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Will

Will

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This is a game I was playing when I couldn't sleep last night - basically, assuming travel in time was no object, which parks would you visit and in which seasons?
There's a risk of this turning into the Park of the Dead topic again, but we shall see.

I don't actually know a lot about how European parks have developed over time and many UK parks have probably hit their peak in the last ten years.
However, I'd like to go back to Alton in 1995-6, while the magic was still there and Merlin weren't - as well as the chance to try out a few long since closed attractions. Blackpool in the same time period would also be interesting, for nostalgic purposes. It'd be nice to do Frontierland in Morecambe as well - I doubt I've missed much, but it's a park I'm curious about.

Any other ideas?
 
About 1960 to Pacific ocean Park (known as POP) a seaside amusement park that really tried to be like Disney and ultimately failed! The place sounds fascinating (I have a fab book on the place) - and had many before-its-time concepts!
 
Hard Rock Park in its full glory, of course. With the CF billboard outside it and everything.

I'd also really like to have a ride on Dueling Dragons pre-conversion, which also means back when they were still actually dueling.

Maybe experience Vertigo at Walibi Belgium too. It looked like a quite fun ride. It would require some very fine tuning of the time machine, however, since it was allegedly just open for parts of the day, and not every day, in the literal weeks that it operated.
 
Did a bit of digging.
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I would love to go to Everland circa 2008-09! Eagle's Fortress + T-Express combo is too good to miss if time travel ever comes true :D
 
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Everland?
How about Neverland? Back in the time when....
Actually you know what? Let's not go there.
 
Most of the parks I'm interested in are currently the best they've ever been. Maybe for some cultural interest, I'd go to a British or American seaside park in their late 40s heyday. Ride some classic spine-breaker woodies, wonder why everyone turns up in Sunday best.
 
Maybe not any park or time frame... But there are more than a few legendary wood coasters I'd like to try out.

These would have been at my home park, had I been alive at the time, my parents rode Cyclone.... Lightning, not so much. But I'd have love to seen Revere Beach // Wonderland in its glory... and not the dump it was when I was growing up a few miles away.
Lightning - a Crystal Beach Cyclone..clone - https://rcdb.com/2143.htm
Revere Beach Cyclone - https://rcdb.com/2142.htm

Lincoln Park - Comet - https://rcdb.com/451.htm - another ride my parents got to ride... All I ever got to do was climb the heavily decayed structure.

Rye Playland - Airplane seems pretty obvious as well - https://rcdb.com/1544.htm

Ocean View - Beach Coaster - https://rcdb.com/2891.htm

And for good measure, any of those 1890-1900' Flip Flap railway loopers - https://rcdb.com/r.htm?ot=2&el=8887&page=1&order=8
 
CanobieFan said:
Maybe not any park or time frame... But there are more than a few legendary wood coasters I'd like to try out.

These would have been at my home park, had I been alive at the time, my parents rode Cyclone.... Lightning, not so much. But I'd have love to seen Revere Beach // Wonderland in its glory... and not the dump it was when I was growing up a few miles away.
Lightning - a Crystal Beach Cyclone..clone - https://rcdb.com/2143.htm
Revere Beach Cyclone - https://rcdb.com/2142.htm

Lincoln Park - Comet - https://rcdb.com/451.htm - another ride my parents got to ride... All I ever got to do was climb the heavily decayed structure.

Rye Playland - Airplane seems pretty obvious as well - https://rcdb.com/1544.htm

Ocean View - Beach Coaster - https://rcdb.com/2891.htm

And for good measure, any of those 1890-1900' Flip Flap railway loopers - https://rcdb.com/r.htm?ot=2&el=8887&page=1&order=8
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This is my answer to this type of question. You just missed out the Palisades Cyclone. (Well, and the Crystal Beach Cyclone itself.)
 
Not necessarily because of the parks themselves, but if I could go back in time I’d go to Disney World for the first time as a child. It was amazing as an adult but I reckon if I’d experienced all that for the first time as a kid then it would have blown my mind.
Also I’m really awkward when I meet the characters so it would eliminate that :emoji_smile:
 
I'd like to go back to late 80s/early 90s Epcot so I could see for myself what all the Disney goons go on about all the time.

Hard Rock Park for sure too, I really wanted to go on that trippy dark ride and the Led Zepplin B&M (complete with audio).
 
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