ThrillSeekerMatt

You only need one ticket for the full day

Possible reference to X:\NWO?

Yeah there is a gate that gently springs shut by its self. That frightened the life out of me the first time I went in there! Most terrifying thing of the entire damn maze!

Are you sure that was not just marketing?

I don't think we should tar all the actors with the same brush, some of them are brilliant. On the other hand some of them aren't.I think Saw Alive is a bit awkward, the Saw films are not particularly 'scary' - if all the actors were laying around in the traps it wouldn't be much of a 'horror maze'. I think to make this work they should put a few more pig masked actors in there to do the jumping out from dark corners and all that, and let the other actors focus on being in the traps rather than having to worry about scaring everyone as well.As it currently stands if you took down the sign at the entrance most guests would not be able to tell that it is themed around Saw at all! It's lost all its 'Sawness' because they are trying to make it more scary.

Interesting. I wonder what's going on there.Where had they moved it to?

Surely they would just do 2 shifts?

That's true. It wouldn't cause too much of a problem to the surrounding area really. I think it is a potential target though, but not as much as Disney is a likely terrorist target for America.They are more likely to go for Alton Towers because it's the UK's largest and most popular theme park and would make a lot of headlines. or the London Eye because it's one of London's main icons.I think the checks are mainly to combat drug abuse at the park though. There are always so many people walking around Thorpe stoned or smoking some funny smelling cigarettes...

Was there Friday and the queues were horrible because so many Fastrack tickets were sold!I queued for saw for just under 2 hours (the queue time boards were wildly inaccurate) and the announcements were saying Fastrack queue was 30 minutes!

Surely breathing through your mouth is worse I feel for the actors though, imagine standing in that for hours.

You obviously haven't had to stand in a 40 minute queue for Stealth whilst it is on one train.

The app also says Slammer is still down.Basically they have totally abandoned the app by the looks of things.

My god they aren't hanging about with their updates this year!A spinning tunnel on one of the break runs would be amazing!

It's pretty funny to read some of the comments people write on the FB pages for all of the Merlin attractions.I was reading a very funny one w while ago when Alton Towers were asking people what they would like to ask the creators of Th13teen, some of the comments were a bit negative

Amen to that.I honestly think Thorpe should stop cutting corners here. They know how much a ride costs to run every day at full capacity, and they are perfectly capable of running 2 trains on each ride, every day. It's just shameless money grabbing!If there was a queue of about 10 people then of course it would be sensible for them to run one train, I realise thay will want to save money when they can, but to make people queue needlessly for 20 minutes is simply ridiculous! Theme park tickets cost a lot of money, and customers should expect the best value for their money, no matter when they visit. It's not fair to start cutting corners and giving customers a shoddy service just because it's not high season.