Marc

But the point is those who have paid more for a premium service will get priority over those who havent, and those who havent service may be affected by those who have because to the company the one with the more cash are more important.

An example of this can be seen at airports where they offer security fastrack, if the fastrack queue is busy they will push more of them through so they are waiting less time, resulting is less scanners being available for those in the normal queue making it longer. I too dont really agree with it, but its a problem in most things it seems now.

I think this is where fastrack is miss sold, waiting in a 40 min fastrack queue is still better than waiting in a 2 hour main queue. I do agree the system has it's flaws but I think the way it's grown, people visit the parks and expect to have to buy them without even looking at the queues which makes it so popular

I'm sure theres abit of both there to be fair But its like most things really, those who pay more for their airline tickets get onto the air plane faster etc

I dont see why its good? Whilst fastrack is annoying, like everything in life the more you pay the better your treated and get a premium service than people who choose not to pay. I'm glad they refunded you for them!

I dont think its a margin of error as such, it covers them for if a main coaster was to go down or somthing I guess anyway?

I think Samurais way past that now, even on the slower settings it seems to struggle at the moment

Its a count down to when the car should be dispatched, to most people it looks like theming from the films!

I hear that most rides opened early and stayed open till 10, nice one thorpe

That has nothing to do with it, generally thorpe has the longest season (opens the earliest, closes the latest) out of all them, has been the case for years and I expect will continue to be, I wouldnt read too much into the hotel booking dates.

Makes sense, I doubt thorpe will be spending an awful lot of money on rides in 2013 after 20 million on Swarm. X is probably the most run down ride at the park, so its in desperate need of somthing, and if they are getting individual lap bars and are able to lower the height restriction then that solves some issues of things for smaller children.

For anyone going Saturday, The Passing has now sold out according to the TP site.

Per box yeah.... but if you work it out per person how most people would pay, £64 for 2 , a over night stay and breakfast seems pretty reasonable to me

Thorpe park have started the marketing for the "Crash pads" http://thorpepark.com/crashpad/ They have confirmed the Bar360 will be opening late and there will be "Evening entertainment with gigs, comedy, dvds & more" Looks like breakfast will be included too 2 day packages start from £64 per person

I wondered if this could be related, but then Stealth was one of the few rides thorpe actually managed to get working in February

Can understand why no X Sector obviously but abit disappointing they've not added to the line up to make up for the loss of attractions. Maybe the list will be updated closer to the date

Loggers leap cant be much below 50 ft? I hope we dont see anything like that!

I hope your right! Whilst the content of the stuff at thorpe is generally good (apart from it being hi pitched!) So much of the equipment is broken there are now huge dead parts of the park (Stealth, Colossus bridge) and then the odd things like this year they have made the dome / lost city one "zone" so the chart music plays on vortex / zodiac etc making it all seem abit fair groundy! And then I'm sure every ride I the park has an issue with its own PA in some way or another!

It was beta Sorry about the live feed, the internet on park was intermittent at best with the shear amount of people on park! And then my phone died

If there is space that is fine Remember guys we are meeting at 1PM at the Stealth sitting rocks, for the tour we will be at Experiment 10 at 2:30 prompt. Please remember thorpe park have requested NO cameras in the maze, abuse of this rule will not be tolerated. For those unable to join us we will be launching a new feature - TPM LIVE - Keep upto date with images right from the meet here: http://thorpeparkmania.co.uk/page/live

With the £99 for a room and 2 theme park tickets included, I would guess yes, there pretty much giving them away! But all the parks have been hit this year, I guess there thinking more long term

Not really the point I was making, I was more on about the terrible reliability / issues Saw before it was even handed over to the park and then the massive design flaws discovered once it had been! As I said, lets hope they've learnt from those mistakes.

Whilst I think they are to test the market, they will also help thorpe in the short term with the Club nights, opening a full scale hotel next year would be impossible, Snoozebox means they can provide accommodation for the club nights (which sell out each and every time) from next year and rake in 3 years or what ever of that whilst going ahead and building the full hotel if they feel its needed.

Alton towers get a Gerstlauer coaster Thorpe get a B&M... I know what I'd rather Back on topic though looks like a nice development for the park which should complement the existing resort well, I think id rather this than them just build another hotel.

It looked like this as of yesterday .