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The UK needs more Coasters

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The US has so many more good coasters than the Uk.
We need more Coasters.
I have been thinking in the past few days that we need a giga - coaster.
We also need a decent theme park in the South West , I live in Wiltshire where no are no theme parks and the nearest park is Paultons park , a park for young children 40 minutes away with no proper rides.
The Uk only has 6 good theme parks ( The rest are either kiddie or fairground style parks.)
Please someone build a theme park in Wiltshire and please someone build a giga-coaster.
 
Theres no theme parks in Wiltshire because it would upset all the ****ing farmers.

I'm also interested to know what parks you've been to in the UK, and what you class as the UK's 6 only good ones...
 
Maybe because, oh I don't know, the US is much bigger than the UK?

I think the number of parks and rides over here are great, we are spoilt for choice.

Look at Australia; big, big country, hardly any parks at all.

What are the 6? I'm guessing Alton, Thorpe, Blackpool, what else? Flamingo Land, Drayton maybe? What?
 
I think we havea nice amount of parks over here, although the south west could do with one or two "big" parks.

Coaster wise - we do have some very good ones (nemesis, stealth, saw, shockwave, BpB mouse etc...), however, we need some modern woodies, and some intamin airtime!
 
That is true, a modern wooden coaster would be great, as would Intamin airtime, hopefully SW6 will proide a bit of it.
 
We have something called planning permission in this country which any middle class snob can object because it 'breaches his peace' and ignores the local economical benefits.

In the US this isn't such a problem.
 
I think the UK has a great amount of parks, especially for the size of us.
Just half of them are not entertaining or memorable as the ones in US.

But yeah, we have lots.
 
Ew, be grateful, you guys have the most parks per capita, anywhere. I live in Canada where we have maybe like, three decent sized parks, and we're the second biggest country in the world. Thank God I live so close to America!

But seriously, you have tons of parks, and Europe isn't that far either, so quit your whinin' :P .
 
LiveForTheLaunch said:
Ew, be grateful, you guys have the most parks per capita.
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^Exactly.

For such a small place as the UK,I wouldn't say we do to badly for parks.

Plus,so far,we've had two world firsts,a third coming soon,the first Invert in Europe,and Europes first inverting coaster.

So I wouldn't say we do too badly.
 
Plus the tallest in the world for a time, the fastest accelerating in Europe, the longest in Europe...and much more...
 
UK got a decent amount of parks and coasters I guess, but you are lacking in big coasters. Europe in general doesn't got that many big coasters. And I guess we never will hence we don't got the economic resources needed to build these bigger rides..
 
Just like the majority of people posting above me, I agree that the UK has plenty of good theme parks, especially for a small nation. I guess we can't have many "big rides" for example, hyper/giga coasters because everyone that lives near a theme park would happily see it being bombed to the ground.

As for Wiltshire,

Wiltshire + Farmers = Bad. :P
 
The smaller parks need to up their game to put pressure on those above them.

Standards will only rise if other parks feel under threat and the need to improve.
 
Yes but the problem is no park apart from Merlin will take the risk of installing something big and then it backfiring. Last time a park added a large ride and it failed to attract large crowds was Knightmare.
 
If they had the money it may have been successful, if Towers could make evryone think Rita was good, Camelot could have made Knightmare turn their fortunes around if they could afford it. Sadly they didn't have the money, which is the same for all the small parks, they just don't have money to burn taking risks and with large instalations.
 
the future of uk parks may be forged by the success of the likes of Thomasland; if you look at the disproportionate success of Charlie and the Chocolate factory at AT, that alone should let you know that Bigger Better Faster Stronger doesn't necessarily bring in the biggest increase in money and visitors to parks - brands do. When we follow what is at the very core of the recent success for the USA's parks, perversely then and only then, will we raise the money for the kind of rides we crave.
 
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