Date: 9th August 2015
Attendees:
Mkingy
Gouldy
JAMMYD778
Holly
Holly's Friend Dani
Gallery: http://imgur.com/a/Ug7wZ
So in what will likely be the final meetup of this coaster seasons we headed over to the rather family orientated theme park of Drayton Manor. It has to be said since the switch away from the high thrill focus (air race being the only major thrill addition since G-Force in 2005 the park seems to be doing fairly well - it was clean and despite being end of season all rides bar Apocalypse floorless were running.
We mostly all arrived at 09:30 which was in hindsight... rather early. We took a wander round the zoo to pass some time before queuing up for G-Force. We bagged a front (me and Holly)/back (Gouldy and Jammy) row ride which was a nice start to the day. G-force perhaps lacks the execution of what is almost a really fun layout - but is enjoyable nonethless. The hangtime in the front on the lifthill is great and the backseat gets a pop of airtime of the first hill. There's some suspect banking throughout the rest of the ride but the turnaround following the bent cuban eight element does prove some laterals in the front.
Following this we took back to back rides on Maelstrom - an Intamin gyroswing. Probably my personal favourite ride at the park because airtime is the best and this does a great job of delivering on that front! Drayton doesn't seem to attract too many silly GP comments but Gouldy did hear "OMG IT WENT UPSIDE DOWN I DIDN'T THINK IT DID THAT?!". No you didn't, because it doesn't.