Just before the Euro Live, me and Martyn (H) decided we'd do a random day trip whoring the kiddie coasters up around Great Yarmouth, so yesterday we ventured on a 400 mile journey, visiting 6 different amusement parks for a total of 9 new credits. 
First stop was Pleasurewood Hills. We arrived stupidly early thanks to Google Maps telling us the journey would take 3 hours when instead it took 2.
In the park at 10am, to find that Wipeout wouldn't open for another 30 mins since the locals complain when it operates too early. Locals? What locals, there arn't any nearby. :lol:
We headed down to the bottom of the park for Snake in the Grass, a standard treetops clone, except this one had themeing and a rather awesome indoor lift hill. Thats Martyn you can see front row.
There was a slide next door, so that had to be whored - except it was too narrow to fit your ass in, so it was easier to slide down the middle sections.
We had 2 goes on the dodgems, that wouldn't drive in reverse for some reason.
By then, Wipeout was open so we queued for that.
As of 2 weeks ago i'd never done a Boomerang, and now i've done 2. I didn't find it rough at all really, and find they have great forces through the loop.
Next up came Enigma, the Schwarzkopf, which had a huge 40 min queue due to the crap capacity with only 1, 8 seater train.
The queue was not a fun game.
...and the ride itself wasn't much better. Pretty forceless.
We hit up probably the worst pirate ship around and then the afterburner, before heading out at midday onto the next park, Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach!
It has 2 credits, including an old side friction coaster which we did first.
It was a good ride, but pretty forceless (although we did ride in the middle next to the brakeman.) It didn't compare well to the 2 we did the week before on the Euro Live at Tivoli Gardens and Bakken.
Other credit here was a big apple, and the first of many real kiddie coasters today.
Whilst in the queue, Martyn realised that the token he got from the machine was actually from Bottoms Pleasure Beach - it still worked though!
Big Apple's make little kids happy.
A 2 min drive up the road takes us to Joyland Amusement Park, probably the smallest park in the world! Parking around here was not fun, taking us about 15 mins to find a space. Bloody residential permit holder zones only...
First up is "Helix the ride" or Spooks Express, which is basically one huge left turn. :lol:
Next up is the powered viginia reel.
Is this a credit or not? It doesn't look it but then both RCDB and Coaster Counter count it, so i'm confused.
Wee, good lot of spinning from it.
Snails came next, which looks more of a credit than the virginia reel! It has airtime hills. Snail POV!
Look, airtime hills!
That was Joyland. Dunno if Snails or the reel are actually credits, but we rode them just in case.
Next up came lunch - battered sausage FTW.
OM NOM NOM.
There was also womens volleyball, which kept us entertained for the next 15 mins. Lizzy FTW.
At 6am, just before we left, Martyn found two extra credits nearby on RCDB. The first one was at Hembsy Fun Park, which was a fail caterpillar ride. Powered all the way, and totally crap, but a credit none the less.
Why are we doing this?
This is as intense as it got.
There was also a Go Gator coaster in some garden centre place (Wroxham Barns) in the middle of nowhere. We were allowed to ride, so yay!
It was a long 2 hour journey onto the next place - Clacton Pier, which had 3 credits. This place actually looks better and more fun than the larger piers like Brighton. It had a huge indoor section with dodgems, twisters, waltzers, simulators etc.
There was also a Toboggan coaster here that wasn't on RCDB! I've always wanted to try one of these since they look really random.
Is this the worlds longest helix?
There was not much room inside the cars - my head hit the roof...
Vertical lift hill POV!
View from the top. They need to clean the perspex window.
There was also another Big Apple coaster here, randomly called Speedy Gonzales. It wasn't very speedy - it actually felt slower than the other big apples. :lol:
Getting bored of kiddie credits now...
There was one more credit left, another go gator!
Unfortunatly they had a strict no over 1.4m height restriction, meaning no credit for us, even after we tried blagging our way on to two different ride-ops.
Missed credit makes Martyn sad.
We settled for a foot long hotdog, and then used up our last tokens on the dodgems.
On the way out, there was a NYPD police car. Lost much?
That concludes our whorage day. 600 miles driving and 6 parks in one day makes a very tired Peter, but it was worth it for the 9 credits.
We ended up driving home right past Mushrooms house, but he wasn't in, so fail.
First stop was Pleasurewood Hills. We arrived stupidly early thanks to Google Maps telling us the journey would take 3 hours when instead it took 2.
In the park at 10am, to find that Wipeout wouldn't open for another 30 mins since the locals complain when it operates too early. Locals? What locals, there arn't any nearby. :lol:
We headed down to the bottom of the park for Snake in the Grass, a standard treetops clone, except this one had themeing and a rather awesome indoor lift hill. Thats Martyn you can see front row.
There was a slide next door, so that had to be whored - except it was too narrow to fit your ass in, so it was easier to slide down the middle sections.
We had 2 goes on the dodgems, that wouldn't drive in reverse for some reason.
By then, Wipeout was open so we queued for that.
As of 2 weeks ago i'd never done a Boomerang, and now i've done 2. I didn't find it rough at all really, and find they have great forces through the loop.
Next up came Enigma, the Schwarzkopf, which had a huge 40 min queue due to the crap capacity with only 1, 8 seater train.
The queue was not a fun game.
...and the ride itself wasn't much better. Pretty forceless.
We hit up probably the worst pirate ship around and then the afterburner, before heading out at midday onto the next park, Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach!
It has 2 credits, including an old side friction coaster which we did first.
It was a good ride, but pretty forceless (although we did ride in the middle next to the brakeman.) It didn't compare well to the 2 we did the week before on the Euro Live at Tivoli Gardens and Bakken.
Other credit here was a big apple, and the first of many real kiddie coasters today.
Whilst in the queue, Martyn realised that the token he got from the machine was actually from Bottoms Pleasure Beach - it still worked though!
Big Apple's make little kids happy.
A 2 min drive up the road takes us to Joyland Amusement Park, probably the smallest park in the world! Parking around here was not fun, taking us about 15 mins to find a space. Bloody residential permit holder zones only...
First up is "Helix the ride" or Spooks Express, which is basically one huge left turn. :lol:
Next up is the powered viginia reel.
Is this a credit or not? It doesn't look it but then both RCDB and Coaster Counter count it, so i'm confused.
Wee, good lot of spinning from it.
Snails came next, which looks more of a credit than the virginia reel! It has airtime hills. Snail POV!
Look, airtime hills!
That was Joyland. Dunno if Snails or the reel are actually credits, but we rode them just in case.
Next up came lunch - battered sausage FTW.
OM NOM NOM.
There was also womens volleyball, which kept us entertained for the next 15 mins. Lizzy FTW.
At 6am, just before we left, Martyn found two extra credits nearby on RCDB. The first one was at Hembsy Fun Park, which was a fail caterpillar ride. Powered all the way, and totally crap, but a credit none the less.
Why are we doing this?
This is as intense as it got.
There was also a Go Gator coaster in some garden centre place (Wroxham Barns) in the middle of nowhere. We were allowed to ride, so yay!
It was a long 2 hour journey onto the next place - Clacton Pier, which had 3 credits. This place actually looks better and more fun than the larger piers like Brighton. It had a huge indoor section with dodgems, twisters, waltzers, simulators etc.
There was also a Toboggan coaster here that wasn't on RCDB! I've always wanted to try one of these since they look really random.
Is this the worlds longest helix?
There was not much room inside the cars - my head hit the roof...
Vertical lift hill POV!
View from the top. They need to clean the perspex window.
There was also another Big Apple coaster here, randomly called Speedy Gonzales. It wasn't very speedy - it actually felt slower than the other big apples. :lol:
Getting bored of kiddie credits now...
There was one more credit left, another go gator!
Unfortunatly they had a strict no over 1.4m height restriction, meaning no credit for us, even after we tried blagging our way on to two different ride-ops.
Missed credit makes Martyn sad.
We settled for a foot long hotdog, and then used up our last tokens on the dodgems.
On the way out, there was a NYPD police car. Lost much?
That concludes our whorage day. 600 miles driving and 6 parks in one day makes a very tired Peter, but it was worth it for the 9 credits.
We ended up driving home right past Mushrooms house, but he wasn't in, so fail.
