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With a topic title like that, spelling ain't great mate either! A level Maths...one lesson taken, didn't understand a word.

Disproportionate though...got to be the Spin Doctor at Blackpool. A (twin) booster ride, nothing more. Arriving early, jogging to the ride, still an hours queue. Later in the day, a three hour queue...for a booster!? Very slow ops meant a quite small queue was moving forward at a rate of about...

A full two and a half hours for loads on opening... Nemesis, Big One, Space Invader, Oblivion, Ultimate, Air, Thirteen, Rita, Wickerman, Spin Doctor at BPB... But never queued more than half an hour for Icon, funny that.

It is a funfair in a park!

Hasn't that spot started slipping down the valley? Been a constant problem over the years, the original Chine and footpath has long gone.

Was just going to mention this... Exodus...MOVEMENT OF JAH PEOPLE. Cracking title.

Mr Pedantic here...no circuit, sorry. Full track/ride testing. Not been to Chessington in 55 years, couldn't get the kids I worked with to do Vampire, they always picked Blackpool/Alton, so I only ever got to the zoo as a toddler apparently. Finally might get to do the park again soon, but not...

I like roughing it under a tarp with a mat and a rug, being able to see out all around is the best part. Or a four pack of Special Brew and a night under the South Pier at Blackpool, being careful to check the tide times first of course. Oh my teenage years.

The outside of the house had been tidied and touched up in the closed season a number of times over the years I believe. Better to see it in person, and not via a lens and computer screen, before writing the whole thing off. I think they might possibly know what they are doing, they have had...

Funny isn't it...I often skip Revolution because the backward loop always makes me want to puke. Infusion is only a couple of times a year, but waiting for the front row makes a big difference. Often skip the Big One because it is regularly the only ride with an hours queue, but I love the...

Shoot the Rapids at Belle Vue, Manchester, fifty years ago. You sit in a large cupboard, on a seat (for two) made of metal rollers. The cupboard door closes, the seat suddenly changes into a 45% slope, and you roll down the seat rollers out of a trapdoor at the bottom of the cupboard. With me so...

"Holocaust"...really? Neither technically, nor politically, correct. Destruction or slaughter wholesale...never mind the WWII connotation.

Last minute trip plans on here, the Coasterforce meets, BPB has just started a new fan club, the mob on Towers Street are very welcoming, and finally Thorpe Park Mania do meets local to you as well... You can meet old git coaster freaks in MmeCrevettes on BPB on many wet weekday afternoons. I...

Enthusiasts...Large numbers of them do not seem very enthusiastic at all. Top pick must be Matt's in the opening post...Icon...it just isn't.

I advocated it for about forty years before changing my mind.

Sad old man confession. Lapping thirteen on a quiet wet day, skiving work because of rain forecast all day...I soon spotted a short cut nipping over the 4 foot fence from the exit back into the single rider queue. Used it a couple of times, but third time unlucky, wet trainers and wooden fence...

Then there were the horror wild animal tableaux with stuffed little animals in human settings...scary. Wildlife Museum, near the Corkscrew...gave me nightmares for years. Also there was the two hour queue for the ten second alpine slide over the Oblivion site as well!

Another sad old git who remembers the model railway well. Ran through day and night in about half an hour, and it was a massive layout, you could walk all the way round it. Been gone thirty years now.

So sad to see. Spent many a happy hour reducing small children to tears on that ride! "That really hurt...again, again". Only me out of the (nearly) grown ups who would go round twice.

Could they...Yes. Will they, probably not.