technothesp

Quick help needed... Just moved to Amsterdam from London - I have an unplanned day tomorrow (sunday) and I'd like to go on a roller coaster. Shall I head to Efteling, Walibi World or check out the Mack dark ride in the Amsterdam Dungeon? Or perhaps another suggestion? Any advice gratefully received. B

Exactly! To an outsider it looks like they settled on the name "Stealth" and then realised that they had built their new coaster in the "Amity Cove" area of the park. Lets just call it a beautiful juxtaposition. All those rides closed! - I hope you got discounted entry (but something tells me that Tussards probably aren't that benevolent). Lots more pictures of people at the launch event last night can be seen at http://www.prazzi.com/stealthlaunch Benjamin

well they WERE backwards in the preview, dagnabbit! B

i have just returned from thorpe park's stealth launch party it was a great evening and riding stealth at night after a couple of glasses of free wine and lots of free canapes is highly recommended. i sat at the front the first time, held my hands in the air and laughed throughout - absolutely brilliant. am i the only one that thinks its weird that the ride is called 'stealth' but is themed as 'amityville speedway? (and then the launch party is themed as a gothic s&m party - albeit a very cool s&m party). i attach a few photos from the evening. sorry i haven't captured many images of the abundant totty (I did get a guy with a circular saw though). Oh and I've attached them all backwards because the TPR site says to "Attach the photos in the order you want them to appear." Benjamin Walking back to the car park I wonder how a Stealth-Tidal Wave Hybrid water coaster might work. ME AT THE FRONT, BABY! ... and then it was time to try it out. here you can see that for one night only, the single rider queue becomes the 'freeloading media whores queue'... ... if this guy had stopped grinding his crotch with a circular saw, then you might have been able to see stealth launching into the night sky... ... and did I mention that there was a kind of surreal s&m theme to the evening... ... thorpe park laid on their own paparazzi to pap the paps... ... looks a lot bigger up close (as the actress said to the bishop)... Approaching the party at dusk...

Last 'modern day' coaster I rode was Lethal Weapon at Warner Brothers Movie World, Gold Coast, Australia! A week later though, I rode the Scenic Railway at Melbourne's Luna Park - the oldest operating roller coaster in the world, a rollercoaster with a standing 'brake-person' on every train and its own ghost! Lets all hear it for my first ever post on TPR! Benjamin Scenic Railway, Luna Park, Melbourne, Australia Lethal Weapon, WB Movie World, Australia