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Mark9

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  1. Mark9

    Paris Asterix

    Another one for the Zeus is better then Wodan club please. Forgot how good that ride is, it's not really spoken about much. But its awesome.
  2. The best reviews so far say that if it was in Fantasyland it would be awesome but because it's in World Showcase, it's all a bit QUICK, GET A FROZEN RIDE IN.
  3. He has just as much right to say which way he's voting as anyone else. David Beckham for instance was from a working class family and hasn't always had things because of money or things being done for him. Majority of politicians on the other hand.... Besides if we aren't listening to experts anymore (thanks Boris and Farage) then we may ask people like David flipping Beckham.
  4. The five rollercoasters in my bottom five are:- Shamu Express at Seaworld Orlando. A kids ride should not be this bad. It's attrocious Tornado at Bakken. I hated this violent, terrible excuse for a spinning rollercoaster. Your rides restraints should not be cutting blood lines into my body you vile thing. Furius Baco at PortAventura. Terrible, terrible ride. That launch is great but it's 1/20th of the ride. The rest is tedious rubbish that is jerky and rough and unenjoyable in the extreme. Not even a scenic turn round can save it. Rutschebanan at Bakken. How do you destroy your brake-man, historic rollercoaster? You get Kumbak in to trash it, thats what. Awful, awful ride. I do wonder how good it was before this disastrous change. The Big One at Blackpool. I'm glad the hyper coaster moved on quickly from arrow, because if this ride is anything to go by they were boring. Shallow, tedious hill followed by shallow tedious hill. Then that helix which is beggars belief. A good first drop and a good ending aren't enough.
  5. They've never got on with theme park groups to be honest, when I went with the ECC in 2006, we weren't allowed any extra ride times and they restricted our time on park too. They seem incredibly strict with their park, especially compared to Europa Park who bend over backwards to give theme park enthusiasts exclusives.
  6. Mark9

    Doctor Who

    Love the Curse of Peladon. The Jon Pertwee era is by far my favourite from the classic series. The older series is far more fun to watch to be honest.
  7. The locals will lap it up. They go crazy over things like El Diablo after all.
  8. It's only going by previous experience and it is ok to speculate. We want this ride to be perfect beyond its first couple of seasons after all, it shouldn't be a case of only at the top of its game for the first few years of its existence.
  9. I've been kind of upset this week. Whenever something big happens in the world, its nearly inescapable. I remember the blanket news coverage of the Australia hostage situation two years ago, the two attacks on France last year and the one on Belgium this year. With it comes outpouring of grief on social media, a rush to change Facebook profile pictures to ones glossed over with the colours of the French flag. Newspapers run with headlines for days about the immovable grief that naturally comes from a situation. So why doesn't anyone seem to give a damn about what happened in Orlando on Saturday night? Aside from gay friends on FB, nothing at all. Not a rainbow flag on a profile, or a comment condemning Americas gun laws, not a moment to remember that this is the single biggest targeting of the gay community since the Holocaust. Is it ingrained homophobia, is it a feeling of weariness that this grief solves nothing particularly with American laws? Some of our media didn't even cover it, the Daily Mail for instance focusing on Turkish xenophobia instead. The ones that did, made very little attempt to relate this as a gay hate crime. We seem to care about a gorilla, then we do 49 LGBT people who were mowed down by a terrorist. It makes me mad and makes me realise that the fight for LGBT rights is just as important now as it has ever been. I'm fed up of this world sometimes.
  10. It's sickening. And for what its worth the complete white wash in the right wing media of what happened makes me furious. When people say that pride is just about getting drunk and sleeping around, they haven't a bloody clue what they're on about as the fight goes on for LGBTQ people.
  11. It's all very well doing staff testing, my question is, why are they doing the staff testing during opening hours. This is the kind of stuff they used to do after the park was closed as it avoids upsetting the paying guests who can quite visibly see people riding something that by all accounts is now ready to open.
  12. I definitely wasn't serious and I was definitely paying homage to another TPM member.
  13. Not sarcasm. First time riders always describe the new ride in the most superlative terms and you two have been refreshing in just calling it fun. I'm not always sarcastic
  14. It's really refreshing for some of the first riders to be not so over the top in their positivity. Thanks you two
  15. Do they not know how to run a theme park? Jesus christ.
  16. Mark9

    Wodan

    Thats okay. My love for it will always be absolute.
  17. Hey Matt. I'd say Florida is better to do first. Disney World is easier to do from a guest perspective. Things like the Dining plan and the magic band encourage you to plan your trip and the fact Florida is a bubble means there is very little navigating to do outside of the tourist area. I do love California though and if you wish to do things like Magic Mountain or Knotts, its highly recommended from me. From a Disney perspective however, stick with Florida.
  18. Mark9

    Wodan

    I like Wodan. But I don't love Wodan the same way others do. It's all about Blue Fire for me and I think it always will be.
  19. It's becoming the accepted story that all remain do is scare monger but lets face it, leave are just as guilty. From saying the EU has become akin to Hitler or saying 70 million evil Muslims from Turkey will be descending on us imminently, it's all tapping into irrational fears. What doesn't help is the scare tactics from the Mail and the Express who every day present a new story about how the evil EU causes rises in cancer or the like. I'm kind of fed up of it all to be honest and this campaign has bought out the worst in human nature.
  20. The biggest question I have is what will happen to the Cornish Pasty. Currently its protected by EU law but what will happen when we leave. I do kind of like the irony that all the areas that the EU helps out through subsidies such as Cornwall are the areas more likely to vote to leave. Still....
  21. If anyone is planning or going on holiday in the next few months, now might be the time to get your money. With Leave now ahead in the yougov polls, our economies heading for a lull so top up whilst you can.
  22. In my experience, a longer queue isn't that bad when you move frequently. Particularly on high throughput rides like Nemesis or Rapids, the standing around waiting to move is so small that you barely notice how long you've waited. It's when you wait without movement that I find the queues unbearable. And for me, that is the biggest issue with fastrack systems. As someone who has had to batch Dragons Fury fastrack (a low throughput ride), it is a painful experience,
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