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I agree with the sentiments raised in previous posts about Shambhala, EGF, Balder, Black Mamba and Taron. For some reason Phantasialand's coasters in general don't wow me aside from the fantastic Colorado Adventure, so I'd add Winja's Fear and Force to the list. Both are a lot of fun, with Fear...

Today I briefly drove a small steam locomotive for the first time. :) I'm pretty chuffed (pun intended).

I'd have thought that mechanically the Duel cars are much like those used on a number of other Mack tracked dark rides. I was watching the car in front setting off last time I rode Piccolo Mondo, and certainly the wheels and system of axle articulation for taking tight corners looked similar...

What I find most confusing about the addition of signs to the park is that new ones are often created in very dated looking styles. Take for instance that red diamond sort of background (supposed to look like an old window or quilted upholstery perhaps?) used at or around the monorail stations...

If the layout is unchanged from last year, this will be (I think) three years of the same TotT layout and at least eight of the same content (my first Scarefest was 2010). I have no intention of paying for that maze this time when it was stale five years ago.

Obviously I understand that a power cut is something Thorpe can't help (unless it results from something in their electrical systems having keeled over), but in my 7 or so years of going to Thorpe with a MAP there were too commonly issues that resulted in a guest services queue like that for it...

Welcome... TO HELLLLLL.

The Buckingham Palace station thing sounds like a load of rubbish I'm afraid. If one needed to get one's royal buttocks out of the capital in a hurry, boarding a tube train (powered from additional electrified rails, and engineered for acceleration rather than sustained speed) and taking it to...

To clarify, my suggestion would be to have animal enclosures within theme areas, not ride areas themselves. As you've said, Funcone, that's unfair on the animals, not necessarily safe, and just downright impractical generally.

To my mind, the zoo itself is not the issue with Chessington. The zoo areas are in places dated, but typically pleasant enough. Also, although they have all the usual animal park animals like Humboldt penguins, Asian short clawed otters, meerkats and a variety of uninteresting antelope type...

That looks top notch, and makes me hope that Vekoma's design for that hypercoaster project that went Intamin's way will reappear somewhere else. Other parks take note. :)

Speed of Sound without the music (which really made it a party experience on last year's road trip) would still be massively better than Cobra. It's awful. In fact, the park is awful. How has it been allowed to fall so far behind the experience offered by (most of) Walibi Holland?

If Colossos doesn't reopen, Heide will need to add something seriously impressive to get me back there. On my first and only visit to date last year I decided I wouldn't return without it, as the lack of a stand-out, headline coaster in the ride lineup was painfully obvious. The other big issue...

I am indeed planning that. Not sure where yet though. Will keep you in mind!

If anybody is considering staying over on the Saturday night but thinks it's too late to arrange anything, please drop me a PM as I may be able to help. :)

VR and some sort of simulator chair just couldn't give you the same sense of cornering on your side at 4G and then being thrown through a zero-G roll, and the main reason for me that wearing VR headsets on coasters as a concept seems like a dead end is that you completely lose the sensation of...

That ride definitely needs a change of rolling stock. It was horrendous last August. The Vekoma option surely has to be the way to go? The KUMBAK AND FINISH OUR RIDE! design hardly sets an expectation of a pleasant experience!

This looks like a pretty decent layout for a 6-across dive machine. It might not break the mould for the ride type, but it does look like a more substantial ride than either Baron or Krake, and I was concerned that something directly comparable to those was on the cards. Sent from my XT1032...

I hope the cars have beefed up seat supports compared to Lost Gravity to sort out the vibration. Apart from that concern, this should be a really good addition for the park, which currently lacks anything really outstanding. Sent from my XT1032 using Tapatalk

'Secret Weapon' is a term that's only really used as a nod to folks like us. It doesn't feature in any actual marketing for a ride beyond the initial "we're up to something" webpage or the "find our construction site here" marker on a map, so it means nothing to the vast majority of the park's...