MattyMoo

Waaaa how did I miss this? My beloved Stealth! I could actually re-ride that without needing a breather a la Swarm photoshoot in March! Have fun peeps, tres jealous

Yep, what Merry-go-girl said - no fun queuing at the end of the day!

Can't wait for Part 5 - I wonder if the horror story of escaping the park is as bad as I heard!

I guess if someone has a "free" Thorpe Annual Pass, when they return they are more likely to spend on food, sideshows, photos etc. - which is arguably where Thorpe make most of their profit?

Well I think this unfortunately means no Top Spin for Thorpe in 2014

Good to see Ramases open according to CwOA's ride status page!

The article says firefighters had to cut people free from RR... Methinks it'll be down for sometime then! Glad all are OK!

"I hope AT kept the receipt from Gerts! Who knows, maybe B&M will do a part-ex??" ^ Quote from TTF - love it!

It's because they can't get the secret Top Spin in the dark section to work properly EDIT: Update from TTF: "The reason for the delay, is that Towers are now still waiting on the health and safety executives, to sign off on the fire exits, evacuation procedures, and all manner of other H&S paperwork/risk assessments"

It was obvious that 23rd May was going to be tight... I don't know why they didn't just say June and be done with it, and let the ride settle in and make sure everything is 100% OK. Wouldn't fancy being on Guest Services at Alton Towers over the next few days Check out their Twitter feed - I don't think telling people that there are 50 other rides and attractions ad nauseum is going to appease people who can only visit once a year or have had their trip planned for ages!

I'm watching it develop on TTF. Ooooh there are some very unhappy people already!

Just been confirmed on AT's Facebook page. Oops oops oops! Big fail Merlin! They'll have to pull those Smiler adverts now as they say opening 23rd May

As was mooted a few pages back, this thread should definitely be renamed General Destruction I planned on going to CWoA as part of my birthday celebrations - I scrubbed that idea a few weeks ago...!

I flipping love those trains and the colour scheme There's always something epic about Alton Towers adverts that Thorpe never seem to have (bar The Swarm advert IMHO) - I bet Alton could make Storm Surge look epic... maybe...

Wow. It's like my childhood memories have been ripped to pieces! You can see just how knackered the Runaway rocks are by how much moss is on the remains in that photo!

Was just about to post that. Holy crap.... epic stuff! Wow!

Chicane "Offshore" came on my iPod on the drive to work this morning. EPIC.

It was having parking issues back on the Swarm ERT meet in March - not good!

I've got a crush on Trisha White!

Dear lord... what's this all in aid of? (Sorry for asking!) EDIT: Just scrolled back a page! Safety concerns in case the launch cable snaps.

This

In similar with previous cryptic project names - Odyssey, Dylan, Oily Rag, LC12 - the project name for 2015/16's development is "Project Top Spin" Lolz, anyway, I concur - 2015/16, please please Merlin, no shipping containers, no destruction theme, no option that means that letting a few bits of metal rust in the queue line counts as theming, and no sponsorship

I've heard a rumour that 4 Top Spins are being installed on Island A? Is there any truth in this?

I wanna see the queue summary boards by X/Storm Surge and Nemesis Inferno/Pizza Hut in action

Rumour is next year, where Saw Alive is - along with the second Detonator drop tower being installed too I've said before and I'll say it again - RR by myself on my birthday (as my gf was too scared to ride!) a few years back was absolutely epic. Loved it. I only got the bog standard rubbish then spinny cycle that it runs nowadays, but even so - people looking on whilst little old me rode by myself, fab! And don't get me started on memories of RR being surrounded by dry ice and lasers back in the day on late night openings PS. RR could be worse - it could have the dreaded steel rope of doom running from the top of it