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I reckon you're massively overstating the influence of the Harry Potter films there. There's nothing inherently different about them compared to the Star Wars ones - big budget movies aimed primarily at kids. Suggesting that the Marvel films or Jurassic Park sequels wouldn't have happened if the...

That surprised me too, especially as the seats are hard plastic. Was it actually a vibrating mechanism? I got the impression it was reverberation from a subwoofer installed somewhere in the car.

Ah righto - didn't realise that Media Invest were ploughing cash into it. I assumed they were only involved in supplying the IP. Still, it's a bizarre business choice. Set up a company to buy the exploitation rights to a practically worthless property then spend millions more developing a theme...

Chariots of the Gods is about the idea of aliens having visited the Earth in the distant past. You don't need the rights to the book to build an attraction based around that particular concept. So if they've ditched the title, why pay anything in royalties to the rights-holders? It's all a bit...

Couldn't agree more, and you worded it better than I did!

Err...of course not! That was kind of my point.

It's apparently 30mph. Source: I asked the operator.

Last Tuesday my coaster count stood at 491. Normally I'd have been heading to a half decent foreign park for the big 500 but in the current circumstances we'd instead planned a mini roadtrip, going to Alton on Wednesday, Skegness on Thursday and Drayton on Friday. There being 10 new (for us)...

...they said, to the surprise of precisely nobody. It's a bunch of pseudoscience bollocks that was thoroughly debunked in a BBC Horizon documentary as far back as 1977. I'd be amazed if anyone under 50 had even heard of it.

This is all quite interesting! I had my first go on Wicker Man last Thursday and was expecting a thoroughly mediocre ride based on the generally lukewarm reception it had been getting from enthusiasts (@Matt N being the notable exception, of course). Maybe those low expectations helped...

Nice timing! I'm off there on Wednesday, this should help a lot.

How about a pig rescuing a baby goat from a pond? . . . . . . . . . . . (This racked up 6 million views before it was revealed to be an elaborate hoax for the comedy reality show Nathan For You. The pig's walking along a hidden perspex trough.)

<raises hand> I've got a high tolerance for roughness (especially on woodies) but there's a strange vibration on El Toro that I really dislike. Transmits directly to my spine somehow. Had exactly the same experience on Balder so I guess Intamin pre-fabs just ain't for me. On the other hand...

There was an interesting documentary on telly the other night called The Anti-Vax Conspiracy which explained one of the reasons vaccine hesitancy is much higher in the States than it is in in the UK. Much of the blame can be laid at the feet of one Andrew Wakefield, the slimeball British doctor...

I'm a tad gutted by this news too. Admittedly I haven't been on an RMC that was built after 2016, but of the eleven I've ridden, Wildfire, Outlaw Run and Lightning Rod are my favourites. Not massively convinced by this statement from the company either... Yeah, right.

Here's an old Ordinance Survey map of Blackpool Pleasure Beach. As you can see, they actually went to the trouble of mapping out the coaster layouts - surprisingly accurately, too! Makes the guys at Google Maps look like a bunch of lazy bastards. It's from 1955, so shortly before the Mouse opened.

This has probably been asked before but - what's the situation with Noah's Ark? Now that it's Grade II listed, presumably they can't tear it down or even alter it in any significant way. Is it just going to sit there in limbo for the forseeable future? Also, the listing entry on the Historic...

This is quite interesting from a film nerd point of view if not particularly a coaster one (sorry!). Apparently between making Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, director George A. Romero made a horror film called The Amusement Park. Wiki describes the plot as "An elderly gentleman...

^Thanks, all. Not just me then!