Marc

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)

http://thorpeparkmania.co.uk/news/17-01-2013/Crash-Pad-Progress - Work is being done to construct the bridge at the moment, got some pictures of that work

I drove past the park 20 mins ago and it's deffo there !

Alton in feb no doubt Usual few thorpe trips PortAventura with Sarah and Ian Blackpool maybe Hoping to make Europa and Disney too!

It don't really give much away does it! I've still no idea what to think :/

No.. Everyones known about The Crash Pad for ages!

Whilst its not been a huge problem in the past, this is certainly somthing we can look into

As nice as a new ride would be, I guess we would have seen a planning application by now for it, unless it was inside but I cant really see that happening

After alarm not going off and waking up mega late, to only see trains were all messed up from where I'm going I couldnt make it, Hope you all had a great time!

Will be there abit later but ill be there !

I guess we will see in the season how it pans out for them, but It's worth remembering this will be the result from many months / years of market research, the touch screens for example asked what you would be prepared to pay to stay per person. I agree re the park isn't quite a 2 day thing yet, but as it gets busier and there are more and more night events I don't think it will be too long before it is

Its possible if theyve been damaged some how they will run with them removed, it got some new ones this year, although they didnt add the flame effect to the new ones, atleast yet anyway.

There was a reason behind this, particularly the meets which didnt have a maximum number of people (Swarm, Colossus ERT's) the more people we have at these events the better, if we was to turn up with just a few it wouldnt be worth it for the park and make these events harder to arrange in the future, thankfully at events like these larger numbers dont really effect the meets and the amount of rides people get.