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Any ride that tries to make Submission make sense needs all the praise I can physically muster. Edit to add - Just watched the first video and actually jumped at the end.

Train is the best way from Strasbourg in my opinion. You need to be warey though, when I went three years ago you have to to buy one ticket from Strasbourg to Offenburg and then when you are there you buy the next ticket to Ringsheim. You can't buy a single ticket from Strasbourg to Ringsheim.

And why not?!

My friend James and I rode Loggers Leap for 7 hours in 2004. If you get in contact with the park they can advise you on what rides they will let you do it on and so forth. It's good for the parks as they get publicity and what with it being for charity, everybody wins. Anyone in their right mind who likes theme parks should be aiming to go here.

I can't see this thing opening on the rumoured 18th. That support issue and the fact a car hasn't even gone round yet. It's two weeks away. If the park did manage to get it going in two weeks time I'll take my hat off to them.

I don't think there are many people in the UK left who aren't going to PortAventura this year

Thanks to vhcoasters.com, India's first B&M is taking shape. It's called Nitro and it is a B&M floorless. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-22331660 A report on the park from the BBC website.

1) Learn to drive a Car 2) Road trip across central America 3) Visit Africa and do charity work. 4) Visit Florida, California, Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo Disney Parks 5) Visit Australia and New Zealand 6) Emigrate to Denmark 7) Attempt University 8) Takes 6 months out of employment and explore Asia (Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, India, China etc) All I really want to do is explore the world I suppose.

Thanks to Benin's facebook. How good does Runaway train look now guys!

I'd love to do a Disney 24 hour day. It would be exhausting but worth it.

You haven't lived until you've seen a single rider almost die on a ride. That's all I'm saying.

When Alton Towers went down the theme park route it was obviously inspired by Magic Kingdom's method of getting to the park. However unlike Alton Towers, Magic Kingdom has an even worse problem with the only way getting there by a very slow boat, train cars or a monorail system. You can't do the walk unlike Towers. Considering that park has 70,000 people on average getting there way to the park, Alton Towers monorail problem seems so much more irrelevant. It's 12,000 on average a day seems rather small fry. Besides those 12,000 people won't all be arriving at the same time. I've been visiting for years and I've never waited more then ten minutes for the monorail. I think the monorail is a great way to get to the park as it helps stagger people getting to the entrance, gives you a sneak peak onto your day and allows less over-crowding at the entrance and on any hand, if 3,000 PPH is its absolute minimum then it must be able to get through much higher when it has more trains going round.

I've added Disneyland Paris (with the Studios park) for four nights at the beginning of September and PortAventura at the end of September for two days. This was supposed to be a quiet year.

Later openings just aren't viable for the majority of the time at our parks. The problem is that there is no reason to stay, it's not like you get a special closing show or a firework stay or a visual spectacular to be anticipating. The ride teams just close the gates and thats it, get out. Staffing is an issue that can be solved quite easily if the park wanted to do it. The only issue is ride operating but if they were prepared for this (ie year round opening for example) then that wouldn't be as much of an issue.

X photos were priceless.

Merlin are closer to Disney then first thought.

Awesome. Love Towers Nerd. I'll pull out the stops to attend this meet =)

Sorry Peaj, I'm not able to make it anymore. Work had to swop shifts due to holiday. Have a great time anyway guys.

You can't have the feeling of Chessington letting you down then, if you deep down knew it wouldn't be removed.

A bit rich considering you said this:- about Slammer last month.

I don't think it's that bad. Sure its not as magical or dreamy as the old end of day music. But then again, that music never suited Thorpe in the first place. This is presumably more direct.

I reckon if Europa Park had to check the restraints on all its rides, it would still whack out those trains at a fair old speed. They certainly are capable on Blue Fire with its four/five trains. I noticed that problem at Thorpe as well last month.

Because they are an awful, awful company and we deserve better. Like Six Flags.

The park deliberately cannibalised the third train. I believe one of the reasons given was that it put to much strain on the staff. 25 second loading time was an incredibly challenging environment but it was one the staff seemed to thrive in before the 2009 season. You also reduce costs on bringing in parts for the other two trains if you just use parts from the third train.

Trust me to find fault?!