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  1. James F

    Swedish Speedrun

    It's that time of year again when I am running out of annual leave. So with a remaining few days left I made a fairly last minute booking to Stockholm. A quick 2 and 1/2 day operation of an afternoon at Grona Lund, a day outing at Kolmarden and finally some city sightseeing the following day. I...
  2. James F

    Liseberg May 2023

    This month has presented quite the opportunity for travel with 3 bank holiday weekends. Thanks to the Royal Coronation of King Charles III, I could have 5 days off work for the price of 2, plus my mum and stepdad had invited me to go on holiday with them and while I would usually reject such an...
  3. James F

    Euro Mini Trip April 2023 (Parc Astérix, Plopsaland De Panne, Walibi Belgium)

    After dipping my toes in with travelling to 2 parks last month, it was time for my most ambitious trip yet. Travelling from Paris to Depanne to Brussels and then finally Charleroi to do 3 parks in 3 days all while using public transport. While I had some hiccups that you will read later, the...
  4. James F

    Belmark Gardens - "a merlin inspired" park

    Here's my latest park "Belmark Gardens" a theme park inspired on the Merlin parks - most notably Gardaland and Hedie. This park features 9 roller coasters, 3 dark Rides, 2 water rides and several flat rides. Belmark has many themed areas some of which are IP based. This area is themed to a 50s...
  5. James F

    First Visit to Toverland & Efteling - March 2023 - Part 2

    -March 4th: Toverland I have been an enthusiast for as long as I can remember, but yet I still have less than 200 coaster credits. Since covid I am making an attempt to change that. Last year I was luckily enough to ride some incredible coasters. Why Toverland and Efteling? because the...
  6. James F

    Blackpool Pleasure Beach - Recreation [Completed]

    I've been working on and off on a recreation of my home park Blackpool Pleasure Beach for the past few months. Some areas are better than others as I have found building this park far more challenging than I expected and out of the 3 British parks I have recreated in PlanCo this one has been the...
  7. James F

    Flee to Walibi 2 - The Dutch Boogaloo

    Walibi Holland has always held my attention from when the park was in it's Six Flags years. It felt like the excitement of American "thrill" parks where making it's way over to Europe and rides such Goliath seemed like world class experiences. While it might no longer have the Six Flags name or...
  8. James F

    Forth Times the Charm - Energylandia June 2022

    It was January 2020 when I had booked to go to the one park every enthusiast was migrating to. A 200ft+ RMC and an Intamin Hyper in a European park? too good to pass up and then that *thing* happened, time had passed and then in October the thing struck again. I thought to myself, third times...
  9. James F

    Flee to Walibi

    Here I am, sat in Charleroi Airport. I've been waiting in the terminal for 90 minutes and still have another 2 hours to wait for my flight. Now that I have left the tyranny of retail I finally have a job with normal hours. A normal life for a not so normal bloke. With this I have been very...
  10. James F

    Six Flags Indiana

    After feeling a bit bored of building a scenic family park (Fantasipark) I wanted to get back to building more thrilling rides, not only that but I wanted to do something more generic and tacky that would be a "Thrill" based park. I was going to originally call it 'Thrillville" and base it off...
  11. James F

    Tivoli Beach - Seaside Amusement Park [Completed]

    This is just a short post to say that I have completed and uploaded this park onto my steam workshop. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2658930941 Tivoli Beach is a seaside amusement park which is inspired by real life parks such as Gröna Lund, Tivoli Gardens, Liseberg and...
  12. James F

    "Occasionally I doth venture south" - Thorpe Park & Chessington October 2021

    It's been over 4 years since I have been to our nations capital and in that time the world has changed; we've had two general elections, you can no longer get a last minute Christmas gift set at Debenhams and now you can literally get anything delivered to your home; none of these changes...
  13. James F

    Tommy Wiseau Music (so bad it's good)

    We've all heard bad songs right? songs that we instantly dislike as soon as they hit our ears. Now, we all have different tastes and subjective opinions on what makes for "good music", whether it be a genre thing or related to our age. However, every now and then comes a song that is so bad...
  14. James F

    Manufacturers' 'Breakthrough' Coaster

    It seems as if companies such as B&M, Intamin, Vekoma and S&S have been around forever, it's hard to imagine what the industry would look like without them. I've decided to go back and discover what individual coaster put these companies on the map and why they still have influence in today's...
  15. James F

    Fantasipark - Scandinavian Amusement Park [Completed]

    Update: I have now completed this park and I have uploaded it to the steam workshop, here is the link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2656327336...
  16. James F

    Blackpool Pleasure Beach - April 20th 2021

    As you can imagine, like most people here on this site I was itching to get back to the parks. Despite my initial excitement after seeing pictures of the heaving crowds of last weekend, I became pessimistic about my chances of having a good day back to my home park. I got to the park and I was...
  17. James F

    Alton Towers Recreation

    With the parks being closed during Lockdown 3 I decided to finally get round to making a recreation in Planet Coaster. In the days when RCT3 was king, I used to do almost nothing but real life parks, but for some reason or another I find them more difficult to do in planet coaster, whether it's...
  18. James F

    Your Favourite Artists/Bands

    Who are you favourite musical artists? which album of their is your favourite? What is it about their music that you like? I mostly listen to rock music, so most of my favourites are in that genre, but I also listen to Hip Hop/rap, pop and symphonic music. It's difficult for me to really rank...
  19. James F

    What is the Best Log Flume?

    Apologies if there is already a thread for this, but I couldn't find one when I searched. What is/are your favourite log flume and why? For me it's Splash Mountain at WDW, nothing compares to the warm feelings of nostalgia on this ride, every detail of this ride is excuted perfectly, from the...
  20. James F

    Planet Studios (first attempt at a studios park)

    I have had Planet Coaster for about 18 months now and I have finally got round to doing a studios park, which was what everyone else was doing 2 years ago, so sorry if this isn't the most interesting of parks. I started this park about seven months ago and it's been very on and off as other park...
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