Recent content by Squrmyweesl

This is so disappointing. The derailment happened about a week before a trip we had booked to Margate with this coaster as the main reason. Still went, but the (tiny) park had no other attractions of much interest to adults. This one seemed to be less well-regarded than the one at Yarmouth...

Wow, that really is beefy! If one of the Jinma ones could end up in Europe that'd be so cool - imagine having a new large-scale coaster at Winter Wonderland. I'd prefer it with 2-across trains though.

Curious about where people are hyping it up? I thought the (enthusiast) response has been mostly resigned acceptance or outright disappointment that it wasn't something like a Big Dipper...

Hmm, this is food for thought. Do you remember what the reported wind speeds were on the day you went?

Sounds like Untamed warms up quite a bit through the day, glad you got some more rides in later. Totally agree that the theming/queueline on Platform 13 is great, and the launch - just a shame about the rest of it o_O

But the Stardust Racers handle looks way shorter than the long ones on Hyperia. Looking at photos (haven't ridden SR myself) I can't imagine how anyone would get their head into that position even in a completely limp state, it's further than half way up the thigh. (The plastic bit on Hyperia's...

Yeah, I thought it sounded a bit vague as well, like he might be embellishing something he half-saw... but that seems risky in such a litigious country! Even if someone came back into the station myteriously injured/dead with no obviously visible signs of hardware failure though, wouldn't they...

In that (mostly rubbish) news report they talked to a TikToker called Tommy Italiano who claimed to have seen it from the queueline: "There was a big piece of metal that was detached hanging off the coaster". In a TikTok video he elaborated that it was from "the back of the seat", seeming to...

https://www.clickorlando.com/theme-parks/2025/09/18/help-help-cause-of-death-revealed-for-guest-who-rode-stardust-racers-at-epic-universe/ "She said that Zavala appeared to be slumped over, bleeding, with his leg seemingly broken." ... What the hell?! This is so awful, and weird.

Really interesting stuff - hard to believe that the Meteor track was wooden, that's some wild carpentry!

Wow, that's so cool! I just found some references to early Mack coasters on Reddit threads but they didn't have photos or had been deleted. Interestingly the Wikipedia page on single-rail coasters doesn't mention Mack at all, but it's not a very thorough article.

So this image is included at the top of Europa's 'History' page, with the caption 'Historie Achterbahn'. The text is ambiguous but all other photos in this section appear to be from Europa Park, where the first coaster was apparently built in 1984. This image looks much older than that. But...

Surely that can't be for real...?! It looks like a 90s Ford Fiesta with graffiti on

Hello Prinkle :) If you haven't seen it already, there's a good website called Captain Coaster on which people (mostly enthusiasts) rate and review coasters, so you can get an idea of the top rated ones worldwide, or by country, by park etc. There's another one called Coaster Count which I...

What makes it not a true dive coaster?