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Ah, didn't realise that. Couldn't they have sold them to another park though? I can't imagine the construction costs being cheap.

Quite a revelation in that article that DXB Entertainments is currently $1.6 billion in debt. How on earth did they manage to justify building the woodie at Bollywood and not one but two new coasters at Motiongate? (I asked my mate in Dubai this question and he said "they love wasting money out...

That was my initial reaction too, but it turns out they've expanded by taking over an abandoned amusement park to the north of the wheel.

Yeah, this - except I actually prefer Kingda Ka to Dragster. Not only does the launch seem more intense, I reckon the extra speed on KK is noticable too despite it only being - what - 8mph faster? Plus, the rattle on KK isn't nearly as bad at the front of the train. And on a launched coaster...

When it opened it used actual film. Each scene was screened from dual 70mm projectors - essentially the same system as T2: 3D, which used three pairs of projectors. Spider-Man's were replaced with video projectors in 2012. Thanks for the reminder! I haven't seen that for nearly twenty years...

I'm with Howie on this. It was around 2003 I last visited the Florida theme parks and I only had time for either IoA or USF. It was an easy decision to choose the latter. IoA had three great rides, of course, but Back to the Future and T2: 3D were probably my two favourite screen-based...

Might as well do some nectroposting. Merlin have launched their new Gold and Platinum annual passes. Currently £199 and £239 repectively. I've never had one before - is this a decent deal compared to the cost of the previous passes?

The beginning of Star Trek: The Experience. Twenty or so people enter a small room with plain black walls and are instructed to stand on white painted circles on the floor. Television screens dish out the usual pre-attraction warnings about pregnancy and bad backs. The picture and sound start to...

I just watched Trump's unhinged 46-minute Facebook video from last Wednesday. This bit in particular stood out. I can't be arsed checking the laws regarding mail-in ballots in the rest of Europe, but at least one of the two European nations he's referring to is the U.K. Want to vote by post...

Yeah, I'm not sure why this is being discussed here either! It's an ideal pass for me, at least.

Yup, I'm in the same boat and for me Thorpe is only a ten minute drive away. Last time I visited it was with one of those free tickets from The Sun, midweek during term time so relatively quiet. Rocked up at noon and the woeful single-train ops meant that both The Swarm and Colossus had...

Cheers for the info. I'll go ahead and score a couple. (Well, after Mrs Flavors has done her hair and make-up anyway. Didn't realise you needed to supply a photo.)

Seriously tempted by this. I've yet to ride Wicker Man and never been to Chessington nor Legoland Windsor (those two being normally way too expensive). Also, I'm only a ten minute drive from Thorpe but I haven't been there in several years because...y'know...Thorpe. And I'd only ever plan to go...

There's a fairly low-budget walkthrough haunted house thing in the building at the end of the railway line. You didn't miss much.

Is there a chance the track could bend?

Looks slow.

Do you not have ginger ale in the States? Sounds similar to what you're describing - a carbonated drink flavoured with ginger - but it's clear and brown, not cloudy white. I reckon it would probably go better with Pimm's too. It's rather tasty, isn't it? I had a Manhattan with Bulleit Rye just...

No need to blame the virus. Trump was already heading into the history books as one of the worst ever US presidents before it struck. Example poll from 2018. And another, in which even Republicans said he was the fifth worst of all time. [Edit - Hyde] If you also want to check the presidential...

Planning consent to be sought "within weeks". Won't somebody please think of the poor distinguished jumping spider?

Oh come on; everyone wants a vaccine available as soon as possible. I was just expressing concern that a pre-election announcement might benefit the idiot-in-charge who politicized the virus in the first place.