Marc

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.

There are some issues with chat at the moment which may stop you from entering, it seems to be a fault with the entire Invision chat service so we are not the only ones with this issue. Ive reported it and hope to hear back soon!

Don't forget Thoroe are new to this, they will test the water and find the sweet spot m, they will allways go in high and lower the price according to demand

No money but the most profitable park.. Hmm

It's all about demand isn't it? Alton were pretty much giving away rooms this season to try fill the hotels, Thorpe for now clearly feel they are pitching at a price people will be happy to pay. I've no doubt in the quieter times / depending how the season goes we will see deals making it much more reasonable at Tp too..

Hi All Peaj has recently become part of the team and is now responsible for arranging and managing the TPM Meets throughout the year and will become the first point of contact for this subject from now Hope you all enjoy what we have planned for 2013! Cheers Marc

^ This Although I expect the uptake to be pretty high on this like it is fastrack