Also, why do a lot of members seem to hate Looopings, out of interest? Are they like the European TPR or something? I personally like Looopings and their content, myself.
Because Looopings are not very nice people. The Daily Mail of theme park news sites. On various European forums people nickname them the 'tabloid'.
They seem to make a habit of making enemies of various parks. They bragged for a while about how they pissed off Efteling by purchasing advertising space outside the park. I believe a few years back they targeted Slagharen. Recently they have been on the war path with Phantasialand. Among their lovely articles they have published illegally taken images, and written fake stories about the park, including personal attacks on individuals who work for the park.
They often take images from other sites without permission and crediting them. I know Theme Park Review has had issues with them because of this. As has German forum PhantaFriends.de and when the forum admins contacted them asking for the photos to be removed, Looopings responded by calling them Nazis. (pathetic insensitive name calling you would not expect from a supposedly professional news site).
Looopings is also extremely vain; they love to boast about how they were first to report various things (even when its actually not true - eg. Their recent piece on Efteling's family launch coaster. That's been common knowledge for ages).
I wouldn't pay attention to what they publish without fact checking it.
Despite this though you can't avoid them they are a popular site and do publish things which are interesting and do get the occasional scoop but they also still write a lot of sensationalist and fabricated rubbish.
However this is extremely off topic.
Tika Waka looks great. Really looking forward to visiting and riding it. Although I'm not sure if I'll go this summer or wait until they open that odd yet amazing looking popcorn Erratic Dark Ride next year.