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Postby ginzo » Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:21 pm

Wood Dragon 1988 wrote:^Yea, but so does Kingda Ka......and Rita........and Stealth.


And those three coasters get the same "F" that Desert Race does.
"There's nothing wrong with it. It just needs some tweaking,"
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Postby sfotfreak » Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:17 pm

^Thats not fair there are lots of good coasters without inversions!
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Postby matteocrepaldi » Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:44 am

April 24th 2008: Chessington World of Adventures; I arrived in London early so I decided to spend a couple of hours in this little nice park and get a couple of credits.
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I left Italy with this nice view of the Alps.
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Welcome in the UK.
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Finally I got to my destination!
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The first credit of the day was the wild mouse mine train coaster. It was nice but nothing special.
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Same coaster, different angle.
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After Rattlesnake I decided to ride Dragon Fury. I don't like spinning ride but this one was really good!
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First drop!
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I loved this turn. It gives some pretty awesome airtime.
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Easily the best coaster in the park!
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The 90 degrees turn from the queue line.
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Just in case you forgot wich park you were in!
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Then it was time for the other coaster I really was looking forward to ride; Vampire!
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I really like the theming of Vampire's station.
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OMG! They are going to hit that tree!
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Random photo of me!
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The park was almost empty!
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The last credit left was the powered mine train. This is the only photo I took of this ride.
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Dragon's Fury crazy helix and the airtime hill in the back. I was expecting more airtime on that hill!
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The Top Spin had one of the lamest cycle I've ever seen but I didn't ride it!
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Some of the queue lines were filled with water.
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A sealion! The zoo looked pretty cool but I had no time to visit it.


Thanks for reading! Soon I'll post photos from Thorpe Park!
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Postby yankees15 » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:15 am

I'm really enjoying this trip report!

Every Intamin accelerator coaster has OTSR except Xcellerator and Top Thrill Dragster.
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Postby matteocrepaldi » Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:03 am

April 25th 2008: Thorpe Park.
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Welcome to Thorpe Park!
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Probably the best park entrance ever!
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I arrived at the park at 9am and I had one hour to wait for the park to open so I took some pictures!
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A nice view of Colossus with 9 of its ten inversions!
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While I was there I saw Nemesis Inferno testing and a worker climbing on Rush!
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Me and the best coaster in the park: X:No Way Out!
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It was still a little bit early!
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We finally entered the park!
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We wolked to Stealth to ride the fron seat while the line was short!
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Waiting for Stealth!
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Finally, this was our train!
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3... 2... 1... GO GO GO!!! The launch was awesome!!! Also the airtime on both the top hat and the camelback was pretty good.
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Then it was time for some inversions!
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I didn't like it. I think 5 inline twist were a little bit too much.
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I had to take this picture!
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POV shot from the famous Colossus support!
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Another POV shot!!!
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My friends, after Colossus rode Slammer. I didn't ride it because I don't like this kind of flat rides.
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Slammer sign looks pretty good!
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Maybe I'll ride it the next time.
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After that it was finally time for Nemesis Inferno!
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Nemesis Inferno passes pretty close to the queue line!

Nemesis it's a great ride, really intense and very smooth!
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I love B&M!
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A photo of some happy riders on Stealth teken while waiting in Nemesis Inferno queue line.
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I wish this was real!!! I just put together two photos!

The line for Nemesis was pretty slow because they kept running only one train for the whole day!
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Here's the second train.

While waiting to ride, I've calculated that with only one train running the capacity was 486 guest per hour!
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Tine to ride Detonator!
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From Detonator you can have a good idea about how twisted Nemesis Inferno is.
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After Detonato we went to ride X:WTF; I mean X:No Way Out.


We also rode Flying Fish but I have no photos of that one!
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After we rode Flying Fish my friends left to go to Chessington.

I decided to go to watch Time Voyagers but it wasn't operating.

I'll post more photos soon!
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Postby matteocrepaldi » Fri May 02, 2008 2:16 pm

Stealth video! I hope you like it!


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Postby matteocrepaldi » Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:25 am

August 4th and 5th 2008: ALTON TOWERS!

DAY ONE:
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We arrived at Alton Towers at 8.30 am and the park was going to open at 10.00 so we decided to walk around and try to take some pics from outside.
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The castle from outside the park.
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Can you see it? It's Nemesis' first drop!
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We kept walking around the park and we found Air too.
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Air's little pre drop through the trees!
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More Air through the trees!
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This is Air's final turn around. If you look closely you can see the rocks you almost hit while riding.
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One last look at Air from the hotel parking lot and it was time to go back to the main entrance.

We took the monorail to get a nice view of Nemesis and Air.
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There was a big crouwd.
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When they let us inside we went straight to Nemesis to ride the front seat. It was ok. I was expecting more from it and when I rode it in the back I got what I was looking for.
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I loved Nemesis.
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A cool detail of Nemesis'theming.
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Me and Nemesis' theming. There's a train in the back.
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After Nemesis it was time for some Air!
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I think that Air is better than Superman because it has a more interesting layout and the fact you are really close to the ground makes you feel like you are going faster than what you really are.
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Hot B&M action vs hot Alton Towers employee.
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I really like this one. I hope you like it too!
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Prepare for Air!
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After me and my friends rode Air once, my friends went to ride Ripsaw and I went back in Air's signle rider line. Unfortunately Air broke down so I went to ride Nemesis using the sinlge rider line.
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Random photo of Nemesis while walking to the single riders entrance.

Nemesis is the only coaster where the single rider line works well.
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After the second ride on Nemesis we took the Skyride to the park entrance.
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This is my friend Ago.
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We went to ride Spinball.

IMO it wasn't good as Dragon's Fury.
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The first drop!
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More Spinball fun.
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Spinball's theming was also pretty nice.
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After Spinball it was time to be a credit whore and ride the kiddie coaster.
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It was finally time for my first dive machine!
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Oblivion's dark and wet hole!
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Me and Ago while waiting in line for Oblivion.
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These wheels are really BIG.
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One goes up and one goes down.
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Signature shot with Oblivion in the back.
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Some happy riders on oblivion are having lots of fun!!!
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Same drop different angle.
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Lets move to the next ride which was Rita. IMO Rita is better than Desert Race.

After we rode Rita and the not so awesome Corkscrew we were done woth the credits so we went back to see what else we could ride.
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So we went on Duel to shoot up some zombies
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This is my friend Neno on the powered mine train.
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Me and my friend Neno at the park entrance.
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Ok... I'll leave you with this photo of Air in action.

I'll post photos of the second day including my visit to the caslte soon.

Thanks for reading.
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Postby piers » Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:01 am

I saw you on monday, I was stood behind the zombie outside of duel!!
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Postby Team Thriller » Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:10 am

yankees15 wrote:I'm really enjoying this trip report!

Every Intamin accelerator coaster has OTSR except Xcellerator and Top Thrill Dragster.


Also Superman: The Escape and Tower of Terror. But those don't really count, do they? ;)

I really like the look of Alton Towers. It's just so unique. Great Tr also, BTW.

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Postby matteocrepaldi » Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:31 am

piers wrote:I saw you on monday, I was stood behind the zombie outside of duel!!
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