Park related:
*Best new cred - Eejanaika, Fuji Q Highland. It's soooo bad, but so **** phenomenally good at the same time. Absolutely fantastic fun.
*Worst new cred - MPXpress, Movie Park Germany. What a pile of utter s**te.
*Most surprising new cred - Eejanaika to be honest. I didn't know anything about it other than it'd be my first 4D coaster, I didn't know if it'd be good, or bad, I'd hardly even heard of it. Amazing stuff. Shout out to Joris en de Draak Water, so much fun, loads of airtime, really speedy and pretty relentless!
*Biggest spite - Nagashima Spaland, 9 of the 12 creds were shut due to Typhoon Etau, and the only ones that were open were two kiddie creds and the corkscrew. What made it worse was that when we arrived we saw Steel Dragon 2000 operate, but when we got to it it was shut as the rain had increased. We went back later in the trip and got all of the coasters so all was well.
*Park of the season - DisneySea...duh. Words cannot describe how awesome this park is. The theming is unlike anything ever, it's just ridiculously good. Every attraction is pretty awesome too...they just need one or two more. But I adored it here. Special mention to Europa Park. In it's Halloween decor, it looked amazing <3
*Coolest park-related experience - I have two...and they both come from DisneySea, the first was this view.
THAT IS THEMING GUYS, THEMING
The second was just casually walking into the single most amazing area of a theme park, just look! :')
Loved it.
*Best experience on a coaster - The first drop of Steel Dragon 2000 is just phenomenal, and the launch of Dodonpa ain't half bad either
*Worst experience on a coaster - During the day of the Fright Night media event, Serena dragged me on Saw with a hangover, I was in so much pain, I thought my eyeballs were gonna fall out of my head.
*Best day at a park - Not the best day at one park, but two days stick out, the first being the day I went to both the Madrid parks in one day, getting to Parque Warner on public transport for opening, and then back into central Madrid and going to Parque de Atracciones and getting all 13 creds :'). The second day was the epic trip from Osaka to Parque Espana for fabulous Pyrenees, then to Suzuka Circuit for 2 bonus creds nadroJ found, then to Nagashima Spaland to try again and got a casual +9, another 13 in a day :').
*Worst day at a park - The first day at Nagashima Spaland comes to mind obviously with the spite but I have mentioned that already, but I haven't had another 'bad' day at a park? I suppose the only other thing that comes to mind is driving with Conor and Jordan for 3 hours to Skegness for Odyssey to spite me a second time :/ was nice to celebrate Gavin's 1000 in Millennium Coaster though!
*Best trip as a whole - Japan, 16 days of great culture and credding. I loved every moment of the trip, so much fun.
General:
*Scariest moment - That bloody horror maze I was dragged around at Tokyo Dome City. I S*AT myself, not amused!
*Best people you met - Thom and Lofty, you're both fab <3 Special mention to Gavin, I had met him before but three years ago and we'd never properly spoken, it was great to chat to him properly in Ireland and the east coast trip we did.
*Best moment on CF - Well Taron in the back is obviously the highlight but everyone is mentioning that, you know what, I'm going to be dull, I just love reading the trip reports about all the far off places we all visit to ride rollercoasters, they make me laugh, think, want to be there, trip reports are fab.
*Best non-park experience - Climbing Mount Fuji, it was the hardest thing I have ever done, but it was so good and so worth it...I found myself and all that ****
*Coolest travel moment - Unexpected bullet train from Osaka to Himeji for Himeji Central Park, also the several bus and train connections etc to get to the Mount Fuji base station.
*Biggest travel nightmare - Leaving my phone on a train in The Netherlands wasn't wise.
*The "Look Back on this and Laugh" award; aka a the funniest bit of bants/shade thrown - Richard's feet.
*Funniest moment - There are too many to mention so I probably just won't bother.
*Single favorite memory - Cramming Richard, Nealbie and Ploddish in the back of Sue's reasonably small car was certainly a highlight...whilst sticking the dinosaur with reflective jacket out the window.
Milestones:
*Park related - My 200th cred, de Vleermuis at Plopsaland de Panne, my 250th cred, Gadget's Go Coaster at Tokyo Disneyland, my 300th cred, Wild Mouse at Nagashima Spaland. My 50th park was Twinlakes, my 100th park was Connyland.
*General - Passed 1st year at uni and started my 2nd year, reached the highest altitude I have been, 3770m. That's it.
Also, post a photo lookback of your past season. Nothing crazy, just a stream of a few photos with minimal captioning telling the story of how your 2015 unfolded.
Nah.
