Marc

http://thorpeparkmania.co.uk/news/15-02-2013/Crash-Pad-Bridge-Works - Works continuing on the Crash Pad access bridge as you can see in this small photo update.

I'm sure they base it on more than just numbers, all parks were down with the recessio. Maybe guest feedback on the marketing who knows

So one of the first marketing campaigns which wasnt criticised by enthusiasts was classed as unsuccessful. Interesting

I personally hope the Saw contract is renewed on a 100 year contract or somthing like that, in other words Saw for the rest of its days. Would much rarhter see money spent elsewhere in the park. Saw as a whole is fine.

I find all merlin outlets have good / bad days, from my experience Bar 360 is pretty good but have had a few disappointing trips! The best has to go to The Chicken Shack at CWOA on Saturday, they had ran out of chicken One thing I did notice is they are doing the 2 meals for £12 but no longer give annual pass discount on that, not sure if thats somthing which will come in at all parks. I Guess 2 meals for £6 is still good.

Even though Thorpe did the same for Saw.... Granted Swarm had limited fastrack from the off, but being a B&M it didnt suffer half the problems Saw did thankfully throughput wise or reliability.

Its not about being a "special case", it all depends on the contracts of the franchises, for example whilst KFC was leaving Alton and CWOA at Thorpe the contract still had some years to go. At the end of the day its up to the park to offer what fits its target audience best, I dont think its worth getting "livid" over..

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

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