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^And that crappy red Intamin next door to it ;)Obviously John Wardley went on the Season Pass podcast and stated that there wasn't a need for a main central story, but the thing is the marketing lot basically put in an entire mix of different things in the advertising from the wolf in the original leaflets, the 'ride the demon' slogan, the wraiths, the girl in the adverts, and the worst one of course calling it the world's 'ultimate' coaster...Now on that last point calling it that was a big mistake... Because it made GP (and enthusiasts to an extent) believe it would be better than Nemesis and the other big coasters in the world and hence there have been a few people with disappointment on their faces and most of the enthusiasts at opening basically went "It was average", myself included...Now there's nothing wrong with a 'scary' theme for a family coaster, indeed, most ghost trains in the world are family rides technically... But the problem with this is that the coaster portion is really boring (trims the reason moreso than the barren area), there's so little pace and excitement to that section but yet you go inside and the ride suddenly turns into something really good...The idea of the drop is great... But I feel that the layout of the ride (and the advertising) didn't really lend itself to the entire package, and the scaffolding as Mark said will look pretty dodgy to those who don't understand that there's meant to be restoration going on, again, it's a whole mixture of themes and stories (sounds like the recent episodes of Doctor Who now ) and I just think it should have been more dark ride than coaster...The area of course is still marred by that mistake from 2005... They tried with Rita at least but it still looks so out of place and squeezed in... Bloody Tussauds...I one day hope that Disney or Universal decide to make a ride with the technology, because they'll make it a truly amazing experience...

^We don't, so that's a no

Counts you out then

^I mean the but about How to Train Your Dragon, it just went off on such a tangent in comparison to the rest of the conversation...

Disney and Universal are amazing places because of all the little details...Not everyone will notice them, but something as obvious and simple as lab coats and hard hats will help things all come together...

Well done for stereotyping an entire group of people based on one idiotic person's post... I listened to it earlier and thought it was very good, though the theatre part was a bit 'why?' to me as I thought it was meant to be a coaster show...Thankfully now we can not hold John responsible for any of the dodginess of the ride and place all the blame on Candi Holland...

It entirely depends how much the person uses the microphone as well...Sometimes they can do it too bloody much and make absolutely no sense to the ride in question... And that can get really annoying after a while...

I'm not overally fussed about it being Pizza Hut (bar the expensiveness of it) but they really need to re-arrange the serving areas... Especially when we're spoilt by the good layouts at Alton and Chessie...

Evidently someone just doesn't love Chessie enough to help make the experience even more complete

Hopefully Peeking Tom is the sort of thing Chessie will revamp extensively with their future plans...Just hope they have a list of the areas that need a complete redo that we approve of... Mexicana, Mystic East and Toytown being my main 3...Bubbles contract runs out this year as well doesn't it? God I hope they have epic plans for that as well...

I miss it... Really do... Seeing that image makes me slightly sad inside even though the coaster was nowhere near special to me...Maybe because it was ditched because they didn't want to spend the extra money on it and you still see the remains of it sitting there after several years...

^Well it IS the actual name of the ride... It's not as bad as wanting everyone to put "& Zoo" at the end or having the name of the park in all capitals...

^They really did sneak it through because apart from the hints given to Coasterforce we didn't know anything until they put the advertising up...Maybe it was easier for them to push through because it was animal based and didn't require much in the way of building a massive structure (although the building next to Creature Features looks big), so there was minimal opposition against it or less time was needed for the council to decide...Either way, this area will be a work in progress for the next several years... Let's hope the zoo will follow the high standards given by Wild Asia and expand greatly...

Cue a crappy Vekoma Motorbike coaster

^Horray for things that say 3 lines one after the other in quick succession

Seemed to be a lot smoother this year at least in the back row...But I also agree it NEEDS more padding... Bloody Vekoma...

Palace fan... 19 years of it...And I'm bricking the next two weeks...

But this in turn makes the queue-line even longer, and that queue can be bad enough with just the minimal settings... Let alone the ride being even longer...

Think work experience people intermingle between areas (mainly rides and presentations I think), as I've only encountered them a handful of times, a full-timer may be able to tell you more...But basically you won't be doing much on the rides bar shadow platforming...

Do wish they'd theme both sets of tunnels on the ride though...Even just a cheap looking rock wall on the inside of the one by Buccy would improve it, especially if the smoke machine was used... The brake run though... God I wish there was something decent in there to look at...

I never said that...I said the TRANSITION as you go from Toytown into Forbidden Kingdom is awful...

^Agreed, Pirates Cove just seems to intermingle between several areas of the park without being defined...The queue is... good... Although the area under the waterfall is very dodgy many times throughout the year...Tbh I would like to see Pirates Cove get a hell load of work done to it to actually make it feel a lot more defined as an area, instead of having the dodgy transistion that also occurs in Toytown and Forbidden Kingdom...

Due to being in New Zealand or because he'll be burnt by a volcano?

*Insert generic Thorpe has rubbish maintenance joke here*

^Why would an AP holder need a voucher to get one when they already have proof that they own an AP...