Marc

So because people on here dont like these attractions it means they are money not well spent? Saw Alive served a purpose for the 2010 season (which I beleave was the parks busiest season ever, but I maybe wrong) and Storm Surge, whilst it would be hard to find anyone on here who likes it, is an improvement over Octopus Gardens, of which rides you would expect to see in Staines high street rather than Thorpe Park.. I agree with some of this, but surely opinions on things like atmosphere are more down to opinion rather than fact? Whilst you may not enjoy riding vortex to pop music I'm sure there are those who do for example? General maintenance if anything has improved? Gone are the days of 2005 where you had days of Stealth, Rush, Samurai, Colossus down for days at a time, all at the same time. Problems which result in guests having poor days and not coming back regardless of 'improving' old/new attractions... Surely the difference between Six Flags and Thorpe is all their parks went the same way, Thorpe is the only one trying to cater just for teens / young adults whilst other merlin parks around them are focusing on the younger side of things to balance it out. The target audience has been the same for years now, whilst it would be silly to totally ignore other audiences, installing rides such as Storm Surge and apparent works on X which will reduce the height restriction suggest to me that there not really doing this. One thing id like to point out, I'm not saying thorpe are perfect, far from, but visiting places like Flamingo land show that things could be so much worse, and alot of their problems come from up above (Merlin) rather than the park them selves.

*for you... for everyone who dont enjoy the park, there will be more who do. Its far from perfect , but imo in the last 4/5 years its drastically improved, money has been invested in the right areas and a hotel (even if its just a temporary one for now) is a step in the right direction, and means they can offer accommodation and put more focus onto their evening events right now, not in 2/3 years time.

Annual pass day has been announced for Sunday 10th March has been announced Free prebooked tickets : http://thorpeparkpreview-1st.eventbrite.co.uk/ Supports Passbook which is handy!

I dont see the huge issue with the bridge, its more the actual entrance I think they would like to improve rather than just the bridge.

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.