Benin

Probably only to block off Sunken Garden, otherwise it doesn't need one...

Excited that Amy and Rory are gonna be gone for good... Seriously, that'll be the series high point...

I'd go with the Rita thing, a la Fury/Spinball when they attempt to maim guests...

2 golds in 2 minutes Support Gibbons in the Judo as well! EDIT - DAT CYCLING! Shame about the DQ for the girls but the lads showed everyone how it's done with a world record gold... Been a good day overall..

So Ted It's quite good, fairly amusing without going toooooooooooooooo far down the line of awfulness (something which Seth MacFarlane's shows are guilty of on a regular basis)... Decent cameos abounded and was a decent overall film, with heart behind the weed smoking...

It could (and has) happened on ANY Intamin Accelerator... However, this incidents are EXTREMELY RARE OCCURANCES and as such do not require constant fretting as the parks will naturally move to prevent these incidents from happening/preventing guest harm as much as possible...

Probably due to Saw's headbanging...

Boris

It's steel track, a hybrid if you will... There's pics of it earlier in the topic...

Confirmation of the layout including the DOUBLE BARREL ROLL FINALE! Sure it'll get some people uber excited...

To be fair to them though, the judges gave the Ukraines a failed dismount (or whatever it was), so it would've been unfair on Japan to lose out for the same thing... Unlucky for us to have lost out a silver, but oh wells...

Problem is that for me, it's too similar to Zafari, granted that's not technically on park, but surely there's a plethora of other potential names? It doesn't have to be short or quirky really, and this name to me just doesn't sound good... Hell just put Safari or Rally in it and then think up something... This is almost Cedar Fair naming style territory it's that bad imo...

That name is just... What? Also, sounds like they got Towers' marketing people on the job with the website Nice to see the first official announcement of it though...

Stuff linked into the Rita incident?

Mr Bean has been one of the most successful entertainment exports from the UK in an international standpoint... Probably one of the most well recognised thing abroad... Currently watching the Handball... WHAT IS THIS SPORT?

Bet the rain has reallllllly messed up the time frame of this...

Fun fact, most bolts in the engineering industry are designed to sheer off in case of emergency... This includes aircraft wings and engines... Besides, factor of safety then comes into play... The track will be connected with more bolts than actually needed to ensure safety in case of such an event occurring... So no worries...

They're taking attention away from the ride... Links in with the removal of ride signage really...

If it came out of tax then I didn't pay for it <3 It was fab, some great British cameos throughout the show, especially the Queen with Daniel Craig and Rowan Atkinson's sequences... The evolution of music sequence was also pretty good as well if only for the music... Bloody hell the country parade is boring though isn't it? But a great way to light the cauldron, shame about Artic Monkeys and McCartney though, where were the official Olympic songwriters dammit (Muse)? Still, very very good and unique to Britain, better than some stolen singing voices and a ton of fireworks... Although it could have been seen as Danny Boyle's Lord of the Rings at times

Queenie

It depends on how you view how intensity affects a ride though, should someone believe that intensity makes a ride better then they will most likely adore the bigger flyers solely because of their pretzel loops (and in the case of Sky Scrapper/Ripper, the layout in general)... Tatsu for me was awful because of the pretzel loop, way too intense but some will consider it amazing... Manta I'm sure is the same (but at least has an epic looking queue to back it up)... I truly feel sorry for Air because it doesn't deserve all the hate it gets... On the whole it is a very good ride (if tempermental system wise) and provides a great experience to all guests who can go on it...

But the UK market think wooden coasters are unsafe blah-de-blah-de-blah... Tbh, this doesn't look that safe... Lack of really secure looking supports really, so it would never work over here... Need a safe and sucessful wooden coaster option before any park would consider something to the degree of this thing...

When it's compared to the other B&Ms the poor thing is never going to be rated highly... I think enthusiasts also dislike the tameness of the ride, yet to me (and a handful of others) the more intense versions such as Manta or Tatsu are just too much effort and hence not as good as Air... All opinions in the end... But it's a popular ride regardless of what enthusiasts think, like a lot of rides around the world really...

Thing is, the last Hydraulic launch was built 3 years ago... Maybe Intamin just realised that the system is potentially flawed with nearly 50% of the total 14 currently in operation have had some form of incident... Electromagnetics for the win!