yeah

Not for long. They were on on my last visit before I went to Wales, but off the other day. My best guess would be that its down to the water issues as theres still two or three places around Chessington itself where Thames Water have been doing works.

Just remember to keep your eyes open, or you'll miss out...

Joined, went for "Ollie Watkins FC" (I wanted "I Canos Beelieve It" but thought it was too similar to @ChiapasC. last season)

I've been getting into photography recently so obviously Ive taken loads of pictures of rides because I'm a geek.

I did go on Megafobia (new favourite coaster from the one go I had), but not Speed. Mainly because it looked too intense for a first coaster and I was satisfied enough with my day to give it a miss. Literally that airtime hill looks so quick it could break my neck

Right, leaving for Oakwood in five hours but I used up all my sleep for the week by having a perfect three nights at the start of the trip so I'm thinking about Speed. Can somebody describe how the drop feels?

Obviously haven't been on it - but when I went with my friend he came off it, looked me in the eye and says it was something I can't repeat here, so I think you should be fine haha.

How's Speed at Oakwood for a first inverting coaster?

He has been, but extremely slowly ? if you focus on him for ages you'll see him move

I mean, I don't think he ever actually stopped. For more than like half a minute anyway.

That's just as bad ?

So. https://www.chessington.com/explore/event/1038/summer-of-emoji.aspx Does anybody know how to change your name on here?

I finally have some funny Thirteen stories to add to this thread, both from the second to last row being a RAP user. There was this one guy from Stoke with a very thick accent, and a Stoke City shirt on, who was quite muscular in build, basically he looked like the last guy who'd be scared of anything. Going down the first drop he screams: "oooh ya ba___" I'll let you fill the blanks here. Then when we pulled into the Crypt, he goes to catch his breath, before it drops and he lets out a very sweary scream. I also found out Joe Beasley is evil. Sat behind him on there without even realising until we exited, and he told the girl he was with the ride was over as we pulled into the Crypt. On those two days I also heard one group call Nemesis Sub Terra, Derren Brown's Ghost Train, and I also heard another group on the same pathway say they should "pick up Wicker Man and plonk it here, and rebuild the Flume". Don't quite know how that would work but, there you go.

He is absolutely insufferable - and thinks consequences don't apply to him. The amount of times he's moaned at being banned from places or being arrested is too many to count.

Heres my admittedly small collection, only buy rides Ive been on

Oh nothing against you, or anybody else, I think alot of us knew it was fake really.

FAKE you say?

Could anybody think of a way me and my friend(s), all 15, could easily get to Alton Towers without being driven? There's a variety of reasons why not, but the general gist is my dad doesn't want to drive 6-12 hours in one day depending on if my family stay up there with us (which causes other problems) and the hotel costs too much with an extra one or two people.

Having been at Alton two weeks ago, I'm kind of starting to see your point @BaronC. Not from the kid's point of view, as they don't really know what it's about, but from the parent's point of view. Quite a few times I saw kids asking to go on Wicker Man, and their parents have taken one look at the statue itself, and said no, to the kid's confusion. Even my dad, who still let my sister on the ride, intentionally gave her the wrong definition for words like ritual when the technical difficulty announcement played. She didn't get any of the theme at all, being 9. Got to admit, I'm not the biggest fan of some of it myself. Only because I'm worried I'll look like a bit of a weirdo with ram skull related stuff all over my room

I'm sure they said that at one point and switched back to the "redevelopment" spiel not long after. I wouldn't take anything the social media accounts say as fact, all of them seem to change their mind with every passing week. I don't think Loggers will reopen though.

Only Brentford would do this... ...For an Icelandic sub keeper for our B Team. I really do hate my football club sometimes ?

I can't remember too well, but I remember it being more colourful the only other year I stayed for dark. Howloween gone by had alot more white floodlights and default setting colour changing lights everywhere. Speaking of lighting, as I'm sure some will have noticed, there's some nice lighting around some of the lakes in Land of the Tiger. I can't remember the exact colours and it obviously wasn't as vibrant in the day, but it looked nice.

Right then - back at my computer for Why I Didn't Conquer My Fear of Roller Coasters Vol. 3450. The long and short of it is - the first day I felt a bit under the weather for most of the day. My dad was basically begging me to go on Rita last time, and there was no queue so I told him to go on his own if he so desperately liked to go on it. He did (despite later admitting he was bricking it and was only mocking me for trying to persuade my sister on Wicker Man haha), and told me all about it which reassured me. I came back later ready to go on it, and noticed the RAP queue leads to the back seat which put me off (I usually hate going on coasters on the most intense rows first time). Overnight and during the half hour journey to the park I was preparing to go on Rita, followed by either Nemesis or Oblivion, then followed by the other. I was fairly up for it, but sat in the test seat for Rita and found it incredibly uncomfortable at first which also put me off. We went about the day how we normally would doing all the rides we normally would, however one station was broke on Galactica meaning it took forever. By about 3:30pm we were exhausted from the two consecutive days on park, I was in a bit of a bad mood all day for no real reason, everyone was getting a bit sick of each other and so we just decided to call it a day after one more ride on Wicker Man. Another thing is - I give myself a big prep talk and get prepared for whatever ride I may be "going on", but then when I get near the ride I get pretty much frozen with fear. It's happened with Colossus, Smiler (both of which we were outside for an hour or so), Galactica, Oblivion, Swarm, even Vampire, and now Rita. The only ride I've ever walked up to and just got on (that I've been scared of) is pretty much Wicker Man. I still don't know what I can do about this. Maybe I just need to find a ride that's way less intimidating to look at.

Not looking likely this trip either, for reasons Ill dicuss when I'm home and have access to an actual keyboard.

And of course everyone on Twitter is blaming Chessie somehow...