Marc

Rocky was put together last time I rode Colossus..

Meh as my train came into the station I was greated with loads of smoke, was quite freaky

I was on the ride front row, how cool is that

I guess I was also sort off on a stealth shutdown yesterday to..

I would be surprised, there was an awful lot more to do to slammer before it can start testing.

Today I can add I also have been on a Flying Fish breakdown, where it dont want to leave the station!

http://www.thorpeparkmania.co.uk/guide/ami.../flyingfish.php pictures here

I guess you better get used to championship football Hey its all good really

Ive been to a Reading V Crewe match I guess

I miss Quiz Mania =[ Its 20 mins long but well worth a watch!

Well most of my pictures are on TPM I guess, theres also a few bigger versions on my photobucket - http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y24/simps100/

Mike you are right, when rush loses power it comes to a stop quite quickly.

Just a shadow of its former self

I'm not to sure about that one I allways thought they were below, and even if they are they still do need to find a suitable location to have gas tanks safely. Well as far as I know inferno was planed to be how it is now, it had no buget cuts if I remember rightly so they obviously never wanted to finish it of, and I dont think theres room for it anyway what with there being a service road behind there and storage space. And the main thing it will come down to is money, it wouldnt bring them any in and it wouldnt be deamed worth it.

It simply wont, to get that back you will have to dig up the pool to relay gas pipes to a suitable location for new gas tanks which were removed for stealth.

But what would you actually spend money on doing? This year has had a smaller investment than in previous years for the fish, but along with this we are seeing huge improvement's in things like the dome, with the glass house, shops and photo collection unit all majorly improved on last season. Then theres the park wide audio system which has been installed around the entire park which I'm sure will bring improvements. I'm sure we would all like things like tidals theming fixed, infernos volcano finished around the back but there just things which are not going to happen in my opinion.

I hope normal breakdowns arnt there controls not working!

Eclipse was one of the parks scaryest rides when it was windy tbh

I'm not sure why they dont, but thats why samurai does some random things like a random spin half way may well of been a windmill when its empty.

It would be inpratical to test it each time with dummy's in, if there's a power failure while its empty, it will be stuck and will be stuck until the problem is sorted.

It is. If theres a power failure the counter weight weighs more than the pods and needs 15 people to weigh more. If no power people are stuck 60 ft.

Running X with lights is totally different to runing samurai with less than 15 people as its for H&S, if theres a power failure there stuck at the top.

Erm Samurai needs at least 15 people to run, under no circumstances would the ride be sent with less than this unless it was engineers ect.

Are you trying to hide the fact you support charlton

Been stuck on samurai when its gone up and decided to do nothing a few times, stuck on x randomly but not for to long. Stealth turn around a few times aswell. Also in 2004 on CCR I seem to remember our train having engine troubles!