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It looks excellent. What it looks in physical elements it makes up for in a very well designed layout. I liked the guys frankness, people are too quick to call things slow on the internet based on a POV. XFlight looks brill.

This little 33% increase you mean. Wasn't it £2 at the end of last year? So it's actually risen by 100% in less then a year?

According to people who work at the park, gate figures are clocking in around the 250-750 mark. Which to put into perspective is, if everyone went and rode Dragon Falls first thing, would only equate to a 30/45 minute queue. The thing is right, at the beginning of the year when Alton were saying they were going to close an hour earlier, people were rightly up in arms about the opening hours and one of the things suggested was closing Chessington completely because its gate figures equate to essentially nothing, barely breaking even and having masses of rides just sitting there waiting for people to arrive. It has been like this for years, I can remember sitting at Dragons Fury and having the first rider turn up at the ride at 10:30m, half an hour after park opening (the ride then broke down with the car stuck at the top of the lift, whey!). My worry will always be, if closing Mystic East and WIld Asia doesn't cut out enough money then whats next? Close Forbidden Kingdom and Mexicana until 12? Make Truckers/Carousel and Sea Dragons/Griffins dual operator? It's not beyond them because they did this consistently in 2007.

Okay, despite the fact I initially thought this was a really ugly coaster, I think in testing it looks brilliant. Full of speed and air time and the colours don't look so gaudy now that it's got a train rushing round it. Good job Intamin.

Thanks to Facebook. Sky Rush is go go go!

I do wonder why the park even opens at this time of year.

Ah. now we're truely back in the old days of Tussauds. All we need is duel operator on Trucks/Carousel and Griffins/Sea Dragons and it will be 2007 all over again.

Nice. All it would need to do to better iSpeed is to have similar restraints to Skyrush and then it would be amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v6Vegk8Ud8&feature=player_embedded Seriously can't believe that the park that gave us Katun and iSpeed have followed up with this embarressingly bad looking ride. Especially as they already have a hopkins splash ride in the park this just looks shocking.

Looks okay to me, probably because its bathed in light that it looks a bit dire.

Thats because he'll be dead.

MADDIE'S ALIVE?!?!

I was just using it to show that Merlin do theme their B&M's. Funny you say that actually, I was talking to Marc about this on facebook and we both said how unthemed it looks compared to the others.

http://maps.kingston.gov.uk/isis_main/Planning/Planning_DETAIL.aspx?strCASENO=1210008&strHeader=Y According to this, the Safari has been permitted with conditions. Hooray.

Ignoring TPGG's ridiculous post for a second, I'm just pointing out to you Marc that I was actually kidding. The tounge in cheek nature of my post was just aimed at the fact that Gerstlauer seemed to have attained this reputation of being cheap, which they aren't. Yes they are cheaper then a B&M, but then Gerstlauer are more like Volkswagons in terms of the product. Besides, as rides like Storm Surge has proven, cheapness doesn't automatically mean there is a higher budget for theming.

I think you'd like Theme Park Review TPGG. May I suggest taking residency there..

True. You just DON'T get well themed rides if you buy B&M after all.

Thats why Disney is the king of theme parks. Just.. Wow.

So The Voice.. Loved how each round of the battles was exactly the same Couple sing Danny goes "they were both amazing, I'd choose one of them" Will.I.Am says "they were both like woah, I couldn't choose between them" Then Reggie says "I'd hate to be the one to make this decision but its now time to decide" And then Tom says "it's hard to choose between either of you but I'm going with Kelly" And then Jessie Jay pulls a face like Reapet 20 times ad nauseum.

Remember that time we prayed the rain would kill it. And then that first ride when the cars were all stopping. Those were the most beautiful of memories.

Celebrating a rare occassion where you get all five trucks with four people on them. The rarity, the glamour, the shock.

Lovely and fast now. Looking good Leviathon Thanks to Twitter.

Thats cause its the best ride innit.

My sides are splitting

Credit to Screamscape Where oh where will the new B&M wing-rider track go?