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Also had an inconsistent experience recently, at Tivoli Gardens. Was asked to remove glasses, in spite of strap, on the shot tower and air race, but had no issues on the star flyer or (bizarrely) Tik Tak, which is surely the most "loose articles beware" ride in the park. It's worth noting I had...

Day 3 - Bakken my day... After a marathon day at Liseberg the day before, and with no specific train booked out of Sweden, neither of us fancied an early start. We settled on an 11am departure, on the basis we didn't have much we had to do in Denmark on this day, so it wouldn't matter if we...

Yeah, bit of an oversight on that. No big loss as we hadn't exactly planned the trip around it, but will likely be more of a consideration for a future visit. I can imagine Halloween, once being in the north starts working in favour of darkness, being an awesome time to go! Train, as our plans...

Day 2 - Liseberg The forecast for our planned full (and now only) day at Liseberg was grim. 11 hours of 90% predicted rain coverage never bodes well for a first visit, especially to the most substantial park of the trip. With nothing to do but don the raincoats and hope it would at least...

Scandinavia is home to a number of amusement parks located within or very close to major cities, making it an attractive region for trips with friends who have a passing interest in this hobby but an (understandable!) aversion to travelling internationally solely to ride roller coasters. I...

Started a job in a traditionally office-based industry about 3 years ago, have been hybrid throughout and always found it strikes about the right balance. While many aspects of my job can more easily be done without the distractions of a busy office, there are definitely some collaborative...

Mine feels painfully generic, but then I guess everyone's list is just going to be a permutation of roughly the same 10-15 decent rides we have. 1. Hyperia, #7/158 2. Nemesis Reborn, #17/158 3. The Swarm, #22/158 4. Stealth, #24/158 5. Icon, #27/158 6. The Smiler, #29/158 7. Wicker Man, #39/158...

Emerald Park - 12th April 2026 Just over a decade ago, I was fortunate enough to visit Emerald Park (or as it was, Tayto Park) while on a family holiday. It was the opening year of Cú Chulainn, and we managed to visit on a day quiet enough to lap the thing. It became my first airtime-focused...

Possibly worth whipping out the inflation calculator on that; £30m in 2015 would be around £42m today. Which still isn't 50, but it does make that figure sound a bit more believable. Then again, I have no idea how they managed to spend 30 on DBGT... This is starting to feel like a bit of a...

Legoland Windsor - 1st March 2026 Last visited: September 2024 I've documented two trips to LLW here before. Both were in summer 2024, and both were flying visits. As a result, despite nothing of interest to me having been installed since my last trip, I was still missing a cred and a dark ride...

Sad loss. Always easy to say once it's too late, but this was very much in a state of "as soon as it reopens I'm there" for me. Though my (adult) credding career only started less than a year before the derailment, it's still disappointing to have let such a significant piece of local history...

One day mid-lockdown our water went out. The company dropped off bottled water in the morning, then in the afternoon a water truck came around our town playing announcements encouraging us to bring our own receptacles to fill. It was an overcast day and a bunch of us were queuing at the truck's...

@Flash Shift Completely agree and would hope that's not too uncommon - surely we all like the option of trying the front row, if only once to be able to moan about it being better on the back? A subtle thing I've noticed while hunting a Hyperia front row (which I did manage once, surprisingly...

Skipped/merged some categories where I don't have enough candidates to give a significant answer. Statistics Start/end/new creds: 130/152/22 (unless I go get some more at Hyde Park, but meh) Start/end/new parks: 27/30/3 Entries in the Top 10: 2 (Voltron, Silver Star) Best and Worst Best new...

While I'd much rather these rides stay in the UK, it's pretty exciting news for Walygator Sud-Ouest. Speaking to some family that live near there, it's always been a very popular park with the locals which has seen limited investment due to the lack of competition in the region. If significant...

Funland Amusement Park [Hayling Island] - 25th October 2025 In recent weeks, two of the few parks on the south coast of England that I was/am yet to visit announced plans for the removal of their wild mice. While the example in Hastings was practically already being taken apart for relocation...

Always an interesting read, but agree with taking the exact figures with a pinch of salt. Even ignoring reporting inaccuracies, there are plenty of reasons for year-to-year fluctuations in the "true" values that aren't necessarily indicators of a park's performance. For example, the season being...

It's hit all the Merlin parks, but I feel like Chessington in particular is really suffering from the lack of investment in anything truly new in the mid to late 2010s. Scorpion Express, Gruffalo, and Tiger Rock were all rethemes of some of the park's oldest ride systems, and while none of them...

Brilliant! I found myself wondering whether this was possible on a quiet visit last month and glad to hear it just about is. What a great demonstration of both the park's operations and reliability and your own knowledge and judgement.

Day 2 - Europa Park, 8th September 2025 After staying in a charming Airbnb in Rust, the 9am opening seemed much more achievable today. Indeed, having seen so much already on day 1, we developed a much more coaster-optimised morning plan: be waiting in Italy at 8:45, power walk to Voltron at rope...