MattyMoo

After a brief period of downtime on Saturday, Stealth was back up and running two trains like a dream - fair play to the ride team as they were always dispatching in the 40 second window, and the queue was moving quickly. There's a 2 second gap between "go go go!" and the green lights currently but I can forgive that for now. For all you fans out there, the two trains running are No. 2 and No. 3 #truefacts

A lot of the food outlets are now Card Only - which is fine as long as the card machines are up to the job. Felt for the poor chap on Peckish, not only were most of the menu items not on his till, his Chip & Pin machine had sticky/faulty buttons, so when trying to enter £17.00, the zero was getting stuck and entering £17,000.00 for example - so he had to keep manually resetting it.

The timbers/cladding in the Swarm station roof have been removed, so you can currently see the shiny steel RSJs underneath... as I understand it, some of the wood was rotten and needed replacing. Hopefully it's a quick job, but currently - it looks a bit rubbish Had a smooth awesome ride on Swarm on Saturday but unfortunately all the effects and Swarm Island audio were off

From photos it looks as if the queue wait time board is still missing from the sign, unbelievable scenes. CORRECTION: There is one - it just looks like wood, clever times! ALSO: .•:*¨¨*:•.IT'S.•:*¨¨*:•.OPEN.•:*¨¨*:•.NOW.•:*¨¨*:•.LADS.•:*¨¨*:•.

New clip needs more Jordan thingy. Totally not going to get bored of seeing her "acting" in press photos.

Woop woop that's what I hoped you were going to say. Haven't had a TGIs in aaaaaages.

Oh my goodness, how bright is it in there?!

I'm actually going to Alton Towers on Friday the 20th with two mates but should we have bounceback and they can be persuaded we could perhaps pop in on the Saturday for a few rides

The entrance to the projector room looks so sad and knackered Thing is, that's what happens when budgets are cut and you make the exterior of an entrance from plywood.

You're a lifesaver PS. Where we going for the meal?

The Thorpe Park sign at the entrance had been removed, I saw in a vlog - is a new one in place yet? ?

If it isn't gobbling up queues then it makes sense not compounding the issue by limiting fast-track - so if that's the case then that's a good decision.

Fair play Thorpe - £10 for 4pm-10pm is a good shout - heck I might even go myself Interesting that DBGTROTD is only included in the very top fast-track package - I guess that means the queues will be kept down (ish).

The caption underneath the photo on the itv article should read "Roller coaster tester Jordan Middleton 27 is one of the first people to experience the new ride sitting in the station of 'The Walking Dead: The Ride'"

Glad I'm not visiting until April 20th so the crowds will have subsided - that must be a quiet week as the park isn't open all week - have double checked it's not a school holiday obviously

Nothing like forward planning eh?

If you look reaaaaaalllly carefully you can see where it used to say Thorpe Park on the front of those amazing trains. Ahem. Second only to Disney, lads!

That would be AWESOME Mr. Creek

I'm only going on the 24th to ride Loggers, Slammer, X & Rocky Express tbh so will be heading straight to guest services if any of these rides are not available.

Anyone planning on going on a 2-4-1 deal? I don't have a MAP because.... I don't

How did I miss that SW8 video parody? Awesome work, so spot on

Even Thorpe wouldn't have XNWOTWDTR open for just 1 year and then bin it... probably.

I'll buy my first ever MAP if there is

Wonder if we'll have a little "The Walking Dead The Ride Shop NOW OPEN" sign outside for a few months a la DBGTROTD.

"It’s 15 out of ten on the scare scale.” (John Burton, Thorpe Park) Look forward to having a t-shirt with that printed on it in time for Ministry of Sound meet-up