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  1. Dar

    UK General Election 4th July 2024

    After reading Reform's "contract with you" AKA their manifesto, I can only conclude that they are (pardon my francais) ****ing mental. It's hilarious to me when parties put their costings for their "savings" front and centre, but then don't have any costings for their other plans. For example...
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    Attractiepark Rotterdam | Netherlands | Amusement Park

    Managed to cram it through Google Translate! Sounds like an eccentric old man that is throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks!
  3. Dar

    Coasters that gave you the biggest sense of "danger"

    The turn over the path on Wild Mouse was scary, but it was the bunny hills behind the station that always scared the hell out of me. Getting fired out of the seat with only a seatbelt to stop you was terrifying! The big airtime hills on Taron were a real squeaky bum experience on my first...
  4. Dar

    Original name of stealth at thorpe

    Was the name changed before or after they split Rita off for Towers?
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    Thorpe Park | Hyperia | Mack Hyper Coaster | 2024

    The station reminds me of a Costa coffee in a supermarket car park. I know it doesn't have or really need a specific theme, but it sure would be nice to have more than a gold box
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    Europa Park | Voltron | Mack Rides Stryker Coaster | 2024

    Oh dear :( I hope it's sorted for tomorrow for Nicky et al!
  7. Dar

    Universal considering UK theme park in Bedford

    They'll probably have some anti-car policies in place to drive people to use public transport. Huge parking costs, discounts with a train ticket, that sort of thing. Traffic and congestion are one of the common factors between nearly all ride applications in this country. At the slightest hint...
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    Cedar Point | Top Thrill 2 | Triple Launch Renovation | 2024

    I imagine the whole 420ft in the air part attracts a lot riders, with the launch just being the way to get there :p
  9. Dar

    Gigs 'n' Tours

    Saw The Hives in Leeds on Wednesday! Such an amazing show, I am a broken man. I'm not a very expressive person normally, but I expressed myself by jumping around and smashing into other people jumping around. They played a massive set compared to their usual outings, 20 songs and plenty of...
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    Europa Park | Voltron | Mack Rides Stryker Coaster | 2024

    Do you mean for storage & maintenance? Because then it's just another stop on the turntable Or do you mean when they put the trains on to the circuit? In that case, I think there's a small piece of track they can remove to get them into the shed. I think they've chosen that spot for how close...
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    WTF Merlin?

    Oh I've given up on UK parks, I was more pointing to our European friends and what magic they can make happen! (and I was being a touch facetious) :p I just wonder if the 'will' is there to really push the parks to be world class again, or if the team are happy settling in to being the...
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    WTF Merlin?

    I can't wait for a Silverstone situation on a fireworks night! (For the Silverstone round of F1, they implemented surge/demand-based pricing, which got itself all muddled up to the point that prices were going up as people were waiting to finalise their tickets so you could have a £200 ticket...
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    Cedar Point | Top Thrill 2 | Triple Launch Renovation | 2024

    I think it's great they have a space for wheelchair users
  14. Dar

    Alton Towers | Nemesis Reborn | B&M Retrack | 2024

    The atmosphere looks incredible! The eye seems very Merlin-esque. Obvious pattern of the teeth moving up and down, rather than random. Why doesn't it sync up with trains leaving the station? It could scream and all the teeth open up while the eye follows the train up the lift. Or something...
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    Universal's Epic Universe | Orlando USA | Theme Park

    I was thinking of a boat ride, either round the shire like you say, or the boat ride west at the end of the story! There's so much of middle earth that would make great attractions, like the story of the first song and the fall of morgoth, but I don't know how much the estate is willing to let...
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    Universal's Epic Universe | Orlando USA | Theme Park

    A drop tower themed to the fall of Barad-Dur seems a nice, easy idea to me. Mystery Castle-style, but the walls are screens and you watch the struggle between Frodo and Gollum as you climb the tower. Once you reach the top, Gollum gets the ring and falls (along with a little pre-drop as you...
  17. Dar

    Fire at Liseberg's Oceana water park

    Confirmation of sorts from Andreas Andersen that the missing person lost their life. :( https://reflections.liseberg.se/thank-you-for-all-the-kind-messages/ As if losing years of work wasn't already gutting enough, to lose a member of the team as well must be devastating. Slides and steel are...
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    Universal's Epic Universe | Orlando USA | Theme Park

    Isn't the Tolkien estate infamously picky and commandeering when it comes to anything to do with the franchise?
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    Fire at Liseberg's Oceana water park

    Something doesn't quite sit right with me about the engineer's explanation. Were they constructing the whole project with no fire protection or suppression equipment? Was there no ventilation in the building to prevent the gases building up? Obviously this was a catastrophic accident, but were...
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