Benin

DC Comics will tire out in a matter of years? Nah, been around for years, will always be popular... Right about Saw though (And Ice Age, and Shrek, and every other IP Merlin get)... As for the map, it still looks crap...

Offt Seriously, that's a damn fine tangle of track... HYPE TRAIN!

5 rides for thrillseekers eh? That's 5 more than what Chessie offer...

I would refer people to my old Bubbleworks retheme idea that was posted on here AGES ago for some form of competition as an idea for a retheme... Although with the more 'realistic' nature Chessie are taking, I'm not sure what route they could take with a new theme... But the easiest method would be a complete gutting of the building and start afresh...

Hocus Pocus theme is actually fab, really under-rated... Actually, aside from the Bubbleworks Duck rape, I'm struggling to think of a bad music track at Chessie...

Erm, one side of the billboard has been shown, which looks to be a rather atypical cheese filled advertising poster you'd see in a "lost hope" horror film... The other side might well have the winning slogan... I like the Paradise Flights advert, brings the ride down to Earth (boom boom) and links the currently existing theming into a further background...

Bringing it back will never convey the same emotions or design that the original had... Need to change things, but into something new, not go back to the past...

You learn to hate it after hours on platform listening to it... SNEEZE ALREADY DAMMIT!!!!

Classic ECC... Fortunately, Thirteen is a hit with the GP nowadays since it's shifted that marketing scheme monkey off it's back...

Can't blame them really can you considering the amount of downtime it's had...

1 train operation on opening weekend?

The random Oktoberfest stuff was back this year... I prefer it over the Halloween music...

Maybe if Intamin had done their calculations correctly it wouldn't NEED the trim...

I would hope they mention it before the 10th tbh... Not that there will be people clamouring the gates and demanding a ride on it mind...

But pointless arguements are what enthusiasts do BEST!

3 times the LENGTH... Length of ride =/= Duration of ride... Length is the ride's total length of track in metres...

Thorpe surely couldn't be THAT stupid to change only one train...... Could they?

Seeing as my 100% accuracy this year at claims has been less than so, you can forgive me for being cautious

It LOOKS that way but I didn't want to say that as it's not 100% definite from that pic...

TPM FB... That wasn't the winning slogan!

I'm really not of these hybrid style coasters (see also, Outlaw Run and that other one... I forget it atm)... They just look aesthically awful and generally unsafe... I also don't get the whole "OMG LOOK WHAT THEY CAN DO WITH A WOODEN COASTER" when well, quite frankly, it's not a wooden coaster in a real sense, just a mass of steel track put on top on some wooden supports to make it look like one... Things like Voyage and Hades look miles better than these ones, which seem to just be loved because they look 'mental'... Where in mental does not equal a good ride... I think it's the inversions which really put me off, as they just look tacked on because INVERSIONS MAKE RIDES BETTER... GCI supremacy...

I KNEW there would be a corkscrew/zero g thingy after those big inversions... As for the spider theming stuff, I'll wait until it's finished for actual judgement, as thematic pieces are always harder to judge whether or not they'll actually be good or work well until (unsurprisingly) they are finished... DAT FINALE...

Looks awful...

Better off contacting Towers directly on that one... Considering he needs a photo, I would say no you cannot collect on someone's behalf... But I stress that you talk to the people who work at Towers' Guest Services for this...