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Trust me, you don't want to... It's awful the new voice...It's been slightly improved in order to fit into the area to a degree now... BUT it's still a poor ride in a poor location...

^Rather random that...Although if Chessie is as busy as it was last year they'll probably end up extending the opening time by an hour anyways But strange that there's no 6pm closes at all on the site... Maybe a problem with the site...

Wasps are at every park not just Alton...At least Alton have the little wasp box thingys... Chessie have none...Learn to live with them, swat them away or ignore them... You can't prevent nature...

They do to my non-enthusiasts friends who have never been on it... I don't want to watch the video, but you were expecting good presenting from an ITV show? Hah... ITV have some of the worst show presenters ever... Never said people can't have a poor opinion, it's just the silly amounts of backlash an unfinished ride has got 3 days before it's due to be open to the public just because of a single report on it featuring the ECC...

Sigh...Rides look rubbish in POVs... Nemesis does, Oblivion does, everything I highly rate looks pretty poor...The people seeming to be jumping in on the whole 'IT'S RUBBISH!' bandwagon after watching a video, please don't go on Saturday, because evidently you won't want to ride it anymore and it means I don't have to queue for long periods...I refuse to watch the video, but people basing an entire ride experience based on watching it in the comfort of your own home is stupid... Simple as...

Stupid GMTV...From that shot though... Looks like the station's interior looks decent... Reasonable hopes have risen on the theming side of things...

Wasn't anything to do with the noise on the lift, besides, the lift they would need to work on if they needed to do such stuff would be lift 1 more than lift 2...Anyways, it was for maintenance and plus I think it's all gone now, ready for the AP day... (Of which I annoyingly cannot attend... Damn uni...)

Wait....No Inferno dispatch theme?Oh dear oh dear oh dear...As Mark said, why do so much then take away one of the best aspects of it?

It would most likely be back in 07/08 when we had 3 on either side all doing restraints and 8-12 Offload doing exit as well...Exit Monitors only really came about last year on Vampire... Mainly due to the epic busyness of it all...

You mean the blipvert that's currently on Facebook Peter? ;)Yeah, hard to find it was... And will probably be on Dave again like it was last week

The website has given us the new Dark Forest logo...Which in my eyes, looks both chocolately and like a Tim Burton film title...

Haha...Only really one original name there, though not that it matters what the areas are called, as long as the staff are decent...Although I feel sorry for the Doras... As if that area wasn't bad enough...

Will it improve the ride itself though... Unfortunately I doubt it since Intamin restraints of the nature don't exactly enjoy corners...

^Was that when I was platforming for you?

So you didn't like me saying that you are intelligent?Say no more what?

Then obviously you have a minor degree of intelligence, but can we apply that to many of Thorpe's guests? Not really...When you go away for a bit and then return to the South, you really do notice that so many people are chavs (and general idiots, though that occurs wherever you go), so I can honestly imagine some people getting those thought processes, have you seen those videos on Youtube where people have jumped out of Rumba Rapids? It's people like that I can imagine to do the exceptionally stupid things...

I don't why people are having a go at people for not liking the map...It's all a matter of opinion... And my (and many others) opinion is that as a map it is awful...A map is meant to show off the general area with a reasonably clear and concise view... I'm not expecting it to be some top down thing with everything neatly arranged or indeed accurate to a scale of 1mm:1m... But I do expect for it to clearly show me all the paths available to me to get to every ride, and also show me clearly places to eat, shop, etc...For that job, it doesn't work...For a piece of visual interest, it does work... But some of the images are... Questionable... What if the majority of guests (who are NOT enthusiasts, since enthusiasts only make up the minority of the total guests) think that having sex in a bush is ok at the park? What if they think mooning is acceptable? Some people's minds work like "Oh it happens here so I MUST be able to do it", not saying it will happen... But it could...

Throughputs are too loosely based on averages to ever prove an accurate rate of guests on a ride each hour... Since they imagine every single seat on every single car/train will be full...Filling every single seat is an absolute nightmare on most rides... Hence the issue...And those signs... 300 people an hour on Trucks? Never EVER going to happen... EVER...Doesn't Fury's book say the throughput based on 8 cars as well Mark? (even though it cannot run on 8 without throwing a fit)...On the subject of Fury itself, it's definitely the best spinning coaster I've been on... But it cannot really be compared to Vampire as they are so different from each other... So I like to think that they are both equal and awesome in their own right (especially as Vamp is the best Suspended Swinger in the world now with Big Bad Wolf gone)...

The more I look at it the more I wonder what the map designers were actually on when they did this...On that note, can they give me some to get through uni please?

^Maybe so, but it's not real track full of history on Thorpe's entrance...Corkscrew on the other hand...

They could've been a lot worse...But I do like them... They are such a shade that it doesn't really ruin the atmosphere of the area...

Proportion... It's not for Thorpe Park...It's different... But... It's not clear and simple really... Which is the point of a map...The guy crashing out of Saw Alive seems to be enjoying being grabbed a bit too much as well...Lots of ... 'interesting' things to spot as well... And seems to have a lot of images of their usual guests... Including someone mooning you...Creepy...

is awesomely awesome...

^Exactly Mark... I do wonder if the Snake theming on the disc will actually be on it in reality... But that's just nit-picking...Opening day will be exceptionally awesome...

That's the 08 map, and is a rather different style imo to 09's and this years...It certainly got redrawn last year, remember some of the manager's making a big deal about it...