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Definitely B&M Space Mountain or Rock N Rollercoaster?

Looks a good addition to me, was thinking the entrance could do with some improvements as it currently a bit worn and dated.

Skyway has very much been run down since I started visiting the park in 2006 I which the ride has looked run down, the trains rattly (some with doors that don't close) and also that' it's route doesn't really work for it anymore. Whilst the station changes sound promising, the ride needs to be retracked with a slightly different (and more interesting) route, new or heavily refurbished trains and a repaint of the track and station area. In reality we'll be lucky if we see the trains alone refurbished in the near future.

Thanks for the trip report Scary Coaster Boy. Paultons is a park I've been interested in visiting for a few years now (mostly for Edge and Cobra) and looks a nice park. How does it compare to other uk parks such as Legoland, Chessington and other parks?

Certainly sounds very interesting and I like the idea of a big spectacular show aspect of the park, as it's something most/all our parks seem to lack. Will be interesting to see how this develops.

Definitely GCI Disneyland (CA) or Disneyworld?

Chair Runaway Train or Scorpion Express?

Just remembered some more bad experiences, 4/ Visiting Thorpe Park on a very busy day in 2011. It was mid July, so the place was rammed with school kids and queue ages for the rides and received a low ride count. Something like 6 rides in 8 hours (but can't remember), I know it didn't get to ride stealth, rush or any of the main water rides. 5/ Queung over three hours for Colossus on the same trip. It was raining and lots seats were broken and then some VIP guests made me wait even longer as they got instant ride access and had a couple of rides. 6/ Thorpe Park Annual Pass day 2011. My family had to renew their passes but they weren't sure if I was needed so I had to queue with them for a long 2 hours in the pouring rain. What was just as bad was I didn't get to do any rides when I was there because it was so busy, my family had enough and I had a play rehearsal in the afternoon, so I was very disappointed in everything about the day there. 7/ Inferno being closed most of the day on the 2014 opening weekend and not riding it, making it my first visit in eight years in which I haven't done the ride.

The way those trains fly through that circuit is beautiful. Mack's definitely making some amazing coasters at the moment.

Worst themepark experiences for me are, 3/ Legoland during very busy days. The park feels almost unbearable when all the rides have long queues. Visited days like that in 2005 and 2012 and ended up leaving the park at like 3/4pm because the queues were too bad. 2/ Nearly vomming on Samurai after eating too many chocolates and drinking too much cocacola before going on. 1/ Losing a brand new camera I received as an 18th birthday present at Tivoli World. The camera was more than a few weeks old and disappeared without trace in the last couple of hours I was at the park. The most depressing thing was, I only realised I lost it he next day, because I thought someone else in the group was looking after it.

I like the look of the entrance a lot. Very sleek, modern and even a few characteristic elements such as the tree outside and undercover area. Suits the park well and better than those old log cabin booths they used to have. I think parks like Oakwood and Thorpe should follow this, in terms of renovating their entrances.

So far, what's been announced is nothing special, although it's good to see the park adding further additions. Whilst I'm not going to speculate what the summer addition will be, I would like a roller coaster of some sort.

I didn't really know where to put this tbh, but seeing I couldn't find an existing/ appropriate topic, I thought I would create one. Sad news has been announced at Universal Singapore today it's been confirmed their roller coaster Battlestar Galactica will be closed for good. The ride, the tallest duelling coaster in the world, has been plagued with operational and technical problems since day one when it opened in 2010 and will be replaced with a new ride at the end of the year. Full details about the article can be found here https://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/what-is-buzzing/troubled-universal-studios-singapore-ride-battlestar-galactica-closes-084334087.html

The soundtrack to this ride, just amazing. IMA score, certainly know the right balance of musical and technical material to create some very immersive and atmospheric ride scores, which they've done well for this ride like the mystery of Hocus Pocus and a The Smiler. As for the coaster itself, whilst I haven't ridden it yet, I can say whilst it's in no way terrible or even bad, it's not the best. The ride's pace seems abit slow and it needs more theming and elements to create an immersive and exciting story line/ experience to guests. Considering they have Europa and Phantasia Land (at least) as competitors who have made some amazing themed and payed out rides, the outcome of this one is a coasters that's good, but not amazing. I think Swarm and Raptor look better now.

Looks an amazing log flume ride. That theming is just amazing, with the rock work details, skeleton cave and other elements and wow, that final drop at the end is just crazy. Would love to see a log ride like this in the uk. Been a long time since we've had a new one (I'm not counting Oakwood's as that was Camrlots) and the exhorting ones are rather meh these days.

https://www.facebook.com/southparks/photos/a.10152110405478495.1073741827.213894828494/10152118565218495/?type=1 Courtesy of Southparks, Legoland were planning to build a duel motorbike coaster at somepoint in the past, but sadly things didn't work out and like many creative concepts, this never happened. Would've been awesome if this coaster was built.

Rumba has been needing a refurb really since the Ribena contract ended during 2007. I remember riding Rumba in 2006/2007 and compared to now, the ride then was actually quite good, with the extra water effect, the (lit) indoor tunnel theming and the squirting lizard at the entrance. Sadly it could be a while (if ever) before we see the ride receive some much needed care. Canada Creek and Lost City could also do with some TLC as well.

This advert is effective as the ones you get for Mcdonalds burgers. Your shown a large beautiful burger that's nicely presented on the commercial, whilst in reality what you receive is actually a flat, small, squashed and thrown together burger. Whilst Thorpe's adverts isn't perfect either, at least it shows the park more accurately compared to how Chessington's one has been done.

So far this season, Saw seems to be running rather rough. Despite leaning forwards during the ride, I've still managed to come off with a bit of a headache. Also, the TVs on the lift haven't been working during both my visits.

Really enjoyed the day, great to see so many people attend the meet, old and new. Had a brilliant day out seeing everyone and getting on most the rides (even it did get busy later in the afternoon). Apart from Inferno's downtime, was a great day out and can't wait for the Chessington one.

Though I'm not holding my hopes up currently, this does sound rather promising and hopefully we will see the return of three train op soon which for a ride this popular is needed.I think this year could be Chessington's year, just like last years was Thorpe, filled with park improvements and the like.

The Stealth shop looks a lot better than it did when I saw it last week. Looks like a proper ride shop now instead of a large box.

I also went to the Mexican Cantina on Saturday. As pretty much already mentioned, the food was pretty good (I had BBQ chicken) and fairly reasonable for price, but it certainly needs a bigger selection of food as pretty much as Pluk said, it was just Burritos and nachos available, which just four toppings (I think), BBQ Chicken, Mild a chicken, beef and veggie. The extension though has done very nicely and fits within the area very well.

Bit of an update on the list, as seeing/hearing of many great parks in pictures, videos,TRs and person, my preferences have changed slightly. Europe/ 10/ Mirabilanda 9/ Efteling 8/ Gardaland 7/ Parc Asterix 6/ Heide Park 5/ Liseberg 4/ Phantasia Land 3/ Disney Land Paris 2/ Port Aventura 1/ Europa Park Us and the rest 10/ Disney land Tokyo 9/ Kings Island 8/ Dollywood 7/ Disneyland 6/ Six Flags Magic Mountain 5/ Sea World Orlando 4/ Cedar Point 3/ Busch Gardens Tampa 2/ Walt Disney World 1/ Islands Of Adventure Quite a long list, if I do two of these before 2016, I will consider myself exceedingly lucky.