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I think my worst is four hours for The Smiler on the day is surprise opened! Kept breaking down for long periods of time, I think all my dreams for weeks involved The Smiler's Soundtrack... Not that it was a bad ride or anything, just four hours in the baking sunlight was a long commitment even...

Monday 5th September - Tampa Bay on Memorial Day It felt like a gamble booking it for a national holiday, but we were off to Busch Gardens Tampa for the day and we couldn’t have been more excited. As non-drivers, we were at the mercy of the Busch Gardens shuttle bus for our Tampa adventure and...

Sunday 4th September - Back in the bubble I don’t have tonnes to write about this day that would make good reading! We spent the day in Magic Kingdom enjoying all the usual favourite rides, parades, cavalcades and shows. It was a wonderful day and needed after our chaotic Friday. We did get...

Saturday 3rd September - Oh boy, it’s too hot to do four parks in a day right? This was one of the more Coasterforcey days of our trip, after a long time debating whether we go Seaworld or not, we ended up being swayed thanks to the kindness of Nitefly, which meant we didn’t actually pay a...

Thank you Nicky 😊 I've had a few sick days, now on new medication and got finger joint supports, just got to go slow. It's difficult as I have a lot I want to do (including this TR) and I am being forced to not do it and I can't even just sit and doomscroll because of the pain!

I promise further updates are coming to this. My health has been a bit rough so I have had finger joint issues, however I will keep the report going when I can 😅

Mine's a pretty simple lineage: 2009 - 2019 - Nemesis 2019 - 2020 - Taron 2020 - now - Zadra I didn't really travel for coasters/prioritise the hobby till 2018/2019, so I had only been the usual UK parks and out of the UK lineup, Nemesis wins hands down. Now it's a got a lot more competition...

213 - Balder My October got kind of decimated when the tour I was meant to follow got moved last minute, so I decided to pop out and see my best friend in Sweden and alongside that, pop back to Liseberg. Thankfully out of nowhere, Balder was announced as reopening just before I went! I'd heard...

This is the exact scenario I imagined happening at PA/had been warned about repeatedly when we visited last year, thankfully we picked two very dead days, even then we still suffered due to the lack of communication about opening times for food/mazes, which left us only doing half the mazes &...

THIS too! Disney queue times are almost always 15-20% over-estimated so people feel like they won when they queue less than they'd expected to. It's fantastic, we were just at Disneyland Paris this weekend and as usual, a 15min queue meant pretty much a walk on. So when crowds are low and things...

Oh yeah it absolutely blew us away too. I refused to read into it and we were just aghast when it happened. One of those moments where you really realise how Imagineering really are the best in the business. In all honesty, I started ADHD meds a few months ago and when they're in my system, I...

Thursday 1st September - Finally exploring Magic Kingdom We truly didn’t have a schedule this day, so a lie in was more than needed. By the time we’d grabbed breakfast and headed into MK, it was around 11am and the park was… mostly dead! The queues all hovered around 15-30 minutes apart from...

Wednesday 31st August - Escaping the Disney bubble to find some fellow alternative folk Unfortunately one of the downsides of Disney, is the dining reservations. We had a wishlist of reservations and some of them were not possible on the days we’d hoped, so we had to place them in slightly more...

Tuesday 30th August - Mickey may not be scary, but he sure puts on a great Halloween event We woke up a bit later on account of the late night we had ahead, we headed straight to Animal Kingdom to get the day started. Upon arrival we saw that Expedition Everest was on a five minute wait, so...

Monday 29th August - A perfect day in a Galaxy far far away We had a fairly decent night sleep after our hectic Sunday and upon waking, I managed to snag us an Oga’s Cantina reservation for park close at Hollywood Studios, meaning we could get to wander around in the dark after a cocktail. We...

To preface this, I am writing this on the flight home (September 11th) from what has been the most incredible trip of my life. A few people may remember my trip planning post a month or so ago and if so, I will be covering everything that went right with the plan + the amendments we made for QOL...

Unfortunately many more people are disabled thanks to Covid. My own situation was brought on by Covid in March 2020 causing a very rare disease leading to an autoimmune condition/chronic pain. There are now many people with severe long covid that would mean that they have limitations to how long...

Honestly it's a difficult subject, as someone with pretty restrictive chronic pain and mobility issues, these systems are the only reason I can still keep doing this hobby. That said, they can be overloaded/exploited, I don't use them in the UK and have actively just avoided UK parks since I got...

Seen an interesting rumour floating around that even Josh D'Amaro wasn't impressed with the actual ride portion of the retheme and that they are considering a "plussing" shutdown early next year. Not sure if there's much grounds to it, however everyone I know who rode it agrees with how I felt...

Oh very much so! I'm still sporting the remainder of the black eye I got from seeing them a month ago 😂