section and of course a new B&M. Let's get started with the pics. Welcome to Ocean Park! The new entrance plaza was really cool and had a great atmosphere with plenty of music and entertainers around. I think this part was new as well. It was themed as a classic Hong Kong marketplace. Time to go to the rides! The infamous cable car of death was awesome and had a great view of the park entrance and the ocean. Coming up the mountain we spotted something Swiss, yellow and awesome. So naturally we headed to it first! Time to get our hair raised Hair Raiser station pic. I really caught the girl in the third last row at an unfortunate time. Hair Raiser was my first B&M so my opinion may be a bit biased, but I think it was great! Some decent intensity and even a bit of airtime. Sadly, the tiny insane looking hill before the Zero G Roll provided nothing more than a bit of floater air. The view was awesome though. The Zero G Roll was a bit forceless to be honest. But I guess that's the hallmark for the newer B&M loopers. Wait WTF? Is that guy in the second row flipping me the bird? Whirly Bird was ok. The lever didn't make it swing side to side nearly as much as I'd expect from playing RCT3 New hotness opening later this year! Well, it's just a powered coaster. But still, WOO. We spotted an Arrow Looper at the bottom the hill. Wanting to keep our skulls intact, we stayed away. So we headed down the endless escalator of death to the park's third coaster. Despite being a Zamperla, Minetrain was actually fairly good! Though a bit rough, it has great views and of course "the drop". This is "the drop". It may not look like much, but in the back seat this drop provides crazy ejector airtime! Wanting to escape the heat, we headed to Jellyfish Spectacular, which really was quite spectacular. And then had lunch, which was also quite spectacular (at least for theme park food). The view while eating was also spectacular. We had a great day at Ocean Park! Next stop: Thorpe Park.

Went to Thorpe Park yesterday. The line for the Swarm didn't seem very long despite the sign saying 90 minutes queue time, until we realised they'd extended it out the back. To make matters worse, they were only running ONE FREAKING TRAIN on an incredibly busy day. I went to Thorpe Park a couple of weeks ago on a quiet day and they were running two trains then, so why the hell can't they run two on a busy day? All other rides were running full capacity, Saw had 8 cars on the track, Nemesis Inferno, Stealth and Colossus all had two trains. But not the newest and possibly most popular ride in the park. Long story short the line ended up being over 2 hours.

It hurts to know stupidity like this exists. I kind of understand the first two. I guess in some weird way, they look similar to some of Movieworld's coasters. As for the last one...what? I guess Kingda Ka is green and so is Green Lantern, but I don't see how Manta looks anything like Lethal Weapon and Formula Rossa like Scooby Doo, especially considering Scooby Doo is an indoor wild mouse coaster.

Wow, looks fantastic! Vekoma have really been making some awesome rides in the last few years. They've long passed the days of crappy loopers and SLC's. Hopefully.

Movieworld posted a picture of four coasters (Manta at SWO, Formula Rossa, Superman Escape and Kingda Ka) asking people to name them. It hurts to know stupidity like this exists.