Marc

Its not just a thorpe thing, Merlin seem to like it and rides will remain there till their either sold or they replace them. Things like Pirates 4d/ Fungle I dont mind so much as its easier to hide but yeah I do agree sometimes it does look abit bad (such as fungle before they did put a fence up!)

Hmm depends how you look at is :S The year Fungle shut (2009) we got a huge investment in Saw The Ride, the year TV, CCR and to some degree Saw Alive shut we got The Swarm. You say you wouldnt mind if next year the park gets done up (it does every year, maybe we should wait and see whats happend this year?) and replace these attractions, I cant see them getting 3/4 attractions in a year to replace the ones which are closed. What does bother me is how things like Fungle were just left (which was slightly improved by building a fence infront of it!) I'm not too sure where they can go with Saw Alive, its a good thing to have at Fright Nights so theres not much they can do to hide it over the season, its a shame its not nearer saw as it would make an awesome walk through addon to the queue line!

Whilst I agree with people, the map isnt fantastic at helping people find their way round, the majority of the GP must like it as weve had this style for a while, and if it was something what generated complaints I'm sure it would be looked at!

Glad KFC / Burger king and are still there. Nice to not be forced into eating at park branded outlets.

So, X:\ No Way Out is now X according to the new map!

I think it will be quite near, I expect that corner is cut out for a reason!

Or the world, seeing as Six Flags have given up with their one also.

Errr.... Why would they go through the effort of getting in TV crews, people to ride the ride and what not to try pull the wool over the eyes of very few people who actually care about X? :\ An advert will go out once the park has opened just before easter I would assume.

Well in the picture theres one train (all facing forwards) going around with dummys, so its safe to assume that train has had its closed season work complete. There must be a reason why it wasnt turned forward during this work before starting work on the other, a reason I doubt we will ever know but there will no doubt be reasons behind it as if anything it gives the thorpe engineers more to do!

The way I see it is they have 10 days till opening to get it ready on 2 trains, 12 days for most importantly open weekend. I'm sure it will be fine! (I hope!)

Still over a week til open day, almost 2 weeks till open weekend (when it will really be needed) No need to worry yet!

Or maybe they just havent done this one yet.. Would explain the limited tickets available on AP day.

It looks like the back rows in the train going around at the moment are still facing forwards to me

I didnt get it at a hotdog stand which had a proper till.. so Fred is right

Just because its not used when the parks open dont mean its not used, I expect engineers are up there a few times a season atleast.

Throughput wise, from a guesstimate if they send 320 trains a day 2560 of them seats will be backwards whilst 6400 will be normal. I dont think thats a bad ratio atall, considering the amount of people who will not bother riding it backwards, wont want to etc. I'm glad there doing 2 rows and not the originally rumored 1, as I could see that being a nightmare!

^Thats assuming all 15,000 people on park want to ride The Swarm which they wont? And then annual pass day open hours are less than an average peak day so I think the "unhappy" people would be much less.. And I'm sure not everyone will want to ride it backwards too! I'm sure if it turns to be a problem they will look into turning around more rows...

Maybe they should just let everyone queue for it, let it get 3 hour queues and let everyone moan on FB when they get home instead? Seems to me they cant win either way..

^If maybe only one train is ready to run backwards that would be right? Atleast it should avoid a repeat of Storm Surge!

No idea tbh! I know it was replaced soon after it got stuck so maybe they couldnt use that one for what ever reason. I guess with an empty train theres no real rush so a crane like that whilst more expensive is probably easier!

The rope was there that day, it just wasnt used for what ever reason.

The gates in the station which you stand behind to board the trains.

I think it will be a good addition, of the near misses I dont find any of them that great, I think this will probably be the best near miss on the ride!

Wow never thought id see the day people moan when the park are ADDING MORE theming to what is already the best themed ride in the park...

I'm sure the Crash Pad is more down to the demand for hotel rooms right now rather than money, merlin know a hotel at Thorpe could easily sell out with its location, so I'm sure we will see it built soon regardless and that the idea of the crash pad is more to make sure there able to offer accommodation this season rather than in a few years. Just because weve not been told dont mean moneys not being spent!