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With the ERT...What if you DON'T get ERT?From the average guest perspective, what if they CAN'T go during busier days? Or just don't want to? What if you can't get up to Towers for 9am in the morning?It's just poor show, especially when EVERY OTHER PARK IN THE COUNTRY closes at 5pm...As I said before, I would rather on offpeak days they remove the ERT and keep the 5pm time... That'll please the majority of normal guests paying on the gate... And means that they don't have to keep the costs up due to 5 people in the park for an hour...

Minus CCR, Time Voyagers, but on the other hand have a brand new B&M, which I'm sure will balance it out...Who seriously cares about Time Voyagers being shut?

I don't think Thorpe were planning the brakes to be buggered though

Would prefer actors around Swarm than some really crap maze tie-in...

I WANT THOSE MUGS! <3What about the shirt selection? From the updates I've seen, this is a stunner and unbelievably good...Sign of things to come under Merlin additions? As long as Sub Terra is as fab as this then the future will hopefully be a lot brighter than it has been (as long as the OTHER issues such as opening times and the like are sorted)...And lol, breaking down... I do hope it avoids doing that next weekend...

Fixed for your pleasure.

Understandable? Needed?Both are very arguable points indeed. But the problem is here, what does the average guest gain from this? What does any guest actually gain?If they wanted to reduce operating costs on offpeak days, why not remove ERT? Sure people MIGHT get annoyed, but really, is it worth Towers running Nemesis so that 5 people can ride it for an hour?Given the choice of reduced normal opening times or no ERT on offpeak days, I would much prefer the choice of no ERT personally...

Oi, get your facts straight before claiming things that are incorrect...I stole them off TTF

YES! YES! YES!That looks sooooooo pacey... I love it... I want it now! It looks so brilliant!Europa

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DarKastle is under-rated...Huntik is better than all of them <3

Personally, the song reminds me of Lost Prophets more than anything...But, I don't think it would work in a theme park environment... Sometimes it does (Mirabilandia) but it either needs to be throughout the park, or not at all unless like with Amity Cove it is suitable...I'm being across the board here with every music genre... Aside from instrumental... Instrumental themes suit rides so well...Who knows, maybe the ride actually has dedicated music, and the whole YMAS connection is literally just a new form of PR (a decent avenue as well)...

ERT, plenty of people close by who will most likely go to school, then to the meet at about 4pm...Hard to really use that as a true example of how popular a midweek one would be, especially for Towers...

Let's be honest here...Both Thorpe's and Towers' maps are truly awful for any navigational purposes... There difference is Towers actually NEEDS a decent map in case people wish to trek through the gardens or whatever, whilst Thorpe you just look at a ride and walk towards it in any direction you feel...I doubt either map will truly affect a person's day out so much... Besides, Towers is trying to make the Resort more noticeable, I'm sure if/when Thorpe get a hotel, they'll do EXACTLY the same...

A new iPad already?Does it actually do anything different or is it just same stuff different number/case/logo?

Gorgeous...There's just something different watching wooden coasters... I wanna book my trip now

Thorpe (and Towers) and have both done these for the generic park, arguably the best merch I've seen from our parks... Paperweights are quite cool...

Tbh, I want our parks to have more of a design way to ride shirts, rather than just plastering the logo onto the front and calling it a day...More stuff like the female Krake top (with glittery tentacles) or the newer Thirteen shirts (with the Wraiths and branches) are a good start... I like having the ride shirts but I wouldn't mind having more choice, instead of just LOGO or nothing at all...Same for Hoodies really... Although I still wanted that Krake hoodie...

Swarm bear...That is all...

Whilst not DIRECTLY ride related, I feel it's important to mention...The creator of that infamous song "It's a Small World" has died...http://www.imdb.com/news/ni23939170/:'(

I only say Krake cos I could pretend it's Swarm's music rather than be constantly told that it's Raptor's

I'm not really sold on the matter here... I mean, to me, parks need relatively unique and work much better with instrumental music than with actual words (of course, in some cases, having actual music DOES work, Amity Cove and Thunder Rock Rally Radio are good examples), but for a post apocalypse feeling?I dunno... Just as well the band isn't particularly what I would have imagined being linked to the ride either... Unless this is just a PR stunt and the music won't actually be played in the area, but rather just sold online and in shops...Mehhhhhhhh... Really not sold on this at all... And I would say that for any band being used for the ride's music... Especially after the epicness of Raptor and Krake's themes...

Well based upon the previous opening days that Marc pointed out, what else should we expect aside from actors (and a hopefully working ride)?As I said in the rest of the post, a major band would be more interesting and garner more pull than a band which suffers from the "lead singer sing sydrome" that most bands suffer... Of course the only people who know are ents and marketing, but so far, it's a bit tepid especially with all the marketing so far...I hope for more, I hope for actors, I hope for fireworks, I hope for a massive TV screen in the entrance with SFX and pre-recorded edited video with people being taken by the Swarm to build up tension... What I don't hope for is a third rate band that can't sing...Besides, I thought Thorpe and the band's style of music didn't work? Where's Skrillex when you need him?

No, this is NOT how America open their rides though is it? Let's be honest here, what sounds better? Something that ties into the ride (like them singing Little Mermaid songs) is much better than a band that has no real ties to it...Not your cup of tea? How about Star Tours? I'm not asking for much, hell just having some themed spiel opening (instead of the pointless facts and backstory towards the ride that's enthusiast pandering) with some action and explosions... That would be much better than some C list band that it seems no-one has ever heard of... Hell I wouldn't even mind if it was someone who was popular and well known... This is like the support band for the main gig really...

Who?What is this Drayton Manor?