James6

With all due respect, I'm sure your family aren't theme park enthusiasts, and therefore those of us that are, I'm sure have a much better understanding of the park, rides and there queue's.Of course your aloud to express your opinion but all we're trying to get you to do is open your mind rather than listen to just 1 visit and a few others visits, for YOUR benefit to experience what is (by far compared to Thorpe) the best park in the UK.Also, Thirteen kicks all kinds of ass :oI can see where your coming for with Rita, but if your saying you think there average, to be honest every main coaster it Thorpe is distinctly average bar Colossus which just about scrapes above.^ And to back up Mr Astro, I went to Thorpe last Saturday on a quiet day and experienced 70 mins for Saw and 60 for Colossus, and I was there at the quietest part of the day! Which you just wouldn't experience on a quiet day at Alton, partly down to the size of the place.Plus the actual queue's for the rides at Alton, are in general better, I feel (Except Rita ofc)

Oh wow :oSounds awesome, thanks Benin. Like you say, it's a shame bits like this aren't kept.

There was an old Runaway Train queueline ? Where did it go? Any pictures ?

Thanks , I thought I read that there was somewhere. And there's of course the maintenance area, when I stayed at the Holiday Inn there was a good look at an outdoor part of it with a Bubbleworks boat with the old colours.

Oh wicked, thanks very much :oThe ones that were recognisable were the Skyway train and the Splatapults. Isn't there a storage place near Vampire, or is my memory playing tricks on me ?

Sorry for moving on from the train for a second, just remember something from my last trip, the other day walking into the park there was the area that is hidden from view by the big black fence opposite the picnic area next to Dragons Fury, I saw some bits from old rides but didn't have time to have a good look. What bits of rides are kept there and what other areas at the park are ride bits and pieces kept?

To be honest, I always thought the train was removed years ago, but it was only 1997!^ And sounds likely , thanks. Does anyone have any pictures of the little remaining track, will have to look out for it on my next trip

And a map from that time that'll likely help :oDidn't realise how big an area the railway covered, are there any remnants/ noticeable areas where you can recognise where it was today?Also, anyone care to tell me what "Hawling Hank" was, to the left of the Runaway Train.And no problem

Don't know if this helps anyone figure out the trains route.Also, are any of Vampire's old cars left hanging around anywhere?

Only things I can think of at the moment are:- The cupboards in the queue and on the ride of Tomb Blaster- The horse from rodeo still in it's areaProbably will remember more as we go on Interesting/awesome topic.

Errr guys LOL

Awesome POV, but gosh the ride looks slow, barely makes it over some of those hills, damn those trims

Also, your going off what people who visit most likely on school trips, one of the busiest times of the year.Listen to the theme park enthusiasts I for example have been Alton 4 times this year and Thorpe for an hour, and in that 1 hour at Thorpe the queue's were worse than any throughout all 4 of those trips to Alton... All we have been trying to get across to you is to not base your opinion of one trip, or what other non-enthusiasts think, and for you to give the best UK park another chance if you want to stand by your opinion, fine.

Here's a picture from last Saturday, the actual animals area/building was definitely complete.Sorry for the poor picture, stupid tree

That Tesla Coil really does look awesome I assume it'll make the atmosphere in the Station building even better

Oh wow Really interesting, cheers AstroDan, Are there any pictures of all the queueing areas/old queue when it opened? Would love to see as struggling to picture it at the moment

That's great news I hope they go through with re-opening it Any idea when?

Oh Halloween Hocus Pocus is an absolute must

It used to go up and around by the stall turn after the Zero G Roll, apparently you got some fantastic angles from that queue. Basically the ride was so popular when it first opened regularly getting queue's of 3 hours that they ended up adding extra queueing areas, obviously nowadays the ride doesn't pull quite the same queue's so a lot of them aren't needed and it just fell into disrepair really. I remember seeing some pictures of the ride taken from that queue but can't find them. Personally I would love for them to open it back up again as I'd rather queue there than in the wooden area near the first drop/lift. Although I doubt it considering how rusty the fences are and also how many weeds are in the path.You can see the disused queue in the background of that pic. Thanks TT for the image.

Indeed They really have built it very, very quickly, even last Saturday there looked to be a bit to do.

^ Near identical plans to me Can't wait till the exams are over...

I have no idea, also I wasn't sure if it was just for that day, or for the season or just from the 29th-6th.

It appears the new African Experience is going to open on the 29th of May. Sounds good :unsure:Also

If everyone did that, Thorpe would have hardly any visitors :POk, I'll admit, that was a little harsh

All this theme music coming out is awesome, does anyone have;- Any Halloween Hocus Pocus Music from rides/areas- Mexicana theme- Rattlesnake theme- the Mystic East/Dragon Falls music ?