Recent content by Boodangy

I sure have neglected this thread, so day 3, May 7th: Hansa Park. WARNING: obviously spoilers for Kärnan and Novgorod. Woke up for the first time in my hostel, oh god the air was dry in there. Germans swear by doing lüften (or however you spell it) but I'm not used to indoor air this dry, my...

Oh. Kinda disappointing if it truly is a dark ride replacing a coaster, especially when Jetline was my favourite thing at the park. Dark rides are fun and all, but they're not ever gonna be worth the same as a coaster or big flat ride to me unless it's like Efteling or something.

^ I love how the title says "Triple launch rollercoaster" even though it's only two launches. But on that, that's really cool, actually. My whole problem with swing launches is that they generally start at the beginning of the launch track, and the first launch has essentially no force at all...

Not to be crude but soggy logger sounds like a roundabout way of saying you went number two. "Just went and dropped a soggy logger"

Not to dig this thread up from the grave but idk that there's a generic 'fun anecdotes' thread in general so here goes a couple tidbits about the ride on it's second year. So on Swingi if there's an e-stop, it uses the friction brake rather than energy recuperation (that it normally uses) to...

Glad you enjoyed Särkänniemi, I'm not a huge fan of the place, but hopefully the new big waterfront Vekoma will be the best coaster there (it wouldn't be hard, tbh) especially since it'll properly use the park's location unlike a lot of the rides actually. Also yes, the modern take on a whip is...

Damn, yeah. I have no idea why they have a policy like that or why the staff seems to truly believe in it's importance. I'd be really curious to find out if it was always there since it opened 10y ago at the park or if it happened after like one kid vomited and their parents complained, or...

^ I was just thinking about this one the other day and wondered if it was open yet. The shape of the track means it has to have proper bogeys rather than Disk'os which don't need much articulation, so it can't be as simple to maintain either, curious to know how affordable this is as a ride.

Glad you enjoyed the views! Funnily enough I've never really seen those parts of Tampere, even though I've been there plenty of times. I've just somehow been there for completely other reasons or wandered around different parts, even though I've missed a lot of the prettiest bits. I personally...

I don't understand waiting for more than an hour for a ride, let alone six. Jesus christ, that's like most of your park day covered there, that's almost a full day of work at a normal job! :eek:

They weren't running VR that day (if they were there would be a ton of VR headsets hanging on those hooks on the wall and they'd offer you one when you sit down) which is why you didn't notice it. There's three VR movie options for it, but I prefer riding without cause VR makes me nauseous and I...

Wild to see a park opening like this with just.... dirt everywhere. Also, I can kind of (only kind of) forgive Energylandia for having so many multiples of the same ride type since they have 19 coasters in total, but I don't understand a park with only four coasters having two of them be very...

A-HA! So that's what the mysterious 2018 manufactured new Zac Spin was that I saw got sold on Interlink's website. I was browsing Interlink not too long ago and was confused about what that was and where it'd gone, as the only post 2011 Zac Spin I knew of was the fancy looking one at Silk Road...

Not that it necessarily means anything, but at 30m tall this would be by far the tallest Gerstlauer family coaster or Vekoma family LIM. The reason I say it doesn't really mean anything is that obviously manufacturers can just... build taller than they already have, but if we know of a family...

I'll agree with the idea that it doesn't really matter, but as for me I wouldn't count a butterfly as a cred because I don't count any simple arc/circle shapes as coasters, personally. So imo if you count an Intamin Half Pipe / Surfrider as a coaster, you should count a butterfly as well. But I...