Paultons Park - Sun 15th March (Meridian TV Region)

Coaster Police · Paultons Park - Sun 15th March (Meridian TV Region)

Hi all.

A great day was had at Paultons Park (a.k.a. Zamperla Land) today. We all turned up ontime in the car park about 09:30. Park opened ontime and we trundled over to The Edge for the new ride, after a short wait, it all opened ontime at 10:30. And first impressions.... very good ride (i've been on an identical one in Europe before), and it didn't disappoint. The general concensus from the group is that it's an excellent ride (and ERS freindly - not that it's a coaster!).

It's very smooth, quick and represents a reasonably major investment for Pautlons. Also, being next to the Cobra, makes that end of the park a very nice area with the two bigger rides.

Following that, we did the Cobra and on the way out, passed a large group from Coaster Force who were also on Park today. We worked our way round the park sampling everything... and yes, thats everything (wait to see people's uploaded pictures!!). Smiler had fun with an ancestor called a Smiladon (some kind of dinasaur) and got rather muddy when attempting the family reunion.

The park is very tidy and clean, and well maintained - everything was working without any failures. The weather was great (i think I caught the sun as i was hot in the car home). So, the only criticism that we have is the price of the catering, it does seem a little on the high side, but thats usual in a theme park with a captive audience.

So all told, a great day out! Thanks to Rich, Jess, Stevie B, Vicci, Hayley, Stephen B, Steve C, and Harvey (OMG, 3 Steve's in the group, only noticed just then!!)

Highlight of the day? Hmm, probably dragging the Zamperla on-site engineer into the group photo!

See ya!
M

bluea61

Had a great day at Paultons today, arriving approximately 09:53:52 for park opening at 10. The Edge was an excellent ride and probably the best kind of Disko. The throughput seemed large and will be a great ride for the park. Very popular today. Even managed to nab Luigi the Zamperla man!

Nice to be able to take it easy and ride everything in the park. I never knew we could ride so much! And also so educational, I never knew Richard "Smilodon" Jones was descendant from dinosaurs.

Thanks everyone who showed up today had a good laugh. I'll try and upload some photos tomorrow.

smiler

Got to the park at around 9:43.56sec due to the sat nav taking me a mile in the wrong direction. The first ride we done was the edge. Built by Zamprela ella this ride is fantastic for this park and a great ride it was to fast smooth and very reliable. Cobra as always a fantastic smooth ride love it everytime. Met up with me mate in dinosaur land got a bit muddy tho Laughing

. All in all a fantatsic day great weather and good met up. O and every ride in the whole park complete even the kids drop tower thing (Thanks Steve for lendding the kids Laughing

) Left the park at 4:54.23 secs. Were be back next year to see whats new this great park has to offer.

Pics can be found here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10803540@N02/sets/

stealth fan

Glad you had a good time guys. I saw Luigi yesterday, but didnt ask his name, so thanks for answering that question.
Wish I could have made it, but the girlfriend was down.

Rogue

Some fab pics there Rich, the weather looked lush for you Very Happy

The new ride looks great too

Coaster Police

Added my pics to FB!

Steven Burns

My photos are up now

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevie-b/sets/72157614694313494/

Thanks guys for a good group meet and see you all at Thorpe Saturday. Cheers to Steve Caine and Smiler for the transport.

Smiledon likes chicken!

Bambi

Another enjoyable visit to this park, has such a lovely atmosphere and everyone is pleasent. The edge was great! I am surprised at the re-ride ability.
The cobra is still really smooth, just like the ERS we had on it 2 years ago.
You all have missed one very important ride which we all got on! The Ladybird!!!!

Overall a very good day out, and it was great to have a catch up with everyone!

bluea61

stealth fan

bluea61

Thats the Rabbit Ride I think, or is it the Mouse ride, or is it Mabbit. Prehaps its the Gary Mabbut ride. I can't quite remember the name.

stealth fan

Me Mum and Tonia went there on the saturday, as a few of you know. On exiting Edge for the first time, Mark Taylor, the park MD who gave us our Cobra workshop tour, took us aside and asked what we thought of the new ride.
They will be building a locker for bags, as we asked why there wasn't anywhere to put them, apart from clogging up the exit.

smiler

sueysue

Arrived at Paultons 09:50 today, not many other people at this time, got a parking space in front row. (By 2pm the car park was full)

Very impressed with The Edge - cool ride! However the rear restraint seems a bit fierce, it rises up slowly then thumps into your back - makes everyone go "oooh".

Cobra was great fun too. Although both these rides were busy, the throughput was very good, only a few minutes to queue each time (is that a "Saw" point?!!)

I also went on Pirate Ship, Stinger, Kon Tiki, Sky Swinger, Dragon Roundabout and Raging River. Looked at the animals and birds and watched the penguins being fed.

Finished off the day by heading over to Poole Quay to see my biker mates.