Mattgwise

Shocking that it is nearly 10 years old! I still remember when I visited and saw the first drop being built and thought "wow, that is huge".When I rode it on Thursday in the second carriage/third row it was much rougher than I had experienced earlier on in the year when I actually thought it was a little smoother than before. Personally it is my least favourite coaster and I always avoid sitting in the back row of a carriage as I always get cramp due to lack of leg room.

Didn't see anything like that on Thursday.

Good day at Thorpe Park today. Park wasn't busy for August at all, longest queue (that I queued for) was 40 minutes for Storm Surge and I think 60 minutes was the longest I saw all day (Colossus and Saw up until about 3pm). Most rides we queued for 20-25 minutes including Saw which for me was very unusual. Saw Alive, No Way Out, Loggers Leap, and Rumba Rapids all had less than 10 minutes wait when I went on them.Only problem was almost every Queue time board was wrong throughout the day, normally they are fairly accurate.Staff were brilliant today, almost everyone smiled and made the day that little bit better.Park music not brilliant in places today. No music at all in Stealth area except for the speakers that have been put in at The Swarm advertising area, Tidal WWTP very low volume, Colossus Very Low volume, Depth Charge silent, Annoying bird tweeting Queueline music for Samurai which I have only heard once last year I think. And my goodness I can now see what people mean about Canada Creek, the music there is awful compared to the old Country playlist. On a plus, Detonator, Nemesis Inferno and Samurai ride area loud.I like the gradual changes to X:\\ No Way Out but not as good as people have made out in my opinion.Overall a good day and was nice to not have to rush about.Sorry but no pictures so I'm afraid its a poor trip report compared to the last few brilliant ones

They must be spending so much money on Skyride as of late. Almost every season it has a massive chunk of downtime.

Greatly missed ride. I remember having a strop when I was a touch too small to go on this. And then over the moon the next time I went as I could go on it.

Maybe quieter than later on in the holidays but, I think if I ran a theme park a 50 minute queue would warrant the use of a third train and try to get it ready for the whole of the school holidays, especially the summer holidays.

Vampire not doing well this year at using 3 train op. As soon as someone says it is running 3 trains a day or two later it is back to 2!Must have been a technical hitch with the jets on Rameses for them to have it off on a hot day. Hope that gets sorted soon as it's never the same without.

They tried the adverts thing a couple of years ago and it didn't last long hopefully the same will happen. The events only a couple of days away so hopefully that will be the end of it or they will probably advertise Sun Scream.

That theme in my post above is the theme that played up until 2006, no other music has played on the ride unless you went at halloween and are thinking of this . 2007 onwards it has used it's current theme which is from Scream at Heide Park.

It is on Thorpe Park Mania's audio section and is called Detonator - Theme 2006 Loop

I think it is safe to say that reliability has been good since 2010 now. Basically since they stopped the february openings.

The article on MSN about this has a picture of Stealth, but is talking of Tsunami at M&Ds. Some people may look at the picture and think it is Stealth that had the problem! http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=158480062

In my opinion, with the limited age group I cannot see this being to popular. This would work really well if all age groups could go or if it was over 18s.

Definatley cool, I've never seen a video like that before. Hopefully more rides around the world start doing these.

I could hardly hear myself think with the guy on the PA today. I highly doubt it has been turned down unless the op is now shouting through the microphone!

Went to Chessington today. All rides I went to were walk on - 5 mins except for Dragon's Fury which was about 15 mins due to 3 adults max per car rule. Was very surprised at how dead it was and I reckon without the school groups it would have almost been desserted. All rides closed at 1:30pm due to th massive thunderstorm which was right over the park and had the loudest strike of lightning I have ever heard in my life. We then left at 2pm as we couldn't see rides reopening any time soon.

I believe it is what I have attached below, well it was when I went in April.Colossus Beatbed

And as you left the ride there would be a hole in the wall with the jewel inside and as you touched it or tried to steal it you would get a loud noise and air blasted onto your hand. Took me a lot of courage to touch it when I was little

Its great value, I nearly always eat here when I go. It is actually cheaper than the normal Pizza Hut restaurants during buffet times as they charge £6.99 before your drink which is just over £2

Anaconda log Flume at Isla Magica in Spain has a lift hill like Loggers Leap (no backstops out) based on what I can see in this video. So Loggers Leap is not the only one like it.

This was fixed earlier on in the season but only lasted a brief week or two. Now its back to the area theme playing in the station as well as the area.

Burger King are doing them when you purchase a meal (I had to ask however) and Kelloggs Cereal have them on the back of packs as well.

I think that this year and last year have been pretty good.

Stealth during the first saturday of Fright Nights during 2010. We had to obviously get off but were let through the fence between onload and offload. Got 8 rides in a row. There was no queue as the ride had reopened after a break down at 9pm but the sign at the entrance still said "Stealth is currently unavailable". Was great fun!

I just wish they would not only turn it up but install speakers/have it playing throughout the queueline so we can hear it there too.