Marc

Ah this reminds me of saws first season sating how they must fix it and what not. They won't and it will just get worse

I guess you wernt around when inferno was at the top of the lift for over a week.. Obviously guests were of by then though

To be fair I guess this is part of the problem, thorpe park are clearly putting alot of effort into this years event and I think it will be the biggest haloween event we will have seen this side of the pond, with that brings interest and in turn the crowds will flock to it. I guess if you your self are not too fussed about doing the Halloween attractions then there may not be a massive appeal to you to stand in long queues to do them

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Yeah I did think this, but then I assume there must be a cut off point at which it will not allow any more people to join the "queue"

Seemed to work quite well for forwards, how ever backwards did get quite a queue at some point. The system was giving out time slots for 6:40 on a 6pm close, not sure if it was meant to but I'm guessing not!!

It's clear the majority seem to like the £5 entry method more. To be fair for your fiver your getting another totally revamped event which it's clear is going to cost a significant amount of money or you can go to towers for a largly unchanged event.

I wouldn't say it's a failed concept, wasn't obvlion the only dive machine for some time time before they started popping up everywhere? It just depends what the park was to do with one, I wouldn't rule out any ride types just yet!

It's open now

I'd say if it dont ask for an annual pass number you will be fine, but if it does you may need to wait till you have your new pass.

It will be free to pre book for premium passes

They are bringing out a new one soon so the old one has been taken down from the app store

Ive allways said Storm Surge is underrated

I guess we have different ideas on what short / queue free is. Its certainly the quietest you will ever see the park during the main season thanks to the limited ticket sales! I really dont see a queue just over 10 mins as unreasonable but there you go

I agree with this, over the past 2 nights my 4 rides on Saw have all been smoother than ive ever had before.. not sure what theyve done but keep it that way!

As I said, the longest I queued was just out side the volcano for Inferno so all of 10 mins.. That in my books is "minimal queueing" ? As for queue at entrance I agree with this if it was really that long, when I collected mine at around 6:30 there was only a 5 min queue to get these.

The reserve and ride is being trailed again in September I believe after a few tweaks maybe? As for effects I noticed the TVs were down but apart from that the water skim / fire / mist at the fire engine / plane were working. Saw staff looking at the TV's trying to fix them too.

Are you joking? Apart from the queue at the entrance which I agree is unfortunate and you should contact Thorpe with your concerns, there were very little queues on park. The longest queue I saw was Inferno which was just coming out of the volcano, which on one train is no more than 10 mins.. Hardly an unreasonable time.. Apart from that you could sit on Colossus without getting off, Stealth walk though the gate and ride again X no queue and the Same with Saw..Swarm was in the station and you waited no more than a couple of trains.. and for what its worth Colossus was on 2 trains Friday night, by around 9:30 the other was going round empty as it was just poinltess.. Obviously when the rides re-open queues form at the more popular rides as thats where everyone goes, so whilst 2 trains may stop queues from forming first thing, the people quickly even out and spread across the park within 30 mins. But if thats not "minimal queueing" I dont know what is.. Again, quite unfortunate but out of the 5 summer nights ive been too, Tidal wave is apart from a handfull of people riding, is sending around empty boats all night so I dont think it would have been missed. On the flip side Stealth had been closed all day Friday and the park worked hard to get it open and managed to get it open for the event at 8pm.. According to somone who was at the station this was caused by a guests shoe falling off and they were not sure if it had managed to wrap around the track. Apart from that I saw Stealth have a shutdown at 10ish apart from that didnt see any rides go down.

Which effect is this?! going mad

I dont think thorpe need a "small" ride, I'm of the opinion they need somthing of The Smilers scale, atleast in ride length anyway. I'm not too fussed on the type, id personally like to see a Intamin hyper coaster, the new trains with lap bars look interesting and a longer length intamin may be easier to fit in than a B&M. Please stay away from Gerst!!!

To be fair, Swarms marketing was pretty much what enthusiasts called out for and I think the marketing was some of the best weve seen from the park. The problem is the GP like gimmicks, Saw, Colossus, Stealth, Smiler, Thirteen all have their own little gimmicks and have all been massively successful. Thats not a bad thing mind, most of them are very good rides

Good to see a Merlin park extending hours/days, and not cutting them Keep up the good work Thorpe!

It really depends how many Sun tickets have been given away and the weather at the time, although I shouldnt expect it to be majorly busy

Yep you dont need to enter a number just show your pass when you collect the tickets

I cant actually remember the prices of each maze last year and dont think they have been released this year but I do remember last year The Carnival of Screams attracting quite lengthy queues despite the charge, I'm intrigued how this will cope being the free maze this year, to me it seemed TOTT had much better throughputs so made more sense that being the free one.