MEDIA
RIDES
the world’s first inverting looping playground slide
The following account is recreated from interviews with those who were there, and then dramatised for the internet. All video footage contained below is...
VR Playground for your audience
Can you remember swinging in the playground as a child: enjoying sensations of speed and weightlessness as you swooped high and low; laughing with...
REPORTS
We need to talk about thrill: advice for 16 to 18 year olds who...
If you're anywhere between the ages of 16 and 18 then your appetite for sensation seeking is at its height, and your perception of...
Roller Coaster Challenge: win a badge
This week, out of the blue, and amidst everything going on, I was sent the most amazing message and photograph from this chap, Mylo....
Thrill Engineer Brendan Walker on the Science of Sensation
'According to Thrill Engineer Brendan Walker, the mostΒ thrilling moment of any theme park experience is just before it begins.
'That brief interlude between being...
EXPERIMENTS
Oblivion: Thrill Laboratory
Alton Towers invited Brendan Walker to stage a Thrill Laboratory event based at the park in 2008. Walker chose to focus the event on...





















