Marc

I really hope Burger King dont leave thorpe park, Merlin foods good but nice to have fast food which is actually fast also.

Seems a odd mistake to make, seeing as somone would have to go in and change it, dont see why else they would change open times. Wouldnt atall be surprised for things to be changing just not 100% finalised yet.

Last year they did quite often extend open hours on fright nights and indeed throughout the year, which have been reflected in this years open times.

Thats not a reason to keep it, its not a very popular ride. Nothing against it, I enjoy it, but it will go if it continues to cause months of problems for the park.

Disagree with that ^ Whilst slammer is still young, it continues to have long periods of down time (as in months at a time) and needing major parts replacing (like one of the massive booms a couple of years ago). Along with the fact S&S no longer provide this rides will make things more difficult. As much as I like Slammer, I cant see thorpe putting up with it for much longer if it was to have another 4/5 month spout of down time.

I maybe wrong but is this loggers first lift hill we can see in the background? https://www.facebook.com/pages/Leisure-Technical-Consultants-limited-LTC/228511400533230?sk=photos_stream

Whilst I kind of understand the fans being against Rafa, its not really all his fault IMO, I'm sure Roman made him a very attractive offer which would be hard to turn down, and to be fair at the start you guys were scoring 4/5 + goals a game. Whilst even reading fans were abit confused at his subs last night, Chelsea players started to look soppy at around 85 mins, I think the players can take some of the blame for conceding 2 goals, especially readings 2nd with 3 un marked reading players is abit of a school boy error. As a reading fan said earlier on a forum

I do feel sorry for the true chelsea fans... not none of their faults how the clubs run.

Just a few bits from the park which will clear some bits up I hope! There will be no additional charge to ride The Swarm in the backwards facing seats. The park have not made a decision on whether this is a permanent or temporary change. The change is not as simple as taking the seats off and putting them on the other side (as has been discussed!) for any decisions will have a lot of thought put into them. The rides team is currently working on how the queue system will work.

You beat us with Terry or was it Lampard in goal a few years ago, I'm sure wont be a problem

To be fair we sell out alot more than some of the teams around us!

Aslong as they invest money into the general infustructure of the park too, I think it should be a good year pretty good year really.

According to a Chelsea fan at work teams which are going down allways beat chelsea, so we may have a chance On a more serious note, its a shame we play you just as we start finding abit of form.. Ah well we still have Wigan, Vila, QPR and Suderland all at home, might turn this around yet!

Yep! Its probably not really related to 2012 not being a great year, by the sounds of it Thorpe wernt the only ones to suffer, and was probably more down to the recession / weather than the ride. Aslong as its ran well, I think it should be pretty good, I'm also glad its the last 2 rows as I think just 1 row would create horrible queues.

I suspect with it being 8 people per train going backwards they will add another 2 cameras so these people dont lose out on their pictures.

^I wouldnt say its that poor, there seems to be just as many people looking forward to it than against it

Glad its been confirmed A new billboard? I guess the ride could look like its "smashed through" it? That would be pretty awesome

From TP's Facebook....

It worked when there wasnt a batcher at Swarm, people just sorted them selves into rows and waited for the rows they wanted

Thats the very clever thing merlin / thorpe have managed to do though, an awful lot of peoples first stop will be to buy fastrack now before they even check out the queues, and the majority of the time wont need it!

Personally if this is to happen id like to see the front row scheme scrapped as IMO its never worked too well, ive found the station works best when theres no batcher and people sort them selves out, and if people wish to wait for front they can. As for back row, theres some potential here to divide the quite wide queues in the station and have a dedicated back row option, not sure how this would work with possible back row fastrack though.

Hiya, I noticed an image you tryed to link from twitter was somthing like .jpg:large, that would stop it working as it dont recognize the file type, taking the :large from the end should have worked. I'm sure theres somwhere we add which types are aloud, ill look into it

I don't get why people keep going on about how much of an engineering task turning swarms back seats will be, that's thorpes and b&ms problem to deal with

Maybe its just me, but I don't find Swarms near misses that effective (apart from when on front row), so personally I dont think this will spoil any of them and imo could enhance some (the water skims for example) if timed right. Of course its no way confirmed but seems abit more likley after that clue. Without riding it how do we know it wont still offer absolute comfort and experience, if not a better experience?

Why do you think it will ruin it? Seems abit of an unfair comment before seeing / riding it... (if it is what they are hinting at)