Marc

Yeah, it plays quite a long loop of Saw / other fright night music, it sounds pretty good and most rides hear it with the link. Quite interesting, this was a point debated many years go, pre link Fright Night music would be on all the time, many thought it would be better if the music was changed as dusk fell and the mazes opened which has been the case since 2007. We noticed this too, I think it was more a problem than them not "bothering".. Seemed ok yesterday.

Stealth did reopen for a short time in the evening, got a front row ride in the dark great stuff and Mark lost his bet so we had to ride Tidal Wave :(Was there all day yesterday, very tired for it now!Got on pretty much everything, the park was sort of busy at times, but then others seemed totally dead, All coasters were on 2 trains but most of the time Colossus / Inferno were sending around empty trains as there were not enough people to fill them..I thought Dead End was alright, id strongly advise to try it in the dark and avoid in the day as the night time does add alot too it. Theres alot of clever uses of smoke where actors will come out of no where so it can provide a few good scares.Out of the mazes, my personal favorite last night was The Curse, I thought it was much improved and actors were very good, also some very dark parts in there, Second place would come The Asylum, There are a few new bits and bobs around the maze which look pretty good, and nice to see the chain saw person still there! After that its Se7en for me, Thought the new smells in there were very good and as ever the last scene is great. Hellgate was abit disappointing last night, some bits seemed abit to dark and couldn't see some bits (like the jail bit near the end) but I think the final scene is alot better than previous years. I guess thats what these early fright nights are for though! Overall thought the park was pretty good, Shame about stealth but apart from that all rides ran pretty well, also think the park wide track they play during fright nights is pretty good.

Maybe they had technical faults.. Good to see theyve gone up north

Why change though, its worked so well for the past 10 years, why the need to try and change their target audience once again.I think what people need to appreciate abit is whilst it may not cater for everyone, the development at thorpe park has been nothing short of outstanding in the past 10 years, when you compare to what it once was, in terms of ride line ups and the amount of interest pulled, to the fact now people are discussing if one day it may steal altons crown at the top spot says an awful lot.

So your telling me, when at the back of a full Colossus queue guests will notice / work out or even care how many trains its on? Thank god we have people who know what their doing in charge of our parks then!

Agreed.. And the bit in bold a VERY good point, more than once this year on a summers day, when ive been in Colossus queue line ive heard someone say something such as "It only has one train on the tracks" when really its going around with 2..

Never seen one! I guess they may have one in the main engineering warehouse or somthing?

To be honest we are all aloud an opinion, neither of us are right or wrong.. If we all had the same opinion the world would be a very boring place

I just look at the park for what it is, go there and enjoy it for what there is, if I have any gripes with the park (of which I do) I dont make any secret of it, even if I dont always post it on here! Thorpe was dead yesterday, all rides ran on full capacity apart from Tidal wave which was on 2 boats and was walk on.. TBH I suspect both parks would have prepared to be slightly busier than they actually were.

I'm not saying Stealth didnt have a 10 minute queue today.. I'm saying from experience yesterday, with more people on park Stealth could have very easily coped on one train. IMHO I dont feel a 10 minute queue warrants the cost and time of adding a second train to the track, thats just my opinion I dont think a 10 min queue for stealth is unreasonable. If it was 40/50 minutes id have a total different opinion. So because I dont work for the park I'm not able to realize the park are there to make money? Its not being about being able to afford it, and I expect budgets for new attractions are very separate than budgets for operation costs. Ok I agree that was abit of a silly comment, but I dont see that as doing the parks job. Just because we are theme park enthusiasts that dont mean we all must have the same opinion when visiting and talking about the park and we will all visit for different purposes. Looking at it from not just an enthusiast point of view dont mean we work for them different enthusiasts are more interested in different parts of park operations I guess..Just to point out, id love for the park to be able to run 2 trains on all rides, all the time but I'm willing to accept that wont happen and have my own opinions as to why.

I think it does depend on what you class as quiet, and busy and what not, id like to point out I as much as anyone would love to see all the rides run at full capacity at all times but I can see why thats not always possible or financially viable. And I'm sure the park has a point where they will decide the queues are long enough to increase the rides capacity, and on all of the rides trains can be taken off and put on within few minutes. Would be interesting to see whats classed as an acceptable queue time for the park and at which point its felt the second train is needed.

Ill defend the park where I feel the park should be defended, a few years ago I would of totally agreed with you but growing up with the parks I can now appreciate them for what they are, appreciate that they are there to make as much cash as possible and that theres not a bottomless pit of money.. Do you have any idea how much some of these things cost to run? And you think Thorpes the only park to run things on reduced capacity your very narrow minded, Chessington only this year started opening throughout the weeks and I very much doubt all rides will be running at full capacity, Whilst ive not been to alton in the week for a while, id be extremely surprised if on a real dead day oblivion has all its shuttles running, Air runs on 3 trains etc.

I'm not saying that it scares any one away 8-) What I'm saying is whats the point in having 2 trains on the track, if it gets to the point ones being sent around empty and the rides still walk on.. To me thats a waste of money.. 20 miniutes is quiet compared to what the park usually gets, I personally dont think 20 minutes in unreasonable for any major theme park icon rollercoaster.. If your dead against ques and expect each ride to be walk on...

So lets add the second train for this peak, then have the ride running half empty and send around empty trains alll day.. Do you really think that makes any sense? Not really, been there and done that, not many theme parks run without queues all the time and queuing is accepted by many as part of the day.. Of course if your that against queueing 20 mins for one of the parks main attractions I'm sure your more of aware of the fastrack options the parks offer!

I was there yesterday, all rides on 2 trains and the park was quiet, they struggled to fill seats on all the main coasters apart from saw, Colossus was walk on with the middle of the train blocked off, inferno (again walk on) with an empty train going around and Stealth trying to fill seats each launch there were more people on park yesterday than today so... And obviously through out the day the rides will have different peaks.. does a 20/30 min queue REALLY warrant the cost of running a second train? Lets use stealth as another example, on a day like today idealy stealth will be sending around full trains (to minimize the risk of a roll back) if the ride was on 2 trains, you wait around longer actually waiting to fill the seats so it can be sent full. I'm sure your well aware rides dont run on thin air, I dont see how its unreasonable to queue 10 mins for what is a ride what people would go to the park expecting and willing to queue 2 hours for. I'm not defending it, I'm looking at it from a business point of view which people seem to forget what the park is. I suspect with alton being a much bigger park, who would expect much higher gate figures they have budgets to run the rides in this way.

When stealth has a queue of 10 mins on 1 train whats the point on adding a second? =\If stealth was on say 2 trains, that 10 min q would most likely had been 0, and I imagine they would struggle to fill all the seats and end up with one train pretty much empty anyway..

I think we need to accept when ever we go it will be busy really, theres no avoiding that now a days, especially at fright nights.

Cranes have been in and out the last few weeks tho so I'm not sure if it will mean anything. But I guess you never know!!

Anyone played this legendary game????

And how do you know that Josh?

I'd say that depends.. If tidal was closed today I wouldn't say it was major, if it was in the middle of summer yes I would. Id also say if more than one filler ride was down at a time that would make a difference

If they want to go to Thorpe Park chances are they want thrill rides, a diversion to cwoa wouldnt really help them would it Indeed, vast majority dont though :rolleyes:I dont see the argument here, major rides are allways put on the site, even now theres a message from the other day