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Let's go back to the days of the park adding Hocus Pocus Hall, Land of the Dragons and Peeking Heights, that'll make the park better... Family park means the WHOLE family, it is NOT a kids park, as it is not Legoland... Whilst it has a fair amount of rides aimed at the younger market, so does Disney, and that's not considered a kids park (but wait, Disney have thrill rides... OMG MIND BLOWN)...

That looks so different (and as such, weird) to the other Gerst lifts... Massive aesthetic change...

It is really that difficult to convert minutes to hours? Or am I assuming too much of the brain power of Thorpe's guests?

Thorpe's staff aren't THAT great at sending trains out... If there's ANY park in the world people should be trained at, it's Europa... Simple as...

I would think that a talking lemur appearing with a research team not in it's native habitat is the least of Zufari's worries...

Madagascar is now no longer part of the continent of Africa then? Will agree that the pre-show is pointless... Could've easily done a decent station instead with a loading video playing in the background...

That's so, so awful... RAVE TO THE EXIT!

And the airport...

S'all about the ride experience though, and since they're not particularly the smoothest things around it will skew the perception of all wooden coasters (and Big Dipper's incident won't help opinions)... Even if modern GCI's and the like are smooth as can possibly be, until a park here takes a perceived 'risk' on one, the perceptions will not change, and parks would be daft to not take into account the opinions of their guests...

They'd look better if I didn't have to tilt my head 90 degrees...

And Merlin's guest feedback forms say they are not marketable (which when we look at the Blackpool ones and Gwazi, makes sense)...

Erm, you still on regular occasion still have to wait to get into the station... I've seen the exit queue get packed on rare times as well, never was fun but was usually down to a ride going down at that time or Vamps itself dying earlier in the day...

Or Towers could bother having queue times also on the actual rides in question in digital format... That's a fault with their system actually, no idea how long most queues are when you join, all well and good with these central ones but when I'm entering Congo Rapids from Duel I have to risk it...

The train stopping thing is a weird common Vekoma situation and seems to happen on most of their ride types... Perhaps that's an underlying issue of their computer/brakes... And there is no way Chessie should run with 3 trains with the current staff, they stack two for minutes at a time, we do not need people being stuck on lift two for 5 odd minutes...

Well in order to prevent being 'conned' by these evil food companies I tend to buy food that'll be in date... That and freezable foods... Tends to work well that concept...

That back 2 rows for exit riders has been in use a LOT longer than 2009...

The reflection of the track in the water going in the pit will make it look even more confusing...

I think most of the attractions with such LED banners here at other parks mention the park name as well... Usually followed by the park closing time... Nice to see investment in simple things though...

TPM does not condone the telling of lies/fibs/tall tales to your parents...

Eh? No... Because I don't think making people swim to the ride's entrance would make the ride a successful business venture...

Vertical lift is en-route... Off TowersStreet

IIRC it's Premier... Famous for... Not a lot really