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At least Saw actually had a decent enough plot line! And sorry mate, you won't find Dora, she's gone Exploring.

The only way you 'notice' the change is the jolt (and by eye if you closely examine it for long enough; which is what I assume A-Kid did originally). As for Colossus' loop (and any vertical loop for that matter), it's not a perfect circle, so it has a change in radius (change in curvature I'm not too sure, but if it does, it's not in a bad way). Technical name for it is a clothoid loop. Basically, as you get nearer the 'top' of the loop, the radius increases, which in turn decreases the force on the riders. So, as Fred says, all those loops are fine!

I read something on TST which may explain the cause of the delay (or, at the very least, contributed to it). Here's the post my member 'Dar' This would go some way to explain the delay. They would have had to find a different way to excavate the areas that would satisfy the inspector and then complete the new work. Of course no work could be done while these notices were in effect! Does beg the question of how they could have overlooked these, they seem like simple things to get done. "Digging a hole? We better make sure the sides don't fall in on us!" "Nah, leave it. It'll be right"? So it seems that the "we need to blame someone" camp can aim their vitriol at the groundworks company. Source - http://www.towersstreet.com/talk/planning-portal-and-the-smiler/(the-smiler)-construction-updates-and-ride-speculation-part-2/180/

With regards to the 'jolt', this was posted shortly after Saw opened: So basically, just a change in curvature of the track. This then led to higher laterally Gs at the base of the drop than, which creates the jolt so many people experience. At an educated guess, I think this could be down to the drop - it was originally meant to be a 97 degree drop, like most Eurofighters, but was instead changed to the 100 degree drop for the record, which could explain the change in curvature of the track (as the Immelmann loop was kept exactly the same, so was designed to follow a 97 degree drop, not a 100 degree one).

*You're. Sorry, a pet hate of mine, and seeinghow it's the Rant thread...

Ah, that explains why my Mum's AP has been dodgy the past couple of visits! Strange...

Here's my kitten, called Baby, trying to help out with my uni work...

I too have heard about the park getting WiFi, and that it would be usable from today. Also, if you look on the back of the park map, on the section about the App, it mentions 'WiFi Powered by The Cloud'; the same as at Alton. So, if it hasn't be released today, I expect it will be sometime soon.

I count that as 42 seats per ride. That video leads me to think that, as it is, you're looking at about 5-6 minutes between rides, so a nice maximum throughput of 220pph. Even if you half the ride time, or even reduce it to a third, you're not going to get more than 500pph on that thing. Something with that low a throughput at Thorpe? No thanks. Looks like quite a repetitive ride after a while, so would lose appeal quickly.. Would ride it given the chance (and if the price was right), but if that ever appeared in any theme park (especially in the UK), I'd lose my faith in humanity just a bit...

Well played Mark, well played...

Source? If so, looks like I'm not going to Chessington till the Summer... EDIT: Please don't tell me I've been April Fooled...

Just a quick question - are Thorpe still going to respond to questions sent in on the Questions to Thorpe Park subforum / will they be in the future? Also, a quick suggestion - can the names of this topic and the other Feedback topic be altered, maybe to 'Feedback of the Forums' and 'Feedback of the Site'? Just a bit confusing!

Week ban for Mr 9?

Regarding sleep.. As Benin says, set a routine up. If you want to get to sleep by a certain time (say 11pm), get in bed (as in, in your bed, in your pyjamas or whatever, with only a desk-side light or something) about half an hour before you plan to go to sleep and do something relaxing. Whether it's reading a book, watching the news (if you're lucky enough to have a TV in your room) or playing a relaxing game on your phone - anything which you find relaxing. It will calm you down and should tired your eyes a bit. When it hits the time you want to sleep, stop, and try to sleep. Whilst it may not happen immeadiately, your body will get used to the routine sooner or later - hopefully sooner - and huzzuh, it works. It's also a much better way to get to sleep rather than staying out of bed till you're literally too tired to do anything but sleep, as it gives you wind-down time; something people all too often forget to do. The idea of staying awake for a ridiculous length of time is not good. Whilst it may sort out your sleeping habit in the short term, it's not going to help in the long term as, ultimately, you haven't dealt with the root of the problem - you don't have a sleeping routine. You'll have to do this sleep starvation again and again and it will become a more regular occurance, which is just even worse for your body.

I'm just waiting for some Smiler marmalade. Marmalisation Marmalade anyone?

Detanator ORPs are no longer available; they stopped them this season after only a couple of seasons. The photo was taken near the end of the drop, so it did capture nice expressions. Trouble was it wouldn't always be in time or get whole groups in one picture.

Boring old fart alert... Turn off the laptop, get a power nap. It's not healthy and it's Easter Sunday. Enjoy some chocolate and a bit of time with family or something.

Not torn down and replaced with an Intamin Aquatrax?

It was on the front page!

So X hasn't even been open a day and there's already a POV of it? Sigh, enthusiasts...

Love this song at the moment. Absolute quality stuff. <3

(Picture taken from The Coaster Guy's FB). Full Throttle's track is merging Looks...interesting. Them supports though; bleurgh.

To be honest, as with a lot of this project, I don't have a blooming clue just what is going on!

I disagree with you here. Swarm and X have had improvements which have improved their presentation. Inferno has had it's tunnel and station improved, Detonator has new restraints, Depth Charge has new boats, Saw's effects have been working fine and dandy and so forth. I'd say this year has been pretty darn good for presentation of rides (and general presentation inside the park); the Loggers tunnel, as poor as it is presentation-wise in my opinion, isn't a reflection on Thorpe's presentation of rides.