Alternative ride names

Revision as of 21:42, 24 February 2011

According to the bizarre and convoluted unwritten rules of TTF meet ups, rides are not referred to by their real names wherever possible, either because people can't be bothered saying the full name, or to mock an unpopular ride.

A list of common alternative names is shown below, names that are strictly abbreviations are not included:

Alton Towers:

• Blade - Bland
• Nemesis - Nemmy
• Oblivion - Blivvy, BOLIVIA (shouted)
• Ripsaw - Rippy
• Sharkbait Reef - Sharkbait Beef
• Sonic Spinball - Chronic Sh*tball
• Submission - Substandard
• Th13teen - ThFAILteen
• Air - Fair: The Ride, Concrete: The Ride, Breakdown: The Ride, Annoyance Is Regular, Aerodynamic Infernal Rage.

Chessington World of Adventures:

• Bubbleworks - Troubleworks
• Dragon Falls - Rascist Falls
• Rameses Revenge - Rammy, Rippy Ripoff
• Vampire - CAMPire

Disneyland

• Space Mountain - Sparse Mountain, Brace Mountain

Drayton Manor:

• Apocalypse - Poccy
• G-Force - G-Farce
• Splash Canyon - Syphilis Canyon

Europa Park:

• (Otherwise known as OYROPA)

• Schneeflocken - BENCH!!

Flamingoland

• Velocity - Veloshitty

Legoland

• Viking River Rapids - Ghetto Splash

Lightwater Valley

• (Otherwise known as Sh*tewater Valley)
• The Ultimate - UltimACHE
• Whirlwind - Top Buzz 2

Pleasure Beach Blackpool:

• Grand National - The Nash
• Infusion - Intrusion, Traumafusion, Confusion
• River Caves - Racist Caves
• Rollercoaster - Rola-Cola
• Steeplechase - Sleep-lechase
• Valhalla - Valerie

Thorpe Park:

• Colossus - Colossucks, Lolossus, For-the-lossus
• Nemesis Inferno - Nemesis Inferior, Nymphferior
• Rumba Rapids - Brapids, Drybina Slumba Cr*pids
• Rush - Thrush
• Samurai - Scamurai, Shamurai
• SAW: The Ride - Snore: The Ride, SORE: The Ride
• Slammer - Schwammer, Schwammy Wammy, Clamper
• Vortex - Bore-tex
• X:\No Way Out - X:\WTF

Noob Names

In addition to above, there are a number of common mistakes made by theme park noobs regarding ride names. Some of the more frequent include:

• Sonic Spinball - Pinball Wizzard
• Squirrel Nutty - Squirrel Nutkin
• Duel - Haunted House, Target Zone
• The Flume - Log Flume
• [ride name] - The [ride name] *exception to this being anyone saying "The Blade", which is just uber-cool, or anything else that actually does have 'the' in the name.
• Nemesis Inferno - Nemesis. This is clearly unacceptable. There is only one Nemesis, and it lives in Staffordshire.