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I'm not sure if this is the official term but a zen ride is when you ride a coaster as the only person on the train. If you've ever had one, let's hear your story! I've been lucky enough to have 3 and each time I've found it surreal to have a coaster dispatched just for me. The silence is odd...

This took a long time umming and ahhing but I think I've got a top 50 list I'm happy with and that no good coasters I've been on will suddenly jump into my head. Current count is 424 so this is roughly my top 10%. 1. Untamed 2. Ride To Happiness 3. Zadra 4. Karnan 5. Expedition Geforce 6...

What an amazing ride count for a weekend. All big coasters plus rerides. Top job Matt and well reported as always. Hoping today is equally fruitful and can't wait to hear how it goes.

201 - Dragon's Apprentice (Legoland Dubai) 251 - Odyssey (Fantasy Island) 301 - Loup Garou (Walibi Belgium) 350 - The Tickler (Coney Island) 400 - Lightning Racer (Hersheypark) Hit 400 today on Lightning Racer left side at Hershey. This is the first time doing a USA trip and the amount of creds...

Awesome read as always Matt, well done on the massive ride count and glad you had a successful trip.

You've done this exact thread with the exact same opening sentence less than 5 months ago.

1. Chamber 2. Azkaban 3. Philosophers Stone I was born in 1994 so was the perfect age for Harry Potter. I remember Philosopher's Stone being one of the first real books read to me as a kid before bed and the whimsy of Hogwarts blew my 4 year old mind. When the first few films came out in the...

Yeah I agree with this. I think April Fools Day creates weak banter at best and I'd rather it didn't exist but this Raptor one doesn't seem in the spirit of it. A good example is Knott's saying their log flume will now run with berry juice, you read it and think 'hehe, that's silly'. But a...

What a shame I didn't realise there was potential for some Coasterforce meet and greet action! Hopefully catch you on the next one. It's an interesting discussion and I like your closing the pub earlier analogy as it is the exact same scenario but backed up by stats and numbers. And in that...

I was at Towers today and yesterday (6 hour round trip and an overnight stay). 10 to 4 left a sour taste as I didn't feel I had an actual day out. On the first day I sat down for lunch at 2:30 then by the time I was finished it was time to leave almost immediately. Yes it was dead, yes I rode...

This one you see on every Phantasialand trip report. Uhrwerk sign in the background, train going through the overbank. Tick. Done.

My first visit was on Halloween last year. A Sunday during half term and the place was packed, the queue for RTH was over an hour and stretched across the plaza and bridge and started by the Heidi turnaround. Visited three weeks later mid week and I was regularly getting zen rides due to an...

As soppy as it sounds the Europa Park Suite theme makes my heart soar. It fits the park perfectly and is a big part of the entrance experience.

1. Expedition Geforce - Just a great layout. Old school in that there's no new fangled elements like off axis hills or twisted bunny hops. However it in no way feels dated. Each airtime hill is pure euphoria and the barrage of small hills leading up to the brakes will never not make me grin like...

Savour the excitement of the POV release everyone because this is the only non clone European thrill coaster one we'll see all year.

Looks like Lech mashed together with the second half of Kondaa. That sequence of low to the ground hills is like nothing I've seen on a looping coaster before. The double down from that overbank looks sublime and because it's a new Vekoma you know the high speed rolls will ride beautifully.

My postcard and ticket stubs corkboard is coming along nicely.

Right, I'm back. Completely lost the momentum on this report but I'm now self isolating with Covid so will be bashing out the rest as I suddenly have a lot of time on my hands and I really enjoy writing these. My memory of the trip may be hazy as it was two and a half months ago now but I've...

Is a retrack really heavily rumoured? I've heard it banded about on forums but always in a wishful thinking type of way. There's never any meat or source behind it. I have no clue what the planning document refers to but in my mind a Nemesis retrack is in the same category of 'rumour' as the...

Casual sexism and a Bluetooth fueled competition presumably designed for Blackberry owners, what a throwback. A lot of the Europa ones frustrate me because it's too good a park to have as much advertising as it does. The Mercedes stuff on Silver Star is alright as at least the ride is racing...