Mark9

Uh.. Matt we are, Paultons is one of 'our' parks. I do feel like Paultons is our saving grace in the UK. It seems to be the only park where anything could happen and with any installation you can tell they care.

Understandable. I love Black Mamba though, I think it's a cracking ride. Agreed. I think Winjas just seems unfinished for some reason, like it was meant to be so much more. Disagree on pacing, the trick track completely kills it for me.

At the end of the day a business doesn't survive without satisfied customers. We've already seen the affect a poor year can have on investment so maybe just annoying people with lame excuses like 'saving electricity' or 'stopping wear and tear' shouldn't be used anymore.

It's official, Britains most dangerous criminal is better then Alton Towers. Thats it, I'm emigrating to Denmark.

I was waiting for someone to come at it from a 'but the locals will love it' angle because its something that does make me chuckle. As if my opinion that it's just a well dressed dive machine gives any detriment to the ride or the Dutch who will enjoy it. As if someone from the Netherlands is going to pay £3000 to go and solely ride Sheikra or Griffon too. Still I'll remember this next time you give Colossus or Saw a good bashing, the locals love them after all

Should have listened to me Peaj

Wouldn't back up generators be essential in a power cut to keep people alive. A back up generator to get a Colossus train back to the break run doesn't seem nearly as essential or important as the reason the NHS has them.

Congrats on surviving Coasterdude, could you send this trip report to the national media. =)

It would make things worse. I'm so tempted to post about the Big Thunder Mountain derailment from a few years back in reply to these comments but it would do more harm then good. So far, Towers twitter and Facebook has been spot on with their replies.

The problem isn't so much the print newspaper, it's the online pages where the paper organisations are 'thriving'. Its the race to get a story up first with the most sensational hook to get people clicking. With this, sources and facts come later, I was reading the Independent story yesterday and it was crammed full of wrong information, with parts that contradicted itself and a tweet from 2013 used as a source for the Air story. The worse part of me is the obvious glee from the articles about the injuries sustained. Notice how their recovery and their positivity in the tweets from the victims isn't being reported at all.

Precisely, they did exactly the same with Thirteen five years ago.

This is going to roll on for the rest of the season. We all need to decide whether reading the clickbait is worth it or not. I'm choosing not to read because I don't like feeling the mob mentality from keyboard warriors, saying the park should close forever.

A few people and theme parks in general.

That's more the reaction I'm expecting from the majority of enthusiasts. A solid if unremarkable ride.

And to think it's all Jeremy Clarkson's fault too.

After the voting in of gay marriage by referendum in Ireland and the decision by the Supreme court in America yesterday, London Pride today has a lot of reasons to celebrate. The pictures of the White House, Niagra Falls and many others yesterday show how far the fight for gay equality has come.

So following an incident on California Screamin', Selfie sticks are now banned from Walt Disney World entirely. If they could just find a way to ban them from life in general, that would be awesome. http://wdwnt.com/blog/2015/06/breaking-selfie-sticks-to-be-completely-banned-from-walt-disney-world-theme-parks-not-just-on-theme-park-attractions/

You can't see that area on the ride, in the park, on the way to the park. It doesn't ruin it at all.

Apologise for the swear but I think it's appropriate for this topic.

I think most of us got it was sarcasm, it just wasn't very funny.

I can see the papers blaming the Smiler on this one.

Even from the top of Summit Plummet you can kind of make out all that structure behind Everest. You've just ruined the magic toofpik. Still.. could be worse..

/\ Mark9 Dislikes this post. Poor Giraffe. The keepers at Chessington must be gutted, the relationships they develop with these animals means they must be heartbroken today.

On my first trip to Chessington, 5th Dimension was the most memorable thing I rode that day. If it was still around now it would be dated beyond believe but at the time it just seemed wonderful. Thanks for the link Coasterdude (via Neilfever)