Kerfuffle

So this was my last ride of the weekend, I had a whole row to myself...and I think Nemesis is so amazing that it's turned me into some kind of evil genius.

Banned because I've just come back from Alton Towers to see this awful game has been brought back from the grave!

There was actually a thunderstorm last night! "FOR EVERY BRANCH OF THE OLD OAK TREE THAT FALLS!"

Report of day 1: Nemesis: x2 Air: x1 Oblivion: x2 (walk-on both times ) Hex: x1 TH13TEEN: x4 (3x consecutive rides via single rider while waiting for family to get off Rita ) Sonic Spinball: x1 Skyride: x1 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: x1 (total waste of time) Pros: - Consecutive rides on TH13TEEN were nice. (The single rider queue was literally empty) - Hex's new effects were cool. - Starting the day on Nemesis was great. - Oblivion's queue was walk-on Cons: - Sub-Terra won't be open this weekend. - The Smiler was a rather sorry sight...although it'll always look amazing as just a twisted torrent of track. - Air opened later than usual due to some apparent fallen trees in one of the ride areas. - CatCF's existence I do have a lot of pictures from today, but I will blog this once I'm home.

Well today on park I heard with my own ears Rita's breakdown announcement...but then it was closed for the rest of the day. Prepare for another pointless report!

Happy birthday Matt (Creek)!

Every night this week...

Couldn't agree more. The media really need to know what harm they're bringing to Merlin and also when enough is enough. This just can't continue. This has got to be the most disgusting bout of activity by the media since the phone hacking scandal.

Hear hear!

Anyone know why sometimes screenshots won't open or be read in the photo viewer...because that's why I haven't got many screenshots of Vulcan. This is what I can salvage: Preshow before the lifthill. After leaving the station, the train immediately enters a room filled with spinning cogs that appear to be driven by lava flow. As the train passes them, the lava suddenly starts erupting water (from hidden geysers) in wave formation. The catch car from the lifthill makes its descent and sets off the geysers again, creating an awesome explosion effect just as the train begins its ascent. For the ride's climax just before the "surprise" (a 60mph LIM launch), riders encounter the ride's antagonist - Vulcan. A monstrous creature who guards the catacombs of the volcano at all costs. I will have more screenshots eventually. The ride is still work in progress after all! (theming-wise)

Couldn't agree more. Really does get me fuming whenever these morons just "have" to report on every little thing that goes wrong within the park...and to throw a big song-and-dance over a mere ride breakdown is just the most immature news story I have ever heard in my ENTIRE life!!! The people sharing them on social media are even worse! I saw one re-post on Facebook that had "this place needs shutting down" and even one that says "this place needs blowin up"! What I'm saying is I've literally had enough. If these over-reacting, immature SCUMBAGS don't stop and know when enough is enough, then I just hope that one day they end up with the same fate as News Of The World, because these people just don't deserve to be around if they have nothing better to make a story out of.

It's nothing too serious to be honest. I'd rather wait for the beta release...and probably buy the Group Pass rather than the Staff Pass (if it's really that necessary).

If the current weather holds out until the meet, then Tidal Wave should be ridden without negotiation!

My computer crashed today. I should never have put it in the car.

(Strong language ahead)

The end section of the video does confuse me though. Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the track playing at the end be the first track (below), because I'm sure the one playing in the video is from disembarking the ride:

Baron really does look fantastic. Too bad it's very unlikely I'll be able to ride it myself.

Next door to me, there lives a lad who's basically a total jerk. At first he wasn't any of my business...but all that changed when he bought a motorbike recently. Consequently, I've been awoken EVERY bloody night at a stupid hour (ie. 11pm) because apparently this jerk is too selfish to know a better time to go out and rev his goddamn motorbike!!! (which could probably be heard from over a mile) ...but hopefully in the next year the time will come where he drives his motorbike into a river, never to be recovered.

It seems the crash has had one positive impact on one of the victims! http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/alton-towers-joe-pugh-says-5962839

Well if you notice the metal barrier and canvas in the bottom left corner, he clearly took this from Storm Surge (aka. Storm Turd/Splorm Spurs etc. etc. etc. )

They must've taken a hint from Helix! Can't wait to see how Blue Fire appears with them!