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Great reports so far loefet! Keep 'em coming :)

I like the look of Senzafiato. I love Rita/Desert Race so I'm sure I would enjoy this one too!
 
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Oh, Pax. Your so silly. Cobra looked so smooth and pleasent(sarcasm).

I soo want to ride the Rita thing. Looks like it has great airtime on the top hat.
 
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^^^^ It really is a little gem (especially if you compare it to the rest of the rides in the park :p ).

^^^ The best bit with that park was that the accelerator had the least queue, good for us :)

^^ Thanks and will do!! I actually enjoyed Senzafiato more than the "bigger" models more, especially since it didn't bash your brains out as most Intamins do. The layout seems to fit this smaller one a lot better than the other two.

^ Well the new bits are definitely smooth, the Pax trains on the other hand makes them not so smooth...
The air-time is a lot less than you would thing, but it's still not as bad as Kanonen though...
 
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Part 14 - Miragica again??

This day we had reached the halfway mark of the trip, and it was also the first day that we started to make our way north towards Sweden and home, but we had still a lot of ground to cover and coasters to ride so we were really happy!! This day were initially only for Rainbow Magicland, but it didn't turn out that way in the end (not a bad thing though...).

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Left the central of Naples early in the morning, it's such a **** city this...

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They even had some advertising for Rainbow Magicland here and there in Naples, even though it's a couple of hours away

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So after a quick drive north we found another parking space underneath some solar panels <3 before we entered the park

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After they let us in, we waited at a roped of section so that we could be first in line for SHOCK

Shock, to sum it up then I would say that I absolutely love the ride, but the way they operate it is the worst way imaginable. OK, ride first then I rant...
After you exit the station you end up in the most useless piece of track ever created, it doesn't really do anything, could be that they haven't finished some theming here yet, like going through some laboratory or other enclosed space. Then comes the launch, great air-time hill, non-inverting Inclined Loop, which was interesting, the the massively powerful over-bank, MCBR with some pops of air, nice helix, in-line twist and finally brakes. Maurer Söhne really know how to make a forceful ride, the best bit is the awesome over-bank, it really got to me since I started to grey out every time. Not so strange when looking at the force graphs since it pulls 3-4 g's for over 5 seconds :) , really pushing the limits this bit. Really great ride (a part from the first bit which is WTF), it also looks really nice where it sits.
Now it's time for the rant...
Why on earth would they only run single cars?? wouldn't 2 car trains put through more people. I have to give them credit that they ran the 3 cars really good, so good in fact that they stacked them before the launch and they could probably easily run with 4 trains, but still WTF??
The biggest issue I have with them is their silly bag policy. They are nearly as crazy as the Dodonpa and Thunder Dolphin crews which nearly frisk you before the ride. Yes they have a guy in the front of the queue that tells you that you have to put your bags in a locker before you get in. This is good, however the only lockers in the whole park are located at guest services at the entrance and they are so small that you more or less only fit your wallet inside them, surly they could invest on a few lockers at the entrance of Shock, especially if they are so silly with the bags. Sure me and my brother got the permission to bring his photo-bag with us and make a swap in the station, but they people in the station would hear non of it, fortunately they let people leave small stuff in the station at the exit, but how hard would it be to put in a few bins to put stuff in. Heck they even forced me to take of my tiny fanny pack, something I had no issues bringing with me one any other ride on the whole trip...
Still silly...

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Useless, unless they plan to theme it later on

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Away they go

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They flying island had sunk today, not flying during the few hours we were here...

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Something

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It really looks great

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Second cred

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Gao!!!

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Something else

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Kiddy rides

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The worlds worst drop tower created

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It should have been called Dominator since it really dominates most of the park

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Half empty buildings

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Crappy spinning coaster that doesn't spin, it's more like one of those South-pointing chariot that the Chinese invented many years ago

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Absolutely loved the building though

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It's a real optical illusion

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Mine train

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Love it

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I have no idea on what theming this is

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Strange looking creature

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Awful, awful ride...

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This bit is the best

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Weird in-line twist

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Kiddy spider

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Only the wacky worm left

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This one needs 3 ops to operate

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Hmmm, an extended one??

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Since it was blistering hot most people preferred the water rides

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This one was falling to bits

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Shut, or just no one there??

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Something

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Shut :(

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We are the Knights who say, Ni!

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The theming on this ride was pretty epic

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Sweet

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Splash

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Too bad that you can see straight through part of it...

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Om nom nom

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Bleeeach

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Awesome critter

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Top notch theming on this bit

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Looks great

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Gao!!!

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Rapids

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But really nothing to see, so just move along

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Some random Bear

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Before we leave let's have a few more images of Shock

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Love it

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Non inverting

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Some air here

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Nom!!

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Here we go!!

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Just twisting a bit

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In the sun

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On our way out

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Almost at the exit

At this point we exited the park, just so that we could leave our things in the car so that we could ride Shock a few more times without any hassle. It's really awesome. The rest of the park is a dump really, feels a lot like Miragica, no wonder really since it seems like they are owned by the same company. I have the exact same issue here as I had at Miragica. Yes the park looks nice, but there isn't any continuity between the theme of rides what so ever, they might as well just plonked down the rides on a field and be happy with that. The park really lacks atmosphere, it really feels boring to be there after a while. Much is still unoccupied which makes it look dire. But the biggest issue I have with the place is that it lacks SHADE!!! I mean if you build a park in Italy, there is a lot of sunshine, you need shade...
Seems like it was way to early to visit this park, it really felt unfinished, you should really give it 10 years to "break in" giving the so called "trees" (sticks with a few leaves) time to become real trees. Don't worry that the rides might get rough in that time, they already are so 10 years won't make any difference...

Since the place sucked in our view we left after a few hours and didn't really look back at our decision. Now since we had some free time on our hands we decided to get the park we had planned for tomorrow out of the way which meant that we got plenty of time to go to Rome the day after!!

Next up, loads of sweaty Italians...

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Part 15 - Sweaty Italians...

So after a dire few hours at Rainbow Crapland, we decided to go to Zoomarine outside Rome, good idea since it was on the way to the hotel anyway. To say it was packed was an understatement, I mean it was hot, where else would people go than to a water/marine park??

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Mmmm, Schwarzkopf in the distance :)

I don't really have many pictures of the place, since it was filled with half nude sweaty Italians, and I was scarred for life by some of the bathing gear I saw there, I'm just saying this, large people shouldn't wear a sting bikini... :?

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First a Wacky Worm, then a Wacky Crocodile and now a Wacky Shark!!

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Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun...

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Zoomarine!!

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I didn't know they had a Vekoma here, didn't find one :(

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Main reason why we were here

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The Looping Star model was my first Looping Coaster

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Many coasters have one chain, this one have two!!

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I do prefer the Silver Arrow models to this, much more powerful and better layout

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Still pretty good

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Signature shot!!

Not much to tell about this park, it was a real credit run. Didn't want to hang around for too long, some people might take it too kind to see us running around with cameras at the ready among loads of half nude people...
The Schwarzkopf is pretty nice though and well worth the visit alone, they are getting pretty rare now...

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Oh that is a big shame the shooty ride was closed =[ Its awesome. also I agree, Rainbow Magic Land needs SHADE
 
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Looks like you did have fun. When can we expect the Mirabilandia TR? :p
 
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^^ I had pretty high hopes for Rainbow Magicland, but it sucks to be a new leading park close to the capital of a country...

^ We did. As it seems today, then Mirabilandia PTR will be posted tomorrow, unless I'm really busy (or do it now)...
 
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Part 16 - The birth of American culture...

Since we found time to get the park of the day completed the day before we had plenty of time to go into Rome today to see some old piles of rock...
We were cheeky enough to keep the car in the garage of the hotel even though we had checked out :) which kept it "cool" in the summer heat for the trip to the next hotel later in the day.
I claim that I have also found proof that recent American culture originated in ancient Rome, more on that in the report...

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So here we are, to ride this really **** train into Rome...

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A local policeman were kind enough to model for us

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So here we are at the Colosseum

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The birth place of what's known today as "Wrestling"...

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Proof 1: Inside here men fought each other to the entertainment of the common man (most likely red-necks due to the lack of shade)

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Similar to that one found in Paris

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Disney my ass, if it really were a Disney tour, then it would be led by Micky, DISAPPOINTED

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This kind of tree would be ace to have at Rainbow Magicland and Miragica, Take note you owners

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Looks to be an aqueduct, always wanted to see one

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Some other orderly pile of small stones

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Circus Maximus

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The tree is pawning the Roman stair

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Proof 2: This is obviously the model of which modern Americans have copied to "create" NASCAR, the most boring sport ever created...

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Here they are digging up small stones, to create another orderly stone pile

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The new and Police box, Policemen are sold separately

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Big white building

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Looks massive!!

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Some other magnificent building

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I think this is the Parthenon

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I though we were in Rome??

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More Roman stuff

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Great

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Over Tibern we go

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Really nice, and you don't have to use HDR for it

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The Pope weren't home to greet us, he were in Madrid to meet some girl, it was all over the news on the telly

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I always though that he was more into small boys, well who knows...

So we got bored with this, even though we scored another county cred in the process. We had decided to send a postcard to our nephew and niece, but had loads of trouble to find stamps, even the local post office didn't have any...
Anyway after getting back with another **** train to the hotel we headed north for Florence to stay the night for the next to parks on the agenda. It was a horrible trip to say the least, it was pushing 38°C which is a record for me as well. I really hate the heat... :(

Still we did manage to score another IKEA cred on the way :p

Next up park with bonus cred!!

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Part 17 - Fiabilandia with a bonus!!

So another day with new parks, and as with many other days on this trip it will be one of those days with multiple parks and also another county cred since we were in the neighbourhood...

Since we left pretty early in the morning we had plenty of time to make a slight de-tour to San Marino before the first park of this very long day.

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I felt very "safe" with this guy around, he had a real laid back driving technique with one feet in the windscreen...

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That's the way

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Some open air aircraft museum we drove by

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Welcome to San Marino

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OK, nothing to see here, move along!!

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And we were back in Italy in a jiffy

After some tricky driving since there were some roads that our GPS did not know about we finally arrived at Fiabilandia for a quick credit run...

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Another awesome parking space

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They are adding a new entrance to the park from the brand new car-park

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It crosses over the road completely

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Welcome to Fiabilandia

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They had a Merlin castle

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Splash Battle

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Spinning Cred

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Some strange thing they have concocted after buying way too many Wacky Worms

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Valley of the Gnomes

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Love this ride, we did a couple of runs on it

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Massive layout

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Be aware that you don't crash with a Wacky Worm

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Space themed spinning coaster

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YAY, Bonus cred!!

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Had some strange running times though

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This remind me of something...

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Western City

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With a Wacky Mine Train

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See

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With authentic native American burial field

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Still really great theming

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And loads of strange things in the tunnels

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Some obstacle course or something

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Nice paddle steamer

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And Pirate ship

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DUCK!!

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Definitely a powered water coaster

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Carousel

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Watch out for that frog!!

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Random space theming

So that's it for this park, I would have skipped this park if I had the creds just to have more time at the next place, but there is always time in the future for that. Fiabilandia is a nice little place and it seems like they are improving the place, looking at how much they have done with the new parking spaces and entrance. The coasters are pretty nice as well, even though they are pretty rubbish, still interesting and the theming/atmosphere of the place is a lot better than other park (Rainbow Crapland, etc...)...

Next up, Katun, yay or nay...

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That one looks... vaguely familiar... if you paint the tracks blue and... yeah, red cars. That would make it a lot prettier.

Also, get some pine trees and birches up around it.
 
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^ He he. Too bad that it lacks the back-wheels and wing, the next one fits better :)
 
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Part 18 - 7200 days and iLike...

Second park of the day was Mirabilandia, the second most anticipated "new" park of the trip for me (only Gardaland being higher). And now in a retrospective then I would have loved to stay at the park for a full day (not that we arrived that much after opening), but there is always a possibility to go back, especially if they get something new (like next year)...

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After a dead easy ride from Fiabilandia, (just straight ahead) we saw something at the horizon

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One of the most anticipated rides of the trip

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Really nice view from the car park

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YAY, Mirabilandia

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Right inside they had a Carousel which looked nice

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Time for the first coaster, lets head in that direction!!

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Damn Apple, iStuff

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The normal queue looked pretty full so we went for the front row directly (30-40 minutes) :)

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MCBR through the roof

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This ride looks so nice!!

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The Square supports are awesome, gives the ride a much modern look, iApprove

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Wiiiiiiiiiiiii

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Funky station

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One of 3 inversions

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Another of the MCBR

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Insanely tight transition

I really loved iSpeed. Fast, powerful and loads of cool manoeuvres. I was really surprised of how good the ride were, since I expected it to have the Intamin Shakes that most other Intamins have, especially them that are powerful, this made it almost as enjoyable as Blue Fire. It was really only the Intamin OSTR's fault that it looses to Blue Fire. The queue moved along at a pretty good speed so the wait weren't as boring as you would think, even though they only ran 2 trains during the day, there was also plenty of shade (the whole queue have a roof) and since we queued for the front row meant that we had great views of much of the layout so that we could take many pictures of the ride.

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Next up

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Never really ridden an L&T, so I was surprised on how nice this little coasters were, I would love to see more of these

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iSpeed from the Leprotto Express queue

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Car-flume

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I really can't have enough of iSpeed

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The whole place have a lush atmosphere that I have missed in many of the other Italian parks

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Absolutely love it

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Vekoma Junior credit

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One of the few times I have seen one of these with two trains

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Wonder if they time it, or what would happen if the monorail were there :p

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I have waited for this a long time!!

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But wanting to save the best for last, we had to go through the last 3 creds before Katun

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Pretty much the same as the one at Fiabilandia, this one looked way better though :)

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Another L&T creation, and it's just as good as any other of these

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Sweet moment

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Pretty much a standard Wild Mouse

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Holy crap it looks good

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Pure pornography

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Nice and flat zero-g

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WTF, Master Thai is broken??, open in 30 minutes you say, just enough time to ride Katun :)

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Katun from the queue

I was slightly let down by Katun :( , yes it is really great, one of the absolute best coasters in Europe. But I still think that Monster offer a better package, so does Nemesis, even though the first part of Pyrenees blows all competition away...
Still I really liked it, and it ranks somewhere in the middle of the B&M Inverts I have ridden...

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So back to Master Thai

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Is that minutes or persons??

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Too bad that we couldn't use the queues closer to the station, since that would have given us more shade

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Thankfully they let you ride it twice so you get the full credit, which means that you don't have to queue up again...

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The theming around the coaster is pretty sparse

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Pretty boring ride, apart from the tight upwards turns which are awful

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At the finish

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The station looks great though

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Time for some more Katun though

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Through the Star Gate

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More loop porn

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Final helix

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First Drop

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Signature shot

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Under the loop

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Into the zero-g

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Scare attraction

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Shot towers with a T-33

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and an F-104

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Entrance area

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Entrance signature shot

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Time for a Reset

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We're heading for NY

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You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

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Time for another go at iSpeed

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Looks even better with the sun setting

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Really nice ride

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ZOOOM

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Super tight

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One of very few final brake runs with an airtime hill

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Blues brothers approved

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Lovely

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Even the Vekoma looks great

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Rapids

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Skloffff

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Holy crap Katun looks great

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Katun theming

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Major Loopage

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iSpeed in the dark

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The Park with a nice fountain

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Another fountain

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Final Pic <3

I really LOVED Mirabiladia, just the kind of park that I love, not much theming but it still have a great atmosphere, lush green areas and awesome rides. Kind of like Liseberg in a way. As I said earlier kind of bummed out to miss out on some time in the park, but if I ever go back (just a matter of time really) then I could always skip out on Fiabilandia and spend as much time as I want here. It's just such a great place.
Not to forget that it have 2 really good rides (soon to be 3??). iSpeed was the big surprise and Katun was really good (even though it was a bit of a let-down compared to some other I have ridden)...

I really recommend you to go here, you read that Shubinine??

Next up, magma and drop of awesomeness!!

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Part 19 - RAMBO and MAGMA!!

So we had the decision to either go to Movieland Studios or Gardaland first and then be stuck with the other park the day afterwards. So we decided to do the bad one first :)
So Movieland Studios it is!! The main reason why we even bothered to go here was the Giovanola drop tower (Intamin 1:st gen) and the Schwarzkopf City Jet which was a first for me. I didn't really bother much about the park, especially after hearing Sue tell about their mob connections (which she knows for some Mysterious reasons...).

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On the way from the hotel we found the source of the brown crud that the farmers spray on their fields and smells like ****, the river Po

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We'll deal with you tomorrow

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Mmmm, Giovanola drop tower

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Here we are

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Watery top spin

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First things first

I absolutely love these things, this is my 3:rd one and one of the few still in operation. They give one of the best drop sensation of any tower I have ridden, especially seeing to their tiny size. They may sound like a metal trash can rolling down a hill, but you be surprised how great it is. Too bad that they didn't sell any of their looping ones :(

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Going Up!!

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Really strange feeling this bit, and it sounds awful

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DeLorean mmmm....

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Ze Germans are attacking

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I didn't know there were yellow dinosaurs

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Oooo, tiny cred

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Yay it's Dino

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Cred time!!

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Looks like she have had an "accident"

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New thing for me

I really liked this one as well, an ace little ride that packs a surprisingly strong punch, I really need to get loads of money so I could get one...

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Going down the drop

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Wouldn't mind having one as a Lawn ornament...

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Bronto Jet

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Swinging ship

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For once I got a good spin on one of these, others how ever didn't spin even once on the whole cycle...

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Really weak Back to the Future ride

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If the heat is a bit much then you could always submerge a bit

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Hmmm, I don't think that air plane drop tanks could sink a ship...

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Sorry we are Out of time, so get going

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Some fire engine

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Random park pic

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Kitt

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Rambo show

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Pretty good, but we spent the time watching on what's going to happen next instead of what was happening :)

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Took a ride on Magma, and I have to say, I really loved it!!

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I approve this ride!!

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Terminator was pretty good, but I got an "edge seat" so I missed much of the action

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Main street

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The Dukes where here

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In this hot weather, this was one of the best attractions in the park

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Got another go at this <3

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I wouldn't mind going the rest of the trip in this <3

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Ugly sucker

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Lara, do you mind if I steel your car??

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Next door water park, which would be pretty packed on a day like this

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We didn't bother dressing up like Knigits

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Tomorrow!!

Movieland Studios surprised me a bit, I though that it would be all dire crap, but some of the stuff is really great and the theme of the place is pretty nicely done. Nice park but not much to do really, even though we managed to stay busy the whole day...

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Part 20 - Raptor!!

So finally Gardaland, I had really looked forward to this visit, my no. 1 park that I really wanted to visit on this trip. I had high hopes that it would be pretty similar to Alton, but it turned out more of a mix of Thorpe (theme) and Heide Park (rides) :( , so I was a bit bummed out, but I still had a great day there!!

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New for this year, Yeti Coaster

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Time for Gardaland

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YAY, Gardaland!!

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First a quick sprint to the Vekoma DEATH

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First up was Mammut


OMFG, how can a ride get this bad after just a few years. Yeah I know of the Vekomas at Rainbow Crapland, but still... I don't really like any of the Vekoma Mine Trains I have ridden, sure the one at TDL is pretty good, but that's mostly to the theming, interaction, atmosphere around the ride, oh and the fact that it's in Japan :) , none of the other ones have created anything close to be something I would love to re-ride (yes I don't even like the Michel Jackson one either...). Still cred...

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Next up Blue Tornado


First time of one of these extended ones, thankfully the extended bit was the good bit, or else it would just have been pure crap...

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Looks great though

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With a Tornado hanging around

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These rides looks awesome, even if they ride like ****

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Since we were in the area, we couldn't resist Fuga da Atlantide


I really love this ride, great theming, great atmosphere, well a really nice ride in all. And you don't really get wet on it either, we got front row and just got mildly moist down the drops. Didn't really bother me much though since it was freakishly hot that day. I'm not sure if I would count it as a coaster though, since then you should really count any other super-splash ride that is similar, but since it's on http://www.coaster-count.com then I guess I do...
Since we had deposited our bags in a locker and were mildly moist we opted to get the rapids out of the way as well.

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Not as wet as you think

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Rapids which are called something, got to ride with some Italian pussies, all Italian guys are real mamma's boys :)

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Epic theming

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More theming

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Now to get to the other end of the park

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Past the flying Island

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4D theatre

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Ramses

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Getting close

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There we are


Sequoia Adventure is an OK ride, I have no trouble with hang time or the restraints, so I though that it was pretty funky. The operation of the ride on the other hand was utter crap, to me it seems like someone have been hit by falling objects or something on the ride, since they only had one car on the ride at all times, the rest were sitting in the station area all 5 of them :( they might just as well run it with 2 cars then and still got the same capacity :(
This quickly became the wettest ride in the park, mainly because we got there a bit later than I had hoped since we did the water rides before, so we had to stand there and roast in the blistering sun and the sweat just poured...
Now I know that we shouldn't have bothered at that point but have waited until later in the afternoon when the whole ride were in the shade and the queue were just as long, but there is no changing that now...

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Pretty great setting though

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2 trains at the same time

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Awful operation

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Just hanging around

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Over the edge

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Next up was the Brucomela of DEATH

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Why Death?? Well you spend so much time on the lift-hills that you nearly die of old age

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Then it was time for some brand new Vekoma trains

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The ride was still crap :( , but no head-banging :)

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Best ride in the park!!

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Some other 4D attraction

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RAPTOR TIME!!


The highlight on the day were the brand new B&M Wing rider, sweet!! Since the queue were an incredible short 20 minutes when we got here we decided to whore it for a bit, on the 4 rides we did at this point the queue just got shorter by each go :) pure WIN, and since people in this park are so useless in getting to the gates, we managed to ride all 4 corners of the ride to see if they differed that much. Well they don't really, the main thing is between left and right side of the train, since then you have the choice between more negative/positive vertical force during the twists. Didn't either feel any of the vibrations people talked about on this kind of ride either, I have been on other B&M with more vibrations than this had, (it may get worse in the future though...). One thing that I though odd was that they had decided to stop the train on the final brake-run instead of in the block just outside the station. For capacity's sake it would be a lot better to have it outside the station, since then you wouldn't waste 10-15 seconds between each train as they do now...
The ride itself is really good, but a bit tame for me that loves the older powerful rides like Pyrenees, Nemesis and Monster, but it still offers a pretty good ride seeing to the whole concept. I really can't wait to ride one of the bigger versions in the future. The whole theme of Raptor works really great and the whole area looks really polished.

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I love the look of the twists with these wide trains

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Looks so epic

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Up the lift-hill

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Shame about the sound of the trim :(

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These foot choppers work really great in the front

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My brother didn't know about these so he got a nice surprise

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Not to mention getting a bit wet :)

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Sideways

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Twisting a bit

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Awwww

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We did the drop tower, walk on :)

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Still a rubbish ride

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Even though the ride looks nice

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Same thing with this one

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More Atlantide

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Scary guy

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Our boat got splashed pretty good at this point

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Dolphins

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Poseidon himself

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Om nom nom

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The timing was off again :(

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I want one on my lawn

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Completely missed this one, while riding

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Didn't really get wet on it either

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Even though some got splashed a bit here

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Lake Garda from the Flying Island

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Mammut

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Tree with massive orange balls

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Blue Tornado

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Raptor

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Still awesome to look at

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They are really photogenic

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Still rubbish though

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We visited the tree with the orange balls afterwards

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From the top you got some great views of Raptor

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Hmmm, wonder if it was possible to get planning permission for one of these

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Almost signature shot

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Signature shot without a train :(

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While we were waiting for it to get dark, we did Corsair, and loved it, so much that we did it twice :) great ride!!

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YAY night rides on Raptor!!

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Love the purple stripes from the cars

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Swoosh

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WANT

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Lovely castle somewhere

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Eagle ride

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Time to leave


I really think that I prefer Mirabilandia to this park, it's a shame since much of the things here looks great but aren't, where as in Mirabilandia everything rides great as well. So slightly disappointed, but still got some great rides on Raptor which is well worth it :)

Next up, Austria and original X-car...

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I really like your TR! I'm always very excited to read about the new parks. Good Job!
 
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Thank you, more to come!!
 
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Part 21 - More massive Alpine Coasters!!

So this was the end of the Italian adventure, now it just a few day long journey back up to Sweden and home. But since we were in the neighbourhood we decided on getting a few new parks along the way...
This day we had planned 3 stops, the first two were massive Alpine Coasters <3

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Leaving Verona early in the morning and heading onto a drive north towards our hotel near Munich

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Really great rock formations here in the Alps

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At the border between Italy and Austria, to get our vignette to drive on the Austrian autobahn

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Follow that bus!!

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After driving up some massive hills close to Innsbruck we arrived at our first stop for the day, Imster Bergbahn

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A 3.5 km long Alpine Coaster

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It have a really nice layout, not as much back and forth like the other one we did earlier

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Some sign near the Coaster in some alien language or is it someone playing Asteroids??

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Some little chapel at the top

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We were really lucky when it were our time to get going, one guy that worked there was heading down the mountain right before us, and since there were no one in the queue except us he let us wait for 5 minutes, instead of the normal 30 seconds, before he let us go, full throttle almost all the way down :p

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Then it was just to get back on the road for the next one...

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The guy that designed that slide must be pretty weird...

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Into Germany

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Seems like this must be the place

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There we are

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We thought we were in luck, there was absolutely no one down at the lift

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Alpine Coaster

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Even more...

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Crap there were an one hour queue at the top :(

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The op were hilarious, he mocked everyone that had gone down before :) , like letting out a massive sigh after some incredible slow persons (and also holding the next rider a bit extra after them), telling people that they shouldn't be as slow as the one before, screaming after them to keep full throttle, etc :) just awesome to lighten up the queue and making it more bearable to wait

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Up skirt of a bob they have at the entrance


So that was is really for these places, this things are really good fun and well worth spending a moment at. Even though they don't count...

Next up the original X-car...

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