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Love this.Nemesis will win. What would be more interesting is finding how much th13teen comes last by what comes last - but I doubt they'll tell us that.

He should have watched the safety video..... http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/743c7cd5a7/rollercoaster-safety-with-patrick-warburton EDIT - Why does nothing I do embed. I'm using the little button and everything. I'm useless at this stuff.

More importantly, has the ride op been turned down?!

Professor Turds sewage works.A fun trip for all the family through a Transylvanian treatment plant.Could work!

But then who cares about bitching when you have Milka to comfort you!!Milka is currently half price in Tesco!!! 52p for the fairly large but not massive ones.

There are no health and safety reasons to have no strobe lighting. Strobes are not in any way inherently unsafe, a simple 'strobe lighting is used in this attraction' sign is all that is required.They may have decided from an all guest inclusion view point to not include strobes so epileptics can ride. It annoys me more that they have spent money putting in such awful new lighting than if they had just not bothered. What a waste of cash and opportunity.

Nearly impossible for me to choose between the two. I need both in my life! I couldn't do one top 10 because I can't really compare them. I can completely enjoy and appreciate a great thrill ride with no themeing at all (although 6flags push this too far with parking lot - the ride). In fact I don't think a large outdoor thrill ride can be themed in a way that changes the actual on ride experience much. To really work as an experience, themeing needs to be completely immersive, that's just no possible when you are so high up you can see for miles around. Unless you can build something on Disney scale to block out your surroundings, or in a hole like Nemesis.My perfect ride is TAAO Spiderman, which I guess is an experience ride made thrilling. If I have to decide, I'd go experience rides. When done well they have a soul and joy about them that a coaster can rarely match.

Haha, yeah true. They'd have had to chav it up a bit "yo yo yo ho ho, this is a mother funkin hold up you sons of biscuits. You've got da black spot, innit blud"

^ I have no idea who this girl is!

Who remembers the black spot? A long time ago, a bit sketchy in my mind.I seem to remember the train to the farm being diverted occasionally, some went straight to the farm, others got theatrically 'hijacked' by pirates where a kind of show was put on by actors when the train stopped. A few terrified kiddies were pulled from the train to be used in the show and at some point a black spot was put in the palm of the hand of one of them. They would then be told they would die a slow and painful death because of their black spot(!), but be given a voucher for a free ice cream to make up for it. Such a good idea and I remember loving it as a child. Why was it gotten rid of? Would such a thing have a place in todays Thorpe?My little sister was once infected, she got the black spot (+free ice cream!), and I am forever jealous.

If this is happening all the time there is clearly not enough water flowing down the slide to keep the boats moving. Possibly because it's pissing out all over the floor from every badly sealed join. It's not falling into a reservoir either, their water bill will be huge this year!

I am being nice! Anyway........ back to.......Top 10: Non coasters1 - The Amazing Adventures of Spiderman - IOAIt really is amazing. I rode it again and again, sometimes with the glasses on, sometimes off, trying to work out how it all works. However they've done it the overall result is sensational, completely immersing you in another world.2 - Mickeys Philarmagic - DMKJust enchanting. It is 10minute slice of pure Disney; funny, sickly sweet and perfect in every way.3 - Tower Of Terror - DHSAgain, totally immersive experience leads up to an incredibly fun ride. The corridor disappearing into the night sky is another effect that makes my head hurt with it's brilliance. 4 - Bilge Rat Barges - IOAThe best water ride I've ridden. So wild, makes all other rapids rides feel tame. 5 - Hex - ATA superbly executed, deeply themed walk through leading to a great effect in the madhouse. Now I know what's coming I love watching the reactions of those who don't. Sets the standard for UK theming.6 - Bubbleworks - CWOAThe original, no ducks allowed. The main ride was pure childish fun with a bit of soul, the finale was a truly awesome effect to a child. Bring on the strobes.7 - Mission Space - EpcotSuch a clever trick, the effect is amazing8 - 5th Dimension - CWOAGetting shrunk and attacked by Arctic alien with laser type things, an 8 year olds dream. The smell of dry ice puts me right back in front of zapomatic even now. What I would give to be able to ride it today.9 - Hearts and Diamonds (aka round-up) - Various travelling fairsYou can spend all you like on a big shiny s+s prototype, but the ultimate 'flat' thrill is still this very simple, seatbelt-less, incredibly intense ride. Huge throughput for a flat, too. Why don't they turn up in modern theme parks?10 - The Snails - Joyland, Grt YarmouthA really personal choice, one of my earliest memories. Having ridden it again as an adult it is still a fun ride with character that can only come with age. (hmm, this might, technically, be a coaster)

I know the troll should not be fed, but...Putting a cardboard cut out of a superhero the park have invented to tell you how tall you have to be to ride does not give the ride a theme. It becomes a ride with a cardboard cut out, not a themed ride. I love rage btw, just not enough to put it in my top 10. I'm not knocking it. But it has no theme.

I'd never even heard of this park...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-14009704 Oh dear.

If concrete is a theme then I'll give you that.

Your idea of meh and mine differ massively then, Benin - a 255ft drop into a tunnel is not meh in my opinion!! Iv'e just watched a couple of youtube vids of it, we definitely did not come to a stop on the brake run like it seems to most of the time, it just flowed through and the helix blew my mind every time. Maybe that's why I loved it so I wasn't expecting any agreement with GhostRider. It could be one of the reasons I love it so, I was told so many bad things I had no expectations. But I found it somehow smooth but so forceful with plenty of airtime, maybe I rode it on a good day.

ohhhh, I luv the Mau5.But the idea he would do an underage disco is stupid. So is the idea of an underage disco. An all the family live music and fireworks extravaganza, yes. If your gonna do it, do it properly Thorpe.

So, after a bit of thought.......Coasters only, I can't compare them with dark/flat/water rides.1 - Goliath 6flags MMBecause greying out is always fun. Immense. 2 - Nemesis ATPretty much perfect in every way. By far the best B+M invert I've riden. 3 - Ghost Rider KBFWood, long, fast. Some people moan about it's roughness but that's how I like it.4 - Salvation 6flags MMThis is the smooth fast style of Woodie AT should be looking at. And fire effects on a WOODEN coaster? Yes please.5 - Air -ATIt's a great design for a flying coaster, just the right intensity. Might not be as big and impressive as Tatsu, but rides a whole lot better.6 - Oblivion - ATWithout the new orange 'improvements', of course. Again, it's just the right design for a dive machine and the original pre ride build up really ramped up the fear. SheiKra might do a lot else, but it doesn't do the dive as well so what's the point?7 - Stealth - ThorpeProbably because I haven't riden TTD. 8 - Dragon Fury - ChessingtonSurprising myself putting this in really. But I do love spinning coasters and this is the best example imo.9 - X2 -6flags MMIn may ways quite a horrible painful ride, but it is so unique and does have it's moments of brilliance.10 - Steeplechase - BPBOK, a weird one. Probably one of the least forceful coasters in the world. But I love it, so much fun. Extra points for being a massive F U to health and safety - don't wanna die? Best hold on then!

Cole - smash her back doors in.Bieber - smash his face in.

It's a collection of rides, without connecting or (mainly) individual themes. ie, rage is a ride sitting on some concrete, Saw is the 'same' ride set in a movie - It has a theme!! I love A.I. btw. I've never noticed this topic, lets have a think about what my top 10 should be.......

I don't think anyone has questioned how hard the staff work? But it doesn't matter how hard they work if the system put in place by those above doesn't work. I've been incredibly frustrated trying to get into both Thorpe and Chessington through the queues. A problem I've not experienced anywhere else in the world (or at Alton Towers, I'm not sure what they do differently. Maybe the monorail keeps the flow of people steadier). Consider too that Disney manage it very smoothly even though they search everyone, and fingerprint everyone with a multiday ticket.I think the increasingly complex price structures are partly to blame. There is no incentive to book in advance with 40% off if half price / bogof vouchers are everywhere. Why not just charge £20 no matter if you book or just turn up, or just allow voucher code input on line. People would print their own tickets at home and not have to queue on the day. Also, it took a friend of mine 45 mins to get an AP the other day with practically no queue, that is insane. I don't know what's wrong with it but that system is clearly not right.

I thought the 'extreme' end of the settings had been disabled as the old girl wasn't up to it any more? If it is still capable why don't they run it properly all the time - could still be a short ride, but with the forces I had the other day?

Can anyone tell me about Samurai's ride cycles? Went last week and rode at lunchtime, it was the standard short and so much less forceful than before ride I'm used to now. Then rode again later, last ride of the day (they shut the queue line behind us) and WOW. It honestly felt like stealth when it started, acceleration wise, it all happened at once and was like a punch in the stomach as it threw us into the air. I was pushed out to the edge of my seat throughout with some insane spinning. It was so intense, I thought I was back at Chessington. And it went on for ages, probably 10/15 rotations in each direction. It really is an amazing ride when it is like this. So, can someone tell me: did the controller use a more intense setting (does one even exist), or was it because it weighed less at only about 30% full and therefore lighter (I can't believe it would have that much effect) it was able to be so awesome?

And now the whole top half has been fixed (or is now broken, if you think they should be in) with its backstops all out, some looking shiny and new. I had a quick flick through you tube; vids from 2006 had all the stops out then chronologically to today there are gradually less and less. Indeed, I didn't notice a thing different last week?

Damn right it's in the wrong place.That place being Thorpe, it should still be sitting in the sun halfway round the world.Its placing in the park kind of makes sense from all angles, except for the blocking of X entrance. Maybe they are planning for that entrance not to be there in the long term, with an X replacement?