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Oh my god that one is my absolute favourite. I can't believe people still throw it around. Most of these things are just here-say. I think the most convincing of all these is the Chessington one as John Wardley has said in the past they were originally thinking of putting thrill rides in the park. Seems outlandish now, but I guess that's due to the advent of Thorpe in the 00's.

Oh that's interesting, not too sure about the Air one as it doesn't make sense, but I have actually heard about that Colossus intended for Chessie one before. Perhaps Air was meant to go to Thorpe, but as an altered layout maybe. I doubt it would be the exact same layout. It's all interesting though

Out of interest where did you hear this? Alton have been very open that Air was originally intended to open in 1998, but the design wasn't ready so they opted to sit on the design till most of the flaws were fixed and opted for Oblivion instead. I don't understand how that fits alongside what you've said. On another topic, what do people think about the whole Loggers Leap situation?

I think you'll find this is basically an altered free-fly, and thus the train doesn't rotate, it's the seats. Thus, it would be easy to support this, you'd just use regular supports as the train's not rotating around the track at all.

Being constrained to riding only the UK's major coasters thanks to a lack of money, I would say the two best drops on any coasters in the UK are Oblivion's monster of a drop, thanks to the immaculate buildup of tension prior, or Megafobia, thanks to the all out ejector madness (if you're riding on the back row). If drop towers are included though, that would have to go to the stand up side of Apocalypse at Drayton Manor, there's nothing else quite like it that I have ridden. That drop is just incredible! Shame it's not at a better park in all honesty...

I'll be honest... A year ago, I would have been completely on board with this! But now, I'm not so sure... I think the smiler was a freak thing. The coaster is plagued with issues. Ha trust me, you don't want anything like The Smiler. It's just not that great of a ride, the inversions are fun to a point, but it's just nothing special. Also the Gerstlauer rattle is pretty bad on it and the roughness on certain elements is pretty nasty. It's just not really suitable for Cedar Point.

Time for some UK parks, so how about Thorpe 1. Installing Storm Surge - It looks crap and rides crap, a better family attraction could've been installed 2. Ignoring that the park lacks family flats - The park changed it's marketing to a family audience, whilst majorly lacking family rides/coasters/flats... smart move Thorpe, smart move... 3. Not caring for colossus - The park has let their first major coaster decline majorly in quality, thankfully they're now repainting it, but god does it need Intamins new lap bar trains *BONUS* Considering the WC16 project is likely to be some form of trackless dark ride here's a bonus one for the future 4. Not installing an indoor Premier coaster reminiscent of The Mummy as their 2016 installation

Edit accidental double post

In all honesty the single rider queues are normally fine. Even on The Smiler the single rider queue never gets ridiculous. My advice is if the single rider queue is relatively far out of the building, than opt to get a fast track. If it's not outside the building, or is only just outside of the building, opt for the single rider queue. Personally I find Thirteen and RITA to be far more troublesome with single rider, some days RITA seems to not even bothering opening it. I'm assuming you'd want the cred, so personally i'd get the fast track for that.

Air at Alton Towers, shame I had to pick the worst B&M at the park to be my first BM'er, should've just ran straight to good old Nemesis first!

Considering there isn't much airtime in the UK, the standouts have to be: Megafobia (Oakwood) - The entire first drop provides insane airtime in the back row and Grand National (Pleasure Beach Blackpool) - The double down on this ride is pretty intense too and is a great start to a layout pretty full of airtime (by UK standards) Oh and if drop towers count, Detonator (Thorpe Park) - Got to love the Fabbri Towers, their drops are just incredible, providing airtime that I would argue is even better than the Intamin's/S&S's that I have been on.