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The quotes above pretty well sum up my approach to theme park merchandise. I won't get merchandise for a park I haven't been to or a ride I haven't been on, and even if I have experienced something, I have several criteria that the merch needs to meet for it to be worth buying: Do I like the...

I haven't done a Huss Giant Frisbee to compare the Giant Discovery to, but Tusenfryd's SpinSpider is the latter and is fantastic. The spin isn't particularly pronounced and there isn't much force, but the rush of air around you as you go through the rest position from the ride's maximum swing...

I'm not sure what to think about this. I quite like Spinrock for the way it really gets into its stride half way through the ride cycle. Still, if the replacement does turn out to be a Giant Discovery, one of the few good Zamperla rides I've done being replaced by the single genuinely amazing...

My expectations for Taron based on the POV released were a very good coaster in amazing surroundings, but not something particularly mind-blowing to ride. However, when people who've been on it start slinging words like "ejector" and "relentless" around you start thinking a coaster might deliver...

I'm highly likely to just do the Saturday, though I might stay over on the Friday night if anyone else fancies booking a TL room?

Knightmare rode pretty similarly to Jetline (i.e. absurdly well for a coaster with no airtime or inversions really to speak of), but the magnetic block/trim brakes on Jetline make trains take the second half more slowly. The last block, being spat out of a right helix into a tight left hander...

Liseberg's Jukebox is the Gerstlauer Polyp mentioned by Burbs on the first page. That makes at least three of us that want one in Dark Forest! It's a fantastic machine that would suit Towers down to the ground; bags of fun, suitable for families, uses a fraction of the staff required for...

Do please say more about your thoughts on G'Sengte Sau. It was my favourite ride there by a long way! Interesting to read your thoughts on Karacho. Maybe its launch runs at full power now, but back in 2014 it had been turned down (allegedly to reduce the height restriction) and it practically...

Wildfire definitely wasn't my sole reason for doing the trip, and "no vibrations" my foot. :) Otherwise a good, accurate summary of the park. Perhaps one day I'll get around to my own trip report, but in the meantime, I felt the biggest issue with the place is that it feels very disjointed at...

Should the description for Skin Snatchers not describe Altonville as a 'barren' town instead of 'baron'? [emoji14]

Personally I wasn't a fan of starting with four robots per battle in the first rounds. It doesn't really let you get an impression of what a robot is fully capable of. Other than that I thought it was pretty good. It was disappointing that Razer or Behemoth didn't go through, but Carbide seems...

I believe the planning application is for Flume removal as well as building the new coaster, so not yet I'd have thought.

If it turned out to be Flying Jumbos then the total hourly capacity of Chessington's rides would be even more miserable (not that it's a throughput monster; far from it, but losing any rides from an already insufficient number cannot possibly be good). Fortunately that kind of ride should be...

We were also told that future changes to Lisebergbanan for parts availability and maintenance reasons are also likely to involve the control system. This could actually turn out to be a change for the better. Lisebergbanan's mechanical brakes, while not on the DMP Shockwave 'brick wall' level...

I read it as it having had an unrelated minor electrical fault on the Saturday, but working fine on the Sunday up until the point where the integrity of the wheelset to train connections obviously became no longer fine.

This has been discussed a few times, and while TowersStreet apparel isn't without its appeal, one of my favourite things about this community is that it isn't a club. There's no AGM (thank goodness), no subs, and not much in terms of rules and etiquette to obey; primarily just not behaving in a...

As I understand it, rather than monitoring the speed of the train through tracking the rate of wheel revolutions and passing that information to the VR system like Alpenexpress can, the system used for Galactica only adjusts the timing of the footage based on how long the last few trains have...

Just at the entrance, presumably. AstroDan has advised that he expects the services-breakfasting contingent to arrive around 9:45 AM.

Having been on Race for Atlantis (only once fortunately), I can't see why anyone not employed by Phantasialand would take an article showing a photo of it being torn down as reflecting badly on the park. :) Demolition at Phantasialand means two things: 1. Something rubbish at best is getting...

I haven't bought a mug from any park for a few years now, mostly because I've got way more than I need and have run out of storage. I still look though, and what frustrates me about a lot of the designs Towers have sold lately is that although they look nice, they're totally impractical. They're...