I try to not offend anyone but I'll always say it how it is. I have a head condition so intense coasters make me tap out much quicker similar to fairground rides which spin me into oblivion. I throughly enjoyed my rides and never experienced a 'rough' ride it was just VERY intense and that turntable was a much welcomed rest bite. I certainly didn't experience any roughness and as Shawn has recently posted (we had a chat at EP) his rides were much smoother after his first one and he didn't feel it at all. Only two trains seem to be having a rough issue currently as they trial different setups etc this was also confirmed by Michael Mack when I spoke to him at the event and coincides with what the coaster club posted on X.
I'll always be grateful for being invited but I'll never say nice things just to appease a press invite, it's not worth compromising honesty for a freebie but sadly the same cannot be said about MANY who get invited!
I'm sure a slip of the tongue isn't particularly a reason as to why someone should or shouldn't be invited. This has since been edited out, blame 90 mins of sleep and a full travel day for someone with more medical conditions than the average Joe.
Behind the scenes I'm doing work with the park on a variety of businesses I own and operate and they were impressed with our original meeting back in September when I was asked over to the park for the first time. I work damn hard and having one of the quickest growing UK theme park vlogging channels is proof of that and it'll go from strength to strength, it also helps with the media sites I'm apart of to help further boost any views or exposure of any given coverage as Lift Hills on its own just isn't strong enough (for me) to warrant an invite like that just yet.
With that said the POV has overtaken many channels that have 6-figures+ subs and the standard vlog is keeping up with channels 4 and 5 times bigger than myself. Coupled with additional content, quantity and my ongoing relationship with the park I was honoured to be asked, overwhelmed even and I'll continue to be surprised whether or not the channel is at 18k or 180k subs and make no mistake about it, one day it WILL get there.
But to answer you question, the invites were not cherry picked. The UK isn't well represented with EP, it's a new thing for them to branch out and have the UK more involved. We weren't invited to give it good reviews and if you've ever seen ANY of my content I'm far from the kind of person to kiss a parks ass and have been struck off lists just for that reason, because I don't give the standard 'everything is awesome' press review but with regards to Voltron it was perfect (to me) yes the turntable needed to be enclosed more but that's really scraping the barrel with criticism.
Bizarre choice or not, we were there and will continue to be as long as they have us