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| American Adventure This park is a real gold mine of rides and top thrills, but yet another victim of a large ownership of a leisure company who don't know what they are doing and how to pull in crowds. They lack a bit of investment and a good few months of advertising to make people aware of this hidden park, it started off really well in 1986 and had some good investment, but there hasn't been any more since then. The park originally opened in 1985 under the name of Britannia Park, and it was built on the site of an old Coal Mining Quarry, the park wasn't very successful and didn't attract a lot of attention. Then in 1986 the Granada company bought it and decided to make it a top attraction, they installed the River Rapids and the Missile, the park pulled in it's biggest crowd in 1989 of over 1 million visitors, ever since then the number has decreased down to 400,000. Another leisure corporation bought he park and they promised a new turnaround, the promised the worlds biggest wooden rollercoaster and some more to attractions, but 4 years on there is nothing new and they are thinking of selling it off to be a water park. The park has some top quality rides and is a well themed park, that boasts the highest Log Fume ride and the highest Skycoaster, but these were added 4 seasons ago and there hasn't been much since, they added a ride called the Flying Island which was removed the following year. The park has an American theme and includes some really good themed areas that have daily shows and rodeo tournaments; they have some good coasters and lots of other thrill rides and attractions. They were supposed to be buying the Texas Tornado from Frontier Land in Morecambe, but they said that they didn't have room for it and it would be expensive to move, if they added this or the highest wooden rollercoaster the park would be a gold mine and back on top form, they already have 2 good coasters to thrill visitors but they are too old. The Missile- This space themed ride is probably the biggest attraction they have there, and it still is a quite exhilarating ride to this day even though there are plenty of these Boomerang type rides all over the U.K. It has a great reverse lift hill and a brilliant drop followed by a double half-loop/corkscrew and then a vertical loop, then up another lift hill and dropped down backwards through it all again, this is a good ride and was the first of it's kind in the U.K. there are now other versions at Pleasure Island and at Butlin's. 8/10 Nightmare Niagara- This is the old 3 drop log flume that had 2 drops inside and one large one outside, until they decided to make the large drop outside into and extra-large one, it was the highest in the world in 1995 and is about 90ft high. The ride shares the same building as the Runaway Train, it travels up inside the building a drops out the other side and then back through the building underneath, and then into a mountain side and down a bigger drop, then outside, up the 90ft structure, and down to a soaking end. 6/10 Twin-looper- This was the original Soopa-Loopa ride from Lightwater Valley, it was brought here in 1994 and was themed and named after the Gladiator's, it was opened by the Gladiator team and was tried and tested by them. This helped them to attract a few more visitors and open a different area of the park, the ride always has a small queue and is a very tame ride, it is basically a raised loading platform with a lift hill and then a curved drop, followed by 2 loops and a series of small twists and bends. 6/10 Skycoaster- This isn't really a ride or a rollercoaster but a tame excuse for a bungee jump, your are hung underneath a giant 200ft structure by cables and you are winched up like a pirate ship, and then you release yourself and swoop down and backwards and forwards like a swing. There are other rides like this on the Blackpool pier, Southport and Skegness, you pay extra for this ride but not as much as you would at Blackpool or the others. 7/10 Runaway Mine-train- This is a great ride and is based on a similar design to the one at Alton Towers, a long Mine Train that is speedily powered along the track and round lots of bends and tunnels, it is themed along with Nightmare Niagara and is well worth a try. 6/10 Motion Master- This is one of those odd simulator rides where your seat moves instead of the room, you are sat in a Cinema and you watch a 3d adventure movie like Aliens, whilst your seat moves abruptly to the movement on screen and you are thrown about. This is not really thrilling or scary, but it is a great experience that must be tried as long as the queue isn't too big. 4/10 |