Marc

It wasn't testing too often only actually saw it go around 3 times(null)

I wouldnt worry just yet, thorpe never announce the with the open times anyway.

Should be working now

What Neil said basically, although there seemed to be more actors around Saw - The Ride more in 2011 than 2010, even after the fire.But I dont get the "The event may be successful, financially, but the quality is poor." because whilst your right, there can be a big difference between the 2, theres only so long the "poor quality" would remain successful. I'm sure there will be actors around Swarm for the first year or so, then less and less untill the next big coaster

So then as you said, the Ents dept run fright nights, and like it or not, fright nights are often seen as successful so they must be doing somthing right? TBH bar TOTT I dont think towers mazes have much on thorpes, in my experience anyhow, and with the roaming actors across park I think they did pretty well during the 2011 fright nights.And your right regarding the building of the mazes, but as Sheepe said its more freelance company's now a days, but I imagine they still have a rather large input in the design overall.

Saw hardly had the best reliability come opening But hopefully mistakes have been learnt from and this will go abit smoother (literally too!)

And you base that on? Saw alive still does surprisingly well..The same department who also run the most successful event on park?

I have heard there will be a water bus service from the hotel to around where Vortex is, cant see it being Saw Alive though, its not even a proper boat anymore and sits on stilts.

New lockers are in the dome like the ones at alton towers which are electronic allowing you to hire a locker for the day and letting you go back to I throughout the day, hopefully these will be installed across the park.

I dont think it was, thats what caused the problem with using the name.Although personally I like Stealth more over The Edge

Merry Christmas to all from the Mania Hub team!

I think Detonator's planning permission was changed to permanently not so long ago

After Runnymede's recent site rebuild its now easier to find past planning applications, some of which are quite interesting including plans from when RMC planned Tidal Wave, before Tussauds took over and gave us what we have today.Just head to http://planning.runnymede.gov.uk/Northgate/PlanningExplorer/GeneralSearch.aspx and enter "Thorpe Park" under address. Enjoy

I think it will need to be a more towers / lego type thing personally.Theres a travelodge planned to open up the road in chertsey, so thorpe need to do somthing special to make it attract to people over that.

I'm sure some of them pictures are actually from when the plane was up at towers.. could be wrong though.Either way looks great!

There is no option to do this no, sorry!

Nice find!