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In the latter part of the last decade, Disney World was more-or-less content with what it had and became flaky in regards to building additional large-scale, high-quality attractions, the same way Merlin seems to be acting in Britain now. Then, down the road in Universal Orlando, Harry Potter...

I thought I had covered all the active narrow gauge steam operations in Britain, so I was intrigued when you mentioned that one, as I had never heard of it. I looked it up and I see why: it's 7.25-inch gauge and I only cover railways that are 12-inch gauge (~300 mm) or higher. Typically...

Re: Does a British Gallopers/Carousels Online Database Exist Thank you for the non-wise guy assistance. I dropped a line at all three places you mentioned. Hopefully they will have something on this topic or know where to get it.

Re: Does a British Gallopers/Carousels Online Database Exist Thanks for the helpful link! All this work trying to find detailed info on British carousels has really made me fell like I'm going...in circles.

I'm looking for an online database of stats for historic carousels that includes British, Irish, Australian, and New Zealander carousels (think rcdb.com, only for carousels). I imagine Britain would have the most out of those four and would be the most likely to have such a database. So far...

If you apply the idea of "gaining credits" to the types of cars you've driven, I'd say a credit for a car that a mechanic made in his garage for fun in his spare time is just as valid as a car made on an assembly line. As long as it meets the basic definition of what a roller coaster is, you're...

There's a lot of discussion about BPB, so I'll throw my hat in the ring. As a coaster enthusiast, BPB fascinates me because it has more working wood roller coasters built prior to the 1970s (five total) than any other park on Earth. The only park to come close to that is Kennywood (three...

The Coney Island Cyclone. It's probably the most well-known historically-significant wooden roller coaster in the US. There would be so much press surrounding it stirring up dissent and the collective butthurt from all of its fans would cause the ride to spontaneously burst into flames...

You: "A foreigner is talking about the goings-on in my country?! DAMN HIM TO HELL! *HISSSSSSSSS* Um, I mean I must inform him of his error immediately." People are allowed to have opinions and perspectives about other places, even if they have only briefly visited them or never been there...

In any US park if there is a single drop of rain, all the major outdoor rides shut down completely. If you live in a climate with tons of thunderstorms in Summer like here in Central Florida, they'll routinely shut down everything even before the rain starts falling (it's actually only the...

I'm not talking about the independent parks; I'm talking about why no other big chains that presently don't have a presence in the UK want to build there. Yeah, Merlin has deep pockets. The only way you are going to break such a monopoly is to bring in another big name to fight them at their...

I wasn't aware that my tone was condescending. What I'm saying is accurate. Nothing can ruin your day at a theme park more than rain can. The UK gets a lot of rain, so there you have it. That's the real reason why no big chains besides Merlin, which is based in the UK, want to build there...

^What if the endangered spider was skeptical towards the value of letting in immigrants and/or the UK's membership in the EU?

^Here we use the "it will add jobs" defense when supporting big projects like these, and it often works. Does that work in the UK?

Summit Plummet at Blizzard Beach in Walt Disney World. It's only 120 feet tall and I've ridden roller coasters over 3 times that height, but this thing scared the bejeezus out of me.

^Ah, yes you're right. PWH is in Lowestoft, England. Also, Oakwood is run by Aspro Group, another smaller park chain with a big continent presence. I'll tell you what...if I were an entrepreneur with big pockets who wanted to open a brand-new large-scale park in Britain, my number one...

Here in Central Florida, Merlin is just beginning to establish a presence, with the opening of Legoland Florida a few years ago and the Orlando Eye Ferris wheel last year (there is also a Madame Tussauds and Sea Life Aquarium flanking it). Been to both and they are quite nice. Of course, the...

One of their locomotives, the Roy O. Disney, turns 100 next month.

Heh, that's nothing. You should see the Cass Scenic Railroad in West Virginia when they have three of their locomotives pulling one train. The whole sky gets blacked out. Absolutely glorious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUlJzfQ-Blc

That's a nice one. It would be cool to go back in time to 1961 when it was first operating as Rebel Railroad (it was literally the train, like one or two small buildings, and nothing else at that time). Instead of hillbillies harassing the passengers it's damn Yankee Civil War soldiers, Rebel...