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Swap the bottom two around and then you're talking...

Lol Bebo... God that was awful

Does it REALLY matter that the turret is fake?Did Thorpe even need this tank? No... But they've brought this in as an excellent piece of theming... Sure they have just stuck a quick-fix turret to make it look more Tank-like (it is after all, just an APC), but does that really matter?Let them have this moment of goodness...

It's a sad day when the Canadians get better B&M track images than we do...

^Long queues do not a good ride make...Tiny Truckers is always popular... Doesn't mean it's worth keeping on park...EDIT - Top of page

Would hope so, otherwise what'd be the point? Even Saw opened (for 5 minutes) on opening...

^Here Here Mark...People are just generally awful...

Thorpe stole one of Towers' Coaster Cuties...

Swear the Eye and Dungeon aren't open yet... This may explain the price thing, as well as the fact that those attractions will count onto the AP, whilst maybe the ballroom won't? Will only find out for definite when it's all open...

Let the fapping begin!Though Josh, your statement was still correct, that's in the park, yet not on the actual island... Or sommat... I'm not sure what the difference is...

An update of the Orlando expansion plan, including the Orlando Eye, Sea-Life and Madame Tussauds... No Dungeons it seems, probably as Orlando has no history aside from theme parks...http://www.wftv.com/news/28815389/detail.html?taf=orlc

^I think the majority of posts EVERYWHERE are just people asking if it's started to go up yet...As if everyday Thorpe don't start putting track up means it's another day it won't open on time... People need to learn about Gantt Charts dammit...

Hell, I'm basing that info off the fact that:1) Other people who are just as in the know as Marc said no track is in sight atm...2) There are no photos...So you know, nice that track's hiding away from us all, isn't that great? If only someone had posted that info as soon as they knew it eh? I just had to LOL at this... I neither work there nor spend any time at the park... I just read lots of forums and pass on info I get from others... Often one forum misses out but another finds out sommat... How else do I get the multitude of other park news?And I would rather have no job than work at Thorpe... Simple as...

^No track has appeared onsite yet... If any had, I'm sure several fanboys would have already taken pics and posted them EVERYWHERE so everyone else can join into the mass joy-a-thon over the fact that track has appeared...

This is why you don't shop at Morrisons, no matter what the nice chap with the perfect teeth from Top Gear says

http://www.newsparcs.com/en/#/article/00005401-euro_disney_s_c_a_reports_third_quarter_revenusup_to_7Disneyland Paris revealing that they're revenues are increasing by 7%

Hmmmm nom nom nom nom...Little over a month till I ride this...EDIT -

HOLY BENEDICT ARNOLD BATMAN! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nltVuSH-lQM&feature=related

Proper tank, fake turret... So unfortunately nothing will be blown up by it...

IF the park actually decides to make the opening of the ride an event (I.e. Make people wait outside the ride and have speeches and stuff), then the possibilities are quite frankly endless...Probably just have the same situation as Saw and Thirteen though where it's first come, first served I guess with no actual event to speak of... Who knows, might even have actors running around during Fright Nights as well, maybe even their new maze (they are having a new one right?) could (and really SHOULD if they wanna really push this ride) link into the story of Swarm... Making it much more than another coaster...A boy can dream...

If we're gonna mention European parks, I'd like to comend Hansa Park on their brilliance of Fluch von Novgorod... Proving that you can mix a fantastic ride, story and theme without having an obscene budget...The more smaller parks that go along this road the better for the future... As long as they realise that they may not make the money back straight away...

Seems that the marketing people are pushing the boat out on this...

Been to Drayton twice, Lightwater once and Camelot this year...And really, whilst they give a different feel and atmosphere, they don't really have the same amount of quality in comparison to the Tussauds/Merlin parks (since Merlin's investments aren't at the same quality of Tussauds so far)...Rides like Shockwave, G-Force, Ultimate and Knightmare are all unique to the country, but in comparison to Nemesis, Air, Oblivion, Vampire, Fury, Stealth, Colossus? They have nothing on them... And of course there's Haunting and Excalibur at Drayton... Again showing the large gulf of quality there is between the groups of parks...Oakwood and Blackpool are just too far to travel for me for parks where I would need to make a weekend of it (Might go Blackpool later this year, but even then I'll be doing the Midway attractions too), and it's pretty difficult to justify the petrol and hotel costs when I can just hop on a train to Staines or Chessie... I could potentially even get to Alton and back home on a single tank with careful driving, something which wouldn't happen for deepest darkest Wales...Paultons although a nice little park, doesn't really have anything for me on an adult level... If I had kids I would no doubt visit it a few times in a year, as it is a really nice park but there's not enough to keep adults without kids entertained for a whole day...Flamingoland I do wish to go to because it's been years since I've been last and I'm curious as to how crap Mumbo Jumbo is... But again, it's a travel thing since Yorkshire is very far away (indeed, if I hadn't been getting a lift to Lightwater, I wouldn't have gone there this year either)...Adventure Island in Southend is another option for Non-Merlin times... But it isn't very big and is certainly not a full day park... So again, it's a case of asking is it worth the travelling cost (by train) or the parking cost (by car), either way is reasonably expensive and with it being a rather permenant funfair at the end of the day, it's again somewhere that is questionable for regular visits...So basically, because I'm a Londoner, it's a lot easier to go to 3 Merlin parks and Midway attractions than it is to go essentially anywhere else... Even with a car now it's hard to justify the odd trip far away, especially when I'm trying to save money for the final year of uni... Especially when some of these parks only have one worthwhile ride (Megaphobia whilst brilliant, it's not worth the stupidly long journey, especially when I could potentially get to Parc Asterix in a similar time from home)...