oakwood theme park trip report

hello again peeps, time for another photo heavy trip report and there is something special too, my first animated GIF.


friday 4th of june was a very very hot day. a perfect day to visit oakwood and ride some awsome coasters and some extreamly wet rides too and to have fun on extreamly dangerous rides, politically incorrect rides and just plain lame ones too.

im shure your more intrested in photos than me yabbering on so im going to do the trip report as we go.


coulden't really miss the entrance could you


the line just befor the gate opens, its all of about 40 people and the park was quiet all day, fantastic


there are red trees


trees with pink flowers


pretty rocks


and gouldy's thinking im wierd taking pictures of plants instead of coasters, its a random day today


i see speed testing, but single train operation made the line longer than 20 mins even with 40 people in the que.......


yes hello hydro, but since your not open till 2PM we will see you later


welsh postmen dont clean there vans.


first ride of the day, megafobia and yes its awsome


look an indoor vertical slide, skip that i think, NEXT


this is the reason the bobsleigh is awsome, its dangerous and i have seen people hurt themselves


POV 1, like my boots?


POV 2, in the mid turn befor you really start to pick up speed


unfortunetly linny found the break and gouldy caught her up pretty quick


this extreamly EVIL device is called waterfall and i both love and hate it, it does produce alot of adrenaline and the slide is one hell of alot steeper than you think, but


as i came down the slide at an extreamly fast pace i remembered


no theres water at the bottom of this drop, ahhhhhhhhhhhh i scared


even the birds were hot and was trying to find shade


this is the treetops and gouldy knows that were about to risk our lives' yes truly on some of the turns if you lean out of the cat to the side more than a few inchs you will be smashed in the face with a tree, and not a branch either.


speed looked so pretty today in its orange and green colours and was running well except for the poor dispatch by the staff and this was a problem on all rides with all the staff..... more on that in a little bit


anyride that does this to people is fantastic IMO


hello totally forceless huss tower, its a shot and then a drop tower. the shot isnt very powerful so on the drop i got a penny and held it out in front of me on my hand and it didnt even leave the palm of my hand for a split second. one simple word.... LAME


i love this drop because you get the pleasure of having lots of airtime then the pain of your spine being crushed at the bottom, pure awsomeness


fast turns and sharp drops makes this ride the top woodie that i been on so far, the layout is just pure genious and the park really does look after it too....... plus even though it was single train operation the staff on this were brillient and the longest we qued at any time was 15 mins and that was once, the rest of the time it was pretty much walk on


the wood isnt stained, painted or washed so its a very earthy natural coaster and its perfect


hello mr OKish tasting chicken burger


we all turned around to find out what a banging noise was and when we turned back gouldy had eaten it all


except for this chip


oakwood invested in an airport


noooooo that would just be plane crazy a fun flying ride that was again on a very poor dispatch routine, and we waitied for it now who feels dumb?


PHOTOSHOP CONTEST!!!! what should the sign on the wall behind linny say? get the best one in the next 2 weeks and ill send you 1000 points (!be nice or be warned!)


airtime


small spinal adjustment


RANDOM FLOWER


pretty red train on megafobia on the break run. the breaks move about 2ft forward as it breaks


i'd rather not talk about this one


RANDOM FLOWER 2


a very pretty park and this is how busy the walkways were all day


LOOK, its spooky (not very) 3D. it was odd and rather rubbish, nothing about this ride was 3D.


but it had statues waring bra's


and you get given glasses on sticks


now here is one of the majour reasons to visit this place is for brer rabbit, now you know your in Wales. theres rabbits on toilets, rabits rapping, rabbits playing with electricity, rabbits stuffed in washing machines and the one most awsome thing in the world, a room with rabits drinking beer even a rabbit passed out on the floor with a beer inbeded in its mouth. its just one big laugh from one end to the other and is worth it for the laughability factor


not just a party, its a rap party


steven thought this was the funnyiest sign in the world and got told to quieten down by the train driver


this should be the parks motto but they need to add "or else" at the end of the scentence


they had one of these silly little coaster and no they wouldent let us on


there indoor play area looked wicked but again KIDZ ONLY, not fair


what the hell is a smoby?


GOULDY!!!!!!! stop chasing butterflys and lets ride some coasters


more first drop goodness


and the award for the most inovitive ride name goes to


best rule of the whole park not 1 screaming or crying kid on a ride it was great and i say well done oakwood for this rule


huss pirate ship and this is a really good one too but it was spoilt


it was spoilt by this ride-op.... not only miserable but wouldent start the ride untill the boat was compleatly full down to the last seat, he even split up a family to fill 1 seat then he "acidentally" on puropse hit a kid on the way out of the gate. if you ever see this ride op around the park watch him carfully and keep away from him. he should of been fired along time ago!


water ride time and we was on cobra, it was really fun with a long shallow drop to start but it quickly gained speed. then the drops were very cool too as it was compleatly dark and you did get pretty high up the walls of the slide itself. its was a little wet but well worth it and we went on again later in the day


gouldy and linny off into the abis


sign of qulity? yes but not on this piece of junk


from out the front of the ride the trees look far away but behind the bush's the very well not


but its a very very fun kiddy coaster and is always abit of a laugh and i think very cool as its one of the only coasters where the tree removal was truly the absaloute minimum


time to get very very wet on hydro. its a cool ride with an intence drop and alot of wetness at the end but again the short que was ruined by poor dispatch, i timed one dispatch from load to unload and it was just over 7 minuits which is totally silly for the type of ride it is and not only that the ride is open from 2PM till 5PM so thats not even half the park opening day. sorry to say but oakwood needs to sell this to another park and put that cash towards a log flume or a rapids type ride that would suit it better and cost them less to run.


the ride is very photo genic though and dose look the part


SKLOOOOOOOOOOOOSH


everyone is wet in 3......2......1.....


the first touch is always the softest


NERD shot


the water from hydro was so cool and refreshing


just so you know gouldy dosent do heat, sunny or hot and water did nothing to help him


RANDOM LEAF


i dont think i can say more about this ride apart from how poor it is and how much it needs to be more forcefull


art'sy shot of speed in the loop


you think greatbear has that one odd support, well look at this one. its totally useless and nothing like the rest around the turn for absoloutly no reason


almost perfectally round loop like a swarpy but nowhere near as forcefull, speed is all about the airtime on the first hill, the section into the MCBR and the high G final helix


still think this is the only really coaster properly dedicated to no limits


since last year they have actually added some themeing


were on the padel boats with the worst turning circle in the world. if you know what linny and steven are looking at PM gouldy and tell him


whats going through gouldys mind? wouldent you like to know?


the the boat started to leak, great


but from here we can get more photos of megafobia


anyone else feel like eating fish and chips about now?


whatever your doing to steven stop it


we were pretty shure this ride op was trying to kill gouldy


one final look at hydro as we leave for the front gate



overall yet another random and fun trip for the UK coaster crew. we had alot of laughs, seen some bad things and some good thing
the park has some very good rides in it but the dispatch is the poorest i have come across. the lines didnt need to be as long as they did even on a single train dispatch and quite a few of the ride ops were either rude or lazy, the park food is not great and i would say take some lunch with you if you go. its a very worth while park to visit but once a year is enough and there are other parks closer to home id rather go to even though this park has a very very very good woodie and what is still my favorite euro-fighter.
and a final image for you as i leave you with this gif of hydro



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i wanted to go
great report though

Cool pictures, gazag, thanks! I think Speed and Megafobia still look like two of the damn coolest rides around.

[gouldy]

Megafobia is just awesome. No other ride really puts a smile on my face like that does. Everytime you ride it something hilarious happens, usually involving some form of injury

Sweet pictures, Gaz. I'm loving the ones that Linny took of you going down that big waterslide thing, your face is amusing!

I only have one complaint; there was a pair of ridiculously hot twins, one of which especially was unbelievable... I was hoping that one of your pictures might have caught them, but they didn't [V]

[Dirk_Ermen]

Awesome TR Gary! Too bad I couldn't be there, I'd really want to go back to Oakwood again!

im shure we will get you over here and back to oakwood sometime dirk

sorry gouldy looked again throught all 385 photos and no sexy twins

ans staff, front page please

Cool trip report. I love Oakwood, but I agree the ride ops need much better training and stricter rules regarding the way they treat customers.

The only ride they really pay any attention to you is Hydro because they want to make sure you are absolutely secure on that one and we all know why!

Cause of this accident some years ago?
Hey gaz I'll get soon some Info's,when I get to EP,I'll PM you,when I know more.

[Turbo]

wtf is up with that one support on speed? it is so un-needed

[gouldy]

^ I honestly don't know. My only really credible theroy is that it's to do with the construction of the ride. Like, they needed to be able to move vehicles of some description (cherry pickers, mobile cranes) through that area after the supports were positioned and therefore needed to create a gap of some kind. Once the ride is completed though, that support has no special requirement that I can see, which makes it so odd that it's different to those around it.

It's not to create a space for anything to move through now either, because that area leads to nowhere and is all fenced in, so now the ride is a finished unit, I can't see any reason for the special support. It's use must lie with the construction. Unless anyone else has got any brain waves about it?

the only thing i can think is that there is something lyeing beneath that we carnt see and that they carnt drill throught and it was cheaper to have a support like that instead of getting through it? otherwise i dont know.