Skunky
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They aint married to eachother but to other people.
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2010) General Maintanance around the park Paint jobs for all the rides, all effects working. Replace Fungle Safari with A slammer type ride which goes the oposite way and each arm spins 360 degrees (like a sorta windmill). Remove wet wet wet.2011) Build Hotel next to the car park themed to the 4 Fright Night Mazes built on 5 floors each floor is either Asylum,Hellgate, Se7en or The Curse, with all staff dressed in Actors costumes. As well as 1 floor themed to underwater for families. Removal of Octupus Gardens with Teacups and the return of Calgary Stampede.2012) Finish filling in islands to make 2 seperate islands one themed as Thorpe Bay(pirate land) and one themed as Underwater World. On the Pirate themed land is A faster and more intense version of Black Buccaneer which goes 360 degrees, as well as a new Pirates show taking place on the island as well as on a boat which fires water balloons towards audience. The underwater world is aimed at kids which will see Depth Charge moved as well as inclusion of a Sealife centre and Flying Fish being moved.2013) General Maintainance of the park with cleaning re painting and making sure all effects on all rides work. Detonator is removed and a new 200ft Shoot and Drop Tower is placed onto the Pirate Island called 'Cannonball'. X no way out is removed from inside and replaced with a walk throuhg haunted house with a mirror maze like at Dungeons.2014) Bobsleigh Coaster is placed to where Depth Charge and Wet wet wet was located. The building work begins on Tidal Waves replacement in 2015. A break dance is placed where Teacups was. Thorpe Park opens new sponsorship from Imperal Leather for Depth Charge and secures 2 Subway stores located in Canada Creek and Pirate island.2015) Tidal is completely removed and replaced with a new improved version like the Pilgrim's Plunge in America but is 170ft tall. A new hotel and entrance is being created near Thorpe Farm with a by pass road from Staines Town Centre. Another Subway opens in the Dome.2016) The Curse moves from Neptunes Kingdom to Pirate island. Zodiac is removed and another Rush is added so there are 4 swinging arms. The new Hotel and entrance are finished. Planning permission and building starts on Thorpe Station for trains from Waterloo stopping outside entrance. 2017) The park is now open all year round with access via train every 30 mins from Waterloo. All rides go through series maintainance for all year round opening. Anyone who has owned an Annual pass for 5 years gets them free from now on. Nemesis Inferno Undergoes a make over into Hell ride with trains shaped as Devils.2018) A Flying Coaster is added onto its own island next to Saw with the theme of Jigsaws Bike(with the doll). Bumper Cars replace Rocky Express. The new hotel gets a retheme into Chessington based on all rides past and present.2019) An in-park monorail is set up for easy access between car parks and islands. All Sponsorship is removed except for Subway, Starbucks which is added into old Costa in Dome as well as Burger King in Canada Creek and Pizza Hut expands into 2 Buffets one on each island.2020) Thorpe Park is only open to TPM members from November 10th to March 12th then opens to public every day til Novmeber 9th 2021. New coaster is being built for 2021 taking up 2 islands...............I know none of that will ever happen and its alot but hey I can dream lol.
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OMG!!!!!!It has to be Vortex.Meg Griffin or Chris Griffin?
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Theming might be finished it might not just because they might of added a sign to the area does not mean they have themed it yet. I am hoping that they sell little Jigsaw dolls on the little bike toys in the shop hell yeah.
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To add to that there are 2 large lakes which they are able to fill in for extra development which they have done for Saw and Stealth already.One final note: No space? I gather you haven't seen the two new islands behind Stealth then?
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See I would say BBC3 just for Family Guy. But I am going with..BBC2 for Heroes(amazing show)Lynx Instinct(orange) or Lynx Dark Temptation(chocolate)
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Bit Random there Tommy. I think they are as both as good as eachother.But to keep people happy it has to be an inanimate household bathroom sponge lol.Cadburys Creme Egg or Kinder Surprise
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I have to agree the good old Legend of Rameses does need our love.Also just to include an improvement for this year is that Rameses now has some new restraints which are red in colour.
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Not all the actors in the fright night mazes jump out at you actors are there to act out various scenes so therefore not just jumping out they might have them in the traps as you are walking through inside. And surely this would be the reason it is going to for 12+ just like the mazes? And due to contracts of staff, Thorpe and for the ride itself any information that is known must be kept to the member of staff etc. Therefore if people were to know information they will not be allowed to post it on forum unless Thorpe have released it already.
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oh thanks for correcting me rich.That is probably why they can use them as good as they can because Rameses is a little button like from a fruit machine and has a 4 second delay. Also the fountains on Ripsaw are more powerful and faster.
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Also just to add that Rameses Fountains are manual controlled with the delay. Where as Ripsaws are Automatic(correct if wrong).Also Ripsaw has the metal cover on the bottom where the micro switches are and Rameses has all of them pretty much open with no covering apart from the plastic boxes of them.
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I might be wrong but I am pretty sure there are no behind the scenes on here. Yeah Merlin are very strict with things like that, so it is hard for staff when they have to bite their tounge lol. Seasonal staff are more likely to be on here as the parks dont bother as much with them as long as nothing out of term is said about the parks. As everyone on here are lovely people you can ask us anything and we will happily help.
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The jobs for the season have all been filled at thorpe this year but keep looking as they will add jobs when they need staff. The entertainment positions are for returning Top Rockers staff so you wont be able to apply for that either.Currently Legoland are looking for rides staff and although not the same as Thorpe it will give you an idea of what working at a theme park is like. In answer to your question bubbly I dont think there are any members who work behind the scenes at Thorpe on the site as Merlin do not allow staff to post information etc on these sites. Therefore you are unlikely to find full time staff on here.
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lol I didnt mean to operate I meant to ride, I wouldn't know what it is like to operate.It is going to be very hard to replace the 2 people they have lost one of them still gets recognised where ever they go even at the thorpe meet they were recognised by 4 groups of people with the normal hey you going back this year or the general he used to work at chessington its like being famous lol
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Well Rameses wont be as good this year as 2 of the best people to ever operate this ride have left chessington for better things. The ride itself will still be good but the 2 operators that are not at chessington anymore will make for some upset guests riding it.Rameses is one of the best rides at chessington in my opinion either Rameses or Fury are the best rides within the park. I will have to wait and see if they replace 2 of the best operators with anyone good.
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Well I aint in any pics, cos I hate them and I wasnt in the best of moods that day.This is probably down to no sleep the night before. I have to agree with the people running off was rather annoying and you need to think of the people, its not like you haven't all been on the rides before the main reason people went was because they wanted to meet people. The people I was with on the day were amazing (Rich,Chris,Holly and Sheepie) what legends.I might be attending the meet on 14th March but not sure yet. If I attend then I aim to be happier than this time as I will be getting some sleep lol. Thanks again everyone for making the day better and nandos was good when things settled down thanks guys.
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Hey again, I wont be attending the horrible Nandos lol.
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Just thought I would add some good and bad news to this convo lolI am now coming well once mr simpson gets my pm lolgood news for some and bad for others (well most) lol. Look foward to seeing people again.
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The 2 main causes of whiplash on Dodgems are Seatbelts and Head on Collisions. This is why the Chessington Dodgems have Lapbars and no head on collisions so therefore whiplash is highly unlikely to happen.The only reason Dare Devil Drivers was removed becuase of health and safety reasons was because a young lad dislcated his shoulder on the ride due to the poor Platforming of one of the attendants and if I remember correctly they also had seatbelts on themDodgems is by far one of the best rides at the park and I really hope they keep them after Beano goes.First of all there's the health & safety issue, I can't believe that dodgems are even aloud to operate when some many people get whiplash on them from bumping cars! I suppose that they're well themed but I get the feeling that something far better could replace them...
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In response to who lives in that house yes it is owned by chessington and in actual fact a family who works at chessington lived there until they had to be moved cos of subsidence of the property.Chessington owns a large ammount of land so therefore have loads of room to build the only thing is the green belt thing.
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Well rather than see Saw why dont you wait for the trip where people plan to ride Saw if you can only go the once? (unless its same day not sure when Saw opens). That way it makes your day that extra bit special. As well as seeing all the wonderful people on here you can ride Saw wooohooo lol.
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How can you forget that it was your mums bday? And although that Pleasure Beach have stated the rides that will be open over the season, Thorpe will never do this as things happen throughout the season. I mean last year they could of easily said Rush will be open this year and then look what happened!!! Thorpe will never give a final list until the day before as the engineers might find a problem with one of the rides or something might happen on that ride the day before. It's a basic turn up and expect the unexpected.
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I'm not 100% sure on this but I think falls wasn't open on the first day of the normal season but was open the weekend before for the private events??
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Just to correct the 08 season one there mark sorry08' Dragon Falls and Bubbleworks.
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Dancing on ice as it is funny when they fall over lol.Hannah Montana or Miley Cyrus (as in the series)hard or what lol