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Scarefest preparation seems to be the only thing that gets earlier every year than Christmas.

A Mack BigDipper could be great for Pleasure Beach. I say 'could' as it depends whether Mack improve the seat support struts over Lost Gravity's car design to sort out the outside seat vibration; it almost felt like Mack knew that might be an issue and played it a bit safe with the layout design...

I'm tempering my expectations fo Icon, but I'm confident that it will at least be a good ride. As with GCI wooden coasters using Millennium Flyer trains, the Mack Megacoaster is an excellent ride system (my favourite, in fact) that I've only ever had great experiences of, so I can barely imagine...

*Waves pretentiometer at self, noting high reading and simultaneously feeling both smug and slightly concerned* I may enjoy a bit of IMAscore, but I quite agree that good theme park music should first and foremost serve its role in the park, and on that basis Wicker Man's music does what it's...

That's ingenious, Diogo. As for that massive fair jobby, I quite fancy a go on it. The working practices are probably more frightening than the actual ride! I know I shouldn't be surprised by fairs on the continent by now, but I did get a bit twitchy about the hosts stepping off the dropping...

Galactica's soundtrack is probably my current favourite and the one I'd choose first to listen to out of context, which is perhaps odd as I've never been much of a fan of the ride in either of its iterations. Of the rest Hex is just fantastic, and Nemesis' soundtrack instantly takes my mind to...

I think most points I was going to answer have already been covered. I would add relating to point 10 that the selection of cooked breakfast items is unusually comprehensive by German hotel standards and close enough for British tastes, though I imagine it's aimed more at the higher proportion...

Having visited on Monday and Tuesday this week with Rowe and reminded myself of how ingeniously different levels were used to provide incredible surroundings for Chiapas and Taron, I'm really excited to see how Rookburgh and the new coaster turn out. With Phantasialand's usual standard of work...

There was also that bit where the train shuddered, moved off briefly, stopped and had a more successful go at restarting, as if it had tried pulling away in third gear the first time.

Couldn't Disney go back to Vekoma and order a nice high capacity version of their excellent looking new looping coasters as a replacement for this awkwardly-trundling-around-in-the-dark high-sheen turd, rather than just choosing some different polish for it? I sometimes wonder what their...

While this is a nice idea, I see several issues: 1. Are Towers actually going to want/be allowed to accept a bench from us? 2. Towers already has quite a few nice benches that were added within the past few years. Couldn't a plaque just be added to one of those, rather than providing a...

It certainly looks like a Huss Magic to me.

Restraints getting tighter mid-ride can happen on any Eurofighter or Infinity in my experience, irrespective of the restraint type chosen. Whether that happens to enough of an extent to be uncomfortable seems to depend on the ride layout/forces delivered. I fully agree with John about the...

There were some pretty good options in around 2010-2012 or so, I think (roast chicken dinners at Towers Family Restaurant, fajitas with wedges at Mexican Cantina, Spinball Noodles' brief existence etc.), but the common theme has been that anything worth eating one season is gone the next. Now of...

I realise I'm very late adding to this, but all three of my resort hotel bookings have been through Ameropa (DB's holiday arm, I believe) and were for dates where EP's own site showed no availability. While their website is in German only, Google Translate does a good job on it, and when I...

I don't think anyone's said that the park shouldn't move forward (as it's doing with Icon), or that everything is sacred. Take Grand Prix for instance; that's got a fair few decades behind it, has it not? It's generally seen on here as taking up plenty of space that could be better used for...

There certainly seems to be no interest in expanding the waterpark so that it can be marketed more to day visitors, but I'd say it could do with expansion in order to deal with what demand there already is. I've seen it get pretty packed sometimes when I've been there, and if they add more and...

As with the Moderately Rustic Village in general, declaring something decidedly ordinary-looking to be enchanted seems somewhat wide of the mark to me.

Brad's quite right. Also, while I agree that treating Towers as if they're a charity is obviously totally unrealistic (though probably not actually a common perspective on TS), there's a big difference between that and thinking it's not unreasonable (and also quite sensible in fact) to expect a...

Of course it has. There's plenty of passion to be found here, but very little for we enthusiasts to actually be enthusiastic about, at least within this country. There's only so many years that you can watch a company which has a stranglehold on the UK industry cripple its own product for...