The YMCA Post

Welcome back to Ember Dome Bark! As we continue to venture through this imaginary park, I hope it has been engaging to read. In this part we will be looking at the Middle Ages and Western themed areas.  The former will be situated at the very top of the park, opposite the entrance and linking between the Jungle area on the left and the Western town on the right. These areas should have some major rides at the park and some of my favourite ideas so far. This will only leave one area left of the park for the finale but that will also include a full overview and recap of the series. Anyway, its time to go! Middle Ages Village Centre The idea behind this one is to have a Klugheim/Camelot style area. As a history nerd I needed something with historical ties. The idea is you are suddenly transported into the past and find yourself in 14th century England, with all the staff being i  character to heavily convey this idea. The challenge will be to get back to the correct time period as things

 So last Saturday, the 19th of March, I headed to the opening day of Alton Towers to get back on some of my favourite rides as well as trying out a couple that I haven't done. The park was advertised as a sell out so large queues were expected but the weather was nice and the enthusiast community was excited to get back to a special park.  We arrived about half an hour before park opened and got straight in and went to Nemesis to start the day, even if it will be shut for a year for the retrack, it still rides incredibly well. We then ticked off the Runaway Mine Train where the ride op was throwing the iconic 'Choo Choo' out left, right and centre. With the rapids not open yet we headed to X-Sector. The Smiler had a large queue but luckily the single rider line was available so it took us just over half an hour to get on and gave us just enough time to look down on Oblivion. At this point I had a meetup with my fellow finalists of the  KA Coaster Quiz  where the trophy pres

 Welcome back to this series, going through my ideal park that I am pretending to create. The main aim is to make an immersive, well themed, fun and exciting park and ultimately tailored to what I like to see in theme parks across the globe and drawing plenty of inspiration from these places. In this second part, we will be looking at the first 2 of 5 large themed area- these will be a Space and Jungle theme, situated on the immediate left of the entrance via a path through some trees will be the Space themed area and then travelling through a path to past the Space theme to the Jungle themed land.  Space Land To cover this, as I appreciate this s a relatively vague theme. This is set in 50 years time where society has set up a city on the moon. I know it's not too original but it seems pretty neat to me and think done right, will be the signature area of the park, aiming to be Phantasialand level theming across the park but this one just being pushed that bit further to stun guest

 So a bit of something different but I thought it'd be fun if I designed my own theme park, and by design I mean just give a vague theme and what rides would be there. It will be split other 4 parts and try to explain in as much detail as I can what I would do and why and how it would work. I essentially picked rides I'd like to try and then picked out a few themes that I think would be cool to see. This is basically Planet Coaster sandbox mode without actually being able to play the game or have any exact visuals. This is aimed to be just a bit of fun and as a student I still have some optimism left for stuff like this.  So in the first part, I wanted to explain the layout of the park, the entrance and the kids area. Not the most fun parts but good to set a picture and tick a few things off. Layout Right, so the main feature of the park is a large man made lake in the middle and the rest of the areas go around it, kinda like a circle. This lake will be hugs, with a fountain an

 If there is one thing I love to do as an enthusiast when I can't go to parks, its plan what parks I would like to do and when. This started during the lockdown in October 2020 and I keep refining and updating the plan to keep it as accurate as possible. Firstly there's a list of park in the UK to expand my cred list beyond 100 that are aimed to be done in 2022.  UK Credit Plans Starting with a few places large and small, near and far with a total of 23 credits to gain in the next 12 months. Chessington is high on the priority list after not being able to fit in last year along with Southport Pleasureland. Then with the aim of mopping up the credits not too far away before I finish uni, I will hunt down West Midland Safari Park, Cannon Hill park, St Nicholas Park as well as Buffalo coaster at Drayton Manor. Then up near Manchester there are 2 coasters at New Brighton to tick off the list. Finally with the major trip of the year for this country in terms of new parks- Adventure