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Stay on site, the hotels are gorgeous and just worth it in general...

Gotta love it when people working at parks blurt out info like this when they're not meant to <3 If we're comparing e-penis sizes I know what Thorpe are getting next year...

#insiderinfo Its a stupid idea, especially given that the whole point of Air is to experience the feeling of flight... I fully expect Merlin to therefore use this idea, because it's the sort of stupid gimmick they love...

Staff are told expressly not to inform guests about why rides aren't working to full efficiency... Especially after the media storm with Smiler...

So, VR Alpenexpress is an actual thing: I'm not... THAT up for this concept really, it looks fab and all but I dunno, bound to be some parks take this idea and make it dreadful...

Entire Twitch Stream:

Announcement day for 2016's stuff... https://www.sixflags.com/national/new-2016 Joker RMC Roar Revamp S&S 4D for Great Adventure, 4 Larson Loopers 2 Battle for Metropolis Backwards B&M Revolution Refurb 2 Kids Areas in 1 Park 2 Waterpark additions Bizarro is also getting taken away to be Superman again Six Flags over Texas getting a big Frisbee thing is my favourite additon...

Not much to get really excited about, unless you like Resorts and stuff... They expressly say no new big rides will be built...

How delightfully bland, adding the same rides as last year, but at different parks... Magic Mountain is getting one of those Looper flats for example... And I'm sure we'll see 5 more Justice League shooters as well...

Sorry Josh, you best hand in those Fanboy awards, as you are clearly wrong...

The SFC has been finished (trackwise)!

I don't think just adding lights to the ride will make it any more likely to be open at night... It's probably more the sheer scale of an operation to evacuate the ride that is very off-putting, especially at night... I'd wager a fair amount that if they added floodlights, people would moan that it ruins the atmosphere...

Only way to find out how successful the attraction is to hack Thorpe's computer systems and see what the KPI scores are...

Looks like I'm restarting this topic again lol... I went yesterday, Asterix is really under-rated I've thought, Oz'Iris is one of Europe's best coasters, Ton of Air is still fab, and the park looks lovely as always... This year they've added a few shows to their line up as well, which were rather good I thought... The Romans vs Gauls TV show thing was utterly amazing though, like, my favourite theme park show levels of amazing... The sheer amount of work they put into it (including 'live feeds', fake adverts, staging and costuming the host) and I pretty much didn't stop laughing throughout... Granted of course there is still the language barrier in some respects, but it was just so damn entertaining... There's still no news on the 2017 coaster, however next year the park are getting two new attractions, a Disko Coaster to sit by Zeus, and a TopSpin variant to go by Oz'Iris (somewhere, it's not exactly clear where it's going to go, nor were they advertising it on park)... Concept art below: Hopefully when the coaster is being built this topic can have a resurgence...

Chessie did it in Hocus Pocus Hall many times before...

And mostly because they've realised that the current levels of evacuation aren't actually up to the right standard... Don't know if they have the budget for catwalks on the final brake run...

Toadies doesn't open after dusk anyway, much like Skyway... Reading too much into it, might as well say the same about Thorpe or Towers when their marketing only focuses on certain rides...

Yeah that's utterly, utterly wrong... If the E-Stop had been pushed, then the system would not by itself restart the ride, it would need a manual reset...

Instead of hearsay, let's see some ACTUAL sources... Remember that jeep that was apparently advertising the next big ride? And it turned out it was a tyre cover?

I think the park have confirmed that the wall is temporary... Only to block off the construction, so I assume when they're finished they'll do something with it...

I get the feeling that someone at Thorpe enjoyed last season's American Horror Story...

Best New for 2016 ride is pretty much safely in Phantasialand's pocket atm... That dive into the mountain (or out of the mountain) looks obscene!

I have such distinct memories of the TV ads for Samurai when it first opened, hell even Submission had a fantastic advert back then... Then there's Oblivion's which is probably one of the single best UK ride based adverts ever... True advertising machines in the 90s... Full of magic and relative whimsy in very quick snippets which caught the attention a lot more than today's adverts... Though that's possibly because a lot of the newer adverts seem to have to portray every single aspect of it (see also, modern film trailers)...

Towers really got me into the deeper world of rides, I visited the southern trio (and Disney Paris) a fair few times when younger, but it was a trip to Towers in 2001 where it all just clicked together... Also aided was that the RCCGB were also there on that visit, which took me further down the rabbit hole...