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  2. Benin

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    There's just something about Heide I don't like... Colossos is over-rated immensely which doesn't help, Scream (which IS fab) was closed for my visit this year, and the park just seems to lack that certain something for me...

     

    I cannot actually tell WHAT that thing is, but it's just there, nagging away, telling me that the park is just not that good... It's probably the lack of atmosphere coupled with some awful attempts at theming with some pretty average/crap rides outweighing the good ones... Flug is a perfect example of why I dislike Heide actually... And in hindsight that would've won a "Most Disappointing New Ride" Award...

  4. Mark9

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    The value of the hotel is amazing stuff, given that it's one of the most expensive on-the-gate parks in Germany at €45 each...

     

    I agree that Night Hawk is terrible and needs removing quickly, given the space it uses so badly could be used to a much greater effect by a park that tends to squeeze in rides throughout, with Chiapas being a perfect example... Hopefully once the Mystery area addition is completed in 3017, they can move on to working on that building and turning into something that truly fits the park's more recent additions...

  7. Benin

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    Bobbhan was as bouncy/rattly as Flug was... Just one of those ride types that just seem to be poor on a consistent basis (like B&M Stand-Ups)...

     

    No Front Row Queue on Flug, presumably due to the SRQ and Q-Bot (which you get given a card for, because some people try to queue-jump at that point for no reason then get denied in an amusing fashion) now existing instead... Another logical sense of organisation that exists only in European Wing-Riders...

  11. Matt 236

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    Those Burger Kitchen's are quite simply, vile... As you said, neither restaurant in their previous guises had an immense level of look and feel, they both suited their areas reasonably well...

    The second one is unbelievably bad... Such a level of bland and uninteresting look you expect from those parks that can't afford to create a true level of escapism, not from a multi-million pound company...

    Very, very disappointing...

  14. Benin

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    Wild Train is 1.3m and Formula 1 is 1.2m minimum, so they are the thrill end of the family market... Formula 1 especially has a wicked first drop and the overbanked turns were just weird, tonnes of airtime too...

    Unfortunately with one train operation on Wild Train and only being able to walk along one side of Formula 1 an array of pics were hard to come by, especially given the limited time we ended up having in the park as a result of the dead car... It was slightly RCT (though not as bad as Walygator), but the rides felt reasonably bedded into the place with some themes linking into each other slightly...

    Unfortunately we didn't see the Pirate Ship blessed by Jesus until we were leaving... Which clearly was the best thing the park had...

  15. Mark9

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    Being a bad B&M is like being a bad Pixar film, it's still got some quality to it, but lacks certain aspects that made the older ones true classics...

    It's nowhere near the worst B&M I've ridden (Top Deck at Great America takes that prize), and it's probably my favourite coaster at Thorpe... I'd take run of the mill over all the apparent record breakers the park also has anyday...

  16. Benin

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    It lacks the ride line-up of parks of a similar size, but simply makes up for it by being full of quality throughout the rides...

    It's not a park everyone would enjoy, but with the top tier quality dark rides and fun coasters there's enough to at least spend 2 days there, bearing in mind that on my visit 3 attractions were closed, including the massive show...

    Certainly better than PA because it feels more natural and not awful...

    Better than Europa is the harder one, but I feel like it's just better, purely on the relaxing atmosphere compared to how Europa does pack in the rides sometimes... Akin to Towers in many ways where you can just roam around with no rides near you and chill...

    I can't comment on throughput quality as most rides were walk-on, operational standards were pretty average, nothing bad, nothing exceptional bar some Joris based interaction for the winning train...

    Will it be on people's bucket lists? Nah, it lacks a true stand-out ride for that to be the case, or a general knowledge of the park as a whole... It can be considered the most visited hidden gem of a theme park in Europe...

  18. Mark9

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    The park with nothing new 'failed' last year though, perhaps the rest will realise that using an external PR company is the way forward (or at least making the most of social media, like a whole load of other parks did extremely well before this year)... That's what it SHOULD prove to the bean counters in that getting new things is all well and good (indeed, Swarm and Smiler are fantastic additions, Zufari not so much), but what really matters is connecting to the guests and providing a good day out at the same time...

    Hmmm, I might do a blog rather than clog up Mark's comment boxes of my opinions...

  23. JoshC.

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    Most definitely is rough... Quite possibly a height thing (see also, tall people find Colossus rough, hard to navigate, etc), as soon as the outdoor drop begins for me, is where the ride proceeds to beat me (and many others) up in a rather unpleasant way...

    To me, regardless of the comparison to superior Eurofighter (indeed, I find it easily the weakest ride), it's just generally not a very good ride... Again this is linked to the roughness for me, but that's the way it goes, it's at a similar level to Rita for that really... The airtime hill in comparison to Speed's (which I had ridden long before Saw, so the vertical lift wasn't a novelty for me) is also really poor, and again similar to other Eurofighters with such hills...

    I think a major turning point in people's opinions on Saw is the amount of other rides of the type that have been ridden... Like with every ride type... But Saw is always going to cause these problems with people, but for me, it's just not good in the first place, and the bits it does well (I.e. the inside portion) are just eclipsed by Mystery Mine and Fluch that it will forever pale in comparison, like Stealth does once you ride Top Thrill Dragster... Just never comes close... Ever...

    That's a blog topic for someone, how visiting parks abroad can affect your opinion of rides (for example, how European B&M Inverts laugh at their USA brethren for being AWFUL)...

  24. JoshC.

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    Then you ride other Eurofighters and realise how bad Saw really is in direct comparison...

    Seriously, go to Hansa Park, and you ride Fluch, which opened the same year as Saw, for a no doubt cheaper budget, and then say that Saw is well themed and a good ride... Hell even Rage and Speed have far superior rides, even if they lack any sort of theming... Then there's Mystery Mine...

    For me, the roughness is the main culprit, between it and Colossus, I might as well just invest in shares for Neurofen, yet out of all the other Eurofighters I've been on, only Saw has attempted to batter me senseless... Maybe because death is part of the theme?

    I dunno, my opinion has always been slanted as I rode Mystery Mine not long after Saw, allowing for an easy direct comparison between two rides which aimed to be heavily themed experiences, and Mystery Mine just trounced it, even with a rather average middle section between the two lift hills, the finale more than made up for anything... Similarly with Fluch, the drop and launch combo makes Saw's indoor drop look like Flying Fish, and the overall theme and layout (primarily indoors and utter mayhem) just makes me wonder what Saw could have been if half the budget hadn't been splurged on the IP...

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