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Photos from the trip have been on Facebook for a few days, but for those of you who haven't seen them yet, you can also find them at https://mouseat.co.uk/albums/may-2021-thorpe-park-and-paultons-park/

The problem is, there's now a big gap between the thrill tier of The Ultimate, and what the park decided to retain prior to the sale. They've not been a proper thrill park in a very long time, but were doing OK in the "something for all the family" market until last year. If they're looking to...

I think this has been the case for a while. The park has generally been profitable, just not profitable enough for any of the previous owners to take the plunge and invest to keep it that way. Here's hoping they do something worthwhile with the place. Given that the park has already got rid of...

I'm fully dosed with AstraZeneca at this point. The first round was followed by some minor aches in my arm for a couple of days. The second dose was a little more annoying, as in addition to the returning ache in the arm, I had a load of other muscle aches and tension to contend with for around...

I guess it’s past time I got around to posting a Paultons trip report. Better late than never, right? This report has been really difficult to write. It would have been pretty straightforward to write something along the lines of “Yay for Paultons, Yay for Tornado Springs, and Yay for the...

The simple answer is that no UK park with the budget to top Nemesis is interested in building a better ride than Nemesis. Otherwise, there would already be a better ride than Nemesis.

Merlin like to pretend that they've got you covered if they can't operate their rides, but it turns out that unless you bought your ticket directly from them, in advance, online, at full price, you're completely out of luck. Of course, they don't actually publicise this anywhere at the park, as...

Paultons was always planned to be the main attraction for this trip. We’d intended to visit once hotels and restaurants reopened for business, and a rough outline of a plan had been coming together for a while. Then somebody suggested the idea of adding on a day at Thorpe Park. There are...

These things look fab. Nothing too mental, nothing world beating, just good solid fun for the whole family. Yes please! I guess that's RMC giving up all pretence of being a wooden coaster manufacturer from here on out, then. That's not to say that we won't get great rides, but clearly wooden...

I think that's part of it. They had a short burst of investment, and a couple of years of trying to make some real improvements to the place, and then just seemed to stop. It's like the parent company lost interest, the money stopped coming, the people behind the improvements left, and...

That's looking like a solid ride. There's something about those final hills that reminds me of the really mad hills in the middle of the mega-lites, so hopefully those will be as insane to ride as they look. I just hope they haven't gone too OTT with the laterals in earlier parts of the ride.

I think I get it. Sure, part of me is looking forward to eventually riding loads of the really exciting stuff, when I get to travel abroad again and ride actual bucket list stuff at headline parks, but one surprising thing that lockdown has taught me is how little I'm missing that stuff when I'm...

Well, I suppose I should wrap this up with the final part of the trip report. With West Midland Safari Park in the rear-view mirror, it was time to pick up our final cred in nearby Stourport-on-Severn. After finding a nearby street on which to park, and wandering down to the park, located right...

Sunday morning rolled around, and it was time for what, weirdly enough, would be the most theme park-like attraction of the weekend: West Midland Safari Park. Coaster wise, there’s the fairly typical +3, consisting of a big apple, roller skater, and spinning mouse. There’s also Venom, a...

Yes, Broms! If they have to include warning signs, that's normally a good indication that something insane is about to happen. It's also a pretty good guarantee that you'll learn some Swedish really quickly!

I'm definitely getting more excited for this than I should be. It took me a while to figure out why, but then I realised that it helps fill an important gap in Grona Lund's line-up. It's a park with a reasonable number of coasters, but not that many really good, re-rideable ones. Twister is...

This is fantastic news. I always liked the foundation that the park had laid around the time they opened Cú Chulainn, but it's great to see them in a position to properly up their game. It's been ages since I visited the park, and with the addition of these two new coasters, that'll definitely...

I suspect there's a few things to make indoor attractions difficult to pull off. As already pointed out, buildings large enough to enclose an entire park are going to be expensive and difficult to obtain permission for, and parks in existing locations such as shopping centres need to either be...

As promised, I’ll start this post off with a link to my pictures from the West Midlands weekend. You can find them all at http://mouseat.co.uk/albums/august-2020-west-midlands. Whenever you have a bunch of goons planning a trip to smaller parks, the conversation inevitably turns into “what else...

I'm fairly sure it wasn't actually owned by the park, so that implies it'll be going back to the owners, and will probably end up operating somewhere else.