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Maybe it is the angle of the photo then.

Doesn't look like a hole to me. Looks like something on the track.

As it is something you do not support, I assume you do not drive a car, buy fuel, use plastics, detergents like soap or use anything made of synthetic rubber, such as a garden hosepipe then? As they, among many things, directly contribute huge sums of money to these regimes. That argument made...

I would have thought so yeah. I think legislation changed after 1999 mandating rides needed to have clean water if guests were getting soaked by it, in order to combat getting sick from waterbourne diseases. Drayton got in there just before with Storm Force 10, thus were and are allowed to...

Hydro opened at the back end of the water ride craze in the UK. Parks were going after the wettest water ride title, so in that aspect it was not unique in the slightest. We had Storm Force 10 in 1999, Tidal Wave and Valhalla in 2000 and then finally Hydro in 2002. All going after the title of...

Urinates in the plethora of fountains available, presumably.

I do not doubt you, but can you point them out, as they are not obvious? It could be the case that by the time the attraction was refurbished, there were only 4 in operation, due to many breaking over the years and never getting repaired. Very plausible given the extreme wetness and dampness in...

We all know what the real problem is here....

It comes to something when you need ID to have a ****. But you do not need ID to enter the UK. The country is very broken. Was great seeing Starmer as Trumps petting dog the other day however. You could see the panic on Starmers face.

But people would be more inclined to pay say a tenner to ride the new attraction if they see it new when walking around the park or outside for that matter. Rather than paying for the whole park entry just to ride that ride. Even more so if they have been to the likes of Sandcastle, which can...

I am not sure. Maybe a few but not many. Pay one price made it a destination place. Meaning if you are outside the park and close enough to see it, you would be visiting anyway. If it was pay per ride I would have thought it would pick up much more passing trade, but I cannot see people who...

I wonder if it was supplied by Intamin or a third party.

It very well could be actually, because even though it was in the dark, you could feel yourself going up onto a platform exactly like you do with this top one now. So yes it seems very plausable.

There was a few fire torches at the start of the ride, the majority of the fire is still in place though. What I never understood though, is the reason that was given for the removal of the reverse turntable was due to it giving 90% of the rides downtime. Ok fair point. But with the money they...

I think with the refurbishment we got a slightly more cohesive theme throughout, if only slightly. For me, that is a good improvement, even without a trommel. I still think the early 2000's version of the ride with tesla coil and the song of the elders soundtrack was peak Valhalla though.

It is, but it is clear that one of the main aims of the refurbishment was reliability. So less reliance of physical effects, more reliance on clever lighting and video FX. Something inherently more reliable. Given this refocus and change, I would expect them to be working. It is when the park...

One of the things I thought was interesting that was said in the video was that they always try to keep the effects working and their aim is to always keep them working. But because there are so many, with so many different conditions that have to be met for them to trigger (specifically the...

I was watching this earlier. Probably the best vlog I have seen on the behind the scenes tour of Valhalla, especially for geeks. It vlogs the ride in depth and you see it in far more detail in a behind the scenes perspective than many people have ever seen it before. It even goes into more...

It looks very...hospital waiting room. I can smell that picture. They may well do everything in that colour and tone; let's call it "NHS misery." Mmmm, nothing to get you more hyped as you enter Britain's most fantastical Escape. Escape from what? Life itself? I suppose the thing that a...

I seem to recall the attraction seemingly being in an okay state in 2004. Almost everything was working. Just 1 or 2 things that were broken, which I had never seen work. Specifically, one being one of the giant rotating jelly in the finale scene (the one on the left) and the other being the...