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5th June 2025: Paultons Park Hi guys. Today was an exciting day; in the words of our former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, “I went, as we all must, to Peppa Pig World”… yes, I returned to Paultons Park in Hampshire! I hadn’t been to the park since 2021, but I felt that the addition of Ghostly...

Hi guys. On Saturday, Paultons Park announced their heavily hyped-up Vikings area after months of speculation. The new land generated a lot of excitement... but the choice of a Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter, Drakon, for the area's headline coaster has heavily divided opinion, to say the least. Some...

Hi guys. I wasn't entirely sure where to put this, as it's not explicitly park-related, but I did something recently for one of my university modules that I thought people might be interested in seeing! Basically, I did a module this semester on Data Visualisation, and one of the assignments...

Disclaimer: This is a long, geeky post. If you don't like statistics or maths talk, turn back now! If you'd like a more concise summary, a short summarising paragraph can be found at the bottom. Hi guys. In theme park enthusiast circles, one of the most common comments you will hear in relation...

Hi guys. When new rides open and come into the mainstream news, you may notice that the designers of said attractions are often portrayed as sadists who love seeing people scream and seeing what people will take. Sometimes, the designers themselves even lean into this; around its opening, John...

30th April 2025: Blackpool Pleasure Beach Hi guys. Today was an exciting day; my first park visit of 2025 was finally here! And the park in question that started off my year this year was Blackpool Pleasure Beach, “the world’s most ride intensive amusement park” up in Lancashire! By virtue of...

Hi guys. Recently, we hit the 5 year anniversary of the first COVID-19 lockdown being declared in the UK, and 5 years ago today, we would have been in the middle of lockdown 1 in the UK, and countries across the world were grappling with the first peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. With this in...

Hi guys. Here in the UK, we have quite a number of seaside parks. If asked their favourite, many would probably say Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Most agree that the park is on an entirely different calibre to any other seaside park in the UK, with a highly varied lineup of headline attractions that...

Hi guys. Frequently, people’s favourite coasters on here are quite long rides. My own favourite coaster is Shambhala, a coaster with over 5,000ft of track, and other common favourites like Steel Vengeance and VelociCoaster are also long rides. But with these being long rides, the length arguably...

Hi guys. Most enthusiasts probably have a favourite park, and in many cases, it might be a park from the likes of Disney or Universal. These parks arguably have some of the world’s best theming and some of the world’s most envelope-pushing immersive attractions right now, and whether you...

Hi guys. In the last year or so, we’ve had a rather interesting prospect begin to develop in the form of Universal’s potential entry into the UK theme park market. This rather sudden revelation from Universal took the UK enthusiast community by storm, and by extension, I’d imagine that the...

Hi guys. Here in the UK, the railway network is often a source of a good moan from Brits. Whether it’s delays, cancellations or general rail-related grievances, people are often not very happy with our railway network, to say the least. However, I’ve noticed that some operators tend to draw more...

Hi guys. If you’ve been keeping the news lately, you may have seen that Cardiff University in Wales is cutting 400 jobs and axing courses as a sustainability measure for the future (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0k5n0k101lo). Courses being cut include all courses in modern foreign...

Hi guys. Queues are a fact of life at a theme park, but some parks do better at shifting them than others. At some parks, efficiency is the name of the game, whereas at others, things can just be a bit sluggish. With this in mind, I'd be interested to know; what are some of the strongest and...

Hi guys. Innovation has driven the theme park industry for decades, and back in the day, some of these firsts and records were absolutely pivotal moments in the history of the modern industry. The world’s first tubular steel roller coaster at Disneyland in 1959. The world’s first modern...

Hi guys. Last year was an interesting year for ride closures in the theme park industry, with quite a few notable names departing for that big theme park in the sky in 2024. Kingda Ka was probably the crown jewel of these notable closures, but there were some other notable ones in the USA, such...

Hi guys. Very often, this hobby involves travelling abroad. There are only so many parks in your home country or state, so if you want to expand your repertoire of ridden coasters and visited parks, an easy way to do that when you've mostly exhausted what's on offer at home is to travel to a...

Hi guys. As most probably know, Christmas Day was 3 days ago, and while Christmas may have originally been intended to celebrate the birth of Christ, one thing it has increasingly become associated with is lots and lots of food. In most households, the main food event tends to be the Christmas...

Hi guys. You’d think that as time goes on and technology advances, new coasters would get smoother and more comfortable. And for the most part, this is true; we’ve come a very long way in terms of coaster smoothness since the rougher rides of the 1980s, for example! But in the last year to the...

Hi guys. Social media is ever-present in our lives today; even if you haven't got an account, its impact has been wide-ranging and hard to escape. It's been very controversial, and I'd be interested to know; what are your thoughts on social media and its impact on society? Where do you stand on...