Matt 236 Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 Unfortunately in the world of themepark saw we receive many new/updated attractions every year, we also see many close & disappear. What's everyone's top 10 attractions in the uk/world they sadly never got to try but would most want to ride/experience. Mine are (uk only) 10/ vampire- pre 2001 bat trains Chessington 9/ Trauma Towers Blackpool 8/ Runaway Coaster Rotunda 7/ Magic Mountain Blackpool 6/ Noah's Ark Blackpool 5/ Magnum force Flamingo 4/ Knightmare Camelot (assuming it doesn't run again in the uk) 3/ Toyland Tours Alton Towers 2/ Corkscrew Alton Towers 1/ Black Hole Alton Towers Rides I've ridden but miss the most Phantom Phantasia, nutty jakes gold mine, rocket racers, Magic Theatre & Magic Mill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 You can still ride clones of Black Hole and Corkscrew (though Black Hole clones don't tend to be located in tents, you can just close your eyes instead)... The one ride that should be on everyone's list is Eagle Fortress (http://rcdb.com/1337.htm), and other things for me are Ozark Wildcat at the defunct Celebration City and Ring Racer at the Nurburgring (all it had to do was run for this year and I would've got it)... Suppose it would've been nice to visit American Adventure/Mingoland before it got spited/spited the two Schwarzkopfs, but such is the way of the world at times... Also Camelot sucked... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paige Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 Raging River. I miss that flume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pluk Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 The first one that springs to mind is Nights in White Satin - The Trip. Alien Encounter before it got Stitched up. Son of Beast in its original form. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerfuffle Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 I only know a few, so here's a few top 3's: DEARLY MISSED RIDES (I haven't been on) 1. Terror Tomb - Chessington 2. Haunted House - Alton Towers 3. Mr Rabbit's Tropical Travels - Thorpe Park ( ) DEARLY MISSED RIDES (I've been on): 1. Professor Burp's Bubbleworks - Chessington 2. Miss Hippo's Fungle Safari - Thorpe Park 3. Flying Fish (original) - Thorpe Park HONOURABLE MENTIONS: 5th Dimension - Chessington Wicked Witches Haunt - Thorpe Park Corkscrew - Alton Towers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coaster Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 1. Virginia Reel at Blackpool Pleasure Beach 2. Black Hole at Alton Towers 3. Haunted House at Alton Towers 4. Water Chute at Blackpool Pleasure Beach 5. Terror Tomb at Chessington 6. Professor Burp's Bubbleworks at Chessington 7. Toyland Tours at Alton Towers 8. Thunder Looper at Alton Towers 9. Noah's Ark at Blackpool Pleasure Beach 10. Fifth Dimension at Chessington Wicked Witch's Haunt at Thorpe is also one that I really wish I had ridden! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pluk Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 I've learned a few things from this thread! Noahs Ark and Trauma Towers have both been closed bt BPPB? That's outrageous! Both clasics. It's a while since I've been! Didn't know they'd given up on Ring Racer entirely. Status SBNO[1] Opening date 31 October 2013 Closing date 3 November 2013 12 million Euros well spent there then. How has this no bankrupted S&S? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coaster Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 I've learned a few things from this thread! Noahs Ark and Trauma Towers have both been closed bt BPPB? That's outrageous! Both clasics. It's a while since I've been! Sadly they have Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC! Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 You can still ride clones of Black Hole and Corkscrew (though Black Hole clones don't tend to be located in tents, you can just close your eyes instead)... You actually can still ride the actual Blackhole from Alton at Furuvik and it is now called Rocket! http://rcdb.com/9602.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerfuffle Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 ...so basically in the late 90's, Alton Towers had TWO coasters of the same layout! (New Beast and Black Hole) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 I've learned a few things from this thread! Noahs Ark and Trauma Towers have both been closed bt BPPB? That's outrageous! Both clasics. It's a while since I've been! Didn't know they'd given up on Ring Racer entirely. 12 million Euros well spent there then. How has this no bankrupted S&S? Trauma's been closed for ages (like the Ark), since the Nash fire if I remember... Ring Racer did originally also open years ago, but blew up and had lots of problems since... The new owners of the Ring saw it as a burden and spited it as a result... Good call on Son of Beast, that also narrowly evaded me by closing forever about 2 weeks before I visited... That was sans loop of course, that would've been an experience... Annnnnd finally I think New Beast was a smaller version of Black Hole, rather than an exact clone... Sure someone can check RCDB for this... +1 for Moody Blues ride as well, but not for Alien Encounter, not at all sad to say I wussed out thirteen years ago... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt 236 Posted October 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 Yeah sadly Blackpool has lost quite a lot of rides in the last 10 years, here's some of them. Monorail closed 2012 Bling closed 2011 Gold Mine closed 2011 Swamp a Buggies closed 2011 Magic Mountain closed 2010 Alpine Go,f closed 2009 4D Cinema closed 2008 Noah's Ark closed 2008 Trauma Tower closed 2008 Space Invader closed 2008 Clown coaster closed 2008 Junior whip closed 2008 Spin Doctor closed 2006 Black a Hole Waltzer closed 2006 Drench Falls closed 2006 Turtle Chase closed 2006 Big Apple closed 2004 So that's it. At least 17 rides gave been removed from the park in the last 10 years which is depressing, what more at least 6 of those rides haven't been replaced by anything, ark & trauma I fact technically still SBNO. 2006,2008 and 2011 seemed to be notorious bad years for ride removals. Hopefully the park will be doing better now (especially with it's recent trip advisor success) and will be going back to growth again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted Users Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 Duelling Mr Toad at Magic Kingdom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 (New) Beast was a larger version of Black Hole - a Jet Star 3 rather than a Jet Star 2. It's also still operational, at a park in Columbia (thanks RCDB!). My most missed rides are Toyland Tours, Noah's Ark, Thunderlooper and Virginia Reel (though I never actually rode the last 2). Knightmare will be added to that list assuming it ends up getting scrapped. There are other rides that could be added but in all honesty I can't get too emotional over international rides I was never likely to get a chance to go on anyway (Eagle's Fortress), or rides that were removed long before I even visited the park they were at (Magnum Force/Bullet - Reel is an exception). Thunderlooper is the one that got away for me, as by the time I was brave enough to ride it had gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.S217 Posted October 2, 2014 Report Share Posted October 2, 2014 I wish I could ride Black Hole again it was my first 1.2 ride XD I also really want to ride Toyland Tours again along with Tropical Travels I only rode each of these once I think I may have done Wicked witches haunt but when I was like 4 or 3 so I don't remember that well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchada04 Posted October 2, 2014 Report Share Posted October 2, 2014 My parents seem to think I've been on Wicked Witches Haunt and Tropical Travels but I've no idea! So that'd be nice Corkscrew was okay, better than the one at Mingo Land that's for sure! Knightmare was the only decent thing about Camelot (although that diesel powered mine train was odd!) Noah's Ark was decent, the log flume thing before Infusion was okay to! Water Chute just looked weird, nothing much to it I guess other than nostalgia. As for deceased rides I wish I'd been able to ride: King Kong is the only one that comes to mind as it closed the first time we went to Florida in 2003. I miss Jaws and Back to the Future was much better than tuff Simpsons but hey ho. Original Vampire and Fifth Dimension would have been cool to, and I miss Rocket Racers too. Might as well throw Submission in the mix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark9 Posted October 2, 2014 Report Share Posted October 2, 2014 I can only think of Thunder Looper and Big Bad Wolf as rides that I was really eager to get on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GladiatorFanKyle Posted October 2, 2014 Report Share Posted October 2, 2014 I would have loved to go on Evoultion at Great Adventure. I wish Thorpe would bought it and spruced it up instead of another six flags park. Also I really miss fungle safari. Many happy memories from that ride. Also I wish drachen fire was still around. It looked immense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt 236 Posted October 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2014 In regards to rides worldwide, I wished I could've ridden 1/ Wildwasserbahn 2 at Heide Park, it looked quite a decent flume attraction with theming and a big final drop, better than the remaining one there. 2/ Studiotram Tour (FL) I know there's one in Paris, but this is one if the original WDS rides. 3/ Big Bad wolf- it's an arrow suspended coaster. Enough said. 4/ Maelstrom- I know it isn't closed yet but by the time I ever set foot in WDW it'll be Frozen 5/ Jaws- looked a great ride 6/ Back to the future- great Scott! 7/ The Original Test Track 8/ Colossus- magic mountain- 9/ Mr Toad MK 10/ Gwazi- I know it's still open but it's on the chopping line and I doubt I will get chance to ride it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted October 2, 2014 Report Share Posted October 2, 2014 The SLC that verbolten replaced at bushe gardens, was it big bad wolf? Also gwazi, Colossus at six flags, son of beast just for the experience Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshC. Posted October 3, 2014 Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 Can't think of 10, but the links of Son of Beast (because vertical loop on a woodie), Ring Racer (because fast), Thunder Looper (because why not?) and Big Bad Wolf (again, because why not?) all spring to mind. Wouldn't have minded being able to have tried out Space Station Zero, just to see what it was like I guess. And the broncho bikes at Thorpe sounded fun.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted October 3, 2014 Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 Big Bad Wolf was so good Annoyed they announced it's closure after I visited, otherwise I would've purchased so much merch... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted October 3, 2014 Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 Fanboy problems Kerfuffle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh3103 Posted October 30, 2016 Report Share Posted October 30, 2016 1. Wicked Witches Haunt 2. Mr Rabbits Tropical Travels 3. Thunder River 4. Black Hole 5. Miss Hippo Fungle Safari 6. Jaws 7. Corkscrew 8. Thorpe Farm 9. Canada Creek Railway ( To the farm) 10. Space Station Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeah Posted October 30, 2016 Report Share Posted October 30, 2016 Hmm, not sure I can think of ten, but in no particular order: Prof. Burps Bubbleworks Toyland Tours Old Vampire Big Bad Wolf Corkscrew (heard it would've been a good first coaster) Space Station Zero Runaway Train Chessie edition And probably Loggers Leap too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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