Keeping the kids’ excitement levels up while queueing at theme parks can be a real challenge. Parks make a real effort to make the queueing areas good and entertaining, but there’s only so much you can do to an hour-long line to make it fun.

Luckily, an enterprising stay-at-home dad named Scott Wegner has put together an iPhone app and book to keep the kids busy while you wait in line and provide theme park-loving families with handy tips to make the most of your visit.

Scott’s website promises that you’ll find all this inside the book:

 Tips to help you maximise your theme park fun, including advice for: 

• Building excitement

• Hints for happiness

• What-to-carry checklist

• Bring-your-own games

• Avoiding queues

• Conquer coaster fear

• Taking coaster photos

Loads of activities to keep the whole family busy. Categories include:

• Who goes first?

• Front vs back

• Riding techniques

• Practical activities

• Guessing games

• Word/number activities

• Dreamy ideas

• Action activities

• Measuring games

• Sound ideas

• Brain teasing conundrums

• iPhone / mobile internet activities

An impressive collection of roller coaster trivia, includes: 

• Theme park attendance figures

• Rollercoaster records (tallest, fastest, steepest etc)

• Rollercoaster variations (types of: layouts, powers, inversions etc)

• Rollercoaster milestones