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Tourist numbers have gone from 1.7 million in 1990 to 9 million last year (https://www.statista.com/statistics/452060/number-of-tourists-in-barcelona-spain/) . I lived there for 2 years and it very much felt like living in a theme park at times. My local park (Parc Guell) was overrun, going into...

Watch the video if you like and see what conclusions you draw. Further thread derailment will end up annoying posters or lead to mods redirecting conversation I guess.

I don't want to totally derail thread. In a nutshell, Barcelona is a medium-sized city which is now completely saturated with tourists, to the extent that it's making locals miserable. Follow link below if you want to get an idea of what I mean.

I saw a similar style track the other day in a similar tone and it looked really classy. With all the interactions Icon has with existing rides, I guess it has to be a neutral colour to minimise colour clashes.

Yeah. Even the locals are fed up.

By the way - if you want to get to Warner, since the train station shut the best way is a bus from Madrid - just a few euros and drops you there. If anyone ever wants advice about getting around the city, drop me a line.

I went to PAD the other day. Abismo is a thrilling but all too brief experience, and it has a serious problem with queueing times. It lasts about a minute and you'll be waiting from an hour to an hour and a half to get on it. Tarantula is loads and loads of fun and you're on it in 20 to 40...

The whole city has now been turned into a tacky theme park to compensate. Guadílandia would be a decent new name for it.

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Oh, imagine if working class people went there. How ghastly.

I'm not fussed. I think the surroundings matter, i.e. it's great to see the beach or rows of houses from rides at BPB - or that Boulder Dash ride you lot have pointed me in the direction of would give an amazing sense of being on a secret runaway train - whereas an empty car park isn going to be...

Am i being daft or is that missing some tunnel action?

i remember that after the accident, the ride closed to the public, and an announcement came over the tannoy to anyone working in the park, inviting us for a free ride. They weren't prepared to risk a normal life, but Pleasure Beach workers were obviously not that important to them. The park's...

Sounds pretty good to be honest.

I like the way the tweeter thinks that they know about gravity but Mack don't. Or that they had a design meeting where they thought 'these lapbars might kill a kid or two, but you know what LET'S DO IT ANYWAY'.

It was always rattly but it wasn't a problem before. It was just part of the experience. Most locals rate it as far superior to the Big Dipper, and it's got bags of fun designed into its drops. I must have been on it for pushing 100 times in my life, but the last couple (in 2015 and 2017...

The aforementioned Coaster Express at Parque Warner manages to combine pain with boredom somehow. It has no airtime and rattles around without bothering to entertain you. Back home, I found the Avalanche to be the dullest supposedly thrilling ride there.

BPB could build an igloo and it would burn down. I love the photos of the Big Dipper. Despite being from South Shore, I didn't realise that it was that close to the beach at the beginning. Wonderful image.

Haaj an interesting substitute name for Icon but possibly blasphemous.

I liked Zipper Dipper but it's now been rebranded with some Nickelodeon ****. Blue Flyer I think. Why make the name ****ter?