I'm too impatient for theme parks. I mean, I enjoy roller coasters and whatnot, but I'm too impatient to wait. I won a pass and a fast pass to the Universal Studios theme park in Florida one year when I was staying at an adjoining hotel for a conference there. Was about 4 years ago. Week before Thanksgiving so was quiet because after summer crowds had left and no schools are out because they're all out the next week for Thanksgiving instead... Apparently the quietest week of the year. Combine no crowds with fast pass and I went on a work day (nothing I wanted to see at conference that day)... Was perfect got to ride everything with no wait.
My best memory of a theme park was Wet n Wild in Florida. ****ing loved that place. Think it's closed now and they've opened a new one accross the road, and even transported all the rides over. If I remember correctly it was so big you'd have to get a tram/bus around to see it all. Kamikaze and the black hole were boss.
Haven't been to a proper theme park for years... last one was some strange one in South Wales about a decade ago.
Quick look tells me it's Oakwood Theme Park. My main memory is an orange steel rollercoaster with a beyond vertical drop and that my mate found a pack of cigarettes with two ready made spliffs in it.
Nothing worse than a big wheel ride. Slow as ****, and a feeling off impending death from start to finish..
There is some pikey one that rolls up here every summer, Funderworld. Went there once when I was about 15. Only ride of note they have is that slingshot ball thing which is pretty fun. There was another one where you sit in a row of 4 and a harnass thing comes down over your head. You are sat opposite another row of 4 across the ride, and it sort of spins round in a circle whilst the row goes up and down. It was a pretty **** ride, but I can remember in the row opposite us there was some family of 4 who were all fat as **** and there was a light that turned on when the harnass was secure. The meth'd out pikey clearly hadn't noticed that on the 2 parents harnasses the light was flicking on and off in time with, I'm assuming, their breathing. Spent the whole ride just staring across hoping they would fall out for the LOLS. They didn't unfortunately My mate took his kid there this summer and said he can't believe we were stupid enough to go on any of the rides, said they were all constructed over night by ****ing idiots and was only a matter of time til someone died. Was happy enough to shove his kid on loads of the rides though.
Can't go on rides no more...I was fine until one time I went around 15 years ago. Came off it sickly....messed my whole day up. Tried it again a year or so later...came off sickly. Called it a day and now I am the bag carrier, picnic protector whilst everyone else enjoys the rides.
This is an invaluable role for group visits to expensive parks, particularly ones with pay lockers for personal belongings at various ride queues.
