Marc

That was recorded today so the old one didnt return for long.. I guess the old one did need a slight change as the park isnt really closed as such now just the rides, as said I wouldnt mind it if this played and then after a few times went into end of day music. After around 10 mins The Noise started to play park wide. I guess if anything it fits in with the parks brand more than the old one but still not overly keen!

http://www.thorpeparkmania.co.uk/neweod.mp3 For those who wish to hear it!

Clearer pic and the right way up They are not bad quality, as Dan said its just the camera. The main ones were only showing the Thorpe Park logo today, the rest were working.

They look pretty good

X has now closed and has signs saying they are continuing the evolution of the experience so I guess it may be down a few more days whilst they add the final touches

http://i47.tinypic.com/155l4j6.jpg http://i47.tinypic.com/155l4j6.jpg Couple of pics of them

I think every ride will have one of these. The old system wasnt great, hopefully this will be more reliable and looks abit nicer too!

I'm sure its possible, but it will be a push. Compare it to Gate Keeper opening a week earlier (May 11th) which is already testing.. Also its a B&M so it just works I know there different rides but I cant see Smiler testing in a week!

I do agree with this, the parks do care about the presentation of their rides and I'm fairly sure we will see more work at loggers when there able to carry out more work there.

Says who? :S Just because things are not known to us / announced dont mean they cant or wont happen.

Sorry but as Fred says, its absolute rubbish to think that Merlin are trying to get the parks to create queues to sell fastrack. Beleave it or not they DO care about guest satisfaction..

The same towers who are quite happy to open Rita looking like this.... whilst Thorpe are able to somehow fix the problem.. Swings and roundabouts!

This seems to happen on the mobile version for no real reason, Invision are aware of it! Cheers Marc

I dont think there always is, back in 2010 rollbacks were pretty frequent and if you look in the console there are engineers in there and they are watching it go over each time so it seems like they were expecting it to happen eventually!

Its disappointing they wont keep it open till the new ride actually opens, but lets face it, this is ultimately the reason. I'm sure if the park was busier, it would be remaining open till The Smiler opens.

Ah them days were the best, everyone got so excited! Stealth, the only ride people cheer at when it shuts down

I think people maybe expected abit to much from all this. X is not a major ride to the park in any way shape or form and was never going to have a tonne of money spent on it. Like you say its an improvement and now guests as small as 1m can ride it I think thats a good move from the park and doubt we will see too much more change on it.

Maybe they wernt sure of all the restrictions till the trains were back? I know Storm Surge restrictions were changed late and ended up needing stickers stuck up all over its board..

This is just temporary! It cant open without displaying its restrictions so they could either do that or not open it I guess!

Yeah I doubt its any faster, I dont think they would want to play with it too much whilst its working!

A few people have reported this problem with facebook too, seems facebook like to mess about with URLS to annoy everyone else as well!

Colossus and Saw are more prone to stalling in high winds / cold weather than the other coasters on park thats all

Front row Colossus is amazing, love the view when you approach them inlines!

Yeah to be fair here, you cant just blame the weather for the delays, whilst I'm sure it didnt help there must be more to it to make it so late..