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The Thorpe Flyer decision may well have also have been the result of the problems that Air had (and still to a degree has)... If you believe other rumours as well, Saw was intended for Chessie in a sense until the Merlin deal went through... So there's a whole mixture of potential reasons as to why things were and weren't built... Indeed, the list of potential planned rides easily outnumbers the list of rides that actually got built...

No, it's not the same...

Not sure how true this is, but some bad times for Verbolten... http://bgwfans.com/?p=1825

All the cool kids are doing it these days... Some for fun, some because they thought it'd be a good idea to make his university project be associated with rides...

Maybe the queue cover can work to the advantage when it gets burnt to the ground? More wood to get the fire stoked and ready to melt the bloody thing... Personally, I would get rid of Trucks, Berries, Toadies, Madhouse, Playhouse and Capers and just fill the resulting space with a few more flats/assorted things that improve the park throughput... And it's likely that only two rides would actually balance it out...

Holy crap at the 6g spike... Trying to work out where that might be on the ride... But yeah Inferno has always been reasonably forceful, but of course, every Invert ever in compared to Nemesis... Bless it, so inoffensive yet derided...

Why would Sub Terra need one of those signs, that's only there because it's Soft Opening... One thing the all year around parks can do, whilst the UK parks just have to risk it for a biscuit come opening day...

Walt Disney Studios... Original California Adventure... No one company is perfect...

Dunno, it might be possible to get one as Huntik opened in Italy last year, Universal do not have the rights to this ride system (see also: BGW and DarKastle)... Universal just have the money to plunge onto these unfortunately... And I can't see any of our parks having one of these really... Unless Towers removed Charlie with this...

They still need to remove half the rides in the park and replace them with things with actual through-puts though... IF the safari thing manages 1000 an hour, that's one thing, but the actual park side of the thing needs to get rid of anything below 500 pph and get things above that figure... Wonder how people feel when they queue 45 minutes for Truckers...

Pirate show was there last year, the other new thing is the scare maze (which has had barely any details come out)... Also pretty late with this

I like how two things can instantly displace the new found love (in the shape of a B&M) of a couple of enthusiasts (N.B. not just on here)... Oh Thorpe...

Either to Germany or maybe we'll have some Swarm actors milling about peak season... That would be nice...

Said Mark, hypocritically

Shame it ends the day before my birthday then... Now THAT would have been a present and a half...

One thing I can say to this really should this be true... LOL...

I highly doubt Thorpe will close the ride to test effects... They'll work them during closed hours...

Lol, that's so awful, only catches the leg because Young moves it towards him... Least Palace are having a bland end to the season... Makes a change from the last two...

The mazes though are a very different kettle of fish, and you don't see many families coming out of Terror of the Towers really... It's all different tastes, but for a family orientated park, I would think something as extreme as Alien Encounter is too far down the scary scale to be a fitting addition to the park...

Thing is, that's a very risky move for what is a family park... Indeed, they did pull a rather daft marketing thing with the worst nightmare stuff, but that sorta stuff is probably just over the threshold of what the park could produce so that it doesn't completely scar children for life, like Alien Encounter seemed to do... At Thorpe, that stuff would fit... But not at Towers... Just too much, whilst in it's current form, it does enough for a fair few of the target demographic, whilst not completely making it inaccessible to them as well...

Thing is, it's one of those rides which won't please everyone... They need a sign at the entrance akin to Hex, stating it's more an experience than a big ride...

Seriously, whoever got put in charge of retail this year deserves some serious congratulations... The merch has improved SO much...

Banned for incorrect use of the past tense...

Close... It's a hanger... Which fits the theme...

Banned for complaining about Thorpe opening early!