MattyMoo

Yes can't see X being removed/touched after the rebranding and improvements! I'm going with just some sort of refurb for the arena too.

Vampire - so true. That station, and tunnels into it scared the crap out of me when I was younger (in the 90s ). It's still rather imposing now to be honest

I'm still a scumbag that doesn't have a Merlin pass, so put me down as a maybe for now! I do need a Winter Wonderland fix. Mmmmm Mulled Wine....

Sorry Ruby - I really don't like Rita, it's the uncomfortable offspring of the beautiful (and much adored by me) Stealth! I tolerate it at Alton Towers but don't enjoy it. You're right though, it's not up there with Colossus in terms of uncomfort!

Ahem, that's on purpose, it's all part of the "theming"...!

As long as you are fine with queuing it's up to you Ruby - Won't be as busy as next weekend (or the weekend after) but if you've been already, you could go and just do the stuff you want to do again!

I can. You only have to glance at daytime television to see adverts for claiming for compensation for whatever stupid reason you can think of. Decided to throw yourself off the top of a ladder at work? Not your fault, there was no sign telling you not to. OK, I jest a bit to make my point, but unfortunately that's the blame culture we live in.

I think it should be a blanket policy to avoid confusion/arguements/all of the above. Doesn't bother me having to walk all the way round again to ride, as I'm not bothered if I ride something once or ten times, I've been on before anyway I can't say I'm fussed about ride counts, I find that an increased ride count has a detrimental effect on my wine count, which could result in me having to E-Stop in the toilets.

How INCREDIBLY short sighted was it installing the Fish in it's new location and then moving it again in a few years time - especially considering the Fungle site has been derelict for ages.

Duelling Top Spins with 2nd Detty Tower in the middle. From a reliable sauce.

I can't make this one unfortunately, but will try and make the Christmas meet up!

Yes I spotted this when I visited on the 21st! RIP Creaky Cafe.

How about getting a permanent "Rock Rage" at Thorpe in that place....? Or would it be too "Vortex"-y? Or perhaps they could brand it as the evil offspring of Vortex...

It was definitely on one train last Tuesday 16th FYI

Cheers Fred - I was a little miffed that one of the ride ops insisted it had always been the case with a minimum of 15 riders when I 100% knew that was a lie

Just in case anyone wondered - that video is exactly the program that Ramases operated on Tuesday (2nd cycle has more spins).

Ummmm - the operators definitely did on Tuesday - made sure the back row got particularly wet. Was good fun!

I prefer Fury too - they are both rough to me, but Spinball seems rougher! Not my kind of ride to be honest

As mentioned in my trip report - I went on Tomb Blaster twice with my girlfriend yesterday - first go, gun didn't work at all. 2nd go, my gun worked but the laser didn't, which made it a touch difficult! Couldn't complain too much as it was walk-on!

As I say - it's not half term week, and it's not a weekend - so really you should expect everything to be 0-15 minute queues, 30 at a push! I don't think there would be much difference between Monday/Tuesday, except I guess with Monday there is more chance of people taking it off to make a long weekend from work. Either way - I would anticipate it being quiet! Air was only using one station from memory - Smiler was full capacity... I can't honestly comment on anything else unfortunately. What I have found though, is a screen cap of queue times from 22nd October last year at around 11am when we were there. Spinball must've had some downtime or something...

Towers seem to have no problem showing 0 minutes anyway

Yep, the finale is the best I've seen it for some time. Good work. Shame that some of the animatronics in a number of scenes are dead though. Still love the Bubbleworks theme music - and the finale music!

Good to see the organist working in the station when we went yesterday - looked really good too with the lights surrounding him in my opinion The queue line is pretty poor in parts - please please please remove that dodgy looking Abdab model...! I would hate to be in the Vampire queue on a 60 minute wait time - actually, I hate to be in any queue for more than 10 minutes if I can help it - off peak visiting ftw!

Going a touch off topic (ish) but I remember in the Good Old Days™ of Chessington, when I was about 5, having the fear of death in me in the Vampire station as the loaders said you only had 30 seconds to get in your seat or the train behind would crash into the one in the station

The water jets are pretty powerful compared to rain though! And you don't tend to have a Topspin getting rained on every 10 minutes EDIT: Forgot to mention - and this is no word of a lie - someone on Ramases Revenge behind me yesterday said.... I WISH THEY HAD ONE OF THESE AT THORPE PARK I wouldn't make that sort of sick joke up