Recent content by Nicky Borrill

I’m halfway through queueing for our 2nd ride… Really want to avoid my usual trick of rating a coaster after one ride, and wait until I’ve ridden it a few times… But I will say this… It’s good, I just haven’t fully decided how good. P.s we got front row!!!

They’ve actually really impressed me and changed my mind entirely. This morning was a bit of a mess, but they’ve handled things very well since then. Yes it’s had issues all day so far, but boy oh boy are they quick at turning them around!!! That train stopped on the block launch was on the...

People now stopped on the roll back launch… Block brakes kicked in this time though to stop them, rather than a rollback… No idea why yet.

Europa parks ops are incredible, queue seems to be moving well for a new ride. Few short pauses but nothing serious. Interestingly I’ve seen 3 roll backs already, and they look awesome with the automating swing re-launch… Looks like there’s a good chance of getting one too…

We’re in a queue :)

Universal extended queue lines in preparation for Hags… Alton Towers recognised the expected jump in guests and had the organised queue run all the way around to the RMT entrance. Phantasialand announced in advance that the area itself had a limited capacity, and that there would be a queue...

We were near the front of rope drop, but the area was already full when we got there and they’d closed it off, so we couldn’t get in. Then they started sending people in the area out too, due to ‘technical issues.’ My biggest issue is that they do not seem prepared for the volume of people, no...

Europa Park currently making Merlin look like gods of planning a launch… This is an absolute shambles, seems as if they’d no idea what was going to hit them.

Absolute shambles

They had a crane there almost immediately, it’ll be fine :) I hope…

We were in the 2nd and 3rd row’s air gates when it broke down, so definitely us. The rest ditched me to ride something else, I stayed, they started testing the second they left the station. 🙈😂 There’s been quite a few little niggles today, and ride availability issues… Not something I’ve...

Turntable has it’s effects turned off too. Can clearly see that there’s ‘stuff’ in there, but they’re saving the reveal for the big day(s.) Definitely getting Smiler vibes from it…

Might bump into you today, look out for a Nemesis Reborn hoodie and say hi if you spot us… What is this staggered opening all about? 🙈😂

Volt-Run… The Plan…. We’re heading down to Europa Park, to arrive Wednesday evening, but rather than just fly in and grab the new cred, I decided, in my wisdom, it was a good opportunity to visit some favourite parks for the first time in 2 years, as well as some I haven’t visited yet. So left...

I think it was said during consultation that it was put out to tender and other manufacturers were invited to submit their own designs / plans, including a B&M hyper. I must confess, I didn’t see or hear that myself during consultations, but I do seem to remember it being mentioned here.