Funnily enough I haven't actually been on that many Lives, especially in the last few years, the dates always seem to clash with when I have my little ones and while I can drag the 9 yr old to most places, the 6 year old is too small and afraid unfortunately.
Fortunately, the Lives I
have been on have all been brilliant.
The first one that
@furie correctly mentioned was back in 2013 for the Smiler opening where I was called Delmonte all day. ****e weather but we still had a great time. I think it's still the only time I've met
@Pierre ? Good introduction to the goons I felt.
I attended a couple of Ghosterforce meet ups around that time, when Thorpe did Cabin the the Woods, bloody loved that maze.
2016 was the big year, doing both Sweden and GhosterForce (Was it the first European GF?)
Sweden was everything, we had this amazing little log cabin our first night and me,
@Ian @Serena and Darren(who gave up goonery when he met a girl, which he has since split up with but met someone else and they have a bubba together #ahhhhhh) squeezed into this tiny room with the bathroom in the owners house. It was fab. There was a frog which scared Serena silly iirc.
Liseberg still ranks up there as one of my fave parks, Hotel Gasten and the obvious Helix night ride front row were the massive highlights. I still remember
@nadroJ and Conor handing out chocolate to all the kids in the queue for the dark ride which was really sweet.
Skara's water-skiing was hilarious,
@Ben being my favourite failure, does anyone have any video of that?
Grona Lund was brilliant as well, specifically for the group stuff. The funhouse being the best part for sure, but the ERT on Twister was great, the whole day was relatively faff-less as well.
But GhosterForce 16 is probably my fave Live event, so many incredible memories;
Walibi's Halloween event was incredible, Xpress Platform 13 surprising first timers, the scare zone areas with the FIRE!, the chillout area where Jake decided to get disgustingly drunk, Chucky chasing the girls, a certain person blousing out on the Clinic
, the love everyone had for Lost Gravity, the hate for Condor, the big green monorail and getting
@shaunthatkid into the restraint. Great day - long day, but so fab.
We had the CD's that
@ATTACKHAMMER mentioned for this trip, I still have mine somewhere, I'll have to dig it out, and we were told to listen en route to Toverland.
Which was a good day for sure, Toverland is a perfect CF park, loads of silly kids stuff to do like getting people stuck on a pond,
@Mysterious Sue totally stacking it on the roundabout, making
@Jordanovichy do an obstacle course on the indoor play area to get his bag back. Only with CF.
@Lofty and I totally gooned out on Dwervelwind, which is rare for such normalies as ourselves.
Phastasialand totally smashed it though. As per usual it was incredible, but it's so much better with virgins who get to experience it all for the first time. Back row mine train airtime, Chiapas dancing, the wonder of Talocan's fire, Winja's, Maus competitions (I still have the broken watch for winning that one), munching on toast,
@jayjay stacking it outside Hotel Ling Bao after Dragon bar antics and Taron. That Taron ERT is still one of the best experiences I've ever had,
@Ben and
@Jordanovichy kept me company all the way to the last train just constantly cycling while it battered us. Everyone was in love with it during that hour, the excitement on every single face was something I haven't seen before or since.
Efteling, amazing Baron misty entrance aside, unfortunately was summed up very well by
@ATTACKHAMMER "I thought Efteling was going to be really nice and well themed but actually it's just kids catching things out of a donkey's anus".
Portaventura 17 was really fun, spent a lot of time with some new for me people including
@Rachel and
@Hixee, which was great as he's a thoroughly nice fellow and getting to know
@Tomatron and Liz better. Shambhala wasn't running great and Baco is a POS in the back row but Red Force was good. This one was definitely more about spending time with people than anything.
I think that was the last European live I went on apart from Blackpool 2019, which was again a fab people one, still can't believe Mushy stole my back row Icon.
But I did attend the 2018 US Live at Cedar Point. That was a incredible mix of an amazing park, awful weather and perfect people.
The damn cuddles in the Lighthouse Point place
@Snoo and the US guys had rented is as much of a memory of whoring Steel Vengeance with
@Howie and
@davidm. Everything about those 2 days was brilliant, and only comes 2nd in my fave's due to GF16 being utterly ridiculous.
That was a lot longer than I anticipated.
TDLR - Lives are good. Go to one when possible.
