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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!

Banned for too many e letters in the name...

To be fair to it, the track section is about as themed as Wild Eagle... The difference being that Dollywood have an amazing landscape and trees to hide it...

Testing video of X-Flight has appeared... Looks alright, too early to tell as we know like with Swarm, it looked rather slow on the original videos... Looks good though if lacking theming #typicalsixflags

Banned for having a stadium full of plastics...

I went today, arriving at 9 to take FULL advantage of this opening 30 minutes beforehand... If only they had two trains on everything from that point really... Especially on Swarm... Not that I went to Swarm, nope, I went straight to Stealth due to my uni project needing data, and arrived as the first two people in the queue straight onto the front row... Attendants began to wait for more but the Op wanted to get going, so only two people on it... Second ride that's happened to me recently, tis good... Honestly, Stealth is actually quite good, I forgot this really... I still prefer Swarm and Inferno, but that's because they have some substance about them, rather than just end as quickly as they start (although some would probably disagree)... After a second go and data collected, we walked straight onto Inferno, which was running well too... Then we wandered over to Saw... As I mentioned in the topic, URGH, this thing is rattly as hell, and I dislike it... Hell watching the drop you can see the kind of whiplash available to guests... Weird how this is by far the roughest Eurofighter I've done really... Meh, it's on my blacklist of rides I won't be arsed to do on my next trip.. As my head was off, Slammer was avoided for Rush, which was running rather well... Very good ride really... Hopefully it won't fling parts at us this year... We then meandered past Storm Surge and it's stupidity back to Slammer, which Nicky had never done before... SO MUCH HEADRUSH! Then it took forever getting back down and as we left an engineer appeared... Wonder if Thorpe will eventually lose patience with it? More meandering followed including a jaunt to Swarm island (not the 90 minute+ queue though) and Sunken Gardens... Lunch was had at the Roast and Relish which was rather nice but needs ketchup as well as all the other random sauces... Tasty beef and nice and relaxing with the sounds of Swarm next door too really... Then we left, not being arsed to queue for anything further and I wanted to process my data... Not that it looks interesting tbh... And Nicky wanted to play Skyrim... Oh well... S'ok day really, would've done Swarm if it wasn't for the data capture stuff... And Colossus can go shove it...

Maybe we're just spoilt, but those trains are ugly... Longest inline in the world though...