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I'm a fan of the word play. Maze feels like it has potential to be quite different to the other mazes in terms of theme and style; hope they work with that and really diversify the line up.

”The Wreckoning” Tulleys introducing a Pirate themed horror maze by the look of it. Man how I love this place 😛

Nemesis Inferno will always be there for you.

I presume this will replace The Colony and I have to admit that I LOVE this idea. The Colony has so many structures that can be tweaked to accommodate this unique theme, the tone of the attraction could also be more on the wacky side like Twisted. This type of theme gives actors so much freedom to make this completely unlike anything else., I really hope Tulleys run with it.

Intamin call them swing launches, Mack call them halfpipe launches and Gerstlauer just call them triple launches. So take your pick! I think swing launch is the most fun name so I stick with that haha

In an out-of-the-blue announcement, Six Flags have announced a park for Saudia Arabia, in Riyadh, more specifically, Qiddiyah, an entertainment project trying to revolutionise the country. https://qiddiya.com/en/press-release/six-flags-qiddiya-unveils-park-design The highlight of the announcement is the world's tallest, fastest and longest coaster, with the only seemingly-publicly confirmed stat bring a max speed of 156mph. Oh, and it's not a launch coaster. The park will also include: -A swing launch coaster -A Vekoma Orkanen SFC -A Mack Poseidon water coaster -A new style GCI hybrid coaster -Drop track coaster -World's tallest drop tower -And whatever else they're dreaming of. The plan is for the park to open in 2023. Somehow, I don't think so. But we'll see...

Could possibly be that the park have done research or received feedback that people sometimes want to buy non-Thorpe tat? The Merlin parks are actually part of a minority which sell park-exclusive (and stuff related to rides) merchandise. Plenty of parks sell just general tat and stuff from shows and films and stuff, with the logic being they can capitalise on people having money to spend, and being more likely to spend it on stuff they recognise. So it could be Thorpe trailing it just to see if it works? If there's an opportunity, always worth exploring it I guess. Not a fan of it being in the Inferno shop mind. Ride shops should focus on the ride in question and just general stuff (drinks, snacks, etc). Anything else feels a bit jarring to me personally.

Dreamworld Australia, the park where there was the rapids incident in 2016 killing 4, is getting a new roller coaster. The park was (and still is) rumoured to be in quite an unstable position following the incident, not helped by some stiff competition theme park-wise on the Gold Coast. So some see this as perhaps a last roll of the dice in trying to stay afloat. The coaster will be a near Blue-Fire clone from Mack, but starts of with a swing launch (launch forward, backward, forwards into circuit) with a curved spike, a slightly higher top speed, and the final car will be one of Mack's Xtreme Spinning Cars (in a similar to fashion to how it was tested on the original Blue Fire a few years back): This is part of a wider AUS$70m (~£38m) expansion for the park as well, which will see a couple of smaller rides introduced, and some freshen ups of existing rides. The coaster will open in late 2020.

Let's keep in mind that Europa have access to a vast amount of engineering power, and have a space to keep a huge amount of spare parts / resources (thanks to being Mack). Very few parks in the world have that option, and I'm sure many parks envy the position they're in. Equally, it's incredible from a H&S perspective that they're in a position to reopen the ride less than 24hrs later - even if a UK park, for example, were able to replace and test a chain in such a time frame, a H&S investigation would delay a reopening. --- In a slightly more light hearted accident, Billybird Park in Zeelandsedijk, Netherlands, has had to close down a recently opened slide in their park, following a few incidents like this: Just looking at the slide, you have to wonder how this wasn't foreseen...

Running a dire setting the past weekend, ride lasted about 30 seconds, 2 full rotations either way with the arm spinning the opposite direction, barely any flips 😞