Benin

Wouldn't think it was a ride soundtrack this...

Whole tonne of pics on Facebook... https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.713281738701395.1073741852.119312944764947&type=1 Meanwhile, in other news, IMAScore have announced they're doing the theme, and posted a teaser of it... Opens on 26th April... Mark your calenders...

Probably because they hire decent construction teams and also have less H&S red tape to get through... And like to have plenty of time to build theming...

Inferno has been running extremely well this year though... Good old B&M...

Testing begins...

Be interesting to see if both Thorpe and Towers bring back their respective versions... Due to the secrecy, it's hard to tell if either were actually popular or not, especially with such minimal advertising...

I had a nose around their website, consider me unsure as to whether or not these people are involved...

Why can't we have nice things? That was fab <3

Were the Fastrack queues overflowing though like mentioned in the person's report? That's the point I'm making... Thorpe have much more of a history of packed out normal AND Fastrack queues... Alton seem to be levelling Smiler's reasonably well since upon my last visit it was only reaching the entry into the indoor queue, although not on 3 trains (surprise that a lower throughput makes the Fastrack queue longer)... Though it would seem on Thirteen the 3rd train is broken since it wasn't in use on last Sunday night...

Consistency is a typical problem of scaremazes though, for every good run, there will be a crap run for various reasons (actors not in, effects not working, staff being rubbish, etc)... As for Thorpe overselling Fastrack, this is very consistent as it happens regularly on busy days... Shame... But people need to physically complain on the park (and probably be given priority passes as a result) to get anything done about it...

Alpen Hotel returns! Nothing else is needed...

Never heard of unexpected setbacks? Of course the park would aim to get it open for Fright Nights, indeed, that's the minimum aim they should have been doing... But it's clear sommat else came up and as such has caused this ride to be once again shut for extended periods of time... Every year it gets less and less worthwhile keeping...

Priority Passes were probably given out due to Fury conking out and been told that they could use it on Vampire... As such, cannot be considered a burden in the same way as Fastrack because it's down to unexpected things...

Won't stop the ride from being completely and utterly meh though... And be miles away from any major pathway... The exit path was longer than the ride I'm sure of it...

Perfect Day was used in the You're Next film, as the major theme because of irony.

The issue here I would say lies with the fact that these two rides are completely different, yet in an attempt to probably save money not needing to manufacture a new chassis cover, they've cloned the Swarm trains... It's not a clone, whereas with Disney, even their clones usually have completely different features or layouts (Raging Spirits vs Indiana Jones, the MMV Indiana Jones rides, Matterhorn/Space Mountain)... Most of the time the obvious clones are the flat rides or indeed, the Paris/Cali versions of Tower of Terror... So really the majority of Disney clones are because you can't do much with the theme of a flat ride... Although of course the issue of having 3 clones of the same ride in one park is a different arguement all together...

It was (the last time I did it at night many years ago) pitch black... It was also raining so heavily only my boat was loaded and it was the most terrifying ride experience I've had at Thorpe...

Merlin don't do backstories? What about Swarm and Smiler's ones then?

Very long... Like, seriously, even indoors it can take FOREVER...

Flume has closed early for a few years now, mainly due to evacuation purposes being difficult in the dark... Dunno about Rapids, is there any point it running for minimal ridership and heavy expense?

It doesn't link into the Swarm at all... It's just a shame really that it is so similar, but as Mark said, who's going to notice/care?

That's disappointing tbh... At least Raptor has a completely different face and mandibles... But wait! The fangs are a darker brown! Sigh...

Universal scare zones are ACTUAL zones of roaming actors in the park though, not an un-used pathway of pointlessness... See Dead Zone or whatever poor attempt it was they did a few years back...

Fastrack unfortunately has no bearing on the platforming capabilities of the ride... Indeed, this only solves a slow moving queue in one way, and not the way that should be the priority... Weird park...