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  1. Smithy

    Wicksteed Park in Administration

    Not sure how comfortable I am therefore with them cashing in on peoples good nature - over 70k donated already but not exactly clear where that money is going.
  2. Smithy

    Blackpool Pleasure Beach: Future Predictions

    This sounds like management talk for "We've ****ed this up royally but are in too deep now so need to find a way to salvage something". I am very familiar with it.
  3. Smithy

    "Sleeping Giant" Theme Park

    Parque Warner Madrid is a shout given the intial outlay as discussed above, but it's such an arse-about-way away from Madrid that it was never going to pull in enough visitors to warrant further investments. I think Terra Mitica is the best shout in here - it's got to be in an almost perfect...
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    Blackpool Pleasure Beach: Future Predictions

    Is that even plausible given the floorspace?
  5. Smithy

    Wicksteed Park in Administration

    Rumours locally are that they're simply doing it to write off some debt and the park will likely end up in the ownership of a new company within the current ownership group. How accurate that is I have no idea.
  6. Smithy

    Coronavirus: Impact on Theme Parks

    Night-time summer trips to Efteling sound incredible......will be keeping a close eye on whether that's feasible.
  7. Smithy

    Airlines

    Yeah I'm joining in with the Ryanair love, of course their charges are outrageous but that's only if you're an idiot and don't read properly. If it wasn't for Ryanair I wouldn't have visited half the places I've been able to do. ****, I got to Luxembourg and back for less than a tenner. They're...
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    Coronavirus: Impact on Theme Parks

    I mean the government clearly cared about it as an arbitrary measure given they changed how they were counting them on the 28th April to ensure they could include mailed tests, even though they clearly stated the target was 100k people TESTED, not 100k tests sent out. The whole thing is a...
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    Music - any Trance, EDM or old skool dance fans out there?

    Who doesn't love a bit of classic euro dance?! 'Dance' as a catch-all is pretty much all I'll listen to. Swedish House Mafia, Alesso, Avicii, Arty, Laidback Luke, I used to spend my Friday nights listening to Annie Mac, Judge Jules and then Pete Tong (before Radio 1 went to ****e). Tend to go...
  10. Smithy

    Coronavirus: Impact on Theme Parks

    On the face of it that does look promising. All I would temper it with is that without a vaccine in place, there's every chance they'll have to go back into lockdown if it starts to spread again.
  11. Smithy

    CANCELLED - Helix Må Kex | LISEBERG | 2nd - 3rd May 2020

    Oh ****ing ****ing bollocks and arsewipe. Completely understandable, sensible decision from the park. Gutted on a personal level but ah well, always next year. Will be doing the same as Ben and waiting out to see if Ryanair end up cancelling more flights rather than jumping the gun now.
  12. Smithy

    Coronavirus: Impact on Theme Parks

    The government wouldn't have forced their hand at all. I'd be surprised if they'd even been in touch. It will be mostly a financial decision based on early trends from those parks that have opened already, and probably hastened by the decision to close schools from tomorrow (meaning they know...
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    CANCELLED - Helix Må Kex | LISEBERG | 2nd - 3rd May 2020

    We'll see - as you've probably seen this week new and prognosis changes daily. I'm not optimistic but I'm not cancelling anything yet.
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    CANCELLED - Helix Må Kex | LISEBERG | 2nd - 3rd May 2020

    I cannot for the life of me remember if I've done it @Ben and don't want to duplicate but our flights are still booked and unless they put us in a forced quarantine I'll be there because I've already had two trips cancelled this year.
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    “Warming up throughout the day” - a myth?

    Yeah Icon is the first one for me that came to mind too, that thing at the end of the day is a different beast altogether. @Nitefly it may not be that they continue heating up - but it plateau's at a certain temperature relevant to how frequently it's exposed to the forces heating it?
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    “Warming up throughout the day” - a myth?

    There's a reason they send trains round fully loaded first thing (or with water dummies in) but later on can run them with empty spaces - in the sense of it 'warming up', it's a combination of ambient temperature, friction related heat etc... Don't forget, as the train goes through each track...
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    CANCELLED - Helix Må Kex | LISEBERG | 2nd - 3rd May 2020

    Booked flights, think we're on same as Ben for both. May can't come around quickly enough I'm desperate for some Liseberg.
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    CANCELLED - Helix Må Kex | LISEBERG | 2nd - 3rd May 2020

    Assuming I get the leave booked I'm booking flights tomorrow - currently dirt cheap from Stansted (they'd have to be to convince me to ever go back there the dump)
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    CANCELLED - Helix Må Kex | LISEBERG | 2nd - 3rd May 2020

    We're desperate to get back to Liseberg so if I can make it work we'll be there.
  20. Smithy

    India PTR - Part 6: Kolkata

    I'm glad you called it a ****hole because I didn't want to come in here and be the first to say it. Absolute dump. That ****ing ferris wheel too - unreal.
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