Dan9

Well they must have at one point, I bought my first one from the megastore.

This year I haven't actually seen the amount of chavs at Thorpe than I have in previous years. Of course they're still there as always but they aren't exactly flocks of them like there used to be.

Well of course it would be a bad thing to remove more than half the rides there.

Yes. And double the height? Errm...not really.In fact I've heard from 3 different people who've all been on Skyhawk and they all say Rush is better anyway.

So? I get literally no thrill from Flying Fish, but I don't think it should go as I still enjoy it. If Thorpe Park only kept rides for giving people thrills, they'd end up removing more than half the rides in the park.

Only a small portion of you on the ride is shown on the screens (lift hill and drop). So they aren't really losing buyers.

We went on it on Sunday . And with the wonderful Chris operating!

Be quiet!

Firstly Alton Towers can't build a ride with Stealth's height. This is because none of their rides can go beyond tree level. Secondly they also already have an Intamin Accelator coaster. Ever heard of Rita?

Kingda Ka isn't in Orlando.

I think you're getting the Loading and Dispatch announcements confused.But Lordcutter6 isn't completely right either, as 'keep your arms inside' is featured in the Loading announcement as well.

It's actually more like 15.

Or they could just run Samurai properly anyway?

More like 0 minutes for Colossus. I have a picture of what the station looked like which I'll have on soon.

Well he's a member on this forum.

^Chris!

There isn't any difference between them.

There wasn't much use for SRQ today anyway. We queued from the entrance and all the way round the whole queue line including the extensions and it only took around 30 minutes.

The Amazing Saw team + 8 car operation meant that today even when the whole queue was filled up it only took around 30 minutes from the entrance to the queue to get to the station!

Where has this been confirmed? Any source of information or a link to anywhere which does confirm this?

The bits of the fence that are red now were light blue before.

Take it you probably didn't detect the sarcasm .I don't continuously praise Thorpe Park all over the forum. Nearly all the time I agree with the fact that Thorpe are terrible in a lot of aspects and that they need to improve. But I just don't like how Thorpe are the only park that are heavily criticised for these kind of things. I know that Alton Towers and Chessington aren't talked about as much here but when we do it's all praise praise praise. And again I agree with a lot of the praise, but we can't just have praise without faults. With the Colossus situation, Thorpe could have easily decided to just close Colossus for the whole day, but they didn't. Neil said how Alton Towers could change the whole chain and still have the ride up and running within a day, but we're only classing that as impressive because we knew the scale of what had to be done. No one knows here for sure what the problem was, it could have been something monumentous for all we know. But back to the main point, Thorpe still decided to open their coaster for the final hour when in previous years they probably wouldn't have. They could have taken their time like they usually would have in previous years and had it up and running the next day, but they still got Colossus open for the final hour of the day and gave guests the chance to ride it. And I don't agree Quantum is better than Samurai. That's your opinion only. The Majority of other guests I know which visit the park find Samurai leagues ahead of Quantum. I understand it was on a much better setting at Chessington and could be better, but as you said, the 90% as you say of Thorpe's guests who visit once a year, how are they likely to know about that?I do give a toss if Colossus is shut, but I appreciate the effort that they put it in to get it open as soon as possible, just like Neil did with Nemesis and Alton Towers. I do feel for the guests who might only get to visit once a year, but the same could have happened with Alton, and at the end of the day Thorpe will always try and get all their rides up and running. Too many rides being shut like you said (what happened on March 14th) was unnaceptable. Truly it was, and I understand people's anger with the park and the debacle that was that day. However I get the feeling that if anything like this had happened at Alton Towers a lot of people would simply say 'It's one day in a whole season'. I'm not saying you personally would, but I know others would. It does compare. You can have available rides, but if the staff are horrible, the park has terribly maintanined toilets and food and etc etc, it does have bad impacts on your day. I've even seen and heard from people who've reported on how nice the staff are. And from personal experience, I've had terrible days at Thorpe, but it's still very nice to see Staff working their very hardest to try and doing their best to improve guests days. It shows they do care. I don't see how you can simply disregard this, it does have impacts on people's days and that's clear to see, otherwise your just saying that all the staff who are actually trying their hardests effort's don't count. In which case, why would they really want to try their hardest for guests, if that's the reaction they're going to get. I agree with you, that's really poor, the amount of rides which were unavailable that day, but you seemed to have a go at Thorpe Park for Colossus being unavailable for most of the day, when you didn't for Nemesis being shut, or Billy's Whizzer being shut. I know it was one ride, personally I wouldn't have a go at any theme park for having one ride shut for most of a day or a whole day, but you obviously do, as you did with Thorpe Park and Colossus. I know Alton Towers and Chessington are better run, I agree Thorpe Park are terrible in many ways, but there are some aspects where they rise above the other two, so I praise them for that. But the the way you've phrased your argument is implying you don't actually care about the things Thorpe Park do get right, and that's why I don't really see why Thorpe should even bother trying anymore if people are going to class those good points as 'they don't matter'.

Yes.

So now you say you know they're going on tomorrow when just 15 minutes ago you said this.. So why are you leaving Thorpe then?

And we've heard from many people that it is now back on 8 cars.