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After many months of theme park visits, the 2015 season has come to a close and the parks are once again hibernating for the winter. Which parks did you visit throughout the 2015 season, and how many times? If you are visiting more parks over the closed season (some abroad ones are bound to be still open) then add them in as you visit. I'll start with: Blackpool Pleasure Beach - 33 Thorpe Park - 14 Alton Towers - 2 Oakwood - 1 Pleasurewood Hills - 1 Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach - 1 Chessington - 1 Funland (Hayling Island) - 1 TOTAL: 53 2015 has been my best season yet for theme parks, with 33 visits alone to my favourite park as well as plenty to …

Since Nemesis open in 1994 the UK has not produced a world class coaster. Will any UK park ever produce another world class coaster?

Share Your First Big Rollercoaster Down Below,Me I'd Like To Share My First 5: 1.Nemesis 2.Air 3.Colossus 4.Nemesis Inferno 5.Does X Count?[if Not Then Saw:The Ride

I've just had several great days at Alton Towers.Yet I've been blacking out on Nemesis. I've been on it 5 times.Is it something I should worry about? I've come back from the park a little worried about this and and worried whether this will harm or affect me long-term in my life.The blackouts usually occur as halfway through the helix (or Zero G roll?), after the first corkscrew, and although I "see" white, not black, my vision is usually back as we exit the second corkscrew over the station. This means the ride photo you see of me is during a blackout.The only other ride I get blackouts on is Colossus, it happens as we exit the loop, meaning I miss half the bunnyhop.Is t…

So what do you think is the best B&M Rollercoaster in the UK? Is it Air: The World's First Flying Coaster Nemesis: Europe's First Inverted Coaster Nemesis Inferno: The World's only Inverted Coaster to feature a set of Interlocking Corkscrews Oblivion: The World's First Vertical Drop Coaster Or our newest B&M... THE SWARM: Europe's Tallest and Fastest B&M Wing Coaster Vote!

This topic basically asks you the question if you had your own theme park what would it be like.You can write whatever you like just as long as it's fairly realistic and not offensive.for instance:where would you have it?what kind of setting?what kind of themed areas?what kind of rides?there are so many questions so please do feel free to asnwer them and tell us all about what you would do with your own theme park if you had one.I'll post mine sometime to

Hi everyone, Earlier this year, as part of my Television Production degree, I researched and wrote the script for a documentary detailing the history of roller coasters within the UK. I was privileged enough to be given an interview with John Wardley. I've since graduated and felt like people might be interested in the interview. I'm sure none of what he says is news to you lot, but still.. enjoy! CJ: How does the roller coaster industry today compare to the 1980’s? JW: Well the biggest change has been through the use of computer technology, both in terms of calculating the dynamics of the rides themselves and in terms of being able to control the track bending and …

Unfortunately in the world of themepark saw we receive many new/updated attractions every year, we also see many close & disappear. What's everyone's top 10 attractions in the uk/world they sadly never got to try but would most want to ride/experience. Mine are (uk only) 10/ vampire- pre 2001 bat trains Chessington 9/ Trauma Towers Blackpool 8/ Runaway Coaster Rotunda 7/ Magic Mountain Blackpool 6/ Noah's Ark Blackpool 5/ Magnum force Flamingo 4/ Knightmare Camelot (assuming it doesn't run again in the uk) 3/ Toyland Tours Alton Towers 2/ Corkscrew Alton Towers 1/ Black Hole Alton Towers Rides I've ridden but miss the most Phantom Phantasia, nutty…

I was just wondering what all your favourite theme park soundtracks/Theme Music is? Like for example I love this roller coaster soundtrack on Euro Mir: and I love Samurai's soundtrack too! So what are your favourite theme park soundtracks, they can be a general theme park track like the one they play at towers street or one off a flat or coaster, you could even say which one you hate! I just want to know because I feel a soundtrack really sets the mood and atmosphere for the ride!

what's the worst thing that has happened to you or seen at a theme park? eg. stuck on ride for a long time, no rides open, injuries, waiting in queue because something has happened any thing like that. I have had a couple!

Ok, recently I've been thinking about rides in slightly different terms. It's probably Disney still on my brain but I kind of see the way parks run in different lights now. When I rode Space Mountain I was intrigued and amazed that in that building were two identical coasters running side by side. I'd never seen that before and it got me wondering what they were thinking when it was being built. "This rides throughput isn't high enough, lets build two of them".And it got me thinking further about rides like Spinball Whizzer, Rattlesnake, Samurai and other low throughput attractions throughout the UK. Is spectacle and making an impact more important then just getting peopl…

Seeing as it sparked some debate over in the rant thread, I've decided to make a topic about it. Feel free to rant, rave, whatever you want to discuss about the UK Theme Park Industry. _____________________________________Theme Park related rant/ thoughts follow:Right now, the UK theme park industry is making me feel sick. I feel like I've lost a lot of my passion for it over the last month. It's easy to target Merlin, but this is a much wider issue really, it's the whole country. I've become fed up with the budget tight and half- hearted attitudes of the theme park that the country has to offer.I do think our theme parks have the potential to be some of the best in Europ…

When talking about theme parks, most people have one park which got them into rides before they started visiting more parks. For me, my first park was Paulton's, however I started to get into slightly bigger rides at Funland, Hayling Island (where they had a Pinfari Zyklon coaster which I thought was amazing ), however BPB really turned me into a theme/amusement park fan when I first visited the park in 2004. Which was your first theme park, or the one that started your enjoyment of rides?

Are other British Theme Parks going down the drain?Alton: The place is supposed to be number 1 and they cant even get half the things they want right. The Flume, Enterprise and Submission are crap, Gloomy Wood and Katanga Canyon haven't seen development in ages. Adventure Land is crap and UG Land have major theme clashes. Oblivion, Nemesis and AIR are the only things they got right.I love Alton Towers, so this is heartbreaking that they had effin locals being so damn out of order - don't they realise that they are keeping the local town from going bust.Other Merlin Parks:CWoA: No new ride or coaster since 2004 - 6 years (assuming 2010 is our year) But I love the 2009 deve…

Hey, guys.We're having John back on The Season Pass Podcast, so please leave any question you may have for him here, or email me at nick@seasonpasspodcast.comThis is a great opportunity, so I really urge you to take good chance of it!Looking forward to hearing from all of you!

Pretty much what it says on the tin. Mine Is Detonator, still gives me many, many butterflys in the queueline! So which scares you the most?

I noticed there wasn't really a post for Merlin Pop Badges so I made one What Pop Badges do you have? What Pop Badges do you want? Do you like Pop Badges? Basically discuss Pop Badges here POP BADGES

It's that depressing time of the year again, winter is here, closed season is upon us... but with 2018 just around the corner, at least there's a lot to look forward to! Which theme parks did you visit in 2017, and how many times? Still no abroad parks for me, but that will be rectified next year! I did however reach my 100th coaster, the Rittisberg Coaster in Austria; https://rcdb.com/13066.htm I'll start with: Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 28 Thorpe Park: 6 Alton Towers: 2 Oakwood: 2 Fantasy Island: 1 Paultons Park: 1 Adventure Island: 1 Dreamland Margate: 1 Legoland 1 Bottons Pleasure Beac…

What pin badges do you have? Do you collect them? Looking to sell them? Pin badges here! Okay, to start it off, I have a limited amount of pin badges right now but I'm looking to collect all of the chessington ones. Whether I visit the park and find them on the floor or buy them for a good price here I'm willing to at least try and get them all.

So today Mack rides announced they have been testing with Oculus Rif on rides Blue Fire and Pegasus in Europa-Park. Is this a future in theme parks or is it just going to stay a test? Looks awesome, I would love to try it.

I vote For Rita as it provides the best launch and good airtime, although RNRC has some great inversions.

It's that time of year again, the nights are drawing in earlier, it's cold outside and the closed season is upon us. Which theme parks did you visit in 2018, and how many times? I finally managed to get to some abroad parks, as well as having some enjoyable visits to UK parks. I'll start with my count below (referring to the number of days spent at each park); Blackpool Pleasure Beach x18 Thorpe Park x5 Alton Towers x4 Liseberg x3 Phantasialand x2 Chessington x2 Toverland x1 Efteling x1 Oakwood x1 Lightwater Valley x1 Dreamland x1 Brean Theme Park x1 Funland Weston Super Mare …

Richard Rodriguez is currently on Day 80 of the most consecutive days riding a roller coaster record. The current record is 103 days! The Pepsi max big one has had a seat reserved for him during his attempt to break this record! I was just wandering, if any, what roller coaster would you try to beat this record on? Please comment below:

Hello there everyone, My inspiration for this thread came from Thorpe Park's Park Music Thread. As that one is for discussion on Thorpe Park's music only, I decided that I would set one up for every other park (Disney, Six Flags, Busch Gardens etc).The first thing that I wuod like to know is:Is there anywhere I can find the park music from Busch Gardens Tampa or not?Welsh

I have recently been wondering what is in fact classed as an Inversion, because Thorpe Park advertise the Swarms Inclined loop as an Inversion but I do not think it is. Were as Some people count Saw The Ride's Over banked turn after the Immelmann as an inversion but I am not really sure. do you guys think an inversion has to be over a certain amount of degrees like over 135. I have just been wondering.