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1 - PR stunt, as it was Friday the 13th yesterday, a few weeks ago they announced Thirteen would not be open... Then on Thursday they said it would be renamed for the day...2 - See above...3 - Yes, yes the PR stunts are pathetic...

OMG, THIRTEEN WON'T BE OPENING TOMORROW, BUT FOURTEEN WILL BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

Yep... I went for the first time earlier this year and enjoyed it, even if I didn't get to experience Kontiki...Just remember it's not a big park and is designed for kids in mind so don't expect greatness... But hey, it's a good fun place and also has Meerkats...

Meh, customer service can really shove off if your ride has a full queue-line and you have selfish people whinging about not being able to sit in a particular seat when really there's fairly little difference between the rows (imo)...Whenever it was busy I did annoucements informing people before loading, and sometimes during to enforce points to people... It works unsuprisingly...

The handbags are well and truly out for this ain't they?On an amusing note, England are losing against Hungary... Lolz ensue...EDIT - Haha, amusing times...

Quoted for Truth...Love Griffins, epic music, epic ride, just fab...Get rid of that crappy Zamperla attraction that annoys everyone involved and it can get the attention it rightly deserves...

Having air gates causes bottlenecks...Not having air gates also causes bottlenecks...It really is a no-win situation for Chessie cos of the obession with the back row... As well as the lack of space they have to play around with on the platform... Sure there was a plan to bring them back, but dunno where that went...

Why are we discussing the possibility of Chessie getting a new Pirate themed area when it already has one?

Use the old entrance... It's really that simple (plan-wise)... As effectively I would have Express Passes following their current route down the steps and under, whilst the regular queue would just turn right and join up to it's current location...That's it really... Unfortunately a lot of work would be needed to make the old door usable for what I would want... A shame...Continue the theming added to the queue, whilst making the rails actual gothic style railings over the purple efforts we have...The next big thing would be to actually hide the tin building by placing a facade on it... Be it a two inch thick piece of painted wood or not, just would be 10x better than what it is now... Making it look like an actual castle/mansion/whatever it's actually meant to be...That's it for now...

I know this, hence why I said that it wouldn't happen... Though I was more about the queue entrance and general theming more than anything...Though apparently one car is still in use somewhere at some undisclosed park...

Can Vampire not be changed back to it's original awesome state? (I know not these days, just saying that a change like that would be good)

^No... Cos Peeking was technically new to Chessie when that was put in...

Inception <3<3<3

Chessie's first new ride that isn't crap since 2004... That's the angle

So therefore Mystery Mine is a prototype, as is Fluch von Novgorod, and Speed, and Rage, and Vild-Snivet... They're all different to any other Eurofighter out there... (2 lifts, launch and lift, layout, layout, layout)...A 'true' prototype is the first thing of it... Naturally with all things parts are improved in many different ways, but seriously... Nothing at Thorpe can be truly considered a prototype ride...

^All rides are complicated mechanically though... Saw is a prototype now? Because of the extra 2 degrees on the drop I assume?

^ :3 is meant to be a cat/lion's face...Also see >:3

Sorry, must have missed Alton having the Vertical Drop and Flying coaster prototypes whilst Thorpe have had...................... On the topic, meh, as I've said, marketing is not aimed at enthusiasts... Stop paying attention to it... Every park in the world does this... America is the worst for it cos it's all "Tallest in North Carolina, Fastest in New Jersey, Tallest Loop in North California, etc"...But yes, records a good ride does not make... Hence why our European counterparts will always be better than us...

I'd like to know the name of the older bloke who I've seen a lot of on Buccaneer and more recently Vampire...He's epic...

Hello arguement, please come back when you make sense please...

If we still had Tussauds of the 80s/90s, this would be possible...But of course, money in our parks these days is unfortunately left out in some cases...If I ever do a article about Civil Engineering, I'm so talking about this btw... 3 separate support structures that intertwine and cannot touch each other due to the numerous stresses and strains... Would certainly be interesting to hit up in depth...

I honestly have given up all hope with Towers and it's PR...There's nothing wrong at all with doing the odd thing every so often once or twice a year (in the same way Thorpe have had their odd PR stunts), but nearly every 2 weeks Towers has a completely new PR thing is some paper about some crap they've decided to do...The only paper this would work in is the Daily Mail anyways, and they put it in the Sun... Shows how intelligent they are...

I think the one thing is no masks...I've seen many an excellent costume going round at Thorpe during Fright Nights from a particular group, and they've had no trouble with someone dressed as a zombie with fingertips coming out of his forehead...

I can understand why we shouldn't use names in regards to poor feedback and the like...But when stating that such and such staff member is really good? Why can't we be positive about anyone? Surely if the management read the forum and see such feedback it'll be a good thing no?

<3Remember kicking one away at dispatch once... Seeing the shadow scared the crap out of me at first, then against all my normal emotions kicked it away... I blame the other staff there for that :blink:Not only Vampire has epic amounts of cobwebs, Bubbles is exactly the same...