Marc
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No that’s the trains it’s always had since it opened!
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As it will be the only maze open and one of the “pulling points” of The Year of The Walking Dead and of course an “Extreme” version I’m sure we will see more actors in there than you would of a standard Fright Nights night - there’s quite abit of open spaces within there which you could fit in a decent amount of actors!
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Originally on my first rides on ghost train there wasn’t an actor in scene 2 with the train crash, an infected actor was added later on, which isn’t part of it now, so from what I can tell there’s only one less actor from the changes.
I agree it looks like the fences into the tunnel have been done cheaply / on site, the crashed train at the end of it definitely hasn’t and is new.
I think the corridor could do with more smoke and an “infected” actor in there to give it abit more effect possibly.
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7 minutes ago, Ringo said:
What just a week and then never spoken of again or taken off after a week to provide the “power” to charge phones and then put back on?
I think the former - the boxes are pretty big and ugly attached to the train - but they did light up the more vibrations / noise there was.
Agree with what Ryan said, it’s important to remember this coaster is X, a couple of the block sections have been re-programmed to sync up with the theming but other than that the ride it’s self is the same.
I’ve always found X pretty fun, even back to X:\ No way Out days, and again this is a fun experience, there’s a complete story throughout and the theming is good, especially in the queue / exit area, really like the amount of Easter eggs too with throw backs to old members of staff, old advertising for X:\ No way out etc. I think it will do pretty well for the park but time will tell!
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33 minutes ago, MattyMoo said:
@BaronC. Did you charge your phone after the ride?
Seemed like a lot of "VIPs" in the queue last night - I understand DBGTROTD broke down last night too, for a change
The battery packs were on one train for the phone charging - they are there for a week.
Some pictures from queue, station etc here:
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Walking Dead signage is now up
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49 minutes ago, Mega-Lite said:
Says the man with Shame-hala and OzIris in his top 10...
The unwashed masses descended on my 3rd day and operations were good, certainly a lot better than Merlin in recent years. Every seat filled, fast dispatches and quick restarts from breakdowns, not sure what else you expect?
I had a sit down meal in the pizza restaurant near Baco on my 2nd day, it was lovely, you are mistaken.
Maybe things have changed this year, I love PA but their operations on every visit of mine are easily the worse of any park I’ve been too - certainly no efforts to fill seats / quick dispatches so hopefully they’ve realised for a park of their popularity they really needed better operations.
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The train you see as you walk down the tunnel isn’t the one which used to swing out - the one which swung out was literally made from metal bars / lights, through the smoke looking just like a train - the one you see down the tunnel now may have been the one which used to sit opisite the tunnel?
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The Walking Dead: The Ride will open this Saturday 31st March m! First look at the new TV ad
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It’s an interesting one - i can see why they are trying it, one of the biggest complaints from Merlins own food outlets is speed of service, there’s no doubt a contactless tap is quicker than cash 9 times out of 10.
As for it cutting off the parks target audience I’m not so sure - to be honest I can’t really remember how old I wasn’t when I got my first debit card but i certainly wasn’t that old, long with I’m sure the park has data on card usage to be able to work out just how successful it will be - be interesting to see in a month or so’s time if it’s it’s still a policy is as many of the parks outlets.
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Whilst the tech maybe real, I’m not sure we will actually see it on the ride, or if we do in a very limited format. There is a walking dead themed mobile charger!
As with all Merlins PR stunts, everyone say how stupid it is etc whilst it’s getting coverage in national papers across the country
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https://www.thorpeparkmania.co.uk/news/23-03-2018/2018+Open+Day+Roundup a full round-up of all the changes for the 2018 season here!
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Hopefully a sign of things to come but park ops were good today - relatively quiet but coasters (apart from Colosuss) all running 2 trains - hope it continues.
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Ghost Trains had some pretty major changes to scene 2 over the winter - addresses some of the issues they’ve had with that part over past.
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1 hour ago, JoelAllen said:
Great, should be open by Sunday then
Open now - although it is one swing.
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Rush is testing but hasn’t opened yet.
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1 hour ago, Ringo said:
Is Rumba Rapids open today? It’s missing off the queue times
Yeah rumba is open.
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Invision - the suppliers of the forum software dropped the support for their chat application a while back now, which was the main reason behind its removal.
If the demands there we can certainly look into alternatives.
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Is there not lockers at Obvlion? Or are they gone am not too sure.
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It’s not like bag holds are an amazing solution - will it really make much difference to throughputs - I’m not so sure, and the queuing after to get your bag wasn’t much fun either.
Would quite like to see merlin to go down the more universal route, lockers before the queue, it will be a job convincing people to part with their bags for an entire queue though.
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7 hours ago, PhobiaticFreak said:
I’m going to Thorpe Park on the 24th and I’m a little nervous about going on swarm, and I sound silly because I’ve done saw and I loved it the first three times and the fourth made me feel I’ll so now don’t go on it , but I really want to ride swarm but I’m afraid I will not enjoy it. And if it helps I’ve done expedition Everest at Disney World, if that’s anything to compare to it ???
The Swarm isnt as bad as it looks - iits a good fun smooth experience which im sure you'll enjoy. Compared to Saw, The Swarm don't throw you round quite so much, so hopefully that helps with not making you feel ill!
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2018 General Discussion
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Yeah agreed - I guess you could have a herd of Walkers in there - although not sure theres the space to make the effective enough.
On the subject of Living Nightmare theres a skip outside it full up.- not sure if its related to the maze or not - I guess we will see in May!