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Austin’s Top 10 Rollercoasters! Hello everyone and welcome to the first of a 2 part series where both me (Austin) and Tom will be counting down our top 10 Rollercoasters of all time! 10. The Big one Starting off at my home park of Blackpool Pleasure Beach, we have the U.K’s tallest roller coaster (for the time being anyways). The feeling that you get going down that first drop is comparable to nothing else in the U.K, the views you get of the area are spectacular and can get fairly intense at some points. Only if I had the money to buy a whole piece of its track to put in my garden. 9. Revolution  Staying at Blackpool, there’s not much to say about this Arrow Dynamics shuttle coaster. This little guy packs such a massive punch that each time I come off it I’m stunned over and over again. But please Blackpool, add a lift, my knees can’t deal with those stairs anymore, especially in the rain. 8. Wild Maus XXL Our first of two travelling coasters on my list, we have the Mack w

OK so we are fully in the miserable closed season and as I go insane trying to keep myself occupied to February, I decided to wonder what I would like the parks I've been to, to add. The ones I've been to so far are Pleasure Beach, Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, Fantasy Island, Drayton Manor and Flamingo Land. But who doesn't love a top 10? That's why I'm throwing Chessington, Paultons Park, Oakwood and Pleasurewood Hills into the mix and trying to plug gaps these parks have from what I can see. I know some of these predictions are outlandish and a couple of parks are already getting new rides but that won't stop me speculating.  Pleasure Beach- RMC Raptor These look like so much fun and a great marketing opportunity for the first single rail in Europe. I think it would add on what Icon did and give the park a big 5 coasters and really put the park on a map of essential parks across the world. It can be stylised like Icon and be put around the Hub, getting rid of so

I make it no secret that dark rides are one of my favourite attractions out there. They are so immersive, fun and great family experiences. They have a charm and are great vessels for storytelling, they have lovely soundtracks and are perfect during the rain. I love these rides so much and want to talk about those in the UK as we have some great ones out there.  Wallace and Gromit: Thrillomatic  There seems to be a consensus that this is the best dark ride in the country and I will not be disagreeing with this sentiment. The nostalgia of the Aardman claymation classics makes this irresistible to enjoy, especially with the incredible scenes. Me and Austin may know the majority of the audio and we are definitely proud of that. It's how a tracked dark ride should be: charming, fun, immersive, engaging and memorable. One massive tick for me there. 🧀 River Caves Staying in Blackpool, you can really tell I love that place. This ride is one of the oldest at the park and with occasional u