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I know what I'm getting on Thursday then... Not the nicest looking bear to add to the collection, but a bear is a bear.

According to some on TST (who themselves are going off of what's been said on Twitter), this has caused a gap in the track. If true - uh oh! Was meant to be on park today; lucky I'm not!

Banned for having a creaky username.

Gerstlauer. ABC or 123?

Awkward. Well, need to play the honesty card then. My answer to Question 23 was Island F, yet I seem to have gotten 54/58 (assuming 58 is still the maximum mark?), and I know for certain I got 0 marks on Q10 (I was £500 million out), so I'd assume that's where I lost my 4 marks. Looks like you might have given me 3 marks too many Sidders! :S

Sorry to nitpick here, but it's Island F - bit of a typo there.

Quite happy with my 32.5 - a bit better than I was expecting, especially as I thought this'd be my worst round. Looking forward to the Pictures Round now. Sidders - will you be posting the answers at any point? I know people will take them at different times and such, but maybe after the round has been taken by everyone or something? Will be fun to see the answers to some questions; especially Q5!

The dome can be open till 3am (though only on 42 occasions of the year), which is why MoS works. Rides can stay open till 11pm. In a way, I'm surprised they didn't do 8-11 (especially as that would give more time to clear the park after a 7pm closure), but I am not fussed in the slightest. I would expect 1 train op though, going on the MoS events, but we shall see.

What I'd do, for the time being, is take advantage of Thorpe's offer where you can get a pass till the end of the season for £43. If the past few years are to go by, in December/January, there'll be an offer on Merlin Annual Passes, which would work out cheaper than a renewal. It also leaves you with more options and more time to decide what it the best thing to do, and if an opportunity to go to Legoland or Chessington arises this year, you can probably get a decent offer somewhere making it cheaper than renewing at this stage.

I was quite surprised to find out now of the nights had sold out when I got my ticket yesterday to be honest. Can't say the additions of Storm Surge or Tidal Wave entice me any more. Storm Surge is...Storm Surge, and I hardly ever ride Tidal Wave these days (last time I rode it was 2009!) due to it either being not hot enough, or the queue being too long. Probably wouldn't be interested in riding it in the evening to be honest - though that is just me. Really looking forward to this though.

I had my first filling done a couple of years ago now. After dodging the dentist for a couple of years (like many, I hate the dentist, but I was literally petrified of them a couple of years back), I needed to go after realising one of my front teeth needed a filling badly. After a couple of years of not going, it was to best expected that I'd probably need a bit of work elsewhere - I needed another filling and a tooth pulled; guess it could have been worse. I was lucky that with my first filling I was giving some numbing jel before the needles which helped. The funny thing was, I didn't mind the drilling - strangely, the thing I hated the most was the sound of the cleaner (or whatever it's called; the thing which squirts water into your mouth just to make sure there was no stray bits of tooth or whatever). Weird huh? I've had a couple more fillings since (one a couple of weeks after, and another near the end of last year), and they're a lot more bearable. They're never any fun, of course, but that's that really. Having my tooth pulled was a bit of a nightmare - before arriving, I was told I'd be sedated, but then they said they try to do it without sedating me. I really panicked, and the fact that all they did was simply 'yank it out' wasn't the greatest feeling; but it helped me realise that a filling isn't all that bad. And good luck with the job search!

I think 'his section' has finished now. It was a nice little feature actually. Gave a couple of little snippets of when Swarm achieves certain Gs, which is fun for the geeks amongst us. Other than that, just talked about how there's a focus on G forces and how they help make roller coasters...roller coasters. They gave Wardley the usual portrayal as some guy who gets his kicks from making people scream and that. Noticed that some of the shots of Swarm were flipped for seemingly no reason though? One little problem though...they called Colossus, the ride which saved Bassett's life, Nemesis. D'oh!

I guess, at least, it's a way of get some form of experience in the working world, which will be invaluable. I did a week one summer a couple at an accountancy firm I did Work Experience at in Year 10 (technically it was just more work experience, as the guy I was with told me to contact him if I wanted a bit of work). He did pay me £40, but I worked for 5 days, 9am-4pm. Whilst it was basically nothing, it helped me invaluably in deciding that finance wasn't the sector for me.. I haven't got a job for this summer. Thanks to getting bursaries from uni, I've been able to save up enough money over the year so I can not worry about money this summer, and instead enjoy it and work out what direction I'm going in. It's also allowed me to settle in to uni in my first year, and get to know when are good times to look for jobs and work experience. The next couple of summers, I'm going to focus of getting work experience in the hope I can find some sort of job I'd enjoy if I don't go down the PhD route (and even if I do go down that route, I've still ended up with experience in the working world).

Don't worry, in uni that's a pass, so you haven't failed!

I hate hot weather. Anything above 26 or 27 degrees is uncomfortable to me, so the past few days have been a bit of a nightmare. Looking at some of the night temperatures the past few days - I'd quite happily take them as day time temperatures! I guess the past few days were even worse because I had my Aircast boot on, which made my foot and leg extremely hot and sweaty - not the mention it's quite heavy in itself, meaning lugging it around is a lot of effort. So glad I only had to deal with a plaster cast for a day.

Well, completely obvious now what sort of market they're targeting now! Not quite sure on it though. It's got that sense of humour to it, but it feels a bit forced and unnatural in my opinion. I like it, but at the same time, cringe to it.

I will be there! Thanks Thorpe and TPM for this - can't wait!

When you were born, you were the: 5,619,397,439thperson alive on Earth 80,877,793,452ndperson to have lived since history began With a life expectancy of 77.4 years. Woo.

Haven't you now given away the answer to one of the questions now, before everyone has submitted their answers? But yeah, had no idea on that one. XD

Woo, top of the leader board! Know exactly what question I got wrong; still have no idea about it though. XD Thanks Sids for doing this; have fun in Germany and I look forward to next week!

Just as a thought, do any other Gerstlauers other than Saw have offload platforms (having only ridden Saw, I genuinely have no idea). I remember hearing that Saw was, in a way, a prototype due to the dual loading/offloading, but due to all the troubles Saw had, they probably wouldn't do it again. Not sure if that included the offload station though? Might be the reason why they didn't include an offload platform though. Smiler being a prototype in itself, they might have though it best to not go back to territory they found troublesome in the past?

I didn't think either of them were prototypes. I remember the advertising for Slammer featured a white Sky Swat with American flags, which I always presumed was the prototype. Unless it used a slightly different system or something? I think Rush was the first Screamin' Swing to have 32 seats, but there was no new technology with it? As for what I think of Slammer... Well, to be honest, I hope it reopens quickly and stays open for the rest of the season. Then I just hope they get rid of it and get something better. A picnic area would be nice. (Yep, I really hate Slammer that much...)

Really want to take advantage of this! £16 is the high end of what I'd want to pay for it, but I can see why they're charging that amount, and would more than likely go.