Sidders

So the concrete tunnels and rock gorges on Furius Baco's layout are consistent to a vineyard, are they? First I've seen.Not saying The Swarm is perfect, but I would hail Baco's themeing as all that.

This topic has now been moved to the "Thorpe Park" Sub-Forum as the first day of the 2012 season sees an extremely successful public début for Thorpe's hotly-anticipated new rollercoaster! The remaining topics on Speculation & Theories, Merchandise, etc. will be sorted into more appropriate areas in due course, and there will be links made from the old areas to the new ones to make sure that those that are not aware of the topics being moved do not get too confused at topics randomly disappearing to different areas! Happy 2012 Swarminess!

Surprised it wasn't spotted and sent to the Daily Mail Fail...

I'd be happy with either... but I think the Flyer would pip the GCI to be honest. Heck, I'd even take a Starry Sky Ripper replica.

We can always dream...

Someone needs to go with an amazing camera and take lots of photos of this debris for us nerds who won't ride it for another few months at least!Need my Swarm fix...

The fact they're continuing the promotion even after all the Media events and right up to Zero Hour is really very impressive of them.My hat, as they say, is well and truly taken off to them.

Nah, I understand! It's sort of like Nemesis Inferno when you spin out of it's own Zero-G and into that sharp right turn; the right-most seats are still rotating anti-clockwise and so they feel more of a 'snap' than the seats on the left because with them it's more a case of 'lowering' themselves onto the banked(/inclined) plain of that ground-hugging turn. The right side feels more force as they spin straight into it.

I must admit, there were quite a few (including myself) who though the right side would take the left hands down. What a turn of events to see the left considered more intense!

Kasabian, Mumford & Sons, The Naked & Famous, Bloc Party, Florence + the Machine, Metronomy, Miike Snow. :wub:Shame The Killers and Noah And The Whale aren't there though. The Killers were amazing headliners a couple of years back.

I WAS RIGHT!

Okay guys, I think Liam's argument boiled down to "Better open for fewer hours than close the park/individual rides on certain days (or the whole season, in what would be Submission and Enterprise's case)" or something similar. But to be perfectly honest it's up to personal decision whether the closure of half of X-Sector for a season is better than a lost hour for the whole season.I haven't been to Alton in years, so I guess I'm in no position to call it really, having not been since 2002.I can only hope I paraphrased that right. :PEven so, Mark puts this into crystal clear perspective in the last paragraph of the above post. It's quite ridiculous really.

A few posts from this topic have been moved to the Spoiler Topic, which will become the Present Day topic when The Swarm and the park open officially. It's basically so if anyone doesn't want to get the inside experience from all our trusty members too excited to contain themselves, then they can still visit the other topics, but the Spoiler Topic is specifically for all the Swarmy details.

I don't like it because I don't like the kind of music. In my profession that'd be a bit counter-productive. But still, I don't see it suiting the song unless, like Benin says, it's just a new form of PR. I desperately hope this doesn't appear in the queue. Who wants Franceschi's voice wailing at you in the queue-line?

If you try and spin off to any of your friends that buying "The New iPad" iPad 3 is justified by it's "higher screen resolution" then they won't want to be your friends anymore, because no-one should care nor pay that much for something that doesn't jump out of the screen and pass all your exams for you.

Err, I'm sorry? What did people expect? I expected You Me At Six singing about the apocalypse; if any members on here familiarised themselves with any such music they'd probably have guessed this is exactly what it was always going to sound like.Thing is, it's really ****.

Do it guys! Only 31 more members to go!

So much for the rubber wheels to dampen the noise...Looks sublime.

That's nothing. Our school filters explode when you try to search "barbed wire".

I might have believed that if it weren't for the badly edited-in "Swarm scream" towards the end. I call bull****, but it's not half bad for an ambient track.

No... Emergency Survival Packs. Might look like lunch-boxes, but I'd rather there be more than just that. I'm talking satchels and such. Lunch-boxes are different but are a good idea also.

Emergency Survival Packsetc., etc.

As Thorpe Park appear to have stopped the video interviews with the Construction and Design staff, this topic will be closed until - or if at all - further notification reaches TPM about the videos.Thanks to everyone for your contributions!

I keep watching the park's animated rendering of X-Flight and chuckling to myself at just how fast it looks in the video and how comparatively snail-paced it'll be when it's built.