MikeC
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Does anyone know if train 3 is ready yet? Pretty sure it was on three train operation until they took the one that wasn;t dismantled over close, and took it apart. Just wondering if anyone knows if it's back available?
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Happy Birthday Simps100 and Jack!
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No, it's been said before (and it probably will again) that the Rush and Slammer downtime where totally unconnected
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As the actress said to the bishop.Seriously though, the footrest had gone when I was there, although it does look suspect, I think a lot of people have heard about the problem it had, dunno if it'll affect queue times when it opens.
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Chessington is not top notch this year IMO, especially compared to a good last year; no one denying it but when I go there I just don't feel intimidated. You go in, you have the massive lawn out from of HPH, but when you start moving further into the park it gets gradually worse, I mean when on nigh did landscaping go into Mystic East? The ponds are full of dirt, and someone hasn't had the motivation to just paint over the landscaping which is patchy, where the water has hit it. I don't enjoy my visits to Chessington anymore; either it's busy when you can rarely ride much, and dead as a dodo where you can get on everything by 12 (as myself and Marc did on opening day), and normally I just go to Thorpe afterwards. You sometimes get pikeys at Chessington and Phill is right, but I have to admit the rate of them is increasing. I went a lot of times last year and you would just see 2 or three wondering around and perhaps a few between Chessington South and the Park, Ironically - the amount of normal people that go to Thorpe (in respect they are not traveller etc) seems to be lowering, which isn't a good thing. Thorpe have done wonders to the park this season and it shows; the rides have had touch ups here and there, reliability has easily improved on 06/07, and the staff are really there to make your day. We had a great attendant on Slammer the other day in a breakdown, and he out of his own volition came onto our pallet and talked to us about it and moved the subject away from the problem and spoke to us about things and made us all laugh, that thing just wouldn't have happened last year. It may insult the various CWoA staff on here, but I have a better day at Thorpe because of all of those factors. Not because it has 'x, y, z' rides there, I enjoy the Chessington rides better but Thorpe is a better park and they just seem to bother with the guests, Chessington think 'OMFG Zoo, lets whore that like a bitch' (which I have to say is very very good, especially the new cubs in TOTK, however past that point it isn't very good. I can only think of 3 or 4 staff at Chessington who I have seen regularly who bother, but again, the Zoo staff are the only people who seem motivated - especially their Sealion show!I think at Thorpe you can see that a new company has taken over and made steps forward in the progress of the park; Chessington doesn't feel that way at all.
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Neither is it like spam the forum up week about everything you post at the moment. Seriously, a point is a good point, and you attack it.. seriously wtf.. They're fine if they come in - but when they cause trouble security throw them out. End of. No, but he was an expressing an opinion Respect it, and move on.
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As the Actress said to the Bishop.
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That's what Sunken Gardens are there for.. it's a pretty big space to the back of Stealth?!
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WCML is the main focus of 'fixing' by NR, the amount of stuff they're doing at Rugby is equal to ripping up the tracks, relaying new ones in a total different formation - the slack they're getting for the fact they still have to have trains going through there every single day must be hell for the engineers.
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Rush will probably be unavailable for the best part of a month and a half considering what they have to do to it - I would say they'd have it open by the start of the Summer Holidays though - they've just got to wait for new parts, the ride to be checked over and for it to open again.
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The ride would not have opened if that was the case. The ride has never been 'perfect' due to the ride arriving badly made as it was a prototype - you could even go as far as saying Thorpe is at fault for buying it as a prototype - but I am sure they got compensation for it's first few years of poor running.And the Slammer downtime has nothing to do with the Rush incident - Slammer should be back up soon!
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I'm going to be a train geek simply becuase I go on SWT a lot between Thorpe and home and London etc, - but South West Trains are pretty top notch IMO - the trains especially to and from Basingstoke or Reading are rarely late. Go on First Great Western who you will realise how good SWT really area - FGW are a complete bunch of flying *****s. SWT are timetabled on a usual day to be there every half hour, every single hour from 5 till midnight, FGW are a kind of 'well shall we have a train now? Nah, lets screw these poor sods even more' kind of attitude.
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Could anyone elaborate on the GTA 4 in joke about Americas Newest.. *insert whatever it is*It's on the radio station.. I forgot though =[
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I wanna be a Rap Superstar, in that video with a big super car, all those pretty girls they really fancy me - and guns incase you don't like me!</rapsuperstarthemedmusic.com!!11>
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As people who have an interest in the park (small generalisation, albeit this is a Thorpe Park based forum), of course we dislike the information written in the Sun, but as there was only one member of the forum who was there (may or may not be accurate) I don't think anyone could comment.After all bad news sells
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It was an accident, I have full belief that Thorpe's engineeering is totally safe, it's just a real pity that an incident that hurt noone, has been written about in The Sun. Thorpe's engineering has been lamblasted by The Sun for an accident that wasn't anyones fault, these rides are tested for 4-5 hours before park opening, it could not have been helped IMO. Everyone may say that theme parks aren't safe, but I can only count 2 problems in the past decade at Thorpe, it's an incredibly good record, especially compared to other theme parks in the UK. And the 'it will be closed for a month' is rubbish, I believe there has been no set date for it's reopening; I think it was Martin who said when it happened that it would be a month, which was pretty much unfounded.
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LEAVE MARC SIMPSON ALONE