Dan9

It is on 8 cars though.

It opened on March 22nd. So 8 days .

Can I just say, I'm not up Thorpe's arse and I don't praise the park just because I happen to know Thorpe Park read the forums.Mark, I agree Thorpe is terrible in comparison to some parks, and that it's reliability is of the poorest in Europe, and a lot of the other bad things about the place. No, no we don't need to jump on Thorpe's back for everything. If that's your attitude to all the points you make then they might as well be disregarded, because they'll have been said in a completely biased way. Alton Towers has numerous bad points, Chessington has numerous bad points, but I don't see anyone jumping on them for it like a lot of people do with Thorpe nowadays. In a way it's become a fashion, having to hate Thorpe Park in practically every way a Theme Park is rated. If something needs to be criticised it will be, fair enough. But not everything does. Not one person criticised Alton Towers for the way Nemesis' wheels had to be changed. However had something like this happened at Thorpe, I can easily imagine lads of comments on how Thorpe should have known it and etc etc. It's something that just doesn't need criticising, so I'm not going to criticise Alton for that, and I'm sure a lot of people agree that it's the neighbours who are the ones making Alton change them. Had this happened at Thorpe would it be criticised? Yes, most likely.I don't take the 'Thorpe can't help it' approach. I know Thorpe Park need to improve as really, Alton Towers are miles ahead. But Alton Towers has faults too. Every park does. I know again Thorpe have many more, but they seem to be being criticised for ALL of them. Alton Towers aren't criticised for any of theirs as far as I can see. My point is, if Mark you're reply to my question is 'Yes, yes we do', then really in fairness we should take that attitude to every theme park. But we don't, and that's the only reason why I said what I said before.

Manta. Today saw a load of pictures from its soft opening and wow have Sea World done an amazing job with it!

I haven't lol'd so much for a heck of a long time..

Jeez it's not like Thorpe only wanted to give them an hour. That's like me saying: 'Oh wow, Nemesis pissed off all Alton Towers' neighbours this year and keeps getting stuck on its lift hill. Aren't Alton generous .'I know Thorpe are terrible in a lot of aspects and do need to improve, but do we seriously need to jump on them for everything?

My opinion does count. I enjoy watching football and enjoyed watching it last night. But that's all it really should be for. Enjoyment. Otherwise there's just no point. All I mean by saying 'It's just a game' is that there are many other aspects to life which are more important and people shouldn't be getting so wound up for something which shouldn't really affect them anyway.He doesn't even deserve a kicking. Out of everything going on in the world and all the terrible crimes and horrible people, why does a referee who made a mistake suddenly deserve a 'kicking'? I bet any money that if it had been a Chelsea player who handballed the ball in the box and Barcelona had lost out a lot of Chelsea fans would be praising the referee as a saint.

Nobody is going to argue with you and you know you're right? Oh Dear. Wonder whatever happened to an opinion..He doesn't deserve death threats. Out of all the people in the world why should he be the one who deserves that kind of treatment? People make mistakes. It's a game. Get over it.

The way the players reacted was ridiculous. I agree the decisions were very bad, but that's no excuse.I also agree that the fact that the referee has had to be taken to a safe house just says it all. And Jack, you say there would always have been consequences, but his whole life has been disrupted just because some angry football fans can't accept the fact that Chelsea lost yesterday. He should be able to continue with his life with the freedom everybody else has. Whoever has made the referee feel that he needs to be in a safe house should be ashamed. It's just a frickin football match, Life goes on...

Even if Saw goes back to 8 cars, all that's going to happen is that it'l end up being whored by fastrack. So my fear is that going back to 8 cars won't make any difference in reducing the queues.

Since Slammer re-opened for this year (on March 22nd), it's been shut for 9 days (7 of which were in the breakdown it just re-opened from). Did you just go a lot for Thrill Chill or something?

Chief Ranger's Carousel?!

It was around where Detonator is located now.

It would mean saying goodbye to theming altogether if it turned into a Six Flags.

Surely Number 1 would be never to evacuate upside down.

Well so have I, but it seems to be a problem which has only started this year. The last two years have been ok for swing syncing but this year there's a massive difference.

Swing A does go higher than Swing B, it's so easily noticable.

Have you just ignored what James said? . If it kept getting 'stuck' it would be engineers manually controlling it and stopping it themsleves.

During FN the queue was 50 minutes at one point .

Why does it deserve more?

So you think that just because a staff members face drops that's a disregard to human rights?

No, and even if it did you wouldn't be able to hear it on the ride anyway.

Slammer's reliability has improved a hell of a lot over the last 2 years. In 2007 I agree it was awful, but last year it was open in time for February, and I never went on a day when it was unavailable. I didn't see Slammer in the unavailable box on the website as much either.

So? It's still a better ride than Saw IMO. It's great in the morning when everyone runs to Saw leaving Stealth's queueline empty for ages! Can never really seem to get enough of Stealth, especially in the front. The Launch also still seems to blow me away every time .

Eeeeeeeeeewan!!