Recent content by ManiaMuse

I'm also going next week and hoping it is back up. Mostly selfishly because it will mean that it will help with the other queues a bit. Obviously the ride area needs to be safe and it seems that parts of the rockwork are difficult to access but if I was the park I would be doing everything to...

Very little (if anything) mentioned about it from the park, but Black Mamba at Phantasialand has been closed since Monday 9th June and they were erecting scaffolding and had cherry pickers around parts of the ride yesterday. Apparently there was weather related damage to the rockwork after...

The green one looks like B&M box track to me in the slightly higher resolution image. It seems to be a hyper/speed coaster although it has an usual twisting first drop followed by two really tall inversions. So a bit of a combination of The Hulk/the clone in Beijing (especially the water...

Just comparing random photos, I think the vertical bit looks to be longer than on Yukon Striker. Looks like it has trims at the top so will probably give that weird hanging feeling like you get on some of Intamin's recent efforts at top hats rather than crazy airtime but it should still be...

I haven't been to that many parks so I will keep it to just one coaster. I generally find something positive in most coasters, or if not I can tolerate them to ride them once and move onto something else without regretting my decision to ride that coaster too much. But my award for the worst...

I guess so someone can climb up and give the train a push if it gets perfectly balanced there? Not sure I would want to climb it though. Looks like you have to climb a vertical ladder for 300-400ft and then take a narrow staircase in the clouds between the supports for the last section...

I think the discussion here about rider sizes is missing the point. The manufacturer designs the ride to accommodate a certain specification of rider (min/max height, weight, type of rider e.g. disabilities/pregnant/health conditions, age etc). Once the specifications are determined then they...

And it opened up again about an hour ago. Got lucky again because I stuck around until they opened the queue and pretty much walked on. Now it has the biggest queue in the park.

Well they've fixed the chain apparently and it is sending round empty trains now. Staff not letting people into the queue yet though. Will see if they open it or not today. Luckily got a ride first thing yesterday before it broke.

I've just moved to Manchester and never realised how big the bomb was although I would have only been about 6/7 back then. Although quite a few people have already mentioned that they wish the bomb had been even bigger so they could have knocked down and rebuilt the whole of the Arndale Centre...

You can drive from Spain to Portugal, or between Germany and Poland or take a train from France to Belgium without having your passport or any ID checked yet that doesn't make any of them the same country. ROI is most certainly a separate country to the UK/NI. If you think otherwise then be my...

Has the park said if there will be any theming on the train? Would be a shame for them to be generic B&M trains after all the efforts they are making with the station building and lift supports. Although I suppose it's probably quite difficult to theme floorless dive coaster shuttles as there...

Yet Rob Alvey thinks it's going to be nothing special.....(yet thinks that 7 Dwarfs Mine Train is the best coaster ever!)

Looks like something you would build in RCT. Will either be amazing or awful. At least it won't be average...

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