Benin

Love how the bottom part is ripped straight off a Sea-Life poster <3

It's weird how off-peak days at Thorpe tend to not happen much anymore... Not helped by the lack of more than 1 train tending to be used on the majority of rides during this time of course...

What about Easter Sunday though? The ACTUAL day of Easter... A weird decision should that be the case...

Someone compared to Six Flags, which is actually ridiculous value, since you can visit all their parks for sommat stupid like $70... Considering Thorpe were crap at selling APs, it's no surprise they've literally gone the whole hog and made it insanely cheap for their own park one... Though I'm not 100% sure why Londoners would go for such a pass over the MAP one personally...

Or they could do a Joris and have it so guests of 1.1m can ride it in certain rows... Actually, all the parks should do that... Cos mass market coaster is mass market...

Well yeah, park closes at 5pm...

Brainiac is still a thing? Sounds good though... I wont be going cos of assorted other reasons (I.e. Already in France and football is more important), but sounds like they'll do well...

That the issue where it drips from the ride car onto people's legs on the lift hill? I've put that down as a design flaw on B&M's part as it seems to occur on ALL of their Inverts...

Disney also have costs on repairs to theming/other bits associated with the ride... Yeah the ride system is cheaper, but then they tend to go quite a bit out on everything else, so as said, the costs of maintaining a ride are probably just as much if not more with every component considered... Plus they repaint rides...

Probably turned off because the weather wasn't particularly suitable to being drenched like an idiot... Not due to lazyness, but to actually ensure guests enjoy themselves... If you wanna get drenched, go on Tidal Wave...

Is it July yet?

Well naturally they've gone in the complete opposite direction, as the original direction was so off-putting to families, and they want to get rid of all the stigma associated with the park and it's general clientele...

You'd have thought that if they were gonna have these effects they would've altered anything necessary prior to park opening (when none of the effects were working based off reports)... Weird operational procedures are weird...

As I said, depends on the location of the nest as well, as no-one's actually said where in the Cobra Roll it is (could be in a support that goes onto the pathway as an example)...

Whilst this of course may be the yammerings of a cynical person, of course a place of business would assure potential customers/clients that they will be doing something... And it probably won't get done come the end of it... Depends on the type of bird and the location as to whether Thorpe can do anything about it...

Something for everyone = We have water rides and roller coasters... It's an alright generic park advert, inoffensive really, and suits Thorpe's attempts at getting more families in... Of course, just because they're looking at families doesn't mean an end to thrill rides... Hopefully any future additions will be considered towards all people on the rider spectrum, and we might end up with some rides that are suitable for post luncheon for a change...

Rita, Thirteen and Air have all been problematic over the years to be fair... However, considering that Intamin Accelerators are mostly as reliable as a chocolate teapot, and the other two were complete world's firsts (though Thirteen had the issue of poor design, since it was over-speeding)... Probably other things are seen as unreliable, such as powercuts and how they are dealt with, which is not completely something within the park's control... Aside from the original 3 rides I listed, the only other ride that breaks down regularly would probably be Spinball... And I don't think Towers have ever had a day where only 3 rides have been operational without a real reason (I.e. powercut)...

You never went to Thorpe between 2005 and 2012 did you? That's what happens when you have people obsessed with H&S, see also the Punjabi Prison fences on Tomb Blaster/Rameses... Plus Bubbleworks and it's current 'theme'... New ride suffering teething problems, just like other parks (including as an example Saw, or indeed, Stealth)... Bit harsh really to pick up Towers on those 3 points when other parks in the Tussauds/Merlin group have been much worse...

Compared to Chessington? Yes... Of course, such claims as to why Towers is apparently (in your opinion) awfully run would be nicely supported by reasonings...

There was a person stood at the entrance all day yesterday (the standard measure for rides that are gonna be down anyway)... Hotel construction might also be a reason for it's current closure I guess... But I think the animal settling reasoning is pretty valid...

Different ride system, different set of restraints, better designed station... There are a lot of factors that affect a ride's throughput...

30 second dispatch times on 3 trains back in the day... Wouldn't be surprised if some of it was down to the newbies coming in... It seemed a bit tempermental yesterday in the station... Doesn't help though that they never fill the bloody station anyway, so half the time you end up waiting for more people to turn up from the 70 minute queue...

Gotta get them used to it somehow haven't they?

Cos it's a crap ride... That's why... There's not really much that can be done to change it now tbh, aside from new trains really, but you can't see Merlin doing that...

Right then... Mediocre... This whole thing is very, VERY Merlin in the design, ideas and final production of their new attractions... A bland cattlepen queueline, the indoor section whilst nice is devoid of anything (no live scorpions and some 'interactive' holes in walls... Outside, it lacks a lot of things... It looks bland (as wild west themes are usually), empty and pretty lacking in soul... But it looks ok... Just ok mind, the scorpion is poorly executed and looks tiny, whilst the backdrop is too small and lacking depth to feel like an abandoned town... The fire is good, but the amount the use it'll be gone by the first gas bill... It feels like there were lots of ideas, and once again these were all poorly executed... They had a chance to cement the Mexicana (loose as it is) to something interesting, instead we have a paint by numbers wild west theme which is bland as hell and lacks much in the way of well, anything... Maybe it's that I have high standards, but I wasn't particularly impressed by the final product...