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Rides do open late sometimes... Scorpion Express opened 5 minutes late last week, and Vampire has always been a bit iffy at times...

That was probably one of the worst looking rides I've seen... Thorpe can do better...

Yep, how terrible of Towers to give life to an area that was always dead empty whilst bringing in a solid enough IP that won't age after a year...

Any pics of Pirana and the inside of Dutchman? What about the fairytale forest of forever?

Generic advertising is generic...

The day G-Force gets a second train is the day Merlin builds a wooden coaster...

How strange... Was a video blog thing like they'd done a few times... Silly Europa... Should work now though...

Video!

Another video, our old friend Bastian finally rides it... Seems like the speed flucuates between the front and backwards facing cameras... So dunno how it'll ride... Probably like the others... But the layout is alright, I'm mostly looking forward to that airtime hill more than anything...

Bring your sunglasses...

http://youtu.be/nCjsWpM9zFU Hmmmm...

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)...