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I don't really like it but I don't blame them either, having a new name (and new colour scheme) improves the marketability as a new attraction.

There is the small matter of Kiska, the 44-year-old orca who may not survive transportation; any new owners would have little choice but to let her live out her days in her current location.

You realise this area isn't finished yet right!?

RCDB are reporting that Racing (the old Zierer Flitzer from Bakken) has arrived at a park in Vienna called Böhmischer Prater: https://rcdb.com/10750.htm

Very good news! I was concerned this park might be heading the same way as LWV but this suggests otherwise 🙂

They can always add the guns back in after another 10 years to keep it fresh!

Ha fair enough thanks for the info. I haven't been to the USA ones but don't remember seeing this in Paris or HK. I feel like it must shatter the illusion a little bit after they have gone to so much effort on the immersive theme but I guess I should leave that judgement to people who have...

Oof that's awful, have Disney lowered themselves to sell advertising rights like this before?

I doubt they can have their track style patented, the old Intamin standups used it, plus I don't think a patent can last more than 10 years.

I used to love the many "Exit" signs on the way out of "X:\ No Way Out" .

This is topical for me having ridden Velocicoaster and Iron Gwazi on consecutive days last year, they were both clearly better than anything I'd experienced before. I debated long and hard about which is my new #1 but settled on Velocicoaster in the end as it's longer and much moire refined in...

Yeah but you don't ride roller coasters for the opportunity of a nice comfy sit-down do you 😅. I'd much rather ride a rough old barrel of laughs like the Ultimate or Grand National compared with something smooth and predictable like Nemesis Inferno or Galactica. I said it about the Wild Mouse...

Yess I love it when everyone gets their charts out, here's mine: My best year in terms of pure numbers is 2019 with 47 new creds, 2022 was my third best which is pretty good going considering I have the little one these days. However looking at quality as well as quantity, you'd have to say...

The UK seems to have well and truly fallen out of love with the humble log flume, by my reckoning the last one to open here was Valhalla in 2000, and we've lost at least 7 of them since then: - Barry Island Pleasure Park - American Adventure - Blackpool Pleasure Beach - Camelot - Alton Towers -...

Well The Greatest Showman was an absolute smash hit with a similar-ish theme so I'm sure if they did this well they could make it popular. By the way, did everyone clock that the see-saw rotates as it rocks? It's a gimmick for sure but a pretty impressive one.

A bit more track has gone up for the duelling Mack: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid033LiXYxw8VvVfAR8ypHzqiDFR68VP1dd71LzjTunPTF7jsJ4T2yhiVr9Lj4kopnnBl&id=100064440051374&sfnsn=scwspmo Edit: I'm not sure that embedded properly so here's one of the photos just in case:

Hi folks, I think we need a bit of context here, here are some of the closer views from the visual assessment: Not exactly a Blot on the Landscape is it! 😅 Personally I think the SMDC conservation officer and Historic England would not be doing their jobs if they didn't highlight the...

I wouldn't call it "comfirmed" just yet - the original track was delivered grey and painted on-site at Alton Towers so they might do the same again.

This is a new one on me but I'm guessing Just Another Sodding (?) Spinning Mouse?

- Coaster count at start of 2022: 344 - Coaster count at end of 2022: 381 - New coasters ridden in 2022: 37 - New parks visited in 2022: 10 - Park visits (number of days) in 2022: 23 - Best new-to-you coaster: JW Velocicoaster - Best new-to-you non-coaster: Big Shot at the Stratosphere Tower -...