Winter Wonderland,
Hyde Park January 2012 Update

We made a second visit to the Winter Wonderland event in January 2012. Thanks to the bad weather it was a lot quieter this year, which did take a lot away from the atmosphere. On the plus side it was quiet enough for us to add the kiddie coaster we missed last year to our coaster count, along with a spinning mouse, new to the event this year. As well as the coasters we did a few old favourites, plus a few more new rides for this year.

Like last year a great effort was made to make everything look the part.

These great dodgems were at the entrance of the alpine village area again. Sadly it was to quiet for it to be worthwhile riding the dodgems.

The Alpine village had some additional rides I don't remember seeing from last year, including this ski themed orbiter ride..

Another new ride in the alpine village was this booster ride.

The new roller coaster for this year was this festively decorated spinning mouse. We did get a lot of mad spinning on the lower mouse section.

Also back from last  year is the much rarer inverted mouse roller coaster.

The big new thrill ride this year is this one called Air, similar to Bling at Blackpool. It was one I planned to do, but the weather and the £6.00 a go cost meant that in the end I decided to skip it.

The main new dark ride for this year was this funhouse called the alpine hotel. The first part that sees you climbing up the four floors is a good fun house. There's a bit of a dull point in the middle, were you're just going down the stairs, it's a shame they couldn't fit in a slide down instead. The final part at the back of the funhouse is what really sticks out in the memory though, were it has 3 special effects rooms, where the floor moves, and things move around you one after the other..

A view of the fair from near the top of the funhouse.