Mark9

I'm looking forward to the Family Gerstlauer the most.

Does this confirm an RMC or should I wait for the great nonsense talker to emerge with some obscure clue and babble.

Sounds good to me. It felt like postman Pat had really dropped off over the last few years. Not particularly bothered by this either way but I'm sure the target audience will love it.

Seems like the disdain to this project was pretty Universal by the end.

How was your 2024? Park count Alton Towers X6 Chessington X1 Thorpe Park X4 Animal Kingdom X1 Hollywood Studios X1 Magic Kingdom X2 Disneyland Parc X3 Studio Parc X1 Linanmaki X1 Europa Park X3 Efteling X3 Emerald Park X1 Six Flags over Georgia X1 Carowinds X2 Fun Spot Atlanta X1 Dollywood X2 Holiday World X1 Kentucky Kingdom X1 Kings Island X2 Cedar Point X3 Kennywood X1 New rollercoasters of the year Year highlights - First day visits for Nemesis Reborn and Hyperia - Finally visiting Dollywood and trying the cinnamon bread - Hitting 500 and 550 credits - Riding some absolute beasts this year (Voltron, Taiga, Afterburn, The Voyage, Steel Vengeance) 2025 is more of a rest year but with big hitters like Tokyo Disneyland, Fuji Q and Nagashima Spa land, I'm hyped. 😃

If anything it's under-rated, its 3 against 1 in here. 😘

I'll balance it out by saying I thought Ride to Happiness was an incredible ride and any park should want a model. Absolutely outstanding.

Isn't a top spin good enough for you Josh. I'm shocked! I'd throw in a pair of nebulas and an intamin gyro swing just for starters. This is Towers, they can work around the height and nebula are the greatest flat ride ever created. They can't go on like this.

Are you saying several billion for a Loggers Leap boat isn't worth it?

It's pretty shocking actually. I completely understand that Blade is coming to the end of its life, arguably it has been for years. But why are they not replacing it with anything? Not even another 'Pirate ship'. It leaves Forbidden Valley as a completely 1.4 metre area. Flavios Fandango; Their little text is absolutely laughable. Talking about how it was required because of how capacity stricken everything was because of covid. What a load of rubbish to remove it now then, if anything the capacity issues remain the same if not worse now. I'm not surprised about dungeons, another completely misjudged attraction built because some marketing guru thought it would make sense but did nothing for the park at any point. Beyond the wonderful way they bought back Nemesis, this season has been shocking and it doesn't look to be getting any better in 2025. A top spin doesn't even scratch the surface.

They'll start putting in little food carts there soon. Slap down a few benches and boom, new food area.

I'm probably more bothered on a personal level because it was closed the entire time I was there and opened like two days later. Yes that's selfish, but it's a spite that I can never get now and the park made sure of that.

It actually feels like there's more closures than there actually are. A lot of them are closed and relocated because their respective parks have closed for example. Desert Race - Operational no issues Formula Rossa - Remains closed, rumoured that its launch system is damaged. Has been down since February and the park have been very coy about what's actually going on Furius Baco - Operational, no issues (beyond being an atrocious rollercoaster) Kanonen - Relocated to the USA as Matugani Kingda Ka - Rust in Pieces Rita - Operational, no issues Senzafito - Closed down due to the park closing completely. Now in Canada and converted to LSM launch. Skycar - Operational no issues Speed Monster - Operational, no issues Stealth - Operational, no issues Storm Runner - Operational, no issues Superman The Escape - Operational, no issues Top Thrill Dragster - I mean.. I'm not delivering lectures on this. Xcelerator - It's currently operational. It spent over a year closed and under refurbishment and opened at the end of last year. Zaturn - Park it was located at in Japan closed down, and the ride now sits in pieces in Russia. I wouldn't worry about Stealth or Rita to be honest. As some of the later models, the technology is slightly perfected from the originals and I would say the reliability of both rides is far better than their American counterparts.

Out of nowhere (unless you follow the various American vloggers), Kingda Ka and Green Lantern closed permanently on the 11th and have both been retired. To be honest with you I'm really unhappy about the lack of send off, particularly for Ka. This wasn't just another ride, it was the worlds tallest rollercoaster for 20 years and for many, was the last coaster of the 'coaster wars'. There are many, many reasons as to why Kingda Ka's life seemed limited after looking at what happened to Top Thrill Dragster, but nonetheless, it seems incredibly short sighted to me, to not give the ride the goodbye it deserved.

When everyone has RAP, nobody has RAP.