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Matt 236

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  1. Amity Beach (5) Angry Birds 4D Experience (2) Colossus (5) Depth Charge (5) Detonator: Bomb's Away (5) Flying Fish (5) King Pig's Wild Hog Dodgems (5) Mr. Monkey's Banana Ride (5) Nemesis Inferno (7) Quantum (5) Rocky Express (6) Rumba Rapids (5) Rush (5) Samurai (5) Saw - The Ride (5) Stealth (5) Storm in a Teacup (5) Storm Surge (5) The Swarm (5) Tidal Wave (5) Timber Tug Boat (5) Vortex (5) Zodiac (5) Infernyes + ABCD -
  2. Nah mate, the Duplo Dino Coaster indeed!
  3. Amity Beach (5) Angry Birds 4D Experience (5) Colossus (5) Depth Charge (5) Detonator: Bomb's Away (5) Flying Fish (5) King Pig's Wild Hog Dodgems (5) Lumber Jump (0) Mr. Monkey's Banana Ride (5) Nemesis Inferno (6) Quantum (5) Rocky Express (5) Rumba Rapids (7) Rush (5) Samurai (5) Saw - The Ride (5) Stealth (7) Storm in a Teacup (5) Storm Surge (5) The Swarm (5) Tidal Wave (5) Timber Tug Boat (5) Vortex (5) Zodiac (5) inferno Plus Lumber Junk- OUT! RESET! Amity Beach (5) Angry Birds 4D Experience (5) Colossus (5) Depth Charge (5) Detonator: Bomb's Away (5) Flying Fish (5) King Pig's Wild Hog Dodgems (5) Mr. Monkey's Banana Ride (5) Nemesis Inferno (5) Quantum (5) Rocky Express (5) Rumba Rapids (5) Rush (5) Samurai (5) Saw - The Ride (5) Stealth (5) Storm in a Teacup (5) Storm Surge (5) The Swarm (5) Tidal Wave (5) Timber Tug Boat (5) Vortex (5) Zodiac (5)
  4. A Whiskey factory would be a great theme for a rollercoaster and a Mack spinner would be a good candidate for a ride system. I love this park!
  5. Matt 236 replied to Mark9's topic in General Discussion
    Now is probably a good time for me to update my bucket list: 1/ Walt Disney World Florida 2/ Universal Florida 3/ Six Flags Mountain 4/ Energylandia 5/ Walibi Holland 6/ Disneyland CA 7/ Busch Gardens Tampa 8/ Dollywood 9/ Movie Park Germany 10/ Grona Lund Tried to keep it inline with realism, eventhough I probably won’t be visiting any of these for like another 5-10 years. Wait and see I guess.
  6. Amity Beach (5) Angry Birds 4D Experience (5) Colossus (5) Depth Charge (5) Detonator: Bomb's Away (7) Flying Fish (5) Jungle Escape (5) King Pig's Wild Hog Dodgems (5) Lumber Jump (5) Mr. Monkey's Banana Ride (5) Nemesis Inferno (7) Quantum (5) Rocky Express (5) Rumba Rapids (5) Rush (5) Samurai (5) Saw - The Ride (5) Stealth (6) Storm in a Teacup (5) Storm Surge (5) The Swarm (5) Tidal Wave (5) Timber Tug Boat (5) Vortex (5) Wet Wet Wet (0) Zodiac (5) Inferno + Wet wet wet OUT! RESET! Amity Beach (5) Angry Birds 4D Experience (5) Colossus (5) Depth Charge (5) Detonator: Bomb's Away (5) Flying Fish (5) Jungle Escape (5) King Pig's Wild Hog Dodgems (5) Lumber Jump (5) Mr. Monkey's Banana Ride (5) Nemesis Inferno (5) Quantum (5) Rocky Express (5) Rumba Rapids (5) Rush (5) Samurai (5) Saw - The Ride (5) Stealth (5) Storm in a Teacup (5) Storm Surge (5) The Swarm (5) Tidal Wave (5) Timber Tug Boat (5) Vortex (5) Zodiac (5)
  7. Bon Voyage Amity Beach (5) Angry Birds 4D Experience (5) Colossus (5) Depth Charge (5) Detonator: Bomb's Away (5) Flying Fish (5) Jungle Escape (5) King Pig's Wild Hog Dodgems (5) Lumber Jump (5) Mr. Monkey's Banana Ride (5) Nemesis Inferno (6) Quantum (5) Rocky Express (5) Rumba Rapids (5) Rush (5) Samurai (5) Saw - The Ride (5) Stealth (6) Storm in a Teacup (5) Storm Surge (5) The Swarm (5) Tidal Wave (5) Timber Tug Boat (5) Vortex (5) Wet Wet Wet (3) Zodiac (5) Stealth+ Wet Wet Wet -
  8. Matt 236 replied to JoshC.'s topic in UK Attractions
    TBH given their dispute and like for simplistic names, they might as well just call it Crocodile Drop Tower!
  9. Matt 236 replied to 2542464's topic in The Past
    Now here’s a way Black Mirror could work. make it timed ticket entry so only those with pre-booked slots can arrive (no queue). Also masks and sanitation before entering is a must and any physical stuff will have to be altered or removed too.
  10. This honestly looks incredible. Belgium is now back towards the top of my bucket list.
  11. Glad to see construction of this attraction finally sailing ahead! The absence of flat rides definitely affected the park last season.
  12. Has Valhalla’s reopening been delayed? The short Answer Yes The long Answer Most likely. Whilst the park could well still reopen this for the 2021 season, it all goes down to how much work is still left to do and how quickly they can fulfill it,especially with current conditions. The pandemic/lockdown will have caused major delays, so it’s hard to say when we could see Valhalla reopen. Maybe Summer, possibly Autoumn? Could well be 2022 now given everything.
  13. As long as world showcase remains the same, then I’m not complaining. We finally have a potentially decent long indoor coaster in this world now. So long Nighthawk!
  14. Matt 236 replied to JoshC.'s topic in UK Attractions
    I’m just happy Chessington are getting something. The logo on the other hand eurrgh. Too noughties!
  15. Matt 236 replied to JoshC.'s topic in UK Attractions
    Well they didn’t chomp out the best logo out there really.
  16. Here goes. Before Lockdown 1: Winter Wonderland Blackpool PB 2x Paradise Wildlife park After lock down 1 Thorpe 3x Chessington 2x Towers Fantasy Island Adventure Island Lockdown 2- Nothing At All! Feel like I haven’t done too badly given this horrible year! Wake me up when this all ends!
  17. Matt 236 replied to 2542464's topic in The Past
    Lockdowns and misery in a labyrinthine of many unknowns. Oh, and corona virus will sadly still exist too.
  18. The chances of another lockdown happening is increasing faster than such Corona cases. Looks like November is going to be a long boring one.
  19. Happy Halloween Everyone! Decided to make a little video showing some of the things I placed I managed to do.
  20. Matt 236 replied to 2542464's topic in The Past
    Can see Fish and Chips closing come next season, or at least be sparsely operated which is already happening (was closed yesterday). Remarking parks seem to be restructuring F&B once again some beans re-emerging and others disappearing altogether. Chessington’s Fish & Chips still remains closed and Towers have not had them for years so it’s possible.
  21. Just a heads up for anyone that might be visiting Fright Nights this year, queue closing policy. Due to current operations and guidelines, the park will now close queue lines before park close especially if such attractions have long queues. This is so they can clear the park by 9pm and site by 10pm. Take Saw for example, if it has a 75 minute queue towards the end of the night they would close the queue line at 7:45pm or earlier. We just missed this and did Colossus instead where we went on the second to last train of the night.
  22. Matt 236 replied to JoshC.'s topic in The Past
    Right given that Halloween could be ruined further because of Conor Rhona and circus clowns, MR Fish and I decided to take a little trip to Fright Nights to see what it was about. Fearstival Arena Entertaining, humour and a very central location which made for an entertaining watch. Creek Freeks Unchained Probably one of the better scare zones I have experienced recently and nicely put together. The actors got a perfect balance between everything and integrated nicely with Platform’s exit. I miss the maze but this will do. Platform 15 Some may call us donuts but we decided to chip in and spend £10 for a maze we’ve already done (yeah that’s right) and maybe we’re silly for doing so. Actually I reasonably impressed with the maze this time, there were lots of actors (I counted 19) and the maze is of a reasonable length anyway. Probably not my favourite maze I’ve ever done but still enjoyed my run through to the point I almost forgot the cost. Guess I can say I’ve actually done a scare maze this year given everything that’s been going on. Park was very busy when we went with social distancing being a mixed bag indeed. Staff were doing a reasonable job at trying to carry this out given a fair chunk of their clientele probably don’t understand or care about it. Park atmosphere was a mixed bag. Park feels very normal until around 3pm when the audio changes and the actors and scare attractions start to appear. There were some areas such as Old Town which had a great atmosphere but others which could’ve been better. Park lighting wasn’t great sadly because of too many white coloured flood as opposed to more fitting items.
  23. No other park out there that I know of handles queues and operations as efficient yet immaculate as Europa Park. Some come close but none properly match this. When you walk into full looking queue, you would expect to wait over an hour whereas in Europa it is more like 30 minutes with almost constant moving lines and trains heading out of the station in as quick as 20 seconds. That’s before mentioning just how many attractions this place has which is probably more than any other park worldwide with such variety and sometimes mystery. It’s also just a lovely place to be in anyway, even just having a beverage in one of their outlets is such a lovely experience!
  24. It’ll be a backward move regardless because nothing they do makes sense anymore.
  25. The prospect of a Merlin pass restructuring is imminent, especially given the covid situation where much growth and earnings have been lost. We could easily see passes introduced which only enable selected days, times, attractions and perks introduced. With the VIP removed for the foreseeable it’s not impossible to see the Premium botched up as the top offering. Expect more up-charges especially for events I would say.

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