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I guess it’s past time I got around to posting a Paultons trip report. Better late than never, right? This report has been really difficult to write. It would have been pretty straightforward to write something along the lines of “Yay for Paultons, Yay for Tornado Springs, and Yay for the...

The simple answer is that no UK park with the budget to top Nemesis is interested in building a better ride than Nemesis. Otherwise, there would already be a better ride than Nemesis.

Merlin like to pretend that they've got you covered if they can't operate their rides, but it turns out that unless you bought your ticket directly from them, in advance, online, at full price, you're completely out of luck. Of course, they don't actually publicise this anywhere at the park, as...

Paultons was always planned to be the main attraction for this trip. We’d intended to visit once hotels and restaurants reopened for business, and a rough outline of a plan had been coming together for a while. Then somebody suggested the idea of adding on a day at Thorpe Park. There are...

These things look fab. Nothing too mental, nothing world beating, just good solid fun for the whole family. Yes please! I guess that's RMC giving up all pretence of being a wooden coaster manufacturer from here on out, then. That's not to say that we won't get great rides, but clearly wooden...

I think that's part of it. They had a short burst of investment, and a couple of years of trying to make some real improvements to the place, and then just seemed to stop. It's like the parent company lost interest, the money stopped coming, the people behind the improvements left, and...

That's looking like a solid ride. There's something about those final hills that reminds me of the really mad hills in the middle of the mega-lites, so hopefully those will be as insane to ride as they look. I just hope they haven't gone too OTT with the laterals in earlier parts of the ride.

I think I get it. Sure, part of me is looking forward to eventually riding loads of the really exciting stuff, when I get to travel abroad again and ride actual bucket list stuff at headline parks, but one surprising thing that lockdown has taught me is how little I'm missing that stuff when I'm...

Well, I suppose I should wrap this up with the final part of the trip report. With West Midland Safari Park in the rear-view mirror, it was time to pick up our final cred in nearby Stourport-on-Severn. After finding a nearby street on which to park, and wandering down to the park, located right...

Sunday morning rolled around, and it was time for what, weirdly enough, would be the most theme park-like attraction of the weekend: West Midland Safari Park. Coaster wise, there’s the fairly typical +3, consisting of a big apple, roller skater, and spinning mouse. There’s also Venom, a...

Yes, Broms! If they have to include warning signs, that's normally a good indication that something insane is about to happen. It's also a pretty good guarantee that you'll learn some Swedish really quickly!

I'm definitely getting more excited for this than I should be. It took me a while to figure out why, but then I realised that it helps fill an important gap in Grona Lund's line-up. It's a park with a reasonable number of coasters, but not that many really good, re-rideable ones. Twister is...

This is fantastic news. I always liked the foundation that the park had laid around the time they opened Cú Chulainn, but it's great to see them in a position to properly up their game. It's been ages since I visited the park, and with the addition of these two new coasters, that'll definitely...

I suspect there's a few things to make indoor attractions difficult to pull off. As already pointed out, buildings large enough to enclose an entire park are going to be expensive and difficult to obtain permission for, and parks in existing locations such as shopping centres need to either be...

As promised, I’ll start this post off with a link to my pictures from the West Midlands weekend. You can find them all at http://mouseat.co.uk/albums/august-2020-west-midlands. Whenever you have a bunch of goons planning a trip to smaller parks, the conversation inevitably turns into “what else...

I'm fairly sure it wasn't actually owned by the park, so that implies it'll be going back to the owners, and will probably end up operating somewhere else.

Ugh, why? Skegness has to be a thing again? Here's hoping that this spinner is half decent to ride. Maurer can create awesome spinners, but I've ridden a fair few that were either rough or meh, and I'm not liking the look of the flat turns at the top of the ride; They remind me of the vile...

On to the West Midlands, then. As plans go, it started with a perfectly sane idea. More specifically, it started with @SilverArrow dropping me a message, mentioning that a trip to Dudley Zoo and West Midlands Safari Park was being planned, and was I interested in joining in? Another fun weekend...

I'm a bit of a fence sitter here; I feel it's "a bit of both". I adore the ride, but I'm not blind to its flaws, and whilst it's a great ride for the UK, it doesn't stack up against some of its competition worldwide. It's an incredibly fun and re-rideable coaster, and I'll easily make the trip...

I guess the first question needs to be: what details level are you running on? Planet Coaster is highly tweakable in terms of detail, and you'll often find that most games have a few settings that have a really big impact on framerate. I couldn't find a detailed guide to Planet Coaster in the...