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Sounds like me eating a creme egg tbh...

Not 'nerdy' terms at all, those are the official titles for those elements... Just because most people go "it's a loop"...

Depends, assume it's a 15 minute film, what if in the time it takes to wait loads of Fastrackers turn up? See it happen on Zufari as an example, what with the pre-show... I think the correct word would be, unnecessary...

Erm, ok... It's cleaner, but it seems if you're not a coaster, you're not important... Even the Angry Birds stuff which you would assume would be promoted extremely highly and made prominent on the map is relegated to minimalism... And of course, some rides don't exist apparently... And X is almost completely hidden, embarrassed almost to be on there... A weird one it must be said... It's both an improvement (no big-heads doing stupid stuff) and a downgrade (the previous map was relatively map-like, not that Thorpe needs a decent map, as you just point yourself in the direction of the next ride you want to ride)... 1 step forward, 2 steps back... As an aside, it confirms 2 awful things, both Angry Birds 4D and the Dodgems have Fastrack... Joyous...

There doesn't seem to be much in the way of difference in look compared to last year's map design, HOWEVER, they appear to have thought "Actually, we need to make this a usable map", so have spread everything out to their (relative) right location in comparison to other things... Although why does the ride list for Cloud Cuckoo Land take up an entire corner? And the hotels still annoy me being on it as well...

Implying that the temporary fencing wasn't ugly? Just kinda shows how poorly designed it was originally... Looks like the entrance with the extension will be a gate just off the 'main' entrance...

Sounds like the old "Be Discovered" thingy... Did a quick price check for a weekend in August, 2 nights, 2 people, 2 day park ticket, comes out to £268 total... Decent enough value, the Ryanair of theme park hotels...

Probs realised that it sounded too 'respectable' and 'serious' for such an awesome and cool park... Yo...

Probs advertising FN on the old giant wall of screens, they did that a LOT... And look kids, that's what Colossus looked like when it had been painted, you'll never be lucky enough to see it for real though, sorry...

Video on the park's opening back in 1992... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRfZpqja4-4&feature=player_embedded Features planned rides and second gate, a Studios park meant to open in 1995... That went well then...

"But what if little Tarquin is mentally scarred forever because of something he heard?" [/helenlovejoy.jpeg]

I liked the part that effectively involves a victim being abused/spanked by something... That certainly wouldn't be deemed suitable these days...

A wild logo appeared... Hooray for the park choosing the interesting concept...

Have an update on Ratatouille! Lovely facade and shed combo going on <3

Being a bad B&M is like being a bad Pixar film, it's still got some quality to it, but lacks certain aspects that made the older ones true classics... It's nowhere near the worst B&M I've ridden (Top Deck at Great America takes that prize), and it's probably my favourite coaster at Thorpe... I'd take run of the mill over all the apparent record breakers the park also has anyday...

Implying that there isn't much nonsense posted on here already...

Ahhh, but don't forget this is the park that told people off for taking pictures of a dead Rameses... Hopefully they can have the path open between Vampire and Buccaneer if need be...

Having just downloaded it and heard it pretty clearly for the first time ever (it was never THAT clear on park, even when I was cleaning McDonald's external tables right next to a speaker), and it's obvious why they've since removed it... 90s truly were imaginative...

If that rumour is true (Source?) then they may as well not bothering opening the ride... That version of music was only removed a few years back... Possibly with the changing of the brand? I cannot remember, possibly linked into them adding the new area music in Translyvania rather than Bubbles remix... Shame, was one of those things that was just nice in the background to complete the scene...

At least Oblivion wasn't sponsored by an evil Russian gas company... In the wider picture, that's a lot worse than some tacky posters...

They need to just destroy the thing and start again...

Cant predict anything, just go and what will be will be...

Did you ever ride the original? Because this is all shades of wrong this...

Also everything at Efteling... And Silver Star <3 There's not many dedicated ride themes that aren't very good or don't suit the overall atmosphere of the ride...