Recent content by Ketchup

1. Warner Bros. Movie World - awful 1 train operations and slow dispatches which meant that every queue was about an hour despite it being basically empty the day I was there. Basically made the queue skip (which was extortionate) essential if you wanted to do repeat rides on Superman/DC Rivals...

Surely a more accurate name would be 'Inversions'. This goes into the Rita / Smiler category of bad names.

The Smiler. Genuinely I don't see why it gets so much hate. It's not rough like people say and I also like the fact that it's the only coaster at Alton Towers that has a decent duration. I'd probably say it's a solid 8/10 ride and it's definitely better than Galactica, Rita, Thirteen and as...

It looks like a fantastic expansion, slightly irritating though as I went there when I was in Sydney last November! The park really needs it as despite being in a world class location, bar the wooden Wild Mouse and the insanely intense Rotor, the park didn't really have much (I know they have...

1. Six Flags Magic Mountain - Best coaster selection by a mile, a nice park to walk around as well. 2. Six Flags Great America - Great coaster selection, nice to talk around, only criticism is the terrible operations but basically all Six Flags parks seem to suffer from that. 3. Six Flags...

I never followed the rumours before hand but I recall Thunderbird at Holiday World being a surprise. A family park known for it's collection of woodies investing in a B&M prototype seemed like a surprising move at the time.

Like quite a substantial number of Brits born in the 80s or 90s, it was Corkscrew at Alton!

Woo, can now add the following: Czech Republic - Prague Slovakia - Bratislava Greece - Athens I've also been to San Jose Airport in Costa Rica but I don't think I can really count that as it's quite a way out of the actual city!

It's got to be Thorpe surely and I guess it ultimately depends on the success of SW8 and how that ride is perceived by the general public. If it's a hit, you'd have to think Merlin might want to introduce a more exciting variant of a wooden coaster at Thorpe to diversify their coaster line-up...

Fury 325, Shambhala and Nemesis in that order have to be the best ones I've been on!

Top Thrill Dragster came to mind immediately. Everyone loves a bit of Republica (except the ride ops!). Oblivion back in the day before it became really tatty was another one with the cool drum and bass music combined with the queueline videos reminding you about your upcoming death.

Went on it tonight. Was a pretty fun, forceful coaster. I'd probs give it an 8/10. I wasn't expecting it to be as smooth as it was. Not sure I'd be in any rush to ride it again at £9 a pop though.

I know it's all relative to the rest of the park and other surrounding parks but if you could have given Alton or Thorpe rides of equivalent quality to Gatekeeper, Valravn and now this, I would snap your hand off! If this ride is even in the same league as Goliath or Wicked Cyclone (the two...

It's a good ride and I'd probably say the second best in the UK behind Nemesis (although I admit that doesn't say much). Apart from the one jolt in the batwing, I've never found it that rough and when it opened it was just what Alton needed, a decent multi-looping coaster with a substantial...

Granted I'm no expert on Harry Potter but isn't Forbidden Journey basically a Best of Harry Potter ride (like most theme park rides based on a specific franchise) where they basically try and cram in all the most notable parts of a series into a single 5 minute attraction? Universal probably...