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Ding dong no The sky is dark, the coast is rocky, the island mountainous. Construction is far away. Wait bugger wrong account

Does this confirm an RMC or should I wait for the great nonsense talker to emerge with some obscure clue and babble.

Aaaaaand also the soon to be open Epic Universe!!

How was your 2024? Park count Alton Towers X6 Chessington X1 Thorpe Park X4 Animal Kingdom X1 Hollywood Studios X1 Magic Kingdom X2 Disneyland Parc X3 Studio Parc X1 Linanmaki X1 Europa Park X3 Efteling X3 Emerald Park X1 Six Flags over Georgia X1 Carowinds X2 Fun Spot Atlanta X1 Dollywood X2 Holiday World X1 Kentucky Kingdom X1 Kings Island X2 Cedar Point X3 Kennywood X1 New rollercoasters of the year Year highlights - First day visits for Nemesis Reborn and Hyperia - Finally visiting Dollywood and trying the cinnamon bread - Hitting 500 and 550 credits - Riding some absolute beasts this year (Voltron, Taiga, Afterburn, The Voyage, Steel Vengeance) 2025 is more of a rest year but with big hitters like Tokyo Disneyland, Fuji Q and Nagashima Spa land, I'm hyped. 😃

If anything it's under-rated, its 3 against 1 in here. 😘

Danse Macabre is so good. Faffy as all hell even with LEGIONS of staff and possibly could do with an indicator of the internal wait beyond the batching point. However, the ride system is wonderful. And the experience incredibly theatrical, which shows a lot of reverence to the original Spookslot whilst making something that is generally a better attraction (if going against the everyone can ride it thing that Efteling tends to have within reason). If it wasn't for the fact it has the longest queue on park (consistent 45 mins yesterday, and our added parent swap faffage as a result) I'd be riding it a lot more. Park looking gorgeous as ever for Christmas. And it's hilarious to me that my now 2 year old can pretty much do every ride there apart from creds and Macabre. Probably won't try the Rapids though since raining all day yesterday.

Mornington Crescent. I win.

It’s like that time I googled how American football works. All the words are there, but I just can’t understand what it all means.

We have a variety of threads for parks all around the world. But it's perhaps hard to track things. And there's also plenty of parks which we don't have threads for. BUT. Loads of parks around the world are getting new major rides for 2025. So let's try something new, and track them all in one thread. So this will be the life and soul of any non-UK ride getting built. Some bigger / more popular parks / rides might get their own thread / attention, but this is for a bit of everything... So here's a few to get us started... Walibi Holland are getting YoY, a pair of duelling RMC single rail raptors... The green track is an "extreme" ride featuring 6 inversions, whilst the blue is a "family" ride with no inversions. Walibi Belgium are getting a triple-launched Gerstlauer family coaster... https://www.instagram.com/reel/DD_9x7_oMeq/ Weiner Prater are getting Weiner Looping, a Mack BigDipper coaster... https://rcdb.com/21673.htm Fantasiana, in Austria, are getting Helios, a Mack Stryker coaster... https://rcdb.com/19395.htm Kings Dominion, in Virginia, USA, are getting Rapterra, a launched B&M Wing Rider... Six Flags Great America, Illinois, USA, will open Wrath of Rakshasa, a B&M Dive Coaster with a 96 degree drop Merlin will also open Legoland Shanghai later this year, which will include Big LEGO Coaster, a family B&M Invert. It will also go around the world's biggest minifigure... Another thing, which I'll create a thread for later, is Six Flags Qiddiya, set to open later this year in Saudi Arabia. It will have 9 coasters, including Iron Rattler, a 200ft Vekoma tilt coaster and Spitfire, an Intamin triple launch coaster with a 240ft tall inverted top hat. Oh, and Falcon's Flight, the Intamin coaster which will be partially built on a cliff. It will be the tallest, fastest and longer coaster in the world. It will have a max elevation change of 640ft, including a 525ft tall free standing airtime hill, a max speed of around 155mph (beating Formula Rossa's 149mph), and a length of 13,943ft (beating Steel Dragon 2000's 8,133ft). Track is complete and testing is set to take place in the next couple of months apparently. Feel free to add any updates / discuss here!

Until we see otherwise, this is unlikely to be related to a major investment, but there is a digger on the old Treasure Island plot: https://x.com/ThorpeParkMania/status/1878473914944282751 Treasure Island does feature a service road that links the park's main engineering workshop to the park, but this digger is away from that road. There's a hundred and one potential reasons for it to exist there. But one of those reasons is early work related a future investment...

Could've ended the post there. It feels very pointless currently.

I'll balance it out by saying I thought Ride to Happiness was an incredible ride and any park should want a model. Absolutely outstanding.

Biggest problem for towers is what’s next… I see this becoming a problem too for Thorpe in the not too distant future. Oblivion- actually think this ride can have some significant maintenance and continue without too much issue. Galactica- needs significant investment and a new theme. Several million Rita - will require replacement within next 10 years. Tens of millions. On top of this X sector- new flat ride required Dark Forest - new flat ride required Forbidden Valley - replacement for blade now required My Biggest issue with the recent strategy is this. Millions and millions have been spent to end up with the same ride line up that previously existed. And because of the state of above millions more will have to be spent to tread water so to speak. Thorpe will have to start planning for replacing the likes of stealth and even Colossus at some point which will put them in a similar predicament.

Isn't a top spin good enough for you Josh. I'm shocked! I'd throw in a pair of nebulas and an intamin gyro swing just for starters. This is Towers, they can work around the height and nebula are the greatest flat ride ever created. They can't go on like this.

Visited yesterday (apparently no one else has since Creek?), wasn't a particularly great day unfortunately as RtH was closed (min 6 degrees needed to run, and was testing all day due to an issue with that train), the park was busy as hell (special shout to Circus Bumba being hell on earth), and understaffed with a number of eateries closed it was like being at a Merlin park. The stringent ride op didn't help as wouldn't let us (RAP user and carer) ride on the same train in different rows with the RAP, suggesting the lil one could ride with a complete stranger. Even more frustrating since we'd literally just ridden the Roller Skater moments before with no problem. Common sense required sometimes. Just a stark contrast from 3 days at Efteling really. Maybe next time.