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Not a prediction by any means but my final hope is for an Intamin/Mack mega. Ideally hyper size, but I would be happy with anything as long as we get a few big hills, some interaction with the terrain and lake in that bit of the park, and some of the fun non-inverting elements both...

The Thorpe RMC discussion has been done to death for so long that I honestly believe there are better options now. Intamin's recent launch coasters have been pulling off similar manoeuvres to RMC but without the bulky wooden supports and with better designed, more comfortable trains. Plus...

Yeah, from what I see on their Twitter they were just hyping up the fact that they were celebrating World Rollercoaster Day on their Social Media.. I feel like we should probably have seen this coming, we seem to get parks Twitter accounts being cryptic over nothing at least twice a week these days.

As incredible as it would be to add even further to the clusterfuss of B&M track in the back of the park, I hope whatever they add will go into one of the less populated parts of the park. If the park gets another B&M, I would love to see a modern B&M Flyer similar to what we've seen at parks...

Merlin have released a full press release on the ride. It covers a lot of the info covered by the Towers Street article but in further detail, describing some of the ride's scenes, with riders exploring sewers and racing through the streets of London. Notably, the ride is described as a 4D...

To be fair, the ride isn't actually in Holland either.

Ooh, hoping they pull off some of the theming in that concept art. That volcano area in particular looks fab. Has anyone been able to place where in the park each of the images are located?

Ahhh, thought the concept art still looked pretty Blue Fire-y. Still, great to see, though from what I've heard the ones with the halfpipe launches are considered the weakest of the Mack launchers. Hopefully, they've done some work to improve on them, though I imagine the spinning train alone...

Oh no, I got that, I still think it's a surprising amount considering the park's situation and how sparse investment seemed to be even before the incident. Looking at the article, the coaster by itself is costing them 30M AUD/£16, so not the most expensive but still pretty significant. I hope...

For a second I thought the coaster was confirmed to be named Mammoth! For those wondering, 50 million AUD is about £27.5M. A surprising amount for a struggling park whose last coaster was a Maurer SkyLoop in 2011, but I suppose they have to ship it pretty far.

Swarm - My first big coaster, the first drop is super fun and I love some of the interactions. Shame about the length and how tight the vests can be. Stealth - Short but sweet, the launch is fantastic and the airtime at the top is great if hampered a tad by the restraints. Inferno - A solid if...

Good to see Australia getting another solid coaster, even if it is a clone. With DC Rivals, Leviathan and now this, the Gold Coast has a nice growing selection of creds, including a lovely pair of Macks! I'm assuming that this will be modified to include a seatbelt like DC Rivals, or was that...

Not exactly the most well-travelled but here's my list regardless. B&M (7) First: The Swarm Favourite: Nemesis (3) Least fav: Oblivion (20) Intamin (7) First: Stealth Favourite: Taron (2) Least fav: Rita (38) Mack (7) First: Flying Fish Favourite: Helix (1) Least fav: Flying Fish (34) Maurer...

HiT doesn't even exist any more. Mattel bought them out and redirected HiT's website to their own. Even before that, they were never really a recognisable name on the same scale as CBeebies, and their properties were usually seen as separate brands rather than a family of characters. This is...

The box says handle with care. As do a lot of boxes with fragile items inside. I don't think it means anything. The real question is why the Towers-shaped box has two this way up markers, each pointing in the opposite direction? Are they trying to confuse the people storing this stuff?

That's not even mentioning Lech Coaster and the rest of Legendia just under an hour away either! Plus it's reasonably cheap to get to (at least from the UK)

That's the bizzare thing, the page was just gone, even when directly linking to it. Guess they found it easier to completely take it down while they worked on updating it.

Another difference between King's Dominion and Carowinds is that Hurler wasn't the only woodie at the former, so I would expect an RMC conversion of it to be down the priority list until the park can build a new GCI or GG coaster to replace it.

ah yes, my favourite park.. KIONG'S ISLUND

I'm seeing this mostly as fun, somewhat jokey speculation based on the link between the first two rides they chose to show off. That said, if the manufacturer does turn out to be Vekoma over B&M I think it would be a better fit for the park, especially with Diamondback already there. As for...