We went to Thorpe Park on Saturday for the BIG GAY EVENT. Perfect weather and loads of bearded muscle bears kissing in front of shocked families. Actually, it was pretty hard to tell the difference between some of the Dads and the big 'ol gays. I could actually see the perplexed looks on some of the Dads faces as they came face to face with two blokes holding hands and dressed just like them. Everyone at the park seemed to get along fine but this was probably due to the lack of skinny screaming disco queens and bad drag (there was plenty of bad 'straight' drag but this is harder for the non-gays to see). Gaydar ripped us off by charging an extra £5 on top of the entrance fee for 'special events' which turned out to be two dance arenas playing disco-poop (no one was dancing).
Anyway, it was a great day out because I got to ride Stealth (see above) 4 times. We'd been on a version of the ride in LA last year and it was stunning and this version was just as good. The launch (0-85mph in 2 seconds) is like a kick in the guts without the pain.
3 rides on Nemesis Inferno (below) was enough to convince me (again) that the designer John Wardley is a genius. Not a second is wasted on this monster. Hello to the bouncy bloke in the Viv Westwood t-shirt who was off-his-tits on 'something' and was going round and round and round on Nemesis using his VIP Gaydar wristband.
Colossus is the only rollercoaster in the world with 10 inversions. 5 of those are while travelling quite slowly in a straight line (below).
This ride hugs the ground at various points and the foliage and themeing are perfect.
We left before dark and upon our final peek inside the Salvation arena we could see (through all the dry ice) that the life of the party still hadn't arrived. One hundred or so lost-looking folk hugged the perimeter of the dancefloor making the whole thing look a bit like a school disco held in the gym. And why would you want to be in there anyway when you could be outside soaking up the sunset?
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