James

This could turn into an essay from me so I apologise in advance ActivitiesThey have these huge lakes, they could really use them to their advantage. The jetski shows can be quite fun to watch in Summer but why don't they try out something like the Splash Kart challenge that Alton used to have? A chance to spin round a bit of the lake on a little boat could be great fun if they laid it out in a good circuit with good themeing.The sideshows are something I've always had a problem with. I'd probably be far more tempted to use them if the staff weren't so pushy! I don't want them scrapped though coz they're a good revenue generator, I just don't think the hosts should be given microphones to yell at you with.EventsThorpe Park can pull off a good event, Thorpe Blast is an excellent example of that. I do wish they would hold more events throughout the year but please please please, stop basing them on BMX stunts / Jet Ski shows! There are so many original ideas they could come up with.Fright Nights needs a massive rethink though - especially reducing the amount of people they let in the park, and the amount of Fastrack tickets they sell. I appreciate its a popular event and the staff work very hard and long hours through these times, but management could take action to make it easier on everybody. Be Discovered returning would be welcomed by me. It was great to see people singing and enjoying it, no matter how awful they were. InteractivityTop Rockers are a good interactive thing for families and they have that right. Fungineers however, they very rarely make an appearence Perhaps making them all year round could benefit? The pirates outside Pirates 4D in 2007 were fantastic.The water guns at the end of Loggers Leap have added a good sense of interactvity and fun there, but there is still more they could do.SystemsFastrack is the main system which needs a big overhaul. Tbh all they need to do is limit the number of tickets sold and they could run it okay! It's only made terrible by the fact they sell as many tickets as they possibly can.Security is a system I think they handle well. The presence of security guards is quite good and the searches at the park entrance are helpful, no matter how many times people complain that it wastes time in their day because they've been picked for a random search, you can't just a person by ther looks, and randomly stopping someone and them turning out to have a knife could potentially save somebodies life.The audio system is a very clever and expensive system, it seems that most of it is working properly now and its become a worthwhile investment, especially when you see it being used to its full potential at events like Thorpe Blast.Ride ImprovementsAll I can say is, I want to take the engineers down to B&Q and buy hundreds of tins of yellow and turqoise paint, and re-do Colossus! As we've now seen, some things have been repainted this season and they look great and fresh. Rolling out repaints across the park and the place will be looking great in no time.I'm very pleased the park has repainetd X:/ No Way Out inside. In the TP Q&A topic I asked if X would be improved over the closed season, I was given the answer yes and I wasn't let down. I'd love them to fit new pipes for Tidal Waves fireball and water tower and get them working again.One thing I would like replaced at the moment is the signage at the park entrance, which is still showing the old logo's and Tussauds branding.I think the park have taken a step in the right direction this closed season and if they continue with the general touch up's then things will being to improve a lot ;)If you are still reading this post, well done!

Dragons Fury ;)Quagmire or Cleveland ?

>> This << is the queueline entrances, the one on the left is the main queue, the one on the right is fastrack and the one in the middle seems to be an access road to the maintainence workshop.>> This << is what the link from Colossus looks like at the moment.

The smoke has never really been broken, its just on some days and off some days.The geysers under the loop were fixed too, I didn't see them working on saturday but I presume they were off coz the water was ice

Chocolate :)Kelly Clarkson or Katy Perry?

Ha, I like they haven't printed Mrs T's full name. MRS THISTLETWAT :)What the hell was going on with Avenue Q at Thorpe?!This topic has gone way off topic now. This car idea looks good and adds even more to themeing but I suspect this could be a repeat of Stealths car and it will shortly make its way over to the farm and never be seen again?

The one on the right is Fastrack, the one on the left is the main queue. There is no path from the middle one or anything which suggests it will just be where the signage is and some grass or something I suppose.

Damn right 'n all!

Reminds me of Stealths American fire brigade car

Well now we've had the chance to see it in person, its now fact that it looks awesome, rather than our expectations

If Saw wasn't based on a film and didn't have the same investment put into it theming-wise, this would be one awful coaster.I think they've made a Eurofighter look bloody awesome though and getting to ride it is going to be an interesting experience, not just for the actual coaster, but for the queueline too.

Oh my lawdd, I feel sick just thinking of the idea of that :)Deep fried Creme Egg anyone?

The staff who have to deal with them people must have the patience of a saint.Mainly on Runaway Train I see this happen, but someone will sit down with their bag on, only to be told to take it off and it happens nearly everytime I ride it, and everytime it makes me want to scream!At least with Saw we won't have the constant reminders to wear shoes. Such a pain on Inferno.

They're air tanks for Rush I believe. I quite like the Samurai alarm! Not keen on the banging noise Zodiac makes when its going round.

I'm pretty sure on a coaster with no belts, you have to pull your own bar down and the attendant will just check it by pulling the bars to hold on to. As far as Thorpe go with making up statistics... anyone remember when they said Stealth would never run less than two trains?

Considering Fury cars leave the station every 30 seconds, thats an easily achieveable dispatch time, but we'll have to wait and see really, the cars did seem to be constantly going round on saturday.

I thought they were flying over pretty fast! I guess the speed will vary during testing.

That was referring to who cared about her being in Big Brother, not her situation now. You can't deny that she did nothing and then did it again and made herself look like a total jackass. It just highly annoys me that she has been given so much fame for doing nothing, yet there are decent hardworking people who will never get a fraction of the fame she has. She earns her money just by being in the papers.She didn't even do anything to earn her fame, she didn't do things like release a song, doing some acting, etc. She just earnt her fame because the BB bosses stuck her in house for a few months and considered her 'entertaining'.I read that the boss of Harrods had donated a wedding dress to her. Tell me how thats fair. There are people suffering worse than Jade and shes not the only one with terminal cancer. What makes her so special?

But who actually cares? 7 years ago she sat in a house for a few months and did jack all. Shes just annoying! I don't give her a crap about her life and the fact that anyone earns any publicity for being on trashy BB in the first place is awful.She then boosted her famousness by going back into be a slob again and making racist remarks.She may well be raising awareness, but she could have been doing that before she got cancer. And those are the people who need to have a serious rethink on their prioritys in life.

I have the same sympathy for her that I do for anyone else unfortunate to go through such an awful thing, I'm not extra sympathetic though just because she is famous.

I see no reason why they wouldn't be allowed to spin. Health and Safety would probably allow it because they are impossible to touch from anywhere, including on the ride.

Well the reason they could have an event like that is cos they can just take a group of people up the access route being used by engineers, whereas to open it to the public it needs a queueline, baggage storage facilities, and meet all H&S requirements. Commissing hasn't even finished yet. It's just a publicity stunt and its working cos we're all talking about it!

Tbh it doesn't really make a difference if they rode it or not, they just sat there and posed. Brilliant place to get married though.

They did not ride it.