MattyMoo

There was a non-public Fright Night on Friday - for Merlin employees

Anyone know what's up with Stealth? I hope it is routine maintenance... I'm going on Monday, and if it's down, that'll be two trips out of two for me this year with Stealth unavailable!

Ah good, thanks! If it got stuck at the top hat full of passengers, methinks it would've been on the news somehow...!

Someone entered the ride area of SAW? My god, the stupidity of the general public knows no bounds, and I am continually flabbergasted!!

I'm pretty sure that when Stealth got stuck at the top of it's top hat, it was completely empty on one of it's test runs before the park opened.

3 Hours 45 minutes? Oucccchhhh! Glad you enjoyed it thoughI know not everyone can go on off-peak days, but I personally get miffed queuing for anything longer than 30 mins!

I'd agree... that's annoying!! Minor I know, but... 0 just doesn't look right!

SRQ gets the thumbs up from me... I used it on Monday with my friend who visited Thorpe Park with me - we didn't care about sitting together, and knew that we would be split up - so the 90 minute queue became 5 minutes! It was used very well the 3 times I rode SAW - filling up whenever groups of 3 were next.As to the effects, on Monday I noticed:1. Countdown at bottom of lift hill staying at 00:00:00 for a long time before going up the hill (kinda ruins the effect!)2. Body barely shooting water 3. TVs after the ride (when going down the stairs) not workingOther than that, as previously stated - I thought SAW was fantastic!

Indeed. We weren't best pleased either - my mate who I was with is yet to ride Stealth - last time he went it was down for the whole day. Add to that the fact that we originally planned to go to Thorpe over 2 weeks ago, when it would've been quieter, but had to reschedule twice due to the curse of the S-named rides, it was a little annoying to say the least...!

Ouch... they better pull their finger out for next week...!

The faces on the people of the rollback we witnessed at 3pm ish were classic!!

In a completely different SAW related note - I thought the guy at the unload station looked familiar today... it was BBQChris! On my 3rd ride, some Irish chaps were making a lot of noise to Chris about Billy talking to them specifically if I recall correctly... they seemed to be having a good time anyway!

Sorry... I've never actually watched the SAW films! I heard other people refer to him by that name so assumed it was correct!

We'd literally just joined the queue - so 89 minutes! We weren't that fussed to wait an hour and a half!

I had 3 rides today, avoiding the 60-90 minute queue and queuing less than 10 minutes each time... all thanks to the SRQ. Very handy indeed! Kudos to the friendly chap at the end of the SRQ - very chatty/helpful!Today was my first ride on SAW, and I'm very impressed. The station is fantastic, I love the countdown clocks! Jigsaw on the plasmas below the lift hill is good! Is the Jigsaw in the dark section on a bike supposed to ride towards you? Because he wasn't moving today. The "dead body" didn't look like a dead body at all - don't know what was going on there!I'd love to see what SAW looks like in a few years time, when it's got some more established plants etc around it a la Nemesis Inferno. The skyline from the Slammer queue looks really different with SAW too!The ride broke down a couple of times today - one time when we were in the batching area - and all was rectified in about 10 mins. The main lights came on, the cars went round the track and it was sorted! SAW was running 4 trains today, and there were signs up mentioning this and warning people to expect longer queue times... maybe they're trying to break it in gently?! 4 trains won't be good enough come Easter.... 3 hour queues anyone?!And yes - that first drop - you don't expect it at all!! A couple of the cars were squeaking today too, but as said before - it kinda adds to it! The spinning blades look amazing!

Stealth today didn't open until 1PM... and consequently when it did, the small number of people on park went straight for it, meaning the queue quickly rose to 60 mins, then peaked at 90 mins. We joined the queue at about 3pm - thinking we may as well queue, and as we did - it rolled back! Meaning they had to call an engineer etc... so we gave up!I've had my Stealth-age many times before... I think my record is 13 times in the morning on the first fright night of 2008, haha!

Maybe it was a busier-than-expected day for TP yesterday so they decided to start selling? (By the way - kudos to your Tegan & Sara related name & quote, TheCon - I saw them last year at Shepherd's Bush Empire and also in Brighton at Concorde 2!)