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After a very light nights sleep, we woke up bleary eyed and immediately packed up our bits, and headed to the nearest Buc-ee’s to get our morning brisket fill. We needed to line our stomachs properly and pattern up today, for we were headed to probably the most anticipated park of the entire...

Kentucky Kingdom marked the shortest time at a park on our trip. Sandwiched in the middle of a concrete jungle consisting of a pretty sizeable airport, expo center and multiple sports grounds, it’s location is very grey and barren. KK has very little shade, and with the heat surpassing 100f...

Thanks for the reply Hixee! I should apologise for the long delay in updates, I've been very busy between being face down in English countryside whilst at festivals and balancing a new job, whilst also doing some freelance work... After a couple hours of driving through the late morning sun...

It's something that's plagued Merlin for a while, and they've got in some big doodoo recently for not having proper staff remuneration. My experience at a merlin park was much the same; manager worthy workers preferred to stay on 0 hours because they actually got paid the time that they worked...

The morning started with a 3 hour drive to Six Flags. The parks entryway is really, really cool, with Goliath twisting and turning around the roads, and several other coasters creating a wall of steel and wooden mess, hiding the rest of the park's content from the outside world. I was...

Was at thorpe the day before it opened. Probably won't get back there again this year. Satisfied with the fact I've ridden 7 new RMCs and visited 13 other parks in the mean time and I think i'd just get angry with how short the layout is anyway, so I'm quite happy as a non-rider for now.

Montu, No. 23 for me. We were rained out of Busch so I only managed to do kumba and iron gwazi more than once, but I really enjoyed Montu. Very solid ride.

Busch Gardens Tampa was just out of reach from my previous trip across the pond. This time however, it made quite the impression on me. We rocked up to the park at about 11am, having tried to recoup some sleep from the turbulent night beforehand. It was pretty damn busy. But also, it was...

So last year I was fortunate enough to have a business trip out to Orlando near the end of the year. One of my friends from my stint at working at Europa Park was on the CRP, so I spent all my free time with him, catching up, talking about our previous doomed road trip, and theme-parking. During...

On the back of my East Coast Road Trip, my almost exclusively European top 10 has been obliterated, with the original 10 now spread across the top 24 positions. Should start getting a trip report up quite soon!

Day at Dollywood done today. Amazing park with some stellar rides… which leads me to Lightning Rod, our first and last ride of the day. There’s a bizarre sensation a nerd gets, riding this ride, tensing at the base of the first hill ready for a launch sequence complete with surrounding audio…...

Currently on day 4 of my pilgrimage across the East coast of the USA. My top 10 is in ruin. Yesterday we hit Six Flags Over Georgia and Fun Spot, having previously done Epcot & Busch Tampa. Our last ride at BGT was a re-ride of Iron Gwazi, which we also did as our first ride of the day. A...

^ With that said, if you have a window to go, you might as well just grit your teeth and bare it. When I worked at my local park I always told the teachers who were complaining about how busy the park was, that they forgot there's 5 days in a school week. The dip in attendance on a Tuesday and...

Staff rides have been taking place on one of the trains today. A lot of the staff are in plain clothes so I assume they’ve been invited to come in on a day off. A few disgruntled nerds giving the team staffing the ride a slightly hard time as they’re looking on. Tbf my group were in the...

Booked to be going to Thorpe tomorrow. Had it in the calendar since Hyperia’s opening day was announced. Obviously thought I got lucky with the rumours of a Tuesday opening, however I Just had an email from the park which states: Dear Guest, Important update regarding your upcoming visit...

This is exactly how I imagine thoosies who rode it yesterday talking to the guys there today

Conditional, isn't it? I think the 2 longest queues I've ever stood in are Frozen Ever After, and The Swarm. The Swarm was opening year, intermittent hail and brake downs. We had a brolly and I was like 15 at the time. It was only a couple weeks after opening so there was still a lot of hype...

Excellent review Josh. Thank you for taking the time to say all of this, some very informative takeaway points here. It’ll be interesting to see how tomorrow goes. Advertisement has been ramping up significantly across london, this evening alone I saw Hyperia on 3 different banners across the...

Is it really a wooden coaster company if it hasn't worked on Boulder Dash? I swear I've heard at some point, every manufacturer who deals with timber has touched this damn thing now. Curious to hear how it rides, I'll be up in Connecticut in about 6 weeks so it might be worth a swing by to see...

Was really hoping they were aiming for a 4th July opening. I'm visiting on the 3rd. Not holding out for it. But obviously, it'd be nice.