Recent content by Howie

Back in 2014 I reached a certain birthday milestone <cough 40! cough> and said to myself 'Right, I need to ride the tallest rollercoaster in the world', so I booked a trip for the sole purpose of riding Kingda Ka which, from my front door to the loading station, was 3379 miles and some yards. I...

I guess all polling methods are flawed in some way, not least because most polls will be largely restricted to the demographic of the participants. Fo example, a poll conducted on an Asian based forum written in Mandarin and whose participants mainly live in China will likely yield a completely...

Gotta say, we do have excellent taste as a community. That's a very solid Top 10 there, good work, team. Wouldn't necessarily agree with all of them personally, but there's nothing controversial about any of them. I'd put all of 'em into my Top 10% at least. SteVe at #1... Yerrrrsss, still the...

The End of Oak Street. It's... not very good. Big name stars like Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor should really have known better. I was kind of expecting (and hoping for) a dark, edgey and mysterious thriller. The J.J Abrams connection made me think it might even be a sneaky addition to the...

Nice! Zero objections here. I'm at the point now where I'm such an Efteling fanboy that I'm happy to let them do exactly what they want, no questions asked, safe in the knowledge that whatever it ends up being, it'll be unique, beautiful and amazing. Efteling can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned.

Still haven't been on Toutatis. I'm a very bad goon and I need to step up my game. 😔

I dunno... I'm quietly thinking this might be a lot better than sone people are expecting. First of all... a launched stall, while spinning? WTF?? Then there's that top bit. Yes it's weird AF, but it's gonna be slooow. Think Mandrill Mayhem at Chessington, but banked outward, and rotating, and...

Yes please. An AF1 T shirt. XL. Ta. 😁

More rides. I mean... Durrr!

Wild card prediction: it gets dismantled rather than demolished, it sits in a field for a couple of years and then FlamingoLand buys it for 2 million quid. 🤞🤞🤞

This would be... awful. Seriously hoping it's just a rumour that's gotten out of hand, but... I dunno. The fact that you can turn up at Fun Spot Atlanta at pretty much anytime and lap AF1 to your heart's content without waiting is, despite being enthusiast heaven, not exactly a good sign. One of...

Disclosure Day. Probably the film I've been looking forward to the most this year. I mean... Spielberg? Williams? Aliens? Shiiiiiit, take my money, please. Was it worth the wait? Uhm... well, yes and no. Wasn't quite the 'event movie' that I was hoping for, don't think it'll be going down as...

Yes, yes and thrice, YES! Stoked for this. I know lots of people were predicting this, and lots more were quietly  hoping for this, but to hear an official announcement has totally made my week. 😁 I don't think anyone predicted that they'd go quite this big though, did you? The Raptors are great...

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If we're including flat ride/dark ride crossovers like Tower of Terror, then Danse Macabre has just entered the chat. So has the OG Haunted Mine Drop at Glenwood Caverns.