A visual accompaniment for the latest episode with David Sims.
Basics:
RIDES:
- Professor Burp's Bubbleworks
- Gruffalo River Ride Adventure -- the less-loved replacement of "Bubbleworks"
- Terror Tomb featuring "Abdab" -- the awesome part happens around 6:06
- BONUS: Resurrecting Abdab
- Remeses Revenge -- top spin ride
- Dangerous-looking Magic Carpet ride that David mentions
- Dragon Falls -- log flume
- Vampire Ride
- The 5th Dimension -- featuring "Zappomatic" tv-repair animatronic
- BONUS: Nickelodeon Muzzy language-teaching commercial -- Je Suis La Jeune Fille!
There was a great little documentary about the 1994 ride Terror Tomb on YouTube that seems to have been made private. It was up for a number of years, does anyone have a copy? Would love to rewatch.
Comped is outside Chessington World of Adventures. Why? Because Comped, of course, is a fan of all sorts of theme parks. He even looks like a theme park character. While he's walking to the ticket area, a young boy runs up to him.
Boy: Mummy! There's a hedgehog escaped from the zoo!
Comped: I'm not from the zoo!
Boy: It's talking to me!
Now the boy's mother appears. She's annoyed, and holding a cup of brewed beans. Why people drink that shite nobody knows, but Americans probably have something to do with it.
Mother: Calm down Billferd. No animals talk. Especially zoo animals. Damn child's been watching too much of those damn talking American animal shows on the television.
Comped: God Save the Queen!
Comped looks cute, as always. The mother looks as if Comped had turned into Pennywise and offered her up someone to eat.
Mother: There must be something in my coffee... SOMEONE SLIPPED SOMETHING IN MY COFFEE! THERE'S A HEDGEHOG OVER HERE AND IT's A UNIONIST!
A crowd begins to gather.
Comped: Nobody slipped something in your coffee, at least I don't think. And yes, I told her God Save the Queen. It is a standard greeting for persons who do not know each other and want to establish a culture of mutual respect around a common figure of public life and endearment.
Comped wouldn't know for sure. He wasn't there when she brewed her beans. Or was he?
Mother: The hedgehog won't talk to it if you don't talk to it. The hedgehog won't talk to it if you don't talk to it....
The crowd looks at the woman as if she had just suggested that she ought to strip naked and play Parcheesi with two married professors of around the senior age, while the crowd make the freshest chocolate-covered creamed corn and they all sing songs from The Book Of Common Prayer. The boy breaks the uncomfortable tension with a really bad idea.
Billy: Mummy - we should take the hedgehog back to the zoo!
Mother: OK Billy. We can take him back. Maybe the hedgehog will go back to normal if we take it to somebody who can put ti back in its enclosure.
The crowd expresses their displeasure at the idea.
Comped: I am not from the zoo! I already told your son that! I am a bloody Duke! The Most Noble Duke of Abercorn! I was knighted for my services to communities in Northern Ireland! I was First Minister of Northern Ireland! I was literally on TV a few days ago talking about the 2030 World Cup bid! I am not a zoo animal!
Man: The little hedgehog is right! My cousin in Northern Ire
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