Marc
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Thorpe have released a new "Annual Fastrack Pass" - a years supply of fastrack for £400!
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I can’t see Saw Alive having many / any changes, don’t forget it’s open over Summer so would leave little time to do much with it before Fright Nights starts!
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Sounds like he’s moving abit more than that now though
Good news!
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The dungeons are always something they do pretty well, so I could see this working especially at a park like towers which had the history / setting perfect for it.
Would be interesting to see if it’s an up charge of part of the day ticket, could also potentially be another thing for hotel guests when the parks closed.
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Thanks for the updates - good to see the new rides going in now, may have to visit over Halloween again!
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1 hour ago, Project LC said:
I suspect they have changed tune to love island because it's a current talking point. Also there is the fact that the year of the walking dead was a stupid idea from the off as it's been proven time and time again Halloween attractions in the UK don't do well outside of Halloween.
Thorpe's marketing has always been poor and Merlin's guidelines are very restrictive. They can't even advertise a new coaster on the merit of being a new coaster. It always has to have some nonsense gimmick.
Love Island contracts would have been negotiated a long time ago, much before it became current again, just makes sense to start advertising it when the shows a big talking point.
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3 hours ago, ConnorJ said:
Anyone know why Colossus has been closed and the area fenced off for the past 2 day?
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If the work it needed needed a cherry picker or something to get to part of the track they would usually close of the area - hopefully that’s all and it’s back up tomorrow!
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4 minutes ago, JoshuaA said:
Jesus, Thorpe are really scraping the bottom of the barrel here..
A decent park in itself should be able to keep guests in for the late opening.. The amount of try-hardness in this event is cringey..
It seems to be a uk culture thing, I remember back in 2006 when they opened till 10 throughout summer, despite the park being rammed throughout the day it was dead every night, events seem help with this hopefully making it more sustainable in the long run.
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Unfortunately Colosuss was way before the time of bag rooms, there’s just no way it would work, they could always try universal style lockers at the entrance, I remember they trialed it with Slammer back when it opened with free lockers,not allowing anything into the queue, though unfortunately people seem to want their stuff all the time!
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Love island isn’t something I personally watch - but it’s clearly popular so can see why they’ve done it.
The problem thorpe have had in the past with their late openings is there’s nothing much else’s to entice people to stay into the evening, summer nights whikst obviously great for us to get loads of rides was obviously unsustainable. A name like this will no doubt help get more people to these late nights, so for me it’s win win, we can enjoy the park till 10pm through summer, whilst the park (hopefully) attract enough people in these evenings to continue them into the future.
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1 hour ago, JoshuaA said:
Texas Giant's problems were due to the trains which were done by Gerstlauer.
Steel Vengeance was a hiccup, but nobody got hurt and the incident was overall very minor.
Unfortunately a company trying to recover from a serious acident really can’t afford “hiccups” like that - imagine the headlines if that was a Merlin Park!
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I beleve actors are meant to be there at all times now
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2 hours ago, Dan C said:
Is Rush only on one swing at the moment? Just saw in queue times that it has a 60 minute queue and thought that that’s quite high for it?
Also, I presume as no one has posted anything, that there’s no news on Vortex. I’m going in about a month and hoping that it’s open by then!
Finally, are all the coasters on two trains at the moment. I don’t want to go and find out that they are only running 1 on all of them!
Rush has been running 2 swings when I’ve been there this year - so unless there’s a random technical issue no reason why it shouldn’t!
Vortex is an odd one - usually very reliable but it has been closed quite a long time now.
Coasters do all run 2, still will go to 1 when it’s quiet though.
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Had this last week - was very fun, interaction from the actor was great good on ride picture too!
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11 hours ago, Stuntman707 said:
Come on, lack of budget? That justifies them using post it notes as official signage? Why don’t they dress the staff in bin bags then? Uniforms are expensive.
It won’t be official, If / when marketing see it it will be removed.
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1 hour ago, Coaster said:
Is it just me who doesn't see the appeal of this outside of Fright Nights? Like, they've got rides sat there SBNO and areas that need sorting, yet they're spending out their operational budget on this, devaluing their Fright Nights product in the process?
How long has the queue been for Living Nightmare Extreme this week, out of interest?
The budget for running LN will be a drop in the ocean for what it would take for Loggers to return (The only ride SBNO which has any chance at all or returning in some form)
No idea on queues, when i went on Saturday late afternoon it was quiet but before that was advertised at an hour i think.
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Saturday June 30th hours are now 10 till 10pm
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2018 General Discussion
in The Past
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Had a feeling you'd like it
At a price point of £400 I can see it more appealing to those with a TP AP, with a PMAP + this you may aswell get a VIP MAP.