Ricky

In the third photo it looks to me as though Oblivion has been running due to the wheel marks on the track! Hopefully it will be open on 16th March

Has been there since the original of this map, doubt it has much relevance. Can be seen in the 2012 park map too: http://new.thorpeparkmania.co.uk/content/downloads/maps/2012.jpg

It's The same as the last two years...

And Depth Charge photos is now a Fastrack unit

Eventually (if not already) They will do the same as what they did with CCR. Although slightly different as CCR was the most reliable train ever, they looked at the amount of guests each year tallying against the yearly cost, it was ran by diesel so it wasn't the cheapest with rising fuel costs and was eventually decided that it wasn't justifiable to keep it running. They will look at Slammer and go, ''oh we are spending hundreds of thousands on this contraption, and the throughput is pitiful with only 6 (being the average) cycles being sent an hour. We get barely 200 people an hour on a busy day we have to close it once or twice a day to do routine maintenance. Do we really need a sponge of a ride that sucks in every penny from our budget to be closed half the season with barely anyone riding it? Simple answer no'' Slammer's time at the park is VERY limited with a yearly pattern of being closed half the year particularly over their busy periods being Summer and most of Fright Nights. Yes it is another ride that can (as some may put it) 'Soak some of the guests up'. But if they closed it and got rid of it those hundreds of thousands of pounds can be put into fixing other rides promptly, so all other rides can be on maximum capacity at the best part of the entire season. What you have to think about is whilst Slammer continues to piss everyone at park off, cuts are very likely to be made to other rides. Heck, Zodiac had 4 carriages off most of the season last year, but I'm sure if they hadn't sunk money into Slammer that money could have been used to buy new mechanisms for the doors on Zodiac. The sooner it goes the better from an engineering point of view. And just to clear it up, Slammer is actually my favourite flat ride at Thorpe Park.

And I'm sure TP will follow suit very soon!

It's amazing what people will do when paid to do it

I'm genuinely excited for The Smiler.

TP aren't always (although usually) to blame, for X it's the manufacturers.

It never worked the ride has been plagued with problems since day 1.

Your in for a depressing surprise then.

You hit the nail on the head there, who actually cares about what is written on a piece of sticky paper on a piece of metal?

You're only saying that because your's didn't win. You already said a million times you think your's is better than anyone else's.

More hassle than it's worth! It's a great concept that didn't work.

I worked there for two seasons. The only ones who seem to want to keep it are Merlin HQ. Even the engineers have had enough with the catastrophic ride.

As it was with Th13teen wasn't it?

Certainly looks that way, unless they keep the train with all forwards rows on until the Monday after opening. Depends how long it takes for the modification. I'm sure they won't want to faff around too much.. I think...

I think it's safe to say we will see 1 train operation for the first week or so, as much as we hate it! I believe it will be two train operation (one with one without backwards seats) APD though. We will have to wait and see

This is true... Th13teen could of been a good one without the trims.. Good old Intamin messing things up!

Nemesis ever tried to mess with our minds? It was just a creature unearthed and they 'chained' it down with metal which was the roller coaster.

I don't hate(didn't even hate working on it) But I'm sure there's rather a small amount of people that enjoy it!

Th13teen is neither wild nor fast, They trim you pretty much the entire way down the drop then the following no-air-time hill.

Why? It's not open season yet, it's not as though people are going today EXPECTING X to be open... It will most likely be present on the website from March 14th.

Are they still trying to flop Smiler as a world's first roller coaster to 'physiologically' mess with your mind? Even though they tried that with Th13teen & to some extent oblivion.

And toilets, we always seem to discuss them over closed season <3