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Its a year late but what the heck. :lol:
Metro land was a small, quirky indoor park situated in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in north east England. If you’re a geography geek (like me), you should have figured out that the park was situated 80 odd miles north of Light water valley and Flamingo land. Because of this, most theme park fanatics didn’t bother travelling the extra distance for a park which quite frankly wasn’t worth it.
Anyhow, here’s some history for you all (supplied by rcdb.com):
Here are some the photos I took on its last day of operation:
This was it from the outside. Nowadays its covered in lovely scaffolding.
Here's one of the two entrances to the park. Nowadays this would be a gorgeous photo of a wooden wall. (As you can see, I suck at photography)
For colour fanatics, this place is just pure pornography.
The first drop of Newcastle's equivalence of the Nemesis (people actually compare them up hear, seriously)
A helix, pretty self explanatory.
Photography sucks.
If your wondering if Westlers supports Metroland, here's your answer.
This ride used to have quite a bit of theming, but they stripped it all shortly before these photo's were taken.
One interesting thing about this park was that all nearly all the rides were named by adding an adjective to its general name. For example, this ride was called the Wonderful Wave-swinger.
This be the entrance to the 20 year old New roller-coaster....
...and this be a picture of the train taken by a mature hormonal teenager.
This is the first lift hill which featured a nice countdown filled with excessive strobes and voodoo masks.
Super-bad photo of a sign at the exit. Ironically, this was taken after my last ever ride of the coaster.
This is the view from the roller-coaster exit (and if your wondering if Walls was advertised at Metroland, here's your answer).
To the left of the coaster exit you can see the park residential play area.
A couple of bunny hops were wedged between the play area and the wall (a nice ending to the ride, but a perfect opportunity for kids to throw plastic balls at the riders from the ball pit).
I had a great time thinking of a good comment to go with this picture.
Same with this one.
Here's one last photo of the second helix and lift which lead on to the bunny hop finale, all of which had collectively preceded with a stretched out turn from the big helix which had lead from the drop out of the strobe infested tunnel.
That's all from me, thank you for reading and if you have the time, please comment!
Metro land was a small, quirky indoor park situated in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in north east England. If you’re a geography geek (like me), you should have figured out that the park was situated 80 odd miles north of Light water valley and Flamingo land. Because of this, most theme park fanatics didn’t bother travelling the extra distance for a park which quite frankly wasn’t worth it.
Anyhow, here’s some history for you all (supplied by rcdb.com):
Here are some the photos I took on its last day of operation:
This was it from the outside. Nowadays its covered in lovely scaffolding.
Here's one of the two entrances to the park. Nowadays this would be a gorgeous photo of a wooden wall. (As you can see, I suck at photography)
For colour fanatics, this place is just pure pornography.
The first drop of Newcastle's equivalence of the Nemesis (people actually compare them up hear, seriously)
A helix, pretty self explanatory.
Photography sucks.
If your wondering if Westlers supports Metroland, here's your answer.
This ride used to have quite a bit of theming, but they stripped it all shortly before these photo's were taken.
One interesting thing about this park was that all nearly all the rides were named by adding an adjective to its general name. For example, this ride was called the Wonderful Wave-swinger.
This be the entrance to the 20 year old New roller-coaster....
...and this be a picture of the train taken by a mature hormonal teenager.
This is the first lift hill which featured a nice countdown filled with excessive strobes and voodoo masks.
Super-bad photo of a sign at the exit. Ironically, this was taken after my last ever ride of the coaster.
This is the view from the roller-coaster exit (and if your wondering if Walls was advertised at Metroland, here's your answer).
To the left of the coaster exit you can see the park residential play area.
A couple of bunny hops were wedged between the play area and the wall (a nice ending to the ride, but a perfect opportunity for kids to throw plastic balls at the riders from the ball pit).
I had a great time thinking of a good comment to go with this picture.
Same with this one.
Here's one last photo of the second helix and lift which lead on to the bunny hop finale, all of which had collectively preceded with a stretched out turn from the big helix which had lead from the drop out of the strobe infested tunnel.
That's all from me, thank you for reading and if you have the time, please comment!