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24th it is then

Great, until you realise people aren't meant to post staff news to the forums...

To be fair, some of the stuff that has happened at Chessie (Fastrack on extremely low capacity rides, Vampire operations and lack of third train as two examples) they have deserved some stick... The zoo side of things though are extremely good... I remember talking to the Zoo Manager two years ago and you could tell he loved it and wanted the park to build on the success of Wanyama... The Conservation Evenings show as much...

Runaway Train before anything else please?

Yep, we know http://forum.maniahub.com/topic/7601-sw7/?p=147704

DOUBLE POST! But, news from TowersStreet! Heinz - http://www.towersstreet.com/news/2013/x-sector-due-for-makeover-and-sanctuary-to-return/ BLIVVY REPAINT! THE WORLD IS GOING MAD! MERLIN DON'T REFURB RIDES!

And then you have to do it all again when you move out of home after uni! ADULTHOOD FTW!

My post mentions that I throughly enjoyed TTD, Maverick and Wicked Twister... That was it... Aside from maybe Magnum, I wasn't too fussed about anything else at that park... Everything just really didn't do anything for me personally, by themselves in the case of Millenium Force, in comparison to other coasters of the same/similar type and for just being plain damn crap (Mantis and Mean Streak)... You'll find my top 10 in my signature, it's rather varied if you ignore the 3 B&M Inverts actually... Maverick misses out for being killer on the neck mind... Which is a similar situation on all Intamin rides for me, otherwise it would probably be in there, as it is a fantastic ride... Just for me, a ride has to be good... Unfortunately, in many cases at Cedar Point, they weren't...

Awww cute little things... Have a feeling this will probably be the UK's best addition this year... Whether or not that's a good or bad indicator on the other parks has yet to be seen... Also depends on the cavern finale and how much budget they've managed to sneak into it...

You mean the weekend or midweek? Tbh, very rarely does Chessie ever get exceptionally busy outside of school holidays/inset days/bank holidays... Opening weekend is usually decent aside from the usual long queues on Vampire and Fury...

Raptor is quite simply the worst B&M Invert I've ridden (yep, worse than Silver Bullet, which I find under-rated)... And the less said about Mantis (and for that matter, Mean Streak) the better... Millenium Force(less) is outstandingly over-rated as well... I just didn't get what it was doing, and it has more long pointless straights than Shockwave at Drayton Manor... Magnum is alright, but on the same trip I had done Phantom's Revenge shortly beforehand, which is tons better... the family coasters are also pretty poor, with only Blue Streak being better than decent... Disaster Transport was also a good ride actually, but since it's gone now it doesn't matter... Iron Dragon, Gemini and Cedar Creek are all pretty poor coasters too... TTD, Maverick and Wicked Twister are the 3 best coasters there... That's my view on the park, which is exceptionally overrated... Magic Mountain is a similar situation, though I haven't been since they've changed X, added a new wooden coaster and removed a few others... Very over-rated rides, quantity does not equate to quality... It shares a LOT of similarities with Thorpe does Cedar Point, but 3 quality rides out of 15 (discount Gatekeeper, although it will probably be very good) is a poor ratio for any park... It's a thing you see in a lot of American parks where there's very little quality outside of the major rides... Especially when you look at the European parks and see a complete difference in style and effort...

Yes

Ehhhhhhhhhhh... Not REALLY... There's (excluding Gatekeeper) 3 really good coasters, and few average ones, the odd over-rated one and some terrible ones... 3/16 was not a good return...

NWO retheme confirmed then... See you next year folks!

I'll bet you both a Chomp Bar it'll be gone

Would make perfect sense to use such a massive structure to part support the coaster...

Possibly, but with the current information and not knowing if it's buggered again or not, why would Thorpe get rid of it after all that effort fixing it?

There will NOT be a coaster this year... A flat ride is just as less likely, since there has been a distinct lack of planning permission... If there's a new ride, it'll most like be located inside the Time Voyagers building... Most likely is the X refurb, as that will technically be a new experience... Don't read into PR speak too much...

Never, cos Fish was redone before Merlin came in

#GerstlauerLaunchSupremacy

Stealth? Possibly fit, I dunno, not pyschic but it would be a fab and relatively cheap addition, whilst also being unique to the country...

Why would Thorpe want a Boomerang? Unless it was a Giant Inverted one... THAT I can get on board with (plus it's unreliable, wahey it's already a Thorpe ride!)

STOP FORGETTING LYNET

It happens one time with Terry and it seems Towers (and Merlin) do it all the time... It's just unfortunate... Since I can't go opening weekend now my care levels have dropped dramatically... But I do hope they pull it out the bag, if only to troll the "told you so" people just waiting for it to fail because MERLIN! At least we're not getting a bloody Volare guys!

Get to experience the refurbed Pirates then if going after Towers opening (I don't, cos it's being spiteful and closed for 2 months till the 16th March)... New York has about 5 coasters around (Cyclone and the Zamperla stuff), plus 1 new at Disney and 31 in Denmark, that's a decent number really for the year... Don't think I'll quite reach 300 though EDIT - Actually, I just checked, I will be hitting 300 in New York, Cyclone it is then...