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School trip season and kids don't know any better.

Is it just me, or does the whole ride get lit up because of the tiny green led lights on the emergency lights? Not the lights, not the emergency lights, but merely the lights that tell you there's power!

Imagine queueing 90 mins for twd 😬

"Lands" at Thorpe is a cyclical process, they get removed and re-added every 3-5 years 😁 I know it's peak season but some of those queue times yesterday were horrific - Hyperia being ded all day didn't help, but Detty on an hour, Walking Dead on 80-90 minutes, Storm Surge on 80-90 minutes. Stealth, Nemmy and Colossus were all 100+ at one point. Grim. But at least the park is making some money so the Tidal Wave flame effect is instated for 2026.

Ah interesting - there have been a couple of fairly high profile people exit their roles at Thorpe now… Hopefully all will be well at Thorpe, because these last few years it’s been run better than it has for a very long time. Good luck to them all I have wondered if a few of the current and recently ex Merlin employees will pop up in Universal. Time will tell!

This new Mack reliability. Voltron keep closing on and off (and I got a rollback).

It opened late yesterday and the closed early (I think between 2 and 3pm?). Tad odd...hopefully nothing serious. Rode fabulously yesterday mind.

She's back to her old ways - yet to open today...

so uh been a few weeks (in fact a month) and no soundtrack

I believe they have as Dead Beat is confirmed for next year's Fright Nights, so Thorpe Park might leave it there until the maze leaves the park.

I've just seen on Linkdin that Russ Gaines, who was the commercial director for the last 6 years has left his role at the park. He was a very public figure, appearing in lots of Jack Silkstones videos and clearly had a lot of passion for the park, so its a shame to see him go. Don't really know what impact hes had at the park during his time but always a shame to see someone with clear passion leave.

Hey all, I'm currently working on an accurate and somewhat complete X playlist, for all the songs that played in the queue line and the pyramid itself. I'm wondering if anyone could send over any personal or online clips from X with music playing in the background. (These songs played between 2013 and 2017 and some may of been removed and changed as the playlist was changed every couple of seasons) My current song list is: - Sweet Lovin' Sigala, Bryn Christopher - Salsoul Nugget (If U Wanna) M&S, The Girl Next Door - Infinity 2008 Klaas Vocal Edit Guru Josh Project, Klaas - Show Me Love (Extended Mix) Steve Angello, Laidback Luke, Robin S - Latch (T.Williams Club Remix) Disclosure, Sam Smith, T.Williams - Intoxicated Martin Solveig, Good Times Ahead - Rumors (Deniz Kayu Remix) Pep & Rash, Deniz Kayu - One More Time (12 Mix) Daft Punk - Domino LMC Remix Jessie J, LMC - Not Letting Go (XYconstant Remix) Tinie Tempah, Jess Glynne, XYconstant - Reload (Instrumental Mix) Sebastian Ingrosso, Tommy Trash - Save The World Swedish House Mafia - Sandstorm Darude - 9Pm (Till I Come) ATB - Miami 2 Ibiza (Extended Vocal Mix) Swedish House Mafia - Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix) New Order, Various Artists - In My Mind (Axwell Remix) Ivan Gough, Georgi Kay, Axwell - Meet Her At The Loveparade (Fergie 7) Da Hool - One (Your Name) Swedish House Mafia, Pharrell Williams - Greyhound Swedish House Mafia Any clips / recordings will be very helpful Many Thanks!

Nah, too quick!

Thanks for showing us something we already knew existed, bud

https://www.towerstimes.co.uk/news/2025/07/11/alton-towers-resort-update-july-2025/ Bianca is out. Big shame in my opinion. Shes was a breath of fresh air and has done a lot of good for the park since shes been there. Sounds like she wanted to do a lot more too, but has never had the budgets to do so. Will be interesting to see what happens next. Towers needs someone good and long term.

The REAL map for 2024

We can all but hope

Green bulb replacement

Stealth is scheduled to be closed 23rd - 25th July. I assume this will be launch cable replacement.

There is always Saw. If Merlins approach becomes cost cutting everywhere IPs may be moved to the chopping block.

Smiler is constantly Towers busiest ride but that doesn't make it the most popular 😘

The double up into the MCBR is just perfection. Was consistently busiest ride when it wasn't breaking down (40 mins average queues) . Though I did get a rollback on the turntable launch section on my final ride so can't complain. Certainly the intensity and relentless nature of it can be its downfall for many as well, but still had people waiting for it all day long. RAP system at Europa wouldn't last 5 minutes at a Merlin park. Just needed an Access Card then up the relevant queue with the only requirement being you wait that ride's queue time before riding that ride again. So you can literally ride Wodan & Blue Fire for example one after the other. Least a good number of the attractions are step-free, with Widan and Euro-Mir being the main offenders. Such a good park, even if the food is still a bit meh. Once they've binned Euro-Mir there won't really be any really weak links in the line-up. Though didnt do Bobsleigh sooooo.

It's a top five for sure. The return journey to the station is some of my favourite sequencing on any rollercoaster, the pacing is just spot on. With Voltron and Helix, Mack prove that if you let them, they can push boundaries with even the smallest of elements. I guarantee, if you ask the majority of the general public, their favourite ride at Europa Park is still Silver Star. I remember a few years back, they did a general poll and I was so sure Wodan would be the guest favourite, but no it was the old reliable. As brilliant as Voltron is, it is just that aggressive and intense that it probably puts a lot of people off after their first ride.

Define slow. I believe they can dispatch as soon as the 1st train has cleared the lift hill.

According to a LinkedIn, A new role at Thorpe Park has been created: Creative Manager - overseeing creative maintenance across the park, while continuing to support the conceptualisation of future Fright Nights, as well as new projects, land developments, and ride rethemes. The person is quite well known, but I’ll leave that to linked in. It’s interesting to see a role as such created in the current climate and will be interesting to see how much impact they have on implementing changes and maintaining theming. That’s is something key to all Merlin parks as MMM can create something really good and the parks let it go downhill. Also very interesting in this current climate is the mention of lands and ride rethemes. I mean there’s not much at Thorpe which could be rethemed other than the walking dead which is long rumoured to be next. The rest have been rethemed in the past couple of years.