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Benson1997

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Well im in some confusion of which parks to go to this year, me and my friend have recently found our love for coasters :)
We have allready 3 possibly 4 parks confirmed for 2011 but we need some ideas, as we are quite new to this heck of the woods :lol:

Our confirmed trips

Thorpe Park
Flamingoland
Pleasure Beach Blackpool
Possible Trip:
Drayton Manor

I have been to TP many times but allways chickened out of the big rides, but im facing up to my fears now :--D.
Me and my friend live in County Durham so our closet parks are LWV and Flamingoland. Thanks for The Help :)
 
Lol. It's great that you've seen the light. I hope you can face up to your fears, it will be worth it, trust us all, they won't be there after say riding, Stealth, SAW, Big One etc.

As stated above, Alton Towers would be a good guess too :)
 
I would definitely swap Flamingoland for Lightwater Valley, it's a MUCH better park.
 
STC said:
I would definitely swap Flamingoland for Lightwater Valley, it's a MUCH better park.
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I guess it depends on if you want coaster quality over quantity?

It also depends on who you're with and what your expectations are from the park.

If you want to spend your day running from ride to ride to ride and never stopping for breath - then Flamingoland is your best option (and Thorpe, Blackpool and Drayton).

If you want to actually take your time and mooch around and enjoy the atmosphere, scenery and take time to actually soak up the rides you're going on, then you want LWV or Alton.

I'm in the latter camp, I'm just as happy wandering a park as I am on a ride. However, a lot of people (including myself as a teen) just want hit after hit of adrenaline and rides.
 
STC said:
I would definitely swap Flamingoland for Lightwater Valley, it's a MUCH better park.
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My opinion is totally different to this, I went to them both last year and much preferred Flamingoland over LWV. Flamingoland has so much more to offer as I see it; they have a lot more rides and most importantly variety. LWV couldn't keep me entertained all day but then again I didn't think the Ultimate was that good whereas some people love it, but I really enjoyed Flamingoland with it's number of coasters and other rides available.
 
T'Ultimate is EPIC... just a shame the rest of the park is turd.

'Mingo FTW.

As for other places to go? Hmmm, if you're coming all the way down to do Thorpe, you might as well do Chessington as well while you're here.

Between us, I think we've pretty much mentioned them all if big coasters are your thing. Oh, you could go across to Fantasy Island to get Jubilee Odyssey and... the other one. Y'know, that impossibly smooth Vekoma that's only impossibly smooth because it doesn't actually do anything. Millennium Coaster is it called?

There's plenty more places to go CRED hunting, but prob best to leave those for another year... If I were your Mum, I wouldn't take too kindly to driving miles and miles just for a Big Apple.
 
Well thanks for that guys, well about chessington, I have a sister that is 6 and she wanted to go to chessington , so I could either choose TP or Chessie, and well chessie only has dragons fury ( which I found awesome ) And the vampire which I have rode over 20+ times so Thorpe was the outright winner. And due to the fact that we arnt going in the holidays it would be impossible to fit it in.


And as for alton it is a possibility at this moment, my mum would love to go back too and I don't have birthday parties anymore so that could be it, just a little day or two out with my mate at Alton, brilliant. It would be around September time. I have been there before when I was 6, that's when I found my love for coasters, the corkscrew.It may have been rough but I didnt care, it was the first time I had ever experienced being upside down with just a lap bar for protection , it was one heck of a ride.

I had been on coasters from a young age, due to my auntie who I wouldn't say had a love for them but , was an adrenalin junky :L I rode vampire when i was 4, I came off saying I'm never doing that again, but at the end of the day when it was just before closing time I rode again and I new that the vampire would be my fav ride for years.

Next when I was 5 I was tricked onto going on tidal wave, my auntie said we would be going on a boat ride under it, but when I heard that lift hill clunk I shouted no!! , I came off drenched but I was amazed that I hadent cried, so was my mum.

After that we didn't go back To TP till I was 9 and that year stealth had been built, I said to myself I would do all the big rides(colossus nemisis and stealth) but when I looked at stealth I thought no way! It was higher than It had seemed, I had watched a pov of the rides before I came, I turned down both stealth and colossus , but nemisis inferno was a different story... I entered the cue absolutely crapping myself. When we started climbing the hill I remembered saying to myself " it's just like corkskrew, I might like it" when I got off I felt sick but estatic I had ridden it at such a young age, even today I dont rate it that highly, It felt rough ( can't believe I'm saying that about a B&M coaster but it was true) ... that would be the last time I would visit Thorpe park.

when I moved from Essex to county Durham I had lost my love for coasters, I had forgotten all the great memories I had. And then I met liam, after a few months he asked me to toto LWV with him, I accepted but with no idea of what the park was like.. When we arrived he told me to run with him to the ultimate, I said is it good? He said you either love it or you hate it but he said it was epic, and indeed he was right. It may not be the most exciting coaster ever, but the drops and the quick turns, they blew me away! We didn't ride anything else that day 14 rides on the ultimate, pretty good ehh :), I worked it out,I have ridden the ultimate more than 40 times and to this day it is my fav coaster that I have ridden!

2010 came and I was on a school trip to Disneyland Paris for 3 days! I had heard of space mountain, it was my first looper for around about 3 and a half years and boy did I like it! Might not be the best coaster ever but was pretty cool anyhow. Managed 8 rides on space mountain before heading over to indianna jones.

It didn't like this at all! It was like rattlesnake but with a loop, very lame in my opinion.
And the next day brought us the studious and the R&Rollercoaster ft areosmith. Boy! I loved it , i would rate it 2nd behind the ultimate, rode that 12 times in one day.

Now as you can see I don't like relaxing walks to rides, I'm more of a person that if I like ride, it takes a while to get me away from it.

And I would choose mingoland over LWV because I have never been there before. Kumali and velocity look awesome and the corkscrew might bring some memories of the Alton towers one

I am soo looking forward to this year finally a coaster year!
And I would like to say thankyou to Coasterforce for getting me hooked again on these beautiful machines.



Please reply as this took me one hour to write on and iPod-touch :)
Thanks -George Benson-
 
Benson1997 said:
Please reply as this took me one hour to write on and iPod-touch :)
Thanks -George Benson-
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I recommend a PC keyboard that has a carriage return on it then ;)

Seriously, I'm glad you're excited and everything and spent ages typing out the post, but that huge block of text is completely unreadable.

Before everyone starts complaining though sarcastically ( ;) ), do you want to edit the post Benson and make it into paragraphs so that everyone else can read it. No point in making the effort if nobody can read it.
 
If your thinking about Alton, Thorpe and possibly CWoA then maybe you should think about and annual pass if you don't already have one; particuly if you may do multiple trips to any of them, or use the dungeons/other attractions.

If you are not going multiple time you will save more money with bogof offers.


Sounds like a good itinary. Hope you get it all done.
 
Fantasy Island for Jubilee Odyssey and Blackpool Pleasure Beach for Valhalla.
 
FI is quite a risk consider his mum is the taxi, the amount of parks wanted and budget.

If JO isn't open and they have driven there they won't want to turn back, but without JO is it worth that price?
 
I wouldn't go for Lightwater just yet. Yet some good coaster experience first, then you can then truely understand just how ****ed up the Ultimate is.
 
Martyn B said:
I wouldn't go for Lightwater just yet. Yet some good coaster experience first, then you can then truely understand just how <img> up the Ultimate is.
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The Ultimate is awsome, why do you not like it ?
 
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