2025 - A year in review

Hello. How was your year?

Here's mine-

Parks visited

Efteling X5

Animal Kingdom X3

Hollywood Studios X1

Southend Adventure Island X1

Chessington X1

Schwaben Park X1

Tripsdrill X1

Legoland Deutschland X1

Hong Kong Disneyland X2

Ocean Park HK X1

Himeji Central Park X1

Parque Espana Shima X1

Nagashima Spa Land X1

Fuji Q X1

Disneyland Tokyo X2

Tokyo Disney Sea X3

Thorpe Park X2

Wiener Prater X1

Fantasiana X1

Epic Universe X2

New Rollercoasters ridden - 62

I'd say my top ten new rollercoasters of 2025 are as follows-

1. Flying Dinosaur - The most intense flyer out there. It is absolutely fantastic.

2. Stardust Racers Green - I love this ride, the flowing elements and air time are excellent and the duelling with yellow is so good.

3. Stardust Racers Yellow - I mean come on, they are both so good and theres very little in between them in terms of quality.

4. Steel Dragon 2000 - Aside from the really frustrating loading, this is a really long ride that does deliver. The air time at the end is also excellent.

5. Pyrenees - An Inverter that sits under the radar, this is a very good rollercoaster, it just has a really odd ending.

6. Hals Uber Kopf - The vekoma STC is so good. Both it and Fienna Force are so class. I thought this was a surprisingly forceful rollercoaster and really enjoyed it.

7. Hollywood Dream - A surprisingly good hyper coaster. I only got the chance to ride this backwards but I thought it was excellent.

8. Harakugei - A very good RMC but I find the loading procedures really take away the fun from a lot of Japanese parks. This is still awesome but its tiresome waiting for it .

9. Diavlo - I don't really care that this is just a batman clone, it really is an excellent version of the ride. It looks a little rusty and run done and its amazing that the park have bothered to keep it running. Glad to have got on it.

10. Zokkon - An excellent Intamin straddle coaster. Full of unique elements and excellent pacing.

Landmark moments from 2025

• Rollback on Mandrill Mayhem where we were stuck just before the Statue helix. Star of some B- tier tiktok vlogs. Loved it.

• Evacuated from the break run on Stardust Green. Lots of fun watching Stardust Yellow continue to run. Also managing to get on it after the death in September.

• Finally making it to Tokyo Disney and getting on all the major rides multiple times. Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Sinbad, Indianna Jones, Winnie the Pooh and Beauty and the Beasts felt like life changing rides in my theme park career

• Reclaiming the 'ridden all B&M's in Europe' after getting to Legoland Deutschland

• Saying goodbye to way too many attractions this year. Kingda Ka, Muppets 3D, Six Flags America, Tough to be a Bug, Scorpion Express, Blade. Also our last ever rides on Dinosaur before its closure in 2026.

So please share your 2025. We love content.