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I find most B&M hypers excruciatingly dull for the most part, and am quite bemused that they're held in such high regard, so I'm very much in the "Hyperia as is" camp. I quite like a few of the B&Ms - interestingly, those are the ones I perceive people don't like so much (Silver Star, Apollo's...

Got a great view of Hyperia taking off from Heathrow yesterday (on a road trip this week from Kennywood to Cedar Point and Kings Island). Sent from my Pixel 9 Pro XL using Tapatalk

No - I just work in the engineering industry. I work in a different sector though so I'm not working on them myself, but know people who are.

Chessington World of Adventures (< 10 miles) would be my home park. I've only ever been once in the 14+ years I've lived around London, although I might go again over the next year or so when I get the chance as I'm missing my final UK B&M ;) Thorpe Park (< 25 miles) is also pretty close. I've...

Tenders are starting to come out for early site works, with more coming over the next few weeks. Not necessarily a sign this is definitely happening (similar things happened with The London Resort) but things are moving.

Echoing what others said, yes, very easily. I was there this weekend (Saturday) and we left much earlier than anticipated because we had done everything we wanted to. Probably depends if you want to ride the flats and some of the kiddy coasters. We did The Quest once - didn't care to re-ride as...

I can't think of many coasters I like at all that I haven't ridden multiple times over. The only two I can think of that I've only done once are Steel Curtain (as it's so unreliable) and the defunct Speed: The Ride (as it's pay per rodet). Neither bother my top 20.

I went back to Thorpe yesterday and got another three rides on Hyperia (after the 5 I had 3 weeks ago). I lucked out by getting on the front and back rows within 30 minutes of one another today, so I could really compare the different experiences. Unless it's a launch, I'm generally a back-seat...

These elements look very drawn out, which doesn't excite me much. I feel like the smaller, shorter, and punchier wing coasters are the bigger ones, whilst the Gatekeeper-esque ones aren't anything exciting. I think we may have the latter on our hands here, at first glance.

Has anyone taken the 103 bus from Dublin to the park recently? Thinking about a trip in August but it seems we'd only have from 10am to 6pm at the park due to the bus scheduling; is that enough for a Saturday in August?

I finally made the trip on Tuesday; it was a fairly busy day with queues reaching about 120 minutes for Hyperia and a couple of others, but it was actually pretty productive. Somehow, we didn't see any school kids all day after seeing the buses turn up en masse at the entrance. It seems that...

Appears to only be opening from around 12 today. The app shows opening hours as 12:00 - 18:00 (and also "Delayed"), and there are signs at the entrance saying there'll be a delay but they don't know how long. Pretty poor show for such short opening hours. I'm going tomorrow and hoping that it's...

Hmm, do we reckon Tuesday 25th is going to be a silly idea? Struggling a bit with dates given my partner's shift pattern but keen to go ASAP!

I was aiming to go some time in June or July during the week but have no kids and so don't keep track of school holidays. Is all of June to July a write-off, and is it better to wait until August?

I was at Europa for a couple of days last week and rode Voltron 5 times. Here are my thoughts. In short, I liked it. I didn't love it, and that was a bit of a disappointment to me. It's beautifully themed and the Croatia area is fantastic. The queue is great, and the kinetic energy around the...

That doesn't sound good. I have tickets for Monday - hope it's back up and running then, or it'll be a bit of a wasted trip!

You used to get them free from the distribution machines. I understand now that you buy them individually in the app, but I think there may be one free one you can get. I was supposed to go last week so I'd have figured the new system out then, but my friend hurt his back so we didn't go on the end!

I think I've been on a public holiday before - it was certainly a day showing as 90% busy on crowd calendars, and it really wasn't too bad. If you make use of Fastpasses (or whatever they're called now), single rider lines, etc. and are happy criss-crossing the park and walking a ton, then I've...

Did they do anything to the Bank Holiday Monday? I think that was always 6pm?

It does really remind me of The Smiler too. I think it looks good, but I think it might take a couple of rides to really enjoy it, like The Smiler does for some people, due to the repetitive, back to back elements. That first launch looks fantastic though - really excited to give this a shot in...