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I wouldn't like to see the postage on that!

Its free P+P haha!!

Wow - I'll get bidding then NOT lol

DOn't you hate it when people put free postage and then you read further and they say you'll have to collect or they will charge you £25 to drive it to you.

someone should buy it an stick an engine an wheels an stuff on it!

Man a go kart, great idea! Never thought of that!!

It's already at £1000, so thats me out of the running...

Someone should buy it and stick it on a roundabout in New Brighton in memory of the wonderful fun fair and fun place New Brighton once was. We could remove that sh*tty metal clown monstrosity and put it there

Id love to own a Dogem car set be fun..

I seen summit once, where a guy had built his own rollercoaster in his backgarden (in the US of course), and it was actually pretty good, no inversions though lol.

This might interest him I guess haha!

Jeeze, £2000!! Still over a week left.

Up to £7300 now, OMG!! It was apparently pulled by eBay the other day as they listed it in the wrong category (like eBay has a category for roller coasters lol), and someone claimed a theme park had bid on it hoping to get a train for their rusty old Vekoma Corkscrew coaster on the cheap lmao, not realising it does not include the chassis.

Each train cost £300,000 in 1996 when they replaced the original one's, so I gues it could be considered a bargain.

Found a funny flaw though...


I can just see some fool coming home pi$$ed, jumping in it and locking the harness... would be a long long night, maybe even days lmao!!

And, oh what an original excuse to use for being late for work

"I was stuck on a ride all night, boss"

Wow it sold for £7300... I wonder who had £7300 to waste haha!!

Alton Towers themselves. It was all a Farce.. theyre just gonna change the layout of the track, and move it somewhere else in the park.

Lol their not PBB you know!!

Ive seen the plans for the new coaster, well the layout plans they have submitted to the council planning, and the new coaster is going to cover about 3x the area... It's going to be a worlds first? Worlds first what though? Worlds first coaster that allows for baby seats to be put on?

To be thruthful though, Oblivion was the last proper worlds first that they constructed (Air was, sort of) and that is still one hell of a ride, and took 8 years for it to be bettered in terms of the prototype it is.

It's no secret that Alton have tried to build a woody in 2003 and 2005, but both times, planning permission was rejected, due to the scale of the projects. It wasnt too bad, because Rita and Spinball Whizzer were built instead, although they lost the Black Hole during this time too.

I think that 6 years after the first proposal for a woody, Alton may have finally been able to develop the coaster so they are confident the planning authorities will agree to it. Unfortunatly, the new coaster will not be located entirely within the area that their General Development License covers, so they will have to await an inquiry, which should be in January.

Back to worlds first though, there is a company that has recently announced the development of a launched woody... so my money is on that.

Oh and they may well be keeping the Ug Land theme, as some of the proposed developments seem to fit in with this; however, without the Corkscrew (which thanks to its Vekoma track looking like dinosaur bones, fitted in perfectly) and Ug Swinger, I believe they will replace it and design a new theme, centered around Rita...