anothr lot of good rides from the past:
Magic Mouse
mega drop
mega spin
death slide
astroslide
cannonball express
waltzer

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Best ride: le mans

Worst ride: log flume (because it is so short, it could do with another drop, or maybee some water cannons.

This topic is about PAST attractions, not current ones!

And not only is Thunderstruck incredibly boring, its very very old and ugly.

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now who's talking about modern rides? huh?

 

^ Yes it would! It wouldn't be an amazing day out or anything like that, but there would be so much to do at the park, people would actually stay until the afternoon!

Oh, and Hobbohippie, I'll let you off that one, for now...

-- Edited by Martyn on Friday 15th of January 2010 04:43:50 PM

i'd liketo see mega drop and magic mouse back

one of the rides i would like to see back is the Waveswinger (chairs on chains) from the 80s 
The ride used to go up and tilt as it span ,  nice ride to operate, capacity of the ride was good and people used to enjoy it,
bring it back and add water jets around it so its like billy whizzer used to be at chessington
(just had a thought they are re-doing beanoland at chessington for this coming  season does that mean their waveswinger will be for sale???)
i recon this would fit in nicely behind wipeout, infact that is more or less where it stood back in the 80s when the path used top  go in a straight line down to the bottom area.

A ride much worser than Thunderstruck is the sky hooks, this ride dates back to the 1950s  bout time it was relocated to a museum , very slow (used to get sick n tired of people yelling faster faster when it was running at full speed) and slow ride time due to the ride taking ages to stop.

I agee datman, sky hooks should be the first of the current stock to be replaced.

I used to hate operating it, due to the lack of a brake, and making sure you had a even load.

Or had they still had the Waltzers, they could've themed an area to an old-style seaside fairground, adding the Helter-Skelter with Sky Hooks and in keeping with the maritime theme of (some) of the park.

I did want this as its own topic, but for some reason the page to start a new topic wont load for me!

Anyway, I've only just noticed that theres yet ANOTHER ride at Loudoun Castle that used to live at Pleasurewood, the old big Carousel, it can be seen at the top of this page:

http://www.loudouncastle-online.co.uk/rides_family.html

Martyn wrote:

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I did want this as its own topic, but for some reason the page to start a new topic wont load for me!

Anyway, I've only just noticed that theres yet ANOTHER ride at Loudoun Castle that used to live at Pleasurewood, the old big Carousel, it can be seen at the top of this page:

http://www.loudouncastle-online.co.uk/rides_family.html

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Blimey thats a bit of nostalga for me :)

can remember operating that , it used to be where wizzy dizzy is now :)

the whole roof drops down when not in use so the glass panels are covered in the centre coloumn

 

Martyn wrote:

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Mega Drop was replaced by Thunderstruck!

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Whoops that's what I mean't!

Martyn wrote:

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You sure it used to be on Wizzy Dizzys site? When ever I visited when that was there, it was either where Wipeout is, or where Thunderstruck is. And the Eye in the Sky was taking up Wizzys site....?

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ahh im going back further than that im talking about in the early 80s when the main rides at the park was
pirate ship (same location as its always been)
troika (stood where sky hooks is now)
cine 180 (in woody flying schools location)
Ladybird coaster  (now sitg)
and the carosel at the end of main street (wizzy dizzy area)

the area to the right of the clown slide at the sitg area used to be a popular bmx track (many times there was live tv coverage from there when they held the championships at the park)

and enigmas area was taken up with a huge astro slide

 

When I worked at the park in '89, the worst 'ride' to have to sit at all day operating was the Clownaround in the arse end of Fort Fun. I dreaded Alan or Max chucking those keys at me in the morning.  I think in the whole season i probably only got it three times but that was twice too much. The endless tune that it played, looped to infinity is burnt into my brain cells even now.  I remember my mate discovered that the tune was actually on a tape under a little hatch and replaced it one morning with some Queen album i believe but got caught and had to go back to the endless ice cream van sounds :)

Ride I most enjoyed operating was probably the Waveswinger. It was a popular ride and you got the chance to have a pretty good natter with the public whilst counting them in through the gate and then walking round the ride checking to make sure no one was deliberately twisting the chains.

Another ride that could be fun to operate was the Carosel of all things. I seem to recall there was a 'third speed' on the controls that you werent supposed to use as it made the horses  jerk about like bucking broncos but we occasionally did just to amuse ourselves .

-- Edited by Sonic Reducer on Sunday 25th of September 2011 02:04:08 PM