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Current Issue: 85

Issue 85: "Something new, something blue... Europa Park's Blue Fire"

  • The cover features Blue Fire, the new looping launched coaster at Europa Park.
  • Three pages of Club Corner.
  • Reports on two small Dutch parks both opening new coasters for the 2009 season.
  • Four page report on Blue Fire.
  • A report on Prowler, the GCII wooden coaster at Worlds of Fun.
  • Michael Horwood looks at some coaster transport
  • A report on iSpeed, the Intamin launched coaster at Mirabilandia.
  • A report on Muntanya Russa, the Vekoma coaster at Tibidabo.
  • A report on Pilgrims Plunge, the Intamin Hyper Splash at Holiday World.
  • A report on Falcon, the Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter at Duinrell.
  • A report on Cobra, the compact inverted coaster at Tivoli Friheden that closed last year after an accident.
  • A report on Insane, the Intamin Zacspin at Gröna Lund.
  • A report on Anubis, the Gerstlauer launched coaster at Duinrell.
  • Ten pages of news. Amongst the items covered are roller skating on a coaster, a new Gerstlauer spinning coaster design, Lauri’s successful 2009, Ring°Racer delayed, Efteling’s new wooden coaster, Kiddieland to close, Big Bad Wolf to be removed, Kings Dominion’s new Giga-Coaster, Holiday World’s LIM launched water coaster, new pictures from Ferrari World, Happy Valley Shanghai opening day issues and an update from the impressive Universal Studios Singapore.
  • And this is the second issue that is 100% colour.

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First Drop is the magazine supplied to members of the European Coaster Club. Every new issue contains at least 40 pages of roller coaster news and views from all over the world, along with scores of pictures.

A small selection of the hundreds of articles and pictures that have appeared in recent issues of First Drop are published on this website.

In addition to contributions from Club members, there are regular articles from an international team of dedicated news and feature correspondents with direct links to parks and ride manufacturers around the UK, Europe and the USA, bringing you the very latest information and pictures in every issue.

From time to time, historical items looks at forgotten parks and unusual rides, and First Drop also covers topics rarely featured in other publications.

Over the past fifteen years, First Drop has often been first with the big coaster and park news - take a quick look at the contents lists and you'll see for yourself!

To name a few fairly recent examples, First Drop published the first ever 3D Drawings of Dragons Fury at Chessington World of Adventures and carried exclusive details of Nemesis at Alton Towers months before it was general knowledge.

It doesn't stop there. Where else but First Drop will you find the people that design, make and own the rides telling the story of how their creations came into being? The list of past contributors resembles a "Who's Who" of the white knuckle world, including John Wardley - designer of Alton Towers Nemesis, Oblivion, and Hex, along with the Vampire at Chessington, Dragon Khan at Universal Mediterania to name but a few. We've also had contributions from Dr John Roberts who worked as a structural engineer on many UK rides, including Blackpool's The Big One and Geoffrey Thompson managing director of Blackpool Pleasure Beach - to name but a few.

The information given here has been assembled by The European Coaster Club
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