The thing with Dyslexia is that unless you actually suffer with it, it's very hard to understand the profound frustration it can cause. There's nothing like having to fight day after day with the most basic of human skills to really imbue you with a sense of grim determination that you're going to g...

Plus they are many other things out there that are worth getting cross about and I hate to say this but this isn't one of them. Such as replacing the word 'there' with 'they'? .... sorry, couldn't help it. Considering an estimated 10% of people suffer from some form of dyslexia, it seems a little i...

Is it the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia?

Thing is, you say all that but If I for example, use Parc Asterix, they charge 44 euros on the gate to get in, charge 8 euros for their car park, charge 8 euros minimum for a meal on park (as well as the fuel costs) and yet thats a park thats seen their park attendence grow (pre Oz'Iris). It can't ...

DiogoJ42 wrote:

Looks utterly boring and worthless.

But... but... it has shipping containers... surely that means it must be a sure fire hit?

The two behind the cages are the same as the operatives that lead you out of the lifts.

The thing is that having read Republic's Twitter feed, they seem to be saying that what actually happened was more people turned up to their protest then they were expecting, which from your point of view can only be a good thing surely? And it was an unfortunate by product that the extra numbers me...

So Disney's latest entertainment has now had it's soft opening at California Adventure. The Mad T-Party replaces Elec-Tron-ica, and looks... well... wow! Why can't we have nice things like this? A few pics from Dateline Disneyland : http://datelinedisneyland.smugmug.com/DisneylandResort/2012/05-28-1...

I find it rather alarming that we're now discussing the black and white version of this debate where you're either a Republican or a Monarchist. What about the proud percentage of the population who honestly don't care about this particular debate... those who are quite happy having a monarchy, but ...

If they can get Grace Jones and her hula hoop into the Olympic opening ceremony, that would be truely spectacular!

Sam wrote:

In other news: I'm an accidental racist.

If it's any help I earlier referred to him as Ling Ling, until my sister pointed out that was actually a Panda.

A bit of number crunching for you from t'interweb: These things aren't easily quantifiable but I'm sure she and the royal properties more than earns the money they cost as an investment from the tourism they brings in. Apparently the Crown Estates (the queen's public property portfolio), which by lo...

While I personally am mostly against having a central government, having an elected President/PM as head of state of the UK would be better to an unelected person totally out of touch with the general public. Not entirely out of touch... after all everyone loves bunting! My thoughts would be that s...

I'll have a proper read of this when I'm awake enough to do it justice, but as one of TTF's railway enthusiast contingent, the first question that it raises is whether the former Railcar Steak Bar coach body (or mock coach body) is now outside the big brick-built place on your right as you leave Ch...

The Multi-Screen Entertainment Suite was effectively the 3D Cinema, which stood where Sharkbait Reef is now.

Oooh... now this is everso exciting. Because whilst that is the 1989 Guide, I think it's part of the rare batch that were actually sold in the 1990 season, before Tussauds bought the park. The silver sticker on the front is actually covering where the cover originally said "1989", which I ...

CoasterCrazyChris wrote:

And since when did Caribbean islands have mine shafts!?

I'm going to take a stab at when they realised there were minerals deep underground that they desired to mine in order to utilise. 

I'll give you that they're not the most common feature in the Caribbean, but it does happen.

It would depend on how they check the passes for parking purposes. If the system is anything like the Towers system WC won't have any record how often any given pass is being used to park with.

The problem with BOGOFs is that they are a faff to get hold of. I can honestly say I have only ever once been given a BOGOF voucher in the normal course of my life. If I wanted to get one from tea/cearal/newspaper subscription/round of colonic irrigation, I would actually have to go out of my way to...

What.... an... improvement. It no longer feels like a ride in desperate need of updating. It no longer feels like a clunking failure. It has moved away from "alright" and is something closer to the ride the park were wanting it to be and a satisfactory small scale addition. After all who d...