Most recent Why Jonny Public won't settle for second best Coaster Kingdom investigates parks' insistence on building the tallest, fasted but not necessarily the bestest. Why do parks spend untold amounts on building record breakers only to lose the record soon after.

Interviews

• Life of Bryan - Colin Bryan, managing director of Drayton Manor
  John Thorp managed to catch up with the managing director of Drayton Manor to follow up on our 2004 interview
• Colin Bryan Shockwave anniversary interview
  To celebrate the Shockwave's tenth anniversary, we asked Colin Bryan about the ride's history and how he would have done things differently
• King of the Kermis - Bas Derkink from KMG
  Coaster Kingdom speaks to Bas Derkink from KMG, the European spin ride manufacturer of the moment
• Lynton V Harris from Sudden Impact
  We catch up with Lynton V Harris, creative director of the Sudden Impact! Entertainment Company who have created Thorpe Park's The Freezer and Alton Towers' Terror of the Towers among others
• Adam Slevin Fright Nights interview
  Coaster Kingdom talks to Adam Slevin as he puts the finishing touches to 2006's Fright Nights at Thorpe Park
• Alexys Becerra, Fright Nights actress
  We briefly chat to Alexys Becerra, lead actress on The Asylum and Red Haired Betty from WWTP Radio

Coaster Kingdom goes behind the scenes to find out how the magic happens.

• Fright Nights - Behind the scenes
  Exclusive behind the scenes look at the Fright Nights mazes at Thorpe Park
• Scare School - Part 1
  We look at the various elements that come together to form Warwick Ghosts Alive, a walk-through scare attraction at Warwick Castle
• Scare School - Part 2
  Our in-depth diary and observations from shadowing rehearsals at Warwick Ghosts Alive

Historical

• Wheel of fortune - the history of the Ferris Wheel
  John Phillips chronicles the history of the Ferris Wheel

• Why Jonny Public won't settle for second best
  Coaster Kingdom investigates parks' insistence on building the tallest, fasted but not necessarily the bestest
• Winter Warmers
  Coaster Kingdom's winter survival guide
• Why the long queue
  We look at what causes queues and investigate parks' various ways of keeping the queues moving
• Pay as you go
  We look at whether pay-per-ride entry is finally dying and whether pay-one-price is taking over
• Whatever happened to Huss?
  Coaster Kingdom looks at why new Huss rides are becoming increasingly rare
• Health and safety in the UK
  We try and make sense of health and safety legalisation in the UK and how it affects parks
• Great rides that weren't
  Coaster Kingdom looks at rides that deserve credit for effort, if not for the ride itself
• Improving Fright Nights
  Constructive ideas on how to make the country's best Halloween offering even better
• Getting our fair share
  Why British fairs are closing the gap between them and their continental counterparts
• Fair play
  Why fairs are just as good - if not better - than many theme parks

2004 ride anniversaries

In 2004 we looked back at the history of several rides to be celebrating notable anniversaries, namely Pleasure Beach Blackpool's Big One (10 years old), Captive Flying Machines (100 years old) and Drayton Manor's Shockwave (10 years old)

Big One

• Making a mountain out of a molehill
  How to fit the tallest roller coaster into one of the most compact parks
• The big 10 - ten years of the Big One
  Coaster Kingdom looks at the impact the Big One has had since opening

Shockwave

• Shockwave's Shockwaves
  We look at the impact the Shockwave has had since opening in 1994
• Colin Bryan Shockwave anniversary interview
  We catch up with Colin Bryan, Drayton Manor's managing director, and ask him about the Shockwave

Sir Hiram Maxim's Captive Flying Machines

• Maxim and his Flying Machines (Part 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5)
  Celebrating over a hundred years of the Flying Machines, John Phillips looks at the life of its creator, Sir Hiram Maxim, in an in-depth biography
• Time Flies - Flying Machines timeline
  Our timeline that looks at how the landscape around the Flying Machines has changed in the last hundred years