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I'm also from Doncaster - who knew it was such a hot bed of goonery!

Day 3 Pleasurewood Hills and Adventure Island So day 3 started with a lovely trip to Pleasurewood Hills. And what a lovely park it is. Sure it caters mainly for the younger crowd. But that just means that its Vekoma Boomerang, Missile Wipeout, had next to no queue. And sure its family coasters...

That's impressive work! Sadly, and because I'm obviously glutton for punishment, I'm due to end at Oakwood. Although I've not booked tickets yet because that's an admission that I have to go and, as you say, with every day I'm hearing worse and worse things! I think secretly there's part of me...

This is a post, and probably a thread, about my little cred run around Britain, sweeping up those little parks I’ve never had the pleasure (?!?) of visiting before. The team: Me, and my 8 year old daughter, Millie. We were meant to be doing a tour from Ohio through to Virginia. At this exact...

Everest by some distance. In my view a criminally underrated ride. Probably followed by Big Thunder, although to be honest that, Space Mountain, RnR are pretty much interchangeable and ask me on any given day and I'll probably change my mind. I've never really thought about Space Mountain or...

This and the other thread seem to me to be a distinction between those coaster that rely on visuals and those that rely on forces (esp surprise forces). A good number of coasters rely on forces and trying to confuse you and they’re better at dark simply as you’re more confused, senses are...

Good Question. 1. Mako - great coaster. My overall number 1 2. Manta - criminally underrated - but I suppose it depends on your thoughts on flying coasters. I love them 3. SheiKra - my highlight of my BGT visit 4. Expedition Everest - surprisingly forceful and supremely rerideable 5. Revenge...

It could be a new world's steepest with a 122 degrees drop? You'd totally be able to tell the difference of that extra 0.5 degrees of drop over TMNT right? Right? Maybe they'll kill two birds with one stone and go for inversions record as well? Its the challenging location bit that intrigues...

My 100th was a slightly disappointing ride on Wicker Man. Should Biden do the right thing though and let us brits in for a late summer trip, my 8 year old should reach her 100th in kings dominion, so 305 it is. However, to do that I’d have to take one for the team and probably reach 200 in Six...

🤷‍♀️ horses for courses - pun very much intended 1 major plus for me with BPB in fairness is that my daughter can get on everything (I think 1.32m is the highest restriction there?) whereas AT has a bunch of 1.40m rides she can't get on. She's 137cm/54 inches and I dont think there's a single...

I put Alton Towers. And to be honest its not even close. Dont get me wrong, BPB has a Icon, which I love, but alton towers beats it in pretty much every criteria I can think of. Better theming. Better rides overall. Better events. More chilled day out. No rides that feel like they want to kill...

I wonder if this will open before Coast2Coaster realises they've forgotten to add it?

I was meant to be off to Japan for the Olympics this year but that'd been pushed back a year. I was trying to decide whether to go at the start of next year or maybe wait until the back end to catch whatever Fuji Q were building. If this is accurate, it doesn't matter matter. Couldn't care less...

Gotta be honest. I have a road trip from Ohio through to Virginia later this year. 9 parks. 102 new creds. And I think I'm looking forward to this one the most. It looks awesome!

I really like it and I was pleasantly surprised. It certainly gives Blackpool Pleasure Beach the most varied coaster line up in the UK (and arguably Europe? maybe the world? I'm not so knowledgeable a others). They now have a hyper, multi-launch, bobsled, mobius racing, steeplechase, inverted...

Living in the UK I can't help but feel the top ones will be a little predicable, but here goes: 1. Nemesis 2. Ikon 3. Stealth 4. Swarm 5. Nemesis Inferno 6. Big One 7. Shockwave (True story time - I was once in a TV programme where I had to be filmed on the front seats of Shockwave, meaning...

I'm going to go the other way from everyone above here and go for Animal Kingdom. Whilst IOA is undoubtedly an amazing park, it feels very transient. Like in 25 years time Animal Kingdom could not have changed and would still remain an amazing day out, whereas it feels like IOA is more of its...

Gringotts wins for me. And its not even close. I found Forbidden Journey to be no1 of "the queue is better than the ride". The ride made me nauseous. Whilst this is a complaint that could be made about Universal generally as the reliance on screen based technology and simulator type rides can...

Totally this for me - the other one is watching the mechanism that lifts up / moves down the seats in flying coasters. I could just watch the mechanism of Galactica all day. Other guilty pleasures - bumping into a character at Disney. I don't mean queueing up for an hour to meet them (although...