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Post September 1st, 2016, 2:15 am
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Olympia Looping is going to be at Winter Wonderland at Hyde Park in London this winter.

The ride will be part of the huge German travelling funfair from November 18th to January 2nd - which features several other rides such as the 80m tall KMG "Mission Space" and Airwolf, which is similar to the new ride at Canada's Wonderland.

I'm pretty excited about this - definitely going to look into getting down there for an evening!
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Epic news for us! :D
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Almost makes the idea of visiting London not instantly repulse me.


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can't belive this is going to be there, it's absolutly gigantic (not sure if i'll be able to go to WW this year, though)!



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Looks so much fun to me as I love dangling my feet! :D
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AND I had an opportunity to study abroad in the winter in London...kinda wish I enrolled in that now...

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gouldy wrote:
Almost makes the idea of visiting London not instantly repulse me.


Almost.


The worst bit is that Winter Wonderland is literally everything you hate about London (overpriced, crowded, the people) but with a sick fairground at the heart of it all.
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mkingy wrote:
The worst bit is that Winter Wonderland is literally everything you hate about London (overpriced, crowded, the people) but with a sick fairground at the heart of it all.


A good thing there will be some Dutch and German rides this year to reduce that London feeling.
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mkingy wrote:
gouldy wrote:
Almost makes the idea of visiting London not instantly repulse me.


Almost.


The worst bit is that Winter Wonderland is literally everything you hate about London (overpriced, crowded, the people) but with a sick fairground at the heart of it all.


To me London looks like this weird hybrid that has all of the bad things about San Francisco and New York City fused into one being.
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Coasterkidmwm wrote:
mkingy wrote:
gouldy wrote:
Almost makes the idea of visiting London not instantly repulse me.


Almost.


The worst bit is that Winter Wonderland is literally everything you hate about London (overpriced, crowded, the people) but with a sick fairground at the heart of it all.


To me London looks like this weird hybrid that has all of the bad things about San Francisco and New York City fused into one being.


Even worse it's full of British people
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UK - (10/12/16) Bad news for the UK... according to Screamscape sources the previously mentioned plan to bring Olympia Looping to the UK over the winter looks to have been scraped for unknown reasons. Any mention of it coming from removed from the coaster's website sometime last Friday.
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WOW that is ass. I'd be really pissed if I was from there.
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I guess they saw the price of the going by train and thought: Screw that.
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This is an unexpected news, oh gosh what a letdown... :sad:
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Just asked the Winter Wonderland Facebook page about Olympia Looping and this was their reply:
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hoppyben wrote:
Just asked the Winter Wonderland Facebook page about Olympia Looping and this was their reply:

sounds promising!

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sounds like they were having issues with permits maybe?
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^ Uh-oh, the word "issue" also makes me think of the case where a new attraction (Was supposed to be a coaster.) at Blackgang Chine (Anyone familiar with that park?) didn't meet UK safety regulations.

Make a wish for Olympia Looping. Be a miracle! :)
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hoppyben wrote:
Just asked the Winter Wonderland Facebook page about Olympia Looping and this was their reply:


Yeah they're going to be like:

"We got this KICK ASS Zamperla spinning mouse instead! YEAH!"
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The area for it is listed in the planning application so there's always hope.
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Hope for a hopeful idea! Not a "hope against hope" thing! :)
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One of the ECC members spotted a piece of black loop from the Olympia looping, driving West here in the Netherlands. As the ride finished operating on the fairground in Bremen, Germany. I think that's a good guess to see it going to the UK.

Why else would it travel via the Netherlands? Let alone in a westbound direction.
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They could put it on SFDK's cursed concrete lot that makes all rides disappear after two seasons lol
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