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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...

Pfft, I have 7 followers on tumblr. Meh, I don't take it too seriously. I get my thoughts out (probably why it's not popular ) and post pointless rubbish and that's that. XD

The LC12.net is legit as the address is shown on the sandwich board of the LC12 actor. (Who is legit, otherwise they'd all have been banned from Thorpe etc. etc.) Alpha FTW!!

Don't get me wrong, I don't doubt what you're saying. I'm just saying the signs have progressively disappeared as people have torn them off.

The ones of the Amity Cove sign have progressively disappeared. Most probably due to people trying to tear them off...

The sad thing is, I know way too many people who are like that...

The snobs...

You see, I'm somewhat sympathetic. I'd be lying if I said I didn't kick a few balls over a neighbour's fence as a boy ever now and then, but it was only ever one and I always knocked politely asking for it back. It's the every day which is annoying, plus the fact how he has sometimes jumped into our garden to get some back...

How on earth a little kid can own at least NINE footballs, and every day manage to successfully kick at least FOUR (or in today's case, all of them) over their fence into my garden and not learn is beyond me...

Anything is possible though..Stealth grandstand, Saw windmill.. So many details like that have changed, and could easily change with this project also..

I'd have thought it to be a little early to film an advert. I thought it might have been one of those talk group things about how they could improve FN and what a new attraction should be, as 16-24 is the main target market.We shall see though!

I sent an email to them; should be alright.

I had the thought flying in my head for a while now, but thought it was too farfetched.. Also, I don't really get why she's now so important to the Doctor, it just seems a bit 'why'? I thought the episode was a bit long winded and just basically 'here's a twist, here's another, blah blah blah, another twist, cliffhanger'. I haven't really been impressed with the series to be honest...

Agree with Robot Wars - absolutely loved it. Hypno-disc, Panic Attack and Pussycat were my favourite 'classic' Robots, but must say I've got a soft spot for Dantomkia too.