MattyMoo

Am working from home today so have This Morning on in the background - Leah Washington is being interviewed currently.

Oooooh time travel - maybe WC16 is Dr. Who themed?

^ Red wine hangovers are the worst and a gift from Satan himself, from experience. Closely followed by cider. And as to partly what Smidget was saying - I hate the whole "shaming" BS that seems to be the "thing" nowadays. I also am growing a stronger and stronger dislike for Social Media more and more every day, mainly because of lazy slactivism/being seen to "care" about an issue because everyone else is. Makes me feel sick.

So did you find the website before Jart did? Or are TT's forum times 1 hr out because of daylight saving time and all that malarky!

As my girlfriend always says when I talk to her about Merlin parks - "Why can't they just make a nice happy ride for once?" Either way - I guess it's good to finally be going full steam ahead in terms of advertising, hype etc.

I'm just doing some digging - the website itself isn't actually on Google yet, but it's appearance on forums, twitter etc. are. "Jart" wasn't the first poster of that link I can find - MarkC, a new user also with 1 post, posted it on TowersTimes at 8.12pm. Always suggests Merlin PR Meddling when a 1 post brand new user just happens to join a forum and then make a post with a link to a brand new website for a new attraction

Who's Jart?

Taking bets now on when Merlin will offer that experience on 2 for 1 due to lack of demand.

A number of times at WDW we were given a tag at the start of the queue, which we were to hand in before getting on the ride, so they could update their queue times accordingly. Seemed to work well - estimated queue times at the park always seemed to be bang on.

The general feeling I get with Chessie at the moment is, just when you think the park couldn't get any worse - it does. Really is such a shame - I'm living on the memories of the good old Chessie of the 90s!

Bit OT but just what is that? I remember seeing that monstrosity when visiting and thinking WTF...

That looks like rebar for piling to me

Have you guys never witnessed Kay Burley before? Bit off topic but that's classic Burley - breaking the news to volunteers searching for April Jones live on air that the missing person inquiry becomes a murder inquiry. I remember seeing that live and could not believe she did it.

Blimey. I was just saying - I personally don't think it will re-open until next year. I can't see it being removed entirely though, especially if it's human error and not mechanical error - but then, we haven't really had a severe accident of this nature (that I can remember) before at a Merlin park to go by as a comparison? There's some sick irony in the fact that it was the Smiler's birthday mere days ago and the other week AT were advertising for a rollercoaster tester too It's all just so awful.

Just spotted this... http://I.imgur.com/RiACa5n.png

"Started yesterday, the petition has so far only gained 12 signatures" Slow hand clap please for the journalists at the Daily Mirror.

How do we know? Just out of interest, not wanting to argue I believe it to be true because of the chap I've been speaking to, who was involved with the construction of the thing you see.

I believe that is exactly what has happened. Gerts will have a log of exactly what has happened in the control room so will know if that's the case anyway.

Is that near the shop? Looks like some sort of access gate, so maybe to make sure no-one climbs over it?

Thorpe's twitter confirms Saw is closed all day.

Having seen bending schedules for the reinforcement, there is a heck of a lot of rebar on the project - but then, it's a bloody big building so I guess that's to be expected. Expect some exciting photos of steel reinforcement and mesh on site mid June #hotgossip

We're off to Disney Orlando on the 18th April for 2 weeks - booked up a good handful of rides on Fastpass+... any tips/must dos? By all accounts from sites I've looked at, it shouldn't be toooo busy, the 2nd week we are there is one of the 8 "best weeks" to visit. Also added on the three park ticket for Universal. I'm not an HP fan but my girlfriend is, even so I reckon I'll be seriously impressed with the park. Been looking at the app for wait times - Seven Dwarves Mine Train seems to get up to 140 min wait time, but then it is new... We've booked some restaurants too at Disney, Be My Guest, German Beerkeller, English pub (for the lolz) and the Sci-Fi Movie Drive In restaurant. Needless to say - we can't wait for our trip. Dreamliner plane too!

Wez Cougan, his brother

WC16 = Wooden Coaster 16. Yessss, We'RE fInALlY GeTTiNG a WOoDiE! PS. InB4: Disused theme AGAIN Thorpe?

Other than perhaps what's been done to the Vampire entrance