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Velocicoaster is imo the much better coaster but hagrids thingymibob is the better all round ride. I know they’re near to each other in the park but they’re complete different and tbh a bit of a random pairing to compare. I think velocicoaster v pantheon would make a lot more sense as a poll

It’s truly awful and I’m genuinely scared. Forgive me whilst I go cower in a corner

A delayed report for Day 7 on account of getting home and life very much taking over. Today was Busch Gardens. And what a day it was. It's clear why this place keeps winning all of those "most beautiful park" awards and, spoiler alert, I think this might well be by favourite every park. If it...

Day 6 - Kings Dominion. After the disappointment of Dorney Park this was only our second Cedar Fair park, and we were desperate to see what it could do. We'd stayed at a hotel opposite and walked over. Ridiculously expensive parking saved. We arrived at 10.40 ready for a queue at the gate. We...

On to Hersheypark we go and despite arriving at 10.30 for an 11am opening on a Wednesday, we crawl into the car park and end up parked a long way from the entrance. Uh ho. That’s a lot of cars in the car park. This place is gonna be busy. We arrived at the gates to see a massive crowd waiting...

Having left Dorney later than we wanted to due to the Wild Mouse fiasco, we turned our attention to the 1.5 hour drive through what very much appeared to be Trump Country out to Knoebels. It wasn’t long before we realised our mistake here – 2 hours is not enough to properly enjoy this park. In...

Going Into Day 4 we stumbled out of our hotel, directly opposite Dorney Park, and drove around to the parking area, being in front of the entrance by 10.40am. The plan of attack was to go straight to the back of the park, hit up Steel Force, Thunderhawk and Possessed, picking up the remaining...

So Day 3, and after a quick stop at IHOP to fill ourselves to bursting point so that we didn't need to buy anything in the part and ruin our chances of hitting all 14 Coasters, and in knowledge that there were a good few here today which could pierce the top 10, we found ourselves in the queue...

So here it finally is. My daughter and I on our 7 night, 8 park journey across the North East of USA. With any luck I'll hit 200 Coasters here and she'll hit 100 (not bad for a 9 year old!). At the time of going my top 10 was 1) Shambala 2) Velocicoaster 3) Mako 4) Red Force 5) Hagrid's...

They are both truly hideous. Neither has a good record on LGBTQ+ rights. I'd probably pick Rishi if I had to because whilst he's deplorable, Liz is both deplorable and stupid which is a VERY dangerous combination (see also Donald Trump). Also, can you imagine seeing Liz representing the UK on...

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Great Trip Report - certainly giving me lots to think about for my forthcoming trip!

I have an awful feeling I could end up in this thread. Rarely am I not in a queue winding up my daughter / partner about the ride and speaking deliberate nonsense to entertain myself (Me to my arachnophobic girlfriend) “oh yeah, this coaster goes through a spider enclosure…”

So my recent Orlando trip led to a little +4: i. Velocicoaster - wow, what a ride! Poss new No1? Toss up between this and Shambhala ii. Hagrids Motorcycle Million Word Title Ride - Much better than I expected. As someone I was with pointed out, not as good a coaster as Velocicoaster, but prob a...

Dragon Khan. Lovely fancy cover to that book. Great area its in, station looks lovely. Beautiful track with so many great vantage points. But rides like pants. Such a shame really as back in the 90s it was great. Back then it was lovely fancy cover and great content. But like much from the 90s...

So here's my 10 ten and where they "should" be according to that: 1. Shambhala = 2. Mako = 3. Red Force (CC ranks as 8) 4. Nemesis (CC ranks as 3) 5. Icon (CC ranks as 7) 6. Manta = 7. SheiKra (CC ranks as 5) 8. Furius Baco (CC ranks as......I have no idea. I kept going down the list and when I...

My then 7 year old pointed out to me how Ghost Train is basically a coaster and after a moment of "no of course it isn't sweetie" I thought, huh, she has a point. I don't count it just cause my main rule is it has to be on Coast2Coaster to count (just to make cred runs manageable) but otherwise...

Best: Nemesis - so amazing as a name. So iconic. Probably this word now means the coaster first and foremost rather than an arch-enemy. "He was my nemesis" " What, a roller coaster?" Shambhala - Etherial. Mystical. Awesome Ultimate - What it says on the tin. Except it didn't because it was...

Tallest: Red Force, Ferrari Land (367ft) Fastest: Red Force, Ferrari Land (111mph) Longest: Ultimate, Lightwater Valley (7442ft) Steepest: Mumbo Jumbo, Flamingoland (112°) Most Inversions: The Smiler, Alton Towers (14) Oldest: Big Dipper, Blackpool Pleasure Beach (1923)

Kumba - I went to Busch Gardens in 1991 and although we went o back to Florida in 1993 and I begged my dad to take us there we didn't. All of the billboards on the I4 were advertising this new beast of a Coaster down the road in Tampa. 23 years of waiting I finally got on it in 2016. And it was...