Everything posted by JoshC.
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Personally, I don't think the exterior needs any work done. Regardless of the colour, it's not going to make anyone any more or any less enticed to go on in my opinion - how many people judge an indoor ride by the colour of its building after all? So long as it's kept clean and such, I'm really not that fussed by it. Not to mention it'd be a terrible waste of time and resources, especially when there's other rides / areas which need paint jobs more urgently (Colossus, Rumba Rapids, Canada Creek - I'm looking at you). I'd also be interested to see if they actually could repaint it. Given how large it is, the council may only approve certain colour schemes. And at one point (albeit almost 20 years ago now), the council didn't allow the park to put 3 non-illuminated 'X' signs on the pyramid, so it might prove difficult in itself. -
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What exactly do you mean by 'inner' and 'outer' seats? Also, whatever this means, I don't think it really matters - you still cover the same radius! For me personally, I find Zodiac quite tame and very rarely feel queasy / dizzy from it. I'd personally say just go for it, even if you feel a bit unsure about it. It very much seems to differ from person to person, so there's no way to find out if you'll be alright with it unless you try it. Zodiac doesn't have as long a ride time compared to some other Enterprises though, so it's probably a good one to do first.
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Since I'm both not going to Chessington this year and at uni during all of those dates, I shall not be attending. Hope everyone has fun (and makes the most of me during the Thorpe meet ).
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I think this is a very good point. Regardless of how much someone pays, if they know the walk up price on a peak day is £60, that's the figure they're going to be thinking of. They'll always be the questions of "Is this worth £60?" or "Would I have been happy to pay £60 to come here?". And I think most people will answer those questions with a no. It's certainly a strange tactic, but I can see the logic behind it. Many people are (hopefully) booking in advance, or using vouchers or something, and so get into the park for somewhere between £25-30. Personally, I think that's very reasonable. And then by doing so, Thorpe can predict gate figures better and prepare accordingly, which is great considering Thorpe sometimes have been very unprepared on busy days. It also encourages more people to try and go on off peak days; something that Thorpe have wanted to do for a few years now.
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Hope everyone has / is having fun today!
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In fairness, a day out at a theme park is not usually a cheap thing - most people expect to pay that sort of price for one of the UK's most well-known theme parks. £60 for a day out at Thorpe Park is ridiculous; anyone who pays that will not get value for money. However, £30 is a lot more reasonable in my opinion, and probably represents good value for money (look back 10 or so years ago - the on the day price then was around £32, and online was about £20. Given everything added in the past 10 years, paying an extra £10 online seems quite decent!). Also worth noting how there are no 'adult' or 'child' tickets. If you're under 1m tall, you get in for free. If you're over 1m, you have to pay that price. That's a bigger issue in my eyes, especially at the moment when there's not that much for someone to do when they're just over the 1m mark!
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Whilst we're on 'optical illusion'-esque things, here's a classic one to keep you entertained... Which way is this cube facing?
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Definitely blue/purple 'n' black. *Awaits toofpikk to post an Illuminati picture*
Now that theming is nice and quite clever too. Really do like that!
Yeah, Storm Surge having over a 2 hour queue (even if that was on reduced capacity) definitely means no one was interested in it.
I don't think last year's or 2013's AP preview days were that busy for Thorpe though in fairness? The only bad AP day they've had was 2011, and that was because of seriously under-estimating how people would turn up.
It was on the site at one point for this season I think. I guess it's possible that they've just taken down any mention of it until they have dates decided, if they bring it back this season (and I expect they will!). Last season, they started in the second or third week of July I think, and happened each weekend until the end of August.
TPM have an exclusive picture update: http://www.thorpeparkmania.co.uk/news/24-02-2015/%27I%27m-A-Celebrity%27-Construction-Update (I won't post pictures here in case people I tyring to avoid all possible spoilers). Does look very nicely themed though!
I agree about the furniture likely being temporary (hopefully!). The park have said they opened it more up to get guest feedback; presumably about prices, quality of food, the look of the place, etc. Presumably using leftover furniture was easiest for the time being. Hopefully the park got some good feedback and act accordingly!
See it as an opportunity to create your very own Leaning Tower of Pizza!
Normally if a broken down ride is having no visible work done to it, there's a reason for it (waiting for a part, behind the scenes work, etc etc). Presumably (read - hopefully) it was one of those legitimate reasons, as opposed to something else (laziness, lack of resources, etc). It's a shame that Chessington has been plagued with reliability issues over half term; certainly not the best advert for the park. Hopefully the issues are sorted out for the main season and the park can hit form.
With regards to the one train operation, I'd assume that they've only got one train ready for the half term event. Whilst having a half hour wait on one train is a pretty nasty experience, it very much seems that was an exceptional case. If Swarm and Stealth are averaging queues under 10 minutes for the majority of the half term event, you could argue that 2 trains really was not a necessity. Also, let's not forget that similar things happened at Alton Towers - Nemesis had a 30 minute queue last Saturday on one train operation. The (rare) problem isn't just exclusive to Thorpe. You see, with something like this, when we're literally talking the space of a couple of minutes, it's a bit difficult. Thorpe's clocks might be synchronised differently to your phones'. Or there could have been a small reason which made them feel it was best to just close a couple of minutes early. In theory, I'm usually against rides closing before the advertised closing time. But when you're speaking about closing 2-3 minutes early on a filler ride like Depth Charge, it does feel a bit more insignificant in fairness.
