spurs-fan94

where abouts are you based would happily house it...and pay you for your troubles:)

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr............ Taken from towers times, who clearly know what the secret of SW7 is and won't share!

It will grow on me. It sounds awful, but then so does loads of ride names. And there is something subtley sinister about the name "The Smiler".

I have also heard from a very reliable source the The Smiler is the official name for the ride.

That too will not happen... although with the 'crash pad' more likely...

Slammer...Rush...THORPE PARK. Nuff Said.

Tidal Wave. Nuff Said.

Well as there is no source as of yet I'm not jumping on the band wagon. No offence...just like to see evidence

I'd imagine running costs is a large contributing factor to rides opening or not during feb as well as mechanics.

Went to Fright Nights yesterday and what can I say... After boyotting the event last year because of the failure that was 2010 fright nights we decided to go again. We got on park at about 12:20...headed straight over the THE SWARM with a 45 minute queue. This was the first time I had seen the flame effect and the LED eyes in action and it was awesome. We managed front row on the LHS. After the Swarm we headed over to Pizza Hut which was absolutely heaving... We then had a behind the scenes tour of the Asylum which was the absolute highlight of the day...great tour. Following the tour we were the first in the Asylum much to the distaste of the people queuing ages for it. We then went over to Experiment 10, we queued a good 90 mins for this due to a technical fault...Great maze...best in the park or so I thoguht... Our time to die was 17:00. We had heard mixed reviews...but needed to se it for ourselves... EPIC. AMAZING. TERRIFING. The passing is a must do maze...worth the £3. We then managed nemesis twice and the swarm front row a further 2 times!

Is anyone going to the behind the scenes tour of the Asylum on Sunday? Just got an email offering me two tickets...quite excited!!!

Has anyone been in since Fright Nights has started?

Great punn!

I thought they were struggling too...dont get me wrong...these Hobbit huts are different to the usual hotels and will attract a different visitor...but they will be extortionate.

I havn't read much of the thread but all I can say is that fright nights must be safe. Merlin is a multinational company and all events must comply with the countries health and safety requirements.

Completely agree...in recent years it has seemed to be a bit like Roller Coaster Tycoon (Storm Surge just being plonked in a gap where it barely fits). Thorpe should remove all of the SBNO rides completely and utailize the spaces...perhaps not for a ride but for catering maybe? I do value storm surge though because if you look at previous investment patterns 2007 Minimal (flying fish), 2008 Minimal (Time Voyagers), 2009 Large (Saw), 2010 Minimal (Saw Alive), 2011 Minimal (but looks medium to large (Storm Surge)). For the patern of investment, I think that storm surge is fine...just in the wrong place. As for next year...I can see a lot of work on existing rides being carried out over the winter.

This reminds me of my trip to the US...great to hear others times over there.

Bit skeptical to be honest with this...for them to build an appropriate amount of "hobbit houses" they would need to use alot of space which could be used better.