JoshC.

So this opened yesterday, and seems to have good reviews so far, despite some awkward pacing during the ride. For anyone interested, I'd suggest looking at the park's Snapchat (walisnaps), which shows the opening ceremony. Fireworks, confetti, dancers, actors, live performances, the lot. They certainly know how to open a ride it seems!

I don't spy a to scale Derren Brown resin figurine. Much disappointment.

Ah yes, I remember now. It's been a while since I've had to use that main queue extension

Unless my memory is failing me, I'm pretty sure that you only pass Swarm and Saw's queue line shops once (same for Inferno and Colossus too)? So I don't think it's something which has quite 'caught on' at Thorpe.

It was themed on a depot near Willesden Junction.

Not yet; but it has been testing over the past couple of days I believe. So fingers crossed it won't be much longer before it opens!

It seems Galactica is having a soft opening today. Source: Adam is on park.

One does have to wonder why they'd stop where they did, given it's always been the plan and the large sum of money they're putting into this thing. Surely the extra few hundred grand to even partially theme it would have been money well spent, and isn't that much when compared to the rumoured £30-40m budget? So maybe it's not even a budget thing, which leaves me all the more curious... It is a shame, as the warehouse is really good, and had so much thought put into it. But the red shed does leave some unflattering angles of the attraction, to say the least.

http://www.thorpeparkmania.co.uk/news/20-03-2016/Fright+Nights+Nominated+for+3+Awards http://www.scarecon.org/scars---the-scarecon-annual-recognition-awards-2016.html Thorpe have been nominated for 3 SCAR awards. Personally, I think it's good to see that they've been nominated every time for Best Scream Park - quite telling of the comparative quality of Fright Nights all in all. Something which I think is easy to forget.

Phantasialand have posted some lovely photos of Klugheim... Train clearance; looks tight! And some more images from phantafriends.de... Trains! Raik's lift / end of track is fully enclosed. River Quest has also seen some new theming, and in general a bit of love... (Photos from Phantasialand) Still no word - or even a rumours - of an opening date yet for Klugheim, but hopefully not too long left to go! I must say the area to looking a little barren at the moment, but I'm expecting that once the area is 'live', and there's people in the area, music playing, rides running, etc, it won't feel like it at all!

At the top of what?

Wasn't that the case with Rita yesterday though?

Literally they could put in a clone of Chiapas and they'd be onto an absolute winner. You don't get that wet and it is an absolute ton of fun.

DBGT won't have any on ride video feature as the map doesn't indicate it. It does have an OR of some description but where, when and how really isn't known.

That's some Derren Brown level predicting there...

Vortex seems to have lost its judder. I rode it once last season and it was really juddery and put me off it for the rest of the season. But today it was really good; one of the best cycles I've had on it for a few years!

X was running surprisingly well today - don't know if it's just because it was the first ride in ages, but it seemed to be flying through the MCBRs and getting a nice pop of airtime (by X's standards) coming off them!

Went to it today. Very nice ice cream but definitely a premium price for it. Staff in there were a bit...lacking in customer service skills as well, for lack of a better phrasing.

I can't find the source at the moment, but at one of the fan events a couple of years back, Towers did say that the SW tagline isn't restricted just to coasters. If I do find the source I'll edit it in.

So why assume it's cost cutting? There's literally no logical reason why it'd be more expensive to run backwards than forwards. So it just felt like you were just trying to make an easy moan again. Apologises.

"I want to make another cheap dig at Thorpe, so will complain about something which I wouldn't normally complain about".

Severn Lamb were also the providers of CCR.

Oakwood's social media team are so unoriginal. Literally any time they see other parks doing a social media campaign that they think is working, they pretty much try and copy them (they posted memes around the same time Thorpe did, this TLC stuff and there's more which escapes the mind at the moment). I know they're a small park and all, but even a bit of work can go a long way...

https://www.thememo.com/2016/03/15/derren-browns-ghost-train-thorpe-park-derren-browns-ghost-train-vr/ This article, posted yesterday, confirms that Figment Productions are creating the VR stuff for DBGT (they're the same company who made Galactica's stuff also).