THORPE PARK!
I'll talk about all the rides we have pics of (and the coasters we don't have pics of) that I rode.
First I went on X:/No Way Out and it wasn't as fun as I expected. It may be in pitch black going backwards with some lights rarely flashing on, but the only thrills you get is a backwards drop the first time, then you hear a computer voice saying "Switching to Manual Overdrive... Manual Overdrive Refused." Then another backwards drop. Both my moms rode with me the first time, but the second time I was alone. (Too bad you couldn't ride with me Grandma. You would have loved it!)Next I went on Collosus, and had to wait in line for 45 minutes.
When I did get on, it was worth the 45 minute wait for this 2 minute ride. Apparently on Summer Vacation the line can end up being a 3 hours and a half wait. Collosus is ancient-themed, sort of in the time where Nitrome's game Onekey (http://www.nitrome.com/games/onekey/) takes place. Plus, Collosus is the worlds first Roller Coaster to go upside-down 10 times! My Mom Gwen rode with me the first time.After that I rode Saw: The Ride and luckily it had a single-rider lineup otherwise
I'd be waiting in line for 45 minutes. It starts out inside a
I'd be waiting in line for 45 minutes. It starts out inside a building. First, you reach axes swinging, but instead curve down with spikes inches away from your head while light flashes twice on them. Then you stop between guns which fire deafening air on you, hard. Next you reach a barrel roll and while you're upside-down, if you look up, there's a man on the ground with blood on his stomach. halfway upside-down sparks come out of his chest as he says "Ahh! Ahh! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Next your corkscrew brings you outside as you begin your chainlift climb... VERTICALLY! at the top you turn over and race down onto chainsaws in motion, but turn upside-down to miss it by inches. Then there's the rest of the ride you can see in the pictures. I convinced Mimi to go in the single-rider lineup for this as well, and she accepted, only because she was thinking "Gee, this seems 
like a gentle ride." She completely ignored the vertical drop because she was too busy thinking about the saw. When she got on the ride she closed her eyes and (sadly) missed all the gory stuff inside. She only opened her eyes when she noticed they had slowed down, only to be staring right at the sky. That's when she realised she was vertically being pulled up and thought "Oh my, oh my! What goes up must come down! And I'm on it!"
like a gentle ride." She completely ignored the vertical drop because she was too busy thinking about the saw. When she got on the ride she closed her eyes and (sadly) missed all the gory stuff inside. She only opened her eyes when she noticed they had slowed down, only to be staring right at the sky. That's when she realised she was vertically being pulled up and thought "Oh my, oh my! What goes up must come down! And I'm on it!"After that we rode Nemesis Inferno with a 50 minute lineup. We're lucky it was a cloudy school day, (even if there was a school field trip here.) Otherwise we would be in line for 2 hours! Or on Summer vacation, 4 hours! I convinced my Mom Gwen to ride this one with me, but Mimi refused a few times. It was a floorless ride with many loops and corkscrews.
Well, I gotta go. My Mom Gwen needs this computer. (I'm typing this time.)
I went on a lot more rides but don't have the time to talk about them on here. E-mail me for the other rides. I've been here for over 40 minutes so I'd definately better go now. [GAME OVER.]
P.S. I'm sorry about the typos, grammer mistakes, and punctuation mistakes my Mom Gwen made last time. Bye.
P.P.S. I'm also sorry how the computer won't let any 'enters' appear here, starting at the end of the Saw description. Bye again.
We've just read about all those exciting rides - and I'm quite sure that it was more fun for us to read about them than to go on the rides ourseleves. We are on our way - in just a few minutes- to see Chris, Anne and Robert. It was snowing last night but the sun is shining this morning. (The golf course we see from our windows still has a white cover.) I hope you have a good rest today after all the miles travelled yesterday on the rides. Say Hello from us to the cousins in Wales. Love from G & G
ReplyDeleteM.E. here -- just to say that although Ben may have thought that No Way Out was a tame ride - riding very fast backwards and down a few very significant drops in the dark left me feeling as though I could pass out a few times. Luckily it was a short ride! And the Saw - well, let's just say next time I'll look carefully at the ride before jumping on.
ReplyDeleteWe're getting behind here on recording our activities -- need to write about Hampton Court Palace, driving on narrow roads on the 'other' side, the Jurassic coast .... but now we're off to Stonehenge, Salisbury cathedral and more .... til later
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