Ricky

This post from yourself says you can see a brightly coloured distraction ruining the view of the gothic mansion? When I'm stood at the entrance I hear no noise other than the entrance music and all I see is towers street centering the towers.

Isn't it strange that when your stood at the entrance, you can't actually see Sonic...

Vampires thrilling? I think of it more of a back crippler

Like I said earlier, this is the maintenance position for all top spins. This allows for easy access to the centre motors, gearboxes and loads of other things including what was also described by Rich earlier, as the hydraulic oil pipes. Most likely, it was just being changed/filtered, or maybe its doing an Enterprise and having a hydraulic leak

Just a shame that Thorpe don't really have the space for a wooden coaster really, it would only be able to be an out and back either toward the farm or toward Canada creek to be any decent size!

That's just the position is has for maintenance, didn't know it was down to be honest! It's had a very rough time this year and the last!

Wasn't Enterprise just a mixture between the old Zodiac parts with old Enterprise parts with the occasional new parts from Huss?

As if with all our ERT it's whoever gets on the train first, then some people will get off and be replaced/move seats etc. So everyone gets a fair deal with the ERT.

To be fair I have this dispute with Air, people saying for instance the barrel roll on it is an inversion when you clearly do not go upside down! My theory, you are essentially laying down in air and you do a 360 degree turn. If air's barrel roll (as well as lie to fly etc) counts as an inversion then that must mean when I'm laying on my bed and turn over I have done an inversion yes? To me an inversion is where your feet are sky high and your head is down low.

I think some people are misinterpreting the new theme. X, is no longer a coaster where you are meant to feel disorientated/ not knowing where you are going. The ride now is suited for young children, which straight away says 'this is a straight forward ride'. Could you imagine a 6 year old being disoriented? The whole point of it is 'Ride On A Wave Of Light And Sound' - there is a lot of light and a lot of sound. So, to sum it up, X is a ride where you are riding on waves of light and sound, so disorientation is not the key factor anymore. But instead the key factor is to produce a phenomenal light show with loud pumping music. It is to my understanding the light show is approximately 15-20 minutes long with a long 70 something minute track. If anyone is interested the light show has been updated recently and the lasers are now multicoloured

^ there's nothing wrong with the chain, it's the gear box.

They can't really help needing to import a part, sometimes a ride seems unreliable but infant is awaiting a special part which cannot be kept in the engineering stock cupboard.

Feel quite privileged to be one of the last guest to ride it before it died, was on the transfer track when it did! Shame though, one of my favourite rides and always start the day with it so when it died on the first day we didn't get to go on it on the second

I'd love the chance cards "you've given into hunger, pay £15 for a hot dog" "You've been found queue jumping, move forward to GO and collect £200" "You've been seen having a good time, pay £70 for fastrack"

All rides where on two trains yesterday, but saw was on 7

No doubt it will be covered in scaffolding, striped and mostly removed out of park hours! If its going of course, Shame, not been on it in years!

I never liked carnival of screams, not sure why! Love terror of the towers, easily the best maze I've been in... Which only extends from Thorpe to Alton!

Woah, they stayed open long, they've only been open a week

I love the bit in the interview with the girl ''After about 15 minutes we knew something wasn't right" - You don't say!

Well, I'm pretty sure everyone who was in the queue at the time must of been there the day before as well, a lot of people had accepted the fact it wasn't going to open, as that is what was advertised! Even I did a cheeky cheer

I'm really confused your talking about the best ride at Thorpe, yet your saying its gone down your list because of The Smiler? Last I checked neither where in the same park!

That must be awkward, that's whatnots all about! Although, Detonator scares me, and if it was a softer drop I would go on it

I had this dispute all too many times, the operator should be able to do from the control box rather than poncing about waiting for someone else to do it!

Just so you know before you all jump on the ride staff for being incompetent. Queue times are regulated every 30 minutes or so to Control Operations which manually change the time. A lot of the time Control are busy doing things for every department in and around the park and don't have time to update the queue boards. If you want to blame anyone it's Operations Control.