Recent content by Rob Coasters

Date: 09/04/2024 Park: Bobbejaanland Roller Coasters: 17 Front Row/Back Row/Solo/New-to-Me: 8 Water/Dark/Flat/Other Attractions: 2 Shows: 0 New-for-2024: 11 ORP/ORV/Character/Proof of Solo Ride: 0 CF-Live: N Trip Report: Y Bonus Coasters: None...

Shot for 40 and scored (actually 41). Won't list all of them, just a top 15 will do. #1 FLY - Phantasialand #2 Colorado Adventure - Phantasialand #3 Loup-Garou - Walibi Belgium #4 Revolution - Bobbejaanland #5 Big Thunder Mountain - Disneyland Park Paris #6 Fonix - Farup Sommerland #7 Goudurix...

After weeks, the Belgium TR is done. #1 Taron - Phantasialand #2 Untamed - Walibi Holland #3 Ride to Happiness - Plopsaland De Panne #4 Storm - The Dragon Legend - Tusenfryd #5 Helix - Liseberg #6 FLY - Phantasialand #7 Piraten - Djurs Sommerland #8 Balder - Liseberg #9 Kondaa - Walibi Belgium...

Day 4: Plopsa Coo The final park of the trip was originally supposed to be the first, getting to Brussels at stupid o'clock in the morning then hitting it immediately out of the airport, and then using this time at the end of the trip to get to a different park which has now been put on hold...

Nice comparison to the apples, I do agree with that. Yeah I probably shouldn't immediately open the spreadsheet after walking through the exit of a coaster I've just ridden. I justify doing that as a kind of a "in case I forget what the ride does" thing, but I do think it's not the wisest thing...

Day 3: Walibi Belgium The next day, a train to Bierges-Walibi with a change at Ottignies found me a short walk over a bridge from the next park of the trip, Walibi Belgium. I was supremely excited to try out a new Top Spin, Kondaa and the other wacky unique things this place had to offer, so...

2017: got my first Merlin Annual Pass 2018: renewed it 2019: renewed it yet again 2020: renewed it yet again 2021: last year's pass extended through this year before finally ending at the very end of this year. Was not renewed as I've lost the desire to visit Towers, Legoland and Chessington...

Santa's Village is getting a new second-hand dark ride called 'North Pole Expedition'. Sounds normal, right? Wrong. This ride is second-hand which last operated at Dinosaur Beach in New Jersey and has sat in storage ever since the park closed over 24 years ago. Interesting to see a ride revived...

Day 2: Bobbejaanland Revolution. I've wanted to ride Revolution for so long ever since finding out about it. Revolution. A truly one-of-a-kind coaster, an IRL 'joke coaster' you build in a coaster game. Except this one exists, and it's real, and at some point two of them existed. Why? But I'm...

I made this post early a day before the end of my Belgium trip with a little too much confidence, as the day after making & posting this list, Vicky the Ride at Plopsa Coo failed to open on my visit after multiple test runs. I'd argue that this is my new worst coaster spite as Dreamcatcher...

Oh trust me I am. The lack of colour blending, Planet Coaster style box station, incredibly bland surrounding buildings, the removal of the splash plaza, no lights, and that absolutely hellish looking queue line, it badly feels like Merlin is dropping the ball on presentation of what is going to...

Day 1: Travel Well my new biggest solo trip has been slightly overdue for a while, with the last one being that 2.5 day Denmark trip. I needed to go bigger, and I picked Spain. This originally was meant to be a 5 day trip that involved both Madrid parks & Barcelona parks, but something about it...

I'll just compile a list of all my non-kiddie spites and update when something changes. -Super Booster (Brighton Pier; disassembled without prior notice) -Rampage (Big Sheep; rain) -Rockin Roller (Botton's Pleasure Beach; all cars were covered up) -Sky Tower (Tivoli Friheden; no reason given)...

train update: no train, but we *do* have a queue update, and can confirm this looks incredibly cheap and embarrassingly bad. I know "it's unfinished" and all that but this looks hopeless. Running contender for world's worst queue line?

Looks like a fun ride, but why is the ride still a half-construction site? Sources: ZakFarren and Tonnerre2zeus on Twitter With significant mud portions in the Nemesis queue, and the new Hyperia buildings looking very bare & bland, this does spark a worrying trend of Merlin dropping the ball...