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Coaster

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  1. ^ It's perfectly safe, there is no way of falling out of the ride.
  2. http://www.funcitybrean.co.uk/xfactory.php
  3. This one has individal lapbars, but they go to the same place for each person no matter what size you are!
  4. Yes but midnight is amazing for a theme park in England, Thorpe Park can't even manage to open until 10pm anymore.
  5. ^ We didn't ride X Factory because they leave it on for far too long there and it leaves you feeling sick. It is a great amusement park though, especially Astro Storm and Terror Castle
  6. Brean Leisure Park is a brilliant place located in Somerset, with an indoor and outdoor swimming pool (with waterslides), a brilliant crazy golf course (and huge proper golf course, although we didn't do this) and most importantly Fun City - home to Astro Storm (which was formerly Space Invader at Blackpool Pleasure Beach ) Fun City has two brilliant dark rides - which is great for an amusement park which in reality isn't massive (although does have quite a few quality rides). TERROR CASTLE is probably the scariest ghost train I have ever been on, and I have been on a lot. It is a constant array of loud noises, strobe lighting, scenes of horror (very gory) and fast downward slopes both indoors and outdoors. Things come at you from every angle, left right and celing, often at the same time! ASTRO STORM is absolutely fantastic! I really liked Space Invader 2 (never rode the original) but it is so much better here! The ride is taken in almost total darkness, but there are a multitude of effects, aliens and more that light up as you whizz past them. There is a massive air cannon at one stage that genuinely makes you jump and the ride actually has a really good storyline (and Theme music!) The best thing about it that wasn't present last year (or at Blackpool) is that it actually runs with intent now! Whilst the trim brakes still slow the car down, they have been reduced a lot this year so that you actually feel a fair amount of force on the drops and final spiral section. The shuttles were also running faster this year, I think the wheels had been replaced or something. Plus throughput isn't a problem at Fun City, because it never has a very long queue (and is usually near to walk on). Staff at Fun City are generally pleased to see you reriding the rides, although I didn't stay on, I walked round each time. RIDECOUNT: (Over two days, one daytime wristband 10:30am - 5pm and one evening wristband 5pm - 9:30pm) Astro Storm x51 Terror Castle x32 Magic Mouse x11 Shockwave x7 (Quite efficiently run for a Pinfari - shame about the roughness ) Throughput I believe is 940pph Wild Water x3 (Honestly this thing got us soaked! And it's just a standard off the shelf model. Other's of these don't get you that wet!) Disco Fever x3 (Funniest ride ever!) Dodgems x1 Wipeout x1 (KMG Afterburner, run well) Xtreme x1 (Good but they leave it on for far too long! Closest I'll ever come to experiencing Spin Doctor ) Waltzer x1 Hellraiser x1 Sizzler x1 I would reccomend this park (and leisure park as a whole) to anyone, Fun City is a brilliant amusement park with two brilliant dark rides (and for the record, Astro Storm is much, much better than X) and a selection of other great rides and it's just generally great fun. Thank you for reading, comments and questions are very welcome
  7. I never rode Wicked Witches Haunt, what was it like?
  8. ^ They had better reinstate the proper park music!
  9. Coaster replied to JoshC.'s topic in General Discussion
    Whilst I like The Swarm Backwards, the novelty has already worn off for me and I hope the ride doesn't stay like that forever!
  10. Coaster replied to th13teen's topic in UK Attractions
    The mesh looks awful.
  11. Coaster replied to Aarron P's topic in UK Attractions
    Well folks, Neverland is now fully open! http://www.oakwoodthemepark.co.uk/rides/
  12. Coaster replied to th13teen's topic in UK Attractions
    Yeah but with Nemesis you can use the Single Rider. Bit weird really isn't it that Nemesis is the quietest Coaster, tbh in terms of how good the ride is I think it should be Rita. Not that I'm complaining, Nemesis is much better imo!
  13. Coaster replied to th13teen's topic in UK Attractions
    ^ You mean May 2014
  14. Coaster replied to Harry's topic in General Discussion
    ^ I know, it's ridiculous, why would they think they could convince people that? Absolutely stupid and not something you could make as a typo - although this is the same business who, in January stated in a Facebook post that "Windsor Castle is open as normal".
  15. Typical thorpe - effects fixed at the start of the season then broken by mid season. I've always thought that the drop on Saw should have lights that are timed to switch off before the drop rather than staying on.
  16. Coaster replied to Harry's topic in General Discussion
    *cough* despite aparrent false claims on days with no wind The Big One does reach 87mph making it faster than Stealth *cough*
  17. ^ Sounds like a good day, but one train operation is poor even on quiet days in my opinion. They can afford to run two, so they should do so.
  18. Coaster replied to Dan9's topic in UK Attractions
    What do you expect? It's Chessington...
  19. Coaster replied to th13teen's topic in UK Attractions
    ^ The posters were clinical and hospital like though, saying things like "a smile a day keeps the doctor away". The station should recreate the good atmosphere that the sanctuary queueline had in my opinion, which was clinical and there were well themed posters.
  20. Coaster replied to Harry's topic in General Discussion
    Why?! Are they stupid or what?
  21. Coaster replied to th13teen's topic in UK Attractions
    Regarding the station of The Smiler, I think it should have bigger scale versions of The Sanctuary posters around it so that it has at least a bit of theming rather than just white walls.
  22. Coaster replied to NickD's topic in UK Attractions
    They changed the music That was my childhood! Nice to see them actually fixing effects for once though...
  23. Coaster replied to th13teen's topic in UK Attractions
    Good advert but looks too animated in my opinion. I agree with what's being said about it being reminiscient of the Oblivion advert.
  24. Coaster replied to Ryan's topic in Stuff
    I would say that imo series 7 (as a whole) is an improvement on 6 and 5 but doesn't even come close to the Tennant/Eccleston reign.
  25. That's because a lot of people have exams at the moment so people are revising. Like me. Damn you exams! Anyway, good to hear that operations on Inferno have improved because they were quite poor at the beginning of the 2013 season.

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