Marc

Thorpe Park have confirmed to us this is fake. As you were!

Please lets try keep this on topic - Im sure Insider wouldn't post without being confident in the information being posted. We will just need to sit tight and wait and see and wait for further information from the park!

From the Thorpe website - may actually be its first full day down since it opened! (Other than weather!)

£50 for the annual one or £30 a day. The annual one is pretty good value if your a frequent visitor!

Dont get me wrong I'm not disputing that - what im trying to say is why would Merlin lower prices if it sells out at the prices we think are too high?

Whilst I agree hotels are pricey, the fact they sell out a lot would indicate to me they are not too expensive. Prices are driven by demand, when it's quiet they are cheap, when it's busier they are more.

Have moved all Merlin discussion to a more relevant topic!

I think its fair to say Merlin had their own share of bad press last year too!

Hasnt Shanghai's delays and over spend caused budget cuts including removal of attractions, open hours and closure of F&B units.. All sounds very farmillair to me.. http://www.themeparktourist.com/news/20160216/31480/x-reasons-why-massive-cuts-are-happening-all-over-disney-parks

Thing is when you consider how small a country we really are I think we do have our fair share of (non Merlin) theme parks - we have parks like Drayton Manor, Blackpool, Paultons Park, Flamingo Land just to name a few which are often forgotten about when people claim Merlin have a hold on the industry in the UK - and are offering competition.

If you don't like how they run the parks its very simple to just not visit the parks. Although i would argue that all businesses set out to make the most profit they can (Yes even Disney) The amount of hatred towards Merlin on here and other forums does amaze me, whilst i'm fully aware they are far from perfect, they are far from terrible IMO too. It was only 10 years ago when DIC bought out Tussauds our parks were being ran into the ground and were considerably worse ran than they are now.

I don't think it's fair to say Merlin are poor at what they do - they are a huge company who run attractions across the globe and are a hugely successful business, there will be a reason for that sucsess. Of course delays like this are not good for them - but again they happen across the industry all the time.

Actually it wouldn't surprise me atall if they simply open it without any notice atall - give it a couple of days to settle down and start the media hype again. I guess we will see soon enough!

Indeed - can we move on please - any further posts will be removed

Alot! The days back when it was open in the snow it rolled back a good few times a day!

Whilst everyone likes to take cheap shots at Merlin can you really blame them for not offering Annual Pass discount on a club night

I beleve its offered on Samurai and Vortex at the moment - once the member of staff has batched through the guests for the next ride if there's and spare seats they will take from the single rider. Nice to see it start to return even if just on a couple of rides at the moment.

Stealth has just reopened for the last 2 hours of the day

Im sure when we get a date the marketing will turn up and the hype will well and truly start again!

I think its natural hype will die down - the biggest problem with this than say Smiler's delay is that when you visited the park you would see Smiler going around testing, you could see the progress. Where as with DBGT the building looks largely the same as it did when the park opened, of course progress will be being made but unfortunately we cant see any of it from outside!

Hey You may notice a few posts have gone missing from today / yesterday - this is due to a server error - we recovered what we could. Sorry about that! Thanks to Jon for fixing! Marc

Indeed as ProjectLC said - the park, obviously have a stock of parts, but its not feasible for the park to store every single spare part what might break.

It's sister park had a major accident - Thorpe received an awful lot of bad press it's not really a surprise. Pre smiler I beleve gate figures were actually up for both towers and Thorpe. To add to that, I beleve Merlin do not release this information and lot of it is purely predictions - atleast for the Merlin parks.

There was some filming going on around th queue line today. Also the queue board has been updated to "Suspended"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17389375 Tbf the media have reported on these things for like ever, way before smiler!