The Poll of retirement

[Mark9]

We've been through a period where very few rides at Thorpe Park and Chessington have been removed. From the list of rides in the poll, please select all the rides you have been fortunate to ride before their closures.

I have kept this as Chessington and Thorpe Park as there are too many rides at Blackpool and Alton Towers that have been removed.

[pluk]

All of them. what do I win?!

[Mark9]

An all expenses paid three night stay in the Crash Pad

[Fred]

I have done two. I feel like a failure.

[AJ]

I've done all of them apart from Space Station Zero & 5th Dimension - I am actually shocked I have done the majority of that, I was expecting not to have ridden as much!

[Tom]

Terror Tomb come back!

[pluk]

The biggest loss for me there by quite some way is the fifth dimension. It is impossible to know how much time has clouded my judgement but I adored that thing, it was close to perfection to the 12 year old me.

[JoshC.]

I've done all bar Fifth Dimension (too young), Space Station Zero (too young), Samurai at Chessington (too small) and Calgary Stampede (too small). Not too bad if I say so myself.

(Oh, and Mark, Miss Hippo's Fungle Safari closed in 2008, not 2007. [/nitpick])

[Valentez]

I haven't ridden any of them.....whats my prize?

[Mark9]

An all expenses paid, three night stay in the Crash Pad

[RideAddict]

All of them. what do I win?!

Nothing. And the memories.

I've done 4 - not too bad. I didn't vote for the original Vampire because I can't remember if I did ride it (bloody alzheimers!).

[Topsyturvy15]

Bubble works and CCR, slightly regret not doing Fungle Safari ... now its gone I cant help thinking I missed out

[Smidget]

My first visit to Thorpe was in 2001, so anything before that is an obvious no. As is The Fifth Dimension at Chessington, seeing as I would have been riding that whilst being minus figures...

The only ones I can safely say I did do are Fungle and CCR. I probably did do a couple others but I don't remember it if I did.

My first visit to Chessie was around 2005/6 (I think), so I haven't done anything that was at Chessie. Well, I might have done Bubbleworks before the retheme, but I don't think I did. Parents did ride Samurai whilst it was there though.

[Mark9]

What about the flying carpet that was at Chessie?

Completely blanked that one out. Woops.

[Benin]

Out of that list, only not ridden 4 (though the Magic Carpet would be 5), which really only 2 of them I could've actually ridden (being Eclipse and Terror Tomb)...

5th Dimension and Space Station Zero never existed on my visits, hence to me, they never actually existed in my lifetime...

[Spider]

My earliest memories are of Chessington back when it had 'Circus World' (roughly where Wild Asia is now).Remember it having a circus (obviously) and it was the original home of the Rodeo - then called The Juggler - I think it was set at an angle rather than flat on the ground.

Only other things I remember that aren't there any more are a big giraffe enclosure where Rameses Revenge is now, the Chessington train (can anyone tell me what route it took? All I remember is the Toytown Station). I seem to remember a mini train operating as well - whose tracks you could see for a long time after (and possibly even today) around the area between Mexicana and Forbidden Kingdom. I have loads of old Chessington maps, going back to the year Rameses Revenge was installed - sadly I lost the one from the year before that)

As for the retired rides - been on them all except Space Station Zero and The Fifth Dimension.

[pluk]

My earliest memories are of Chessington back when it had 'Circus World' (roughly where Wild Asia is now).Remember it having a circus (obviously) and it was the original home of the Rodeo - then called The Juggler - I think it was set at an angle rather than flat on the ground.

Yes it was!

Until quite recently I was adamant the Juggler and Rodeo were different rides. I remember Juggler seeming so huge to the young me and as you say it was at an angle, but clearly from pictures they are the same.

This is my Chessington. Circus, juggler, magic carpet behind and the faces surrounding dragons drop in the distance, all since gone. Good times.

[Fred]

Is that photo taken roughly where the Monkey Swinger disabled ramp now stands?!

[pluk]

Yep! Think there was some sort of multi level children's climb through thing where that picture was taken from at the time if I remember correctly.