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I have discovered a new genre!Acappella METAL!!! <3<3<3

Well considering Raptor IS THE SAME RIDE TYPE AS LC12 then maybe you should show some more interest in the reviews of people...Why is it wrong to be interested in other projects away from home? So what if I don't get to go on it for years if at all, what if it's a World's First ride? Even if it was only pictures watching TTD get built was amazing to see, same goes for a few other rides like Tatsu, Kingda Ka, World of Colour, Cars Land, Starry Night Ripper and many more I don't care to mention cos I'd be here all night...The point is, not only is there more to life than Staines, but just because you're not going on a ride in the near future doesn't mean it can't be an exciting development and should warrant more attention than it's getting compared to a pile of dirt...

Ok, so basically because something isn't likely to be ridden in the future I shouldn't be excited?Sorry Cars Land, Insane, Alpengeist, Black Diamond, Cheetah Hunt, Starry Night Ripper, Blue Fire, Dizz and Van Helsing's Factory, you just can't hold my attention anymore since I'm not gonna be riding you in the near future...Do whatever, but the fact is that there's at least something more interesting to talk about with Raptor (which should be of interest considering it's the same ride type of LC12 ANYWAYS), then a pile of island dirt being moulded...

*ahem* Parks don't need to be full of special things... And hell, Mirabilandia only has two 'stand-out' rides that you've listed... I barely hear anything else from the park apart from Reset...EDIT - Plus the competition is a bit... Well... Spread out when you talk about Etnaland (which is on Sicily rather than the mainland if I recall) and Rainbow, which is 4 hours away minimum from Mirabilandia... Sure there's 4 'major' parks, but I think Raptor's style and look is more to do with how they view the Italian/European market, it that they actually do like a good story and theme added into their rides...

I literally jizzed myself...

Starry Night Ripper!B&M are really rolling it out atm... Brilliant...Fuji-Q EurofighterTHAT Element?! WTF?!

Who's looking forward to the new one at Blackpool?That's what I thought

DIE SCHLANGE VON MIDGARDTheir new Gerstlauer family coaster set deep within a story... You want pics? Here's some!It won't open with it's completed theming (the park did this with Fluch von Novogorod, but judging by the pics so far, I don't think that is a bad thing... Especially judging by how Fluch looked WITHOUT theming...

Since I'm getting excited for going here AND I've just seen a new POV of their biggest ride I'm making a topic for it...Located in Skiersdorf Germany, this was originally opened as the second Legoland park, but only lasted a very short time and became HANSA LAND!Home to 4 coasters with a 5th on the way, it has a few stand-out weird rides... And focuses a lot on some great (and not so great theming), including:DIE GLOCKE NESSIE RIO DORADO ANDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDFLUCH VON NOVGOROD! A launched Eurofighter with ENCLOSED drop/launch/lift and amazing theming... Expect a MASSIVE trip report in June... Including their new Gerstlauer family coaster, the SNAKE OF MIDGARD!

Well if we all only bothered with rides that we were only gonna ride in the near future it'd be a rather boring (and lonely in some topics) forum wouldn't it?Might as well close the Aussie park thread then...

Sommat tells me I need to visit my family in New Zealand via Aussie sooner rather than later...

This is gonna end up like Thirteen's 'storylines' isn't it?

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Or will it........

Must have missed that bit then... As you were...

Would bloody hope it had two trains... Expect nothing less of a major ride in any park...

Erm... WHAT?!!!*calls Mark9 regarding my 21st*

It's the pathway interaction that gets it for me...It's so old school Tussauds... Great concept, Great theming, Great interaction...<3

No words can describe the beauty of this ride...And even with the concrete... It makes sense for it to be as it is just a military base... Just... Amazing...Why can't the UK get theming like this?

I'm gonna be so bored of Towers this time next week...Went on Monday and today... Sooooo...MONDAY - 28th MARCHThis day I went with Nicky and the day started poorly what with the Monorail dying and seeing lots of coaches... However, the park in the end was very much dead...Thing is, doing this report now means I've completely forgotten how the day went, but we did basically all the major rides (Thirteen twice in 5 minutes in the middle of the day as it unsuprisingly was shutted) and everything else... Was a fun day in the end, and got to pester Peter a lot on Ripsaw (which was dying horribly)... Sure Nicky can help with mentions of going on Duel and the like...SATURDAY - 2nd APRILToday I went to meet up with a couple of people from CF and was actually well worth it... The park was busy but it was still a very enjoyable day...I mean, ANY day at Towers that starts at 10 and involves getting 5 rides on Nemesis (once in front, twice in back), without any queue HAS to be good... Especially the way Nemesis is running...I was obviously by myself at this point but after my 5th go the others had arrived and so I pottered back to Towers Street to meet them... Only for the decision of first place to go to be Nemesis... Bugger... As I didn't fancy it again (I'm losing my touch), I bag-bitched and a short time later was rejoined by those who went on... After seeing Air's queue of silliness it was off to Duel...It's the first chance I've had to properly look at the queue additions this year, and they do look fab, aside from that was the typical Duel ride, and I was surprised to get 45000 odd with 5 people in the car... Even if I was second...After that we headed over to Oblivion via Haunted Hollow, which has lack of Duel guitar, upsetting one of my friends, so we laughed and headed towards a 40 minute queue, possibly the longest I've ever queued for Blivvy... Life eh? Still an awesome ride when the mist is on... Love it and it's gotten me really excited for Krake... ;)Lunch was called, and Woodcutters became the port of call, as I had their tasty as hell ribs... Seriously, this is like, the best place in Towers (though I am getting sick of it) for food... Merlin don't get praised enough for their food improvements in my opinion, unless it's Chicken Shack...Afterwards we learned that Thirteen was dead (queue evacuated), and as Rita is crap, we went on Hex, which was as usual fantastic... I love watching people's reactions on this and today was no exception... God Hex is awesome... Why can't Chessie get a Madhouse?Hex done and Thirteen still shut, we headed over towards Mutiny Bay, and 3 people went on Battle Galleons, which is really slow even without a queue... Strange times, and our interaction was denied by them being on the wrong side to the pathways... Shame ;)Some people then wanted to go on Flume, alas, some of us didn't want this, so we went into SeaLife... Which was bland as usual... Though they have a new Nurse Shark in the tunnel, which is MASSIVE! Awesome addition...As people were wet, Rapids were called, and with a boat of 8 we had an epically heavy boat of wetness... I GOT A WET ARSE! Water decided to come right onto my right side onto the seat and I was not impressed... Sad times...Runaway Train then happened, which was bland and involved yelling at people in the boat because they didn't wave at us... Idiots ¬¬To finish off the day, headed back to Oblivion for more fun times, even though the batcher was terrible... Oh wells...So was a fab day, was kinda nice to go with other people for a change lol... Might have been busy and not involving Thirteen, Rita or Air, but, still awesome...

As he's in Paris right now, I can't

Won't be doing the dinner meet...I don't even know where my day will lie yet, I should know by next week though... Hopefully convince the guy that we would have a better time with TPM people than the few people who have expressed interest elsewhere