Marc

I Maybe wrong but I'm sure I saw it stated somewhere! Maybe Twitter.

No idea how they will know - but if you are caught and thrown out you wouldnt have much argument against it.

The park have made it clear if caught doing that you could be removed from the park for queue jumping though.

I think if it was to be used long term on more than a trial basis it would certainly link up with a paper system.

Even my Gran has a smart phone.. literally. But thankfully they thought of that with the ticketed system!

Believe that is correct - and I doubt Saw is far from 1000pph either.

https://www.thorpepark.com/tickets-passes/reserve-n-ride/overview/- This page states it will be back next year, on the top 5 coasters.

Can't see it making a difference - rides have already been testing and will almost constantly run in the run up to open season anyway - only difference this year is some will have riders !

They may well loop if a train isn't dispatched - but after each dispatch the sequence restarts, you can tell this as the lights do exactly the same thing every ride

X's sequence starts when the train is dispatched.

Maybe its because I've got a premium pass but I do agree theres been a tonne of overreaction to all of this. When you purchase a Standard Merlin Pass its clear in the terms and conditions that your not granted access to special events at Thorpe Park - Whilst its true the charge isn't in place at towers, you could say the same for Fright Nights (and id much rather a 1 of charge for the event than thorpe charging per maze) Merlin / Thorpe have to ensure theres value to buying a premium pass, if you want entry into these events pay the extra and buy a premium.

Yep am quite looking forward to it tbh - Stealths one of my favourites too so cant wait to get back on that!The fee don't affect me as I have a premium pass but personally wouldn't think twice about paying £5 - you cant get much with £5 now a days!

That said you do get alot more attractions on the pass now than you did on the tussauds ones.

The BPB which often runs at a loss?

They also have significantly smaller operating costs. The amount of people needed at AI / Oakwood to be running at a profit will be much less than needed at Thorpe.

They did try this back in 2006 - one of the parks busiest years and throughout August the park was open 10-10pm every day I believe - as Mark said past 6/7PM it was dead pretty much every night.

The Melrin pass site states: Shrek’s Adventure 2015 - NO Entry with a Standard Merlin Annual Pass in 2015.

No - Thats totally different, you buy a Merlin annual pass and it gets you entry into the attractions which are printed on your pass - when Shrek is open and is printed on the passes should it get you into that.

Out of interest - Why do you think Standard pass holders (or any for that matter) should get access to Shrek? Surely buying your annual pass grants access to the attractions open at the time of buying, Merlin certainly dont have to grant pass holders to new attractions.

At the end of the day it's down to Merlin to value their product at what they think its worth and price it accordingly, Like most things in life, if you don't agree then don't hand over your money.

To be fair - there are not many company's that don't

I agree that since Standard / Premium passes its made the whole thing a lot more complicated, the thing is they have to make the premium more attractive than the Standard or people will wonder why they are paying the extra for the Premium pass. Whilst I know the parks are far from perfect, in my eyes £209 which is the price for a Premium is still extremely good value for money and is worth the extra £50 alone for the lack of restrictions.

At the end of the day if you don't like the charge the easiest thing to do is not visit. February half terms have allways been "events" even back when it was thrill chill - only difference is now we have multiple annual pass options of which the standard don't include these for free.

There was a Job open for a Pizza Pasta restaurant manager on the Thorpe Park jobs site a couple weeks back.

Back when it was Colossus (when it warmed up enough) and Inferno they had 2 trains available if needed - I'm sure that Stealth and Swarm will be a similar story.