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  1. I know there has been a lot of talk on when TC will open and I know I will miss it during my May visit. But what about Scream? Will it reopen together with TC and the new area? If so I'm missing out on that one as well. Or will Scream be reopened before TC will?
  2. As much as I do like Heide-Park, I simply don't get the complete and utterly blind adoration going on here for Colossos. When I see you all suffer in pain when riding Bandit, I just don't get it everyone smiling on Colossos. I rode it on many occasions by now and apart from when it just opened, I very much dislike the ride and during my last visit, I didn't even bother to queue. The ride simply has square wheels and in every dip it goes "kadong-kadong" with pain all the way through your spine to give you one hell of a headache throughout the ride and make you whish you didn't ride after you exited. The layout isn't very inspiring and the helix is booooring in such a way that I am happy the "kadong" when exiting it wakes me up. Germany has three wooden coasters in total and the fact that with the opening of Mammut at Tripsdrill, many people in Germany and Europe were hoping to finally get a great woodie in Germany, says it all. Heide-Park is a very nice park, but blind Colossos (and Intamin)-adoration is about as painful as riding it).
  3. Through a mailing for season pass holders, Heide Park annouced its long awaited new coaster for 2007 : Desert Race. It will be located alongside Colossos. It will feature a launch of 0-100 km/h in 2,4 seconds. That's all the info the park came up with so far.
  4. 1) I never described Colossos as being rough. Only as having square wheels. Just feel the headache rising when you bounce through the dips. 2) I also didn't attribute this to the design. 3) RCCA isn't that great but just try Coaster Express in Madrid... Intamin-trains for wooden coasters just aren't that great; plus : they are plain ugly as well (Nor are they exceptionally good for steel ones but that's another discussion)
  5. Just wait a year or two. Those Intamin-trains will by then have gotten square wheels which turn the ride in something very uncomfortable. Colossos at Heide Park is terrible, Balder at Liseberg already has quite some bumpy segments and Coaster Express at Parque Warner Madrid (which also uses Intamin-trains) is pure comfort nightmare. I don't get that idolisation for Intamin.
  6. This is something extremely annoying in Spain which we encountered at terra Mítica and Parque Warner Madrid as well. They all feel they just HAVE to fill the trains and this in the most illogical way as possible. In Spain they more then often delay Q's just because the trains doesn't get filled properly. At PortAventura, we were the first in line for El Diablo. We had to go and sit in the middle. Can we go in the back please? No, you have to go in the middle...???!!!??? On the other hand, Spain is the worst country ever if it comes to line jumping. TERRIBLY annoying. And the worst thing is, the operators just endow it. That's the most frustrating part of all. Wait, there is something even more frustrating... non-Spanish people who clim under railings so they don't have to go along all the empty lines of the Q are fiercefully reprimanded while at the same time a group of at least 20 Spanish teenagers who jump the line big time are greeted with a smile. Dis-gus-ting! Spanish parks should learn to get rid of that illogical-train-filler-operator (and have people just fill the station and the train) and assign it to do something against line jumping. And indeed, they explain everything in Spanish. Knowledge of English or French in Spain is close to nil. Especially with the young people which is very weird. PortAventura receives almost as much foreign tourists as it does Spanish folk, though they speak little or no English and some are even proud of that. It certainly does. That's why we visited quite some McDonalds during our trip. Most hilaric part was us visiting a McDonalds in Madrid (which seems to be at least more than just a village) and asking for a "hamburger". The answer you get is "Qué"? There are big and shiny pictures of hamburgers everywhere and we didn't want some special sandwich, we just wanted a plain hamburger. "Qué?" Even pointing at the pictures seemed to be a Qué?-inducing action. Then finally, the guy seemed to have seen the light and said... AAAAh! Un Hamburgesa! Don't you sometimes just feel you HAVE to slap someone in the face? I had the feeling I had met Fawlty Towers' inspiration for Manuel. Qué? It is designed as a kiddie coaster and the trains are also desgined to be one-seaters.
  7. 31 with my first coaster being the now disappeared "Wervelwind" at Bobbejaanland (a Vekoma Whirlwind).
  8. Like so many Zamperla rides, it "looks" cool. The ride experience is often the opposite. I myself still find it a Vekoma rip-off.
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