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  1. rob666

    How Has Your Enthusiasm Grown or Changed?

    Hey, buy a lottery ticket every month...we can all dream of the big world trip over a couple of months.
  2. rob666

    Six Flags Qiddiya| Saudi Arabia | Theme Park

    Are they distant relatives of Crash Bandicoot?
  3. rob666

    What is your favourite non-Merlin UK coaster?

    If I can pick a dead one that would be the Reel at BPB. If it has to have a pulse, Grand National, all those years of racing mates (and strangers) on opposite trains.
  4. rob666

    WTF BPB?

    You are quoting one day in the month, the month of June was quiet overall...reports from bar staff, admissions staff and operations staff. The Streak and Avalanche have been on one train ops for virtually all the season, that explains their queues. The park has been very quiet this season...
  5. rob666

    WTF BPB?

    Sorry, the park was quiet on most of the sunny days in June...disappointingly so according to the bar staff. The coasters didn't have hour long queues on the days I visited, most were ten or fifteen minutes. People are skint, it is hitting seaside parks hard.
  6. rob666

    How Has Your Enthusiasm Grown or Changed?

    Amusingly, over the decades, it has become a strange combination of simple "bodily function" and feeding a basic drug habit... Haven't had a coaster in a while and I get grumpy and moody, go for a quick fix at the Beach, a bit of me time...gossip, dodgems, a couple of coasters and two small...
  7. rob666

    Are family-owned parks always superior to corporate parks?

    As a long time season pass holder for Blackpool, I can give a wholehearted no! Bring in a decent, competent, set of corporate management tomorrow please. I'm sure their effect would be felt in days...
  8. rob666

    Cedar Point | Top Thrill 2 | Triple Launch Renovation | 2024

    Could Mr Pedantic here just point out that the video shows a crane with a cage, not a cherry picker at all.
  9. rob666

    Six Flags Qiddiya| Saudi Arabia | Theme Park

    No phobia, or brainwashing...just accepting reality in the current situation. Surely you are not one of the climate change deniers, most I knew personally are now dead. ...and I have loved rollercoasters for fifty years, so this is a fair place to raise my genuine concerns. Don't try to bully me...
  10. rob666

    Six Flags Qiddiya| Saudi Arabia | Theme Park

    I was meaning all the aviation carbon based fuel being burned up for people to visit a coaster in a country that is already too hot for tourism. Hottest times ever. Wettest July ever for me, by a very long way. We just should not be doing it, for the sake of future generations. Sorry, but the...
  11. rob666

    Six Flags Qiddiya| Saudi Arabia | Theme Park

    All the while the planet burns...
  12. rob666

    WTF BPB?

    The Friday evenings were dead. The Saturday night just gone was dead...and dry...and good fun with no queues, I was there...but dead!
  13. rob666

    WTF BPB?

    Extending opening hours massively increases costs, often for the same overall income...two shifts instead of one...and why pay for a full day when you can get a half day for less money? They need the cheap entry option back, the park has been three quarters empty most days this season, even...
  14. rob666

    Should the BBC Licence Fee be Scrapped?

    Two million people watch Match of the Day...I watch a recording so I can fast skip all the discussion.
  15. rob666

    Should the BBC Licence Fee be Scrapped?

    Two thousand convictions a week for those caught out though...considered a real tax on poverty. Average fine around £200.
  16. rob666

    Should the BBC Licence Fee be Scrapped?

    As an old git, I watch/use the BBC pretty much 24/7, so don't mind the three quid a week for a fantastic service. National and local news, brilliant entertainment series, world service through the night when I'm kept awake with my dodgy knees, traffic reports, six music, five live for sports, I...
  17. rob666

    WTF BPB?

    Nope, they have always closed the south park rides for the fireworks. Nickland always closes earlier than the rest of the park, all the other main rides were opening until 9. The park wasn't very busy at all for late riding today.
  18. rob666

    WTF BPB?

    They have done that for years on the fireworks nights.
  19. rob666

    Crisps

    Bit too far back for many on here, but anyone else remember hedgehog flavour? They were great.
  20. rob666

    What is the UK’s wettest theme park?

    Valhalla, Rugrats, River Caves, Spongebob and Dora at Blackpool, with Infusion over the water, and it always rains in Blackpool.
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