Benin

Wooden coasters provide a completely different feel and experience to steel coasters as a start... Unless you're an Intamin prefab, then they are never glass smooth, but the rattle produced in conjunction with everything else creates a real feeling of out of controlness to the proceedings... Unfortunately, most UK people have only ever experienced Blackpool, Gwazi or Stampida... None of these are particularly the sorta rides you want as ambassadors to the type (especially since Gwazi got torn down)... This as a result means that no UK park thinks it worthwhile due to the preconceptions... Oakwood built one, 20 years ago now, but they're only ever in the general public consciousness due to a girl dying on Hydro... Also there's more that wooden coasters can do now,stall turns, overbanks and inversions can be part of the package... And it provides a different aesthetic to steel coasters completely... I'd love Towers to just let GCI loose on that area... Especially if they intertwined a Chiapas flume in there...

That's a grim indictment of modern society right there... It's not like those using the exit via a disabled can abuse the system anyway, as long as the staff are correctly using the timecard and whatnot... That said, why do Thorpe on some rides make disabled riders use the Fastrack queue? Bet that isn't fun in summer or FN...

Only a cynic would suggest Marc made up the Intamin staff sighting to drum up website traffic...

Riddlers is the best of a rather bad bunch... Vortex and Mantis were pretty vile things... Just, urgh, can't believe Towers were apparently considering one recently...

Sorry, did someone here not know of James and the Giant Peach? The hell are they teaching in schools?

Could be worse, could be one of their stand ups.......

Aren't numerous exit riders more down to selling Fastrack and not manning the merge points so they all have to go through the exit?

Nope, just burnt the anthills with my giant magnifying glass... And dropping truthbombs, those sort of petitions (over really daft things, such as when football fans want a referee banned from their team etc) do ruin the integrity of those that could actually be a positive change that means something... And besides, contacting the park directly is likely to do more than a ridiculous petition... That's the truth of it...

Do have to wonder if these sort of really pointless petitions ruins the integrity of ones that really matter... Want to actually get the park to do something? Contact them directly via post/email/everything... What is the point of a petition when it won't force the park to do anything? Actual direct contact is always the best way, irrespective of the likelihood of standard generic response...

Should've pushed your brother off, he definitely wouldn't have done it again... It's a shame things like this happens as it does result in further requirements that are a burden and further the old adage "H&S gone MAD!"

Also has one of the best subtle adult jokes I've heard in a kids film... Plus the meta stuff with more adult tv and film stuff...

I wonder what all the staff think of the goons going around taking photos inside a shop...

Wonder how busy it was and if the park offered anything (yes I KNOW it was out of their hands, but always looking for positive stuff)...

Few screen issues (resets) and some long times on the initial screens, which makes the going straight past others really, weird? Only real way to judge this is physically doing it due to the whole moving arms stuff...

Ahhhh that was a classic day, power going at 5:55 and evacs going onto till 10pm... Chessie had loads that year, brought in generators as a result but still had about 4...

Given the awful weather, is it any surprise there was a power cut? It's not news at all really...

Mark is right, once parks are over the gimmick (and they're more readily available for the mass market) people will be bored of it... Especially when the waits are ridiculous... 8 minute dispatches for an Eurofighter? The parks will realise very soon that those sorta things will be detrimental to guests...

Loving the "people are only complaining because they didn't one" from someone showing off they got an email from before the intended release time... Don't think essentially playing a superiority card over this is particularly helpful for anyone...

Pretty much every company has the 3rd party contact thing ticked, it's not their fault if you don't pay attention... I would say the manner Thorpe has responded is more an issue than the early release, plus allowing 4 tickets per person...

Got a source for that or is it wild conjecture?

It's a fudge up, and Thorpe's statement later in the day was also very poorly worded in a slightly unprofessional manner... Do not turn around to annoyed public and essentially go "We don't wanna listen to your constant moaning about this"... Wonder what people on here are like when they try and book gig tickets, Muse lasted a similar amount of time for two nights worth! Shop looks decent, most of the PROPER Merlin shops (I.e. Not shipping containers) are though, probably because it's more likely to get goons spending top dollar...

Because Drayton aren't the only ones with the sole rights to Thomas? Best all those railways stop their events since Drayton exist...

Has the Danish one opened? The theme looks alright, but I have real doubts over the whole hand motion stuff on such a large scale...

Oh damn bears, damn damn bears... I saw one of those levitating things in a laptop shop, looks cool though must say... Merlin do know merch...

Isn't that the Tokyo Potter? Since Hollywood isn't open yet? Of course, it's no excuse for ANY park to have obvious sheds... I dunno why people think that saying "X park does it" is acceptable...