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Yep, that's Michael... Old Area 1 and 2 person at Chessie...He's having fun working at Thorpe this year... Spoke to him t'other day in fact... I need to see him working there sometime soon just to be reminded of the good days of Chessie

Was he telling everyone to scream?And you need to be a bit more specific, since there's at least 2 Michaels that work in that area that I know and have worked with... So more details!

^Well yeah, you are kinda indoors so it would be dark...

Ah the old Runaway queue LOVED IT...James you basically went up some stairs (which are still there) where you now turn left behind the children's zoo, and walked along a balcony that spread over two buildings I think... Then you went back around and into the current queue...God I miss stuff like that...

There is/was a small storing area behind Vampire where a Skyway train and a couple of Bubbleworks boats sat...

Main obvious area is the pathway going into the Medical Centre where you can kinda still see the tracks...Of course the old train station got demolished in 2008...Not sure about the Mystic East area though cos I've never walked down the staff pathway there...

And listen to what I and others are saying back...Basically you're going on and on that Alton gets big queues, well duh, it's a popular tourist destination, just like Thorpe is...I'm really bored of this tbh... You've basically saying that because of queues you're put off going to the best theme park in the UK...

Nope...Good idea, rather poor execution... All I kept thinking for the 'future' dream portion was a very poor zombie film for example... The start as well was rather slow and ponderous, and didn't really grab my attention...As I said though, the idea was good enough, but I feel it would've been better under a stronger writer...

29th May? Coar blimey the construction must have been rather epic considering it was just a steel frame back on opening day...Well done Chessie... Glad they're giving it a proper name as well rather than 'African Savannah Experience'...

You'll be looking for a while for the last two unless you go with a Blackpool fanboy... And you don't want to...

Wait... So you're basing your ENTIRE opinion on a place from ONE visit that occured a few years ago?Stop being an ejit...

Erm, you mis-understood, I meant the NEW water starter...Mark has already made my point... (Though WHY Piplup?)

I sense I could cause some arguements from this photo...

What a strange name Oh yeah, water starter sucks...

When in May?When in August?What were the weather conditions?I could go on, but I can't really be bothered... No park should be judged on a singular visit...

2? Seriously? Topple Towers are ok rides... But I cannot really see Thorpe getting one... There are plenty of better rides out there that I would much rather have... Especially as the Topple Towers suffer reliability issues...

Woo... Thanks to the four people who voted etc...I have way too much time on my hands to think of these ideas...

So true...It's a shame that the game is only really brilliant with the hard work of the people who purchased it instead of the people who got paid to produce the game...And to make this fit into the topic even more, a little something I've started working on recently...

^Just goes to show what years of basic neglect from your parent company does to you really...

I think the main thing about the track/supports is that in my opinion it's one of the rides that can kinda get away with not looking brilliantly shiny and new...However, it does need some new bits added here in and there... Firstly having some black gothic looking queue fencing instead of the cheap purple affair we have now... Then it needs a bloody facade on the building, just a cheap 2/3mm painted piece of wood would be a great addition if painted in such a way to make it look like a castle/church/whatever the aim is...Inside, basically they just need to theme the air-gates (like the old days), and maybe add a few cobwebs/generic spooky things around the station...The brake-run could do with some stuff to look at that suited the theme (I.e. NOT the random masks from previous years)...And finally, bring back the original entrance... Please... It's so much better...

What they look like? The dragon roar and chimes were on during opening day but not when I went t'other weekend...

^Do you mean like random laughing, screaming and wolf howling?If so, it's been around before...

The colouring is so very 90s...

Well yeah, I wouldn't particularly want to risk my limbs on a ride...