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I heard that the park had always planned it to be a horror film themed ride from early on, put the actual theme was somewhat 'fastracked' and a deal was secured in late Spring / early Summer 2008. Then the plans changed a couple of months later to get rid of the windmill, and instead build the Saw store and have the police car occupy the space of the windmill..

As popular as it is during the summer, I've always seen the larger side of Neptune's Beach and Wet Wet Wet as a way of giving compensation for the ride, to make the area a little less condensed.But who knows really..

It's a red splat mark. In a war, guns are usually fired. Splat marks come from being shot. Logical really.

With regards to the name, I don't think it is 'WAR', but somehow has the word within the name. If not, the extra emphasis on it is a bit of a let down.But yeah, interesting...

As I said on Saturday... Just because I'm not saddened by her death in any way, doesn't mean that I am showing her, and more her family, no respect..'Good riddance' was probably too harsh a thing to say, but I still stand by the view that I'm personally not saddened b the fact she's died.

I sorta understand where you're coming from here Liam. Innocent people are murdered every day through bombs and gunmen and such; which is of course terrible. This is perhaps more significant because of the country - I believe I heard it was the country's biggest loss / damage since WWII (along those lines anyway). So I do get where you're coming from, though I in no way think Amy Winehouse was a 'true icon', in any good sense. This celeb culture thing just really pees me off...

I don't deny that a death of anyone is sad, especially when she was well liked by many.However, for her to finally be out of the news for good is something that I'm glad of - I tire of seeing celebrities getting loads of media attention for silly things like being an alcoholic or addicted to drugs. They're human, and these things happen to humans - so why should it be in the news? 'Good riddance' is probably more harsh than I need to be, but I'll freely admit that I'm in no way saddened by her death.Condolences should still be expressed to her family though, of course.

So, she finally died ey? To be honest, good riddance - in a couple of weeks she'll be out of the media for good so we don't have to go through this whole 'look, she's drunk on stage' malarkey ever again.If you like her music and that, all well and good, but I think there's more news-worthy things out there rather than how one woman was on drink and drugs all the time...

If you basically want to see the same film with a different name again, here's the trailer for Paranormal Activity 3:http://trailers.appl...ormalactivity3/

All good then.

If my memory serves me right, I think the last time there was some form of fire on Loggers (going back a couple years now..), it was only down for a week or so? If it's a similar case, which I do doubt though tbh, then should hopefully be up soon.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2Well, here it is really - the end of the Harry Potter films. In short, I think the film was pretty amazing and does what it was meant to do - give a memorable ending to the series. Before I go into more detail, a little bit more about my 'experience'. Yesterday, I found out my local cinema was doing a double bill - showing Part 1 yesterday evening, which would then be followed by Part 2 (in 3D) at midnight. After a little thought, I went for the opportunity and had a little power nap in the afternoon to ensure I was fresh for it. -_-So, Part 1 was scheduled to start at 9:20, so we arrived at 8:50 to hopefully get good seats (which we got). Before the film started, the guys who run the projector were having a little fun, putting little cut out characters in front of the light, some were kissing, some were riding broomsticks, etc. etc. Was entertaining indeed. Anyways, unsurprisingly, the screen was more-or-less full, but it didn't at all feel crowded - if that at all makes sense. Part 1, which I had watched on Wednesday to keep it fresh anyway, was of course in 2D. It was nice in some ways how there was always resounded laughter at the comical bits, as opposed to to odd laugh when you watched it when it's quieter. Also funny how people were laughing before the lines were told, showing just how many times everyone had already watched the first film. At the end, there was a 20 minute break before Part 2 started, to get more food and that. And that's enough about the first film and my experience and all that - probably boring you a bit now...The 3DThe double bill included Part 2 to be in 3D, so it was 3D I would be watching. I'll start off here to get it out the way. I was a tad unsure about it, knowing how it was just a conversion job, how Part 1 was going to be in 3D and was then scrapped, how they had to re-shoot some scenes and just not being a fan of 3D in general. However, I put that behind me. This was the first 3D film I watched at the cinema since Spy Kids 3D, all the way back in 2003ish when it was the red and blue ones, so it was a fun thing to try out. In all honesty though, I thought the 3D was a needless thing. It added next to nothing to most scenes, with it more being a character just standing out a little more most of the time, as opposed to anything major. There were some good bits, but not enough for it to be worth having to put up with the glasses over my real glasses. A positive thing on it though: next to none (from what I remember) cheesey moments, where something flies out at you for the sake of the 3D, which I liked.The FilmWARNING: There will be spoilers, including how it differs from the book. So, that's that. Until the DVD comes out, au revior Harry Potter.8/10

There was a double bill at my cinema - Part 1 at yesterday evening, Part 2 (in 3D, which I'd avoid tbh) at midnight.THE FILM IS EPIC! Review to come later.

The random squirter that goes in the water to the left..The flats were, of course, busy. Quantum was only a few minutes though, so opted to do that. Quantum - that ride that's tucked away over there.After a good, but slightly short, ride we went for lunch at the noodle bar - on the other side of the park where we just came from. I braved using the chopsticks, whereas Jack was boring and used a fork. :L CCR followed, and the first train of the day too.Time to humiliate Jack now. He tried opening the train gate from the left hand side, failing to notice it was from the right hand side you opened it. Silly boy.The CCR sign on the trains. Much love. <3Waiting for the train to go, I got a shot of Saw with Samurai sneaking in.Random wheel near the station.Despite my improving camera skills, I still failed with the Colossus shot to be perfectly on the top of the vertical loop.. Saw must have been on reduced capacity or something, it has been running bad earlier and not a single car went past whilst we were on the train. So you'll have to do with some track.The driver was going so fast today, and there was literally no interaction, which left us both a little bit disappointed. This was the best bear shot; yes, that is a toy fish in its mouth! Random digger underneath Logger's lift hill.The splash did actually reach us - just like I remember as a young child! Aww, memories and that..Whilst we're on the topic of Canada Creek, they've changed the audio loop to 'new' country music - half of which isn't really country. From recollection, there was Taylor Swift and some remixed Lady Gaga. Much to my upset to be honest - I loved to old loop! :(We did some wandering and we saw this:Loong Fastrack queue still! Coming in 2012 - Fastrack for Fastrack..We ended up going to Flying Fish, which was actually for our second time. First time there was this epic op who was singing through a loud speaker thing, which was hilarious! He was there again, but no singing this time. Love these little bits.Tidal Wave in general has epic theming.Flying Fish was as fun as ever really. What was an amazing laugh for us both is seeing 3 chavish looking people, Jack branding them part of the infamous Staines Massive, going in the single rider queue, and a couple being sat next to little kids. During our general wandering, we also did Time Voyagers - the screen had this random patch that was visible whenever the screen was dark, which was very annoying to me. We also did good old Rocky, which was a laugh and a half as ever.We also popped back to Sunken Garden for a longer nose around:Reminiscent of Thorpe Farm.As you can probably tell, I'm quite fond of Sunken Garden. It brings back memories for me of coming back from Thorpe Farm on the jetty and having a wander round it, followed by Model World. I love how quiet it is as well. I think it's a shame that it will eventually end up going to make way for access to a new island.. By about just after 2, the weather was on the turn.It was getting silly busy now so we were thinking of calling it a day. However, I wanted to do X to check out the change to music. The queue board said 30 minutes, then 45 minutes, then 60 minutes, then 30 minutes - could not make it's mind up. In actual fact, it was about 20 mins - not bad at all. The music change and addition of flashing lights on the final brake run (oh, and like 3 track ties being glow-in-the-dark) is better, but it was too disco for my liking. However, definitely an improvement, and I think it is a step in the right direction!As I said, we decided to call it a day here. We wandered round the shop in the dome and that was that. It was a great day, despite it being very busy. That's that really. Hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it; until next time! *Sorry about splitting the report, silly image limitations*

More Inferno admiration. We decided to head over to Stealth (I think), but it had closed temporarily, so we went over to Detonator. Imposing look of Detonator.I really wanted to get a photo of the gondola coming down, but the sun prevented me from seeing the screen, so I needed a bit of guesswork and luck. Bit too early on this one.Much better!Detonator was done, and it was great as ever. We headed over to Stealth again, which was still closed, but was testing. We opted to wander round Sunken Garden for a bit to see if it would open. Sunken Garden is by far the greenest area of the park.After a bit of wandering and spying on the LC12 site, Stealth had reopened. But so many people were outside, we couldn't be bothered with the wait, so went straight to single rider and both got on within a few minutes. Spinney times on the Teacups was had afterwards.Before it got too busy, we headed over to Loggers as the weather was just too nice. On the way, we saw how busy the Inferno queue was and we were glad that we'd gotten that out of the way:Busy busy busy.Never seen all 3 extensions open that early before.Fastrack generating much popularity at this time of course!So we did Loggers and got very wet indeed. I know loads of people say there's a terrible smell after the tunnel, but it honestly has gone now. There's no dodgy smell and the water is quite clean too I'd say. Walking over to the Lost City flats, I spotted a stray Viking Longboat from the 90s floating about. A photo had to be taken.Another obligatory photo shot for me. Nature and Thorpe Park.

So, whilst my college was still open yesterday owing to the teachers' strike, all my lessons were cancelled, which meant a trip to Thorpe was in order. I arranged to meet up with thorpeparkjack, after postponing a trip for ages. :PWe met at the bus stop in Chertsey and were due to arrive at Thorpe by around quarter-to 10 for a 10 o'clock opening. The bus came, and we got there about 20 minutes early, or so we thought..Well, that's the weather. Nice and warm, but not boiling hot like it was earlier in the week.Somewhat to out surprise, the park had opened early - probably due to the large numbers that would be inevitable! We didn't complain though, and decided to head to Inferno first thing. However, a short queue on Storm Surge caught out eye, so we opted to do that, as Jack had only been on it once. It was relatively spinney, but not wet. A shame really. Now we went over to Inferno, as originally planned..A shot of Tidal Wave on the way.And of Stealth. Inferno love. One of the most photogenic rides on park in my opinion.After a thrilling ride on Inferno, though with less mist then on previous visits, we opted to do Rumba Rapids. 3 rerides were easy to get and we did get quite wet, much to our enjoyment as the weather was hotting up.Random bird house feeder thingy I noticed. Dunno how long it's been there, but it caught my eye - I had to get a photo!

Pretty normal for this time of year really.And school trips will end when schools go on summer holidays more or less. So that means, once school trips are over, it will be packed. So yeah, Thorpe to be packed till September...

Facebook should allow you to add more than 200 photos per Photo Album to be honest. It is annoying.

So, you hate yourself? I'm sorry, but I'm sick of this culture that think every teenager in the planet are knife-welding yobs who swear, drink and smoke continuously. If you add to that way of thinking, you are just as bad as the minority of these yobs and chavs in my eyes...

That's a pretty big generalisation there...

I guess I owe some form apologise saying of my incorrectness.I still find the whole idea of it stalling VERY unlikely, and indeed very unbelievable. Likewise with the idea of having multiple empty boats of a new ride on full view (I'm still a bit confused as to how one boat pushing into another solves the issue, surely that one would then stall / the weight would be insufficient to push it, but meh, Physics is weird). In all of my visits I can remember since the taking-away-of ERT for AP holders, I have never and I do mean never, seen AP holders let in before ordinary guests. So yeah, I don't think it was wrong of me to not believe Lauren. But I was wrong in my belief, and I apologise if any offence has been caused by that.

I'm not trying to cause an argument (granted, my last comment might have been a bit below the belt). However, I find the whole concept of the ride stalling, AP guests being let in early, and multiple empty boats on Storm Surge a bit too ludicrous and far-fetched for me to believe. I'm sorry if that's harsh or anything, but from where I'm sitting, it's a fair view to have.And I'll leave it there.

You've posted something that was a lie before, apparently... I'm fine with not arguing and that, but I'm sorry, I just do not believe that you stalled...

Call me a skeptic, but was it like seriously quiet when you went or something? Surely there's no way staff could tell you'd stall there and then send empty BOATS round to nudge you. On any other day of the year, I'm pretty sure those boats would've had people in.So yeah, to be honest, I don't believe you on the whole stalling thing...