Category: UK
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Top 5 Rides at Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Blackpool Pleasure Beach opened in 1896 by A.W.G. Bean and his partner John Outhwaite. The park has remained family owned ever since and the current managing director, Amanda Thompson, is Bean’s great-granddaughter. The original park was built on the sand dunes along the promenade and consisted of a few roundabouts, a bicycle railway and several…
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Top 5 Rides at Thorpe Park
Thorpe Park is a British theme park that initially opened in 1979. Since 1979 the park has undergone many expansions, which have turned Thorpe Park into one of most popular theme parks in Europe. Located about 20 miles (32 km) from central London, this park is an easy visit for tourists. Thorpe Park is a…
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Top 4 Halloween Events In The UK
Halloween continues to grow year on year in Britain and this is reflected in the ever increasing number of Halloween events in the UK. In our opinion, the best places to celebrate Halloween are theme parks. Many theme park fans located in the UK plan their trips to Orlando around Universal Studios incredible Halloween Horror Nights…
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Top 5 Rides at Alton Towers
Alton Towers is the largest and most popular theme park in the UK. The park has always been our favourite theme park in the UK as we believe it has the best selection of roller coasters out of all the parks in the UK. Not only does the park have the best coasters but we…
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Alton Towers- A History of the Dark Forest
Alton Towers has had a long and interesting history. We have already covered the many changes of X-Sector and Forbidden Valley. In this article, we are going to continue this discussion by exploring the Dark Forest. Anyone that is lucky enough to be familiar with Alton Towers, will have enjoyed many hours in the Dark…
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Alton Towers – A History of Forbidden Valley
In our last Alton Towers article, we explored the long and changing history of X-Sector. This time, we are going to travel back in time to when Forbidden Valley began its life as Aqualand. Today, Forbidden Valley is home to the world renowned B&M inverted coaster Nemesis and the flying coaster Galactica. Forbidden Valley is…
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Top 5 rides coming to UK theme parks in 2021
2020 has been an extremely challenging year for the theme park industry in the UK. The delayed opening of the parks resulted in many attractions due to welcome guests in 2020 having their opening dates pushed back to 2021. This was due to either parks wanting attractions to enjoy a full season in their debuting year or, in…
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Alton Towers – A History of X-Sector
Anyone that is lucky enough to be familiar with Alton Towers, will have enjoyed many hours riding the array of attractions in X-Sector. X-Sector is one of the key areas of the park and is home to two of the park’s main attractions, Oblivion and The Smiler. The area has gone through many changes over…
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Alton Towers – Visiting the Chained Oak
The chained oak and Alton Towers, a true local legend that you can visit on your next trip to the park. ‘For every branch of the old oak that falls, a member of your family will die!’ If you’ve ever been to Alton Towers, then you’ve probably been on Hex. If not, then next time…
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Roller Coaster Records
Rollercoaster enthusiasts and theme parks themselves love to talk about the latest roller coaster records being broken. Fans love to ride the fastest, tallest and longest coasters while parks love to boast about the records their coasters hold. In this article we will look at which coasters currently hold a variety of different types of…