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I’m very tempted to be so fashionable and wear wellies to this meet..... otherwise it’s going to be muddy/wet feet galore at WW! Prepared, not scared lol

Put me down as a yes! I’m holding out for TGI’s lol, it will be great seeing everyone again!

I haven’t been to the Merlin London attractions since the TPM Christmas meet last year. I’d be up for going to those, although with my budgets (for saving to move out) I’m not sure about Winter Wonderland personally. Although it’s free entry right?

Put me down as a yes please and I'm 99% sure Creek can come too Can't wait to see TPM again sooon!

I can't wait to meet O.J. Punctuel I'm so excited to be on this ride in just over 2 weeks!! I'm also interested to see how/whether different paths of the vehicles emerge the more times you go on it.

Is there any word of a meal after the park?

I live 15 minutes away and don't work on weekends... plus I haven't been on Vampire for ages. Count me in!

I'm looking forward to this! Count me in for airhop, ice skating, bowling and meal What's more, I haven't been ice skating since last year's TPM meet. I remember it was insanely busy but then again it was Sat 2nd Jan, so this one may be a little quieter. Whether Dancing on Ice or You've Been Framed on Ice, I'm sure it will be highly acceptable ?

Yes!! The results have spoken, and so have Matt Creek and his forfeits. Matt Creek cannot escape becoming a runner-up of sexiest female two years in a row, and coming joint second with his girlfriend this year (for which I am honoured!), there is great need for him to live up to the name... something he has taken lightly until now... therefore, I present him with the ultimate sacrifice... to wear one of my tops to the next meet!! Hehehe ?

This sounds great, I'm pretty sure I'll be able to go and especially since it's Peaj's last meet. It's only one week away from Christmas too! Bring on the crimbo fun!!

I don't normally post trip reports, in fact I feel this may even be the first. However, I feel my experience yesterday at Fright Nights was one to talk about. I have not had the best experience at Fright Nights due to extreme business in the park and long queues. However, last night I gave Thorpe another chance to provide an exciting, memorable experience that one might expect from walking into a major theme park. Long queues are expected, but so are at least 2 mazes and a couple of rides? I mean it cost £10 to just pre-book entry for the day. So we arrived just before 5pm with 5 hours to see where the adventure could take us. X (one of my favourite rides at TP) had a 50 minute queue so we skipped that. Beginning with Big Top, the queue stated 120 which is acceptable considering it opened at 3pm and most of the park was busy anyway. The queue line was tolerable with sufficient plastic bag bins along the fences, though I nearly tripped on some uneven ground that looked like there was an earthquake. The music was a little repetitive, but circusy enough that it made me want to get out my juggling balls. Thankfully, the queue moved gradually so the time passed as expected. The maze itself was about 7 minutes long with a good variety of different rooms, and the music was enjoyable enough to have a bit of a dance to but I wouldn't say the experience was particularly scary. As we swiftly made our way to the exit, it dawned that the queues would be getting larger and perhaps it's best to do the other maze, Platform 15. Platform 15's queue uses the old Logger's Leap queue, not the best queue line in the world as I always found it felt a bit isolated, but fair enough. The cattlepen split sharply into row after row after row in the cold darkness. It was a heaving queue tucked away in a little land of its own, surrounded by tall fences that hid the defunct body of Logger's Leap behind. The queue moved gradually, another 120 minutes queue was fine though as we would still have time to fit X and another rollercoaster in, it was only 6:20pm. However, this was no ordinary 120 minute queue. Not only was the queue long, bland, tedious and slow, it was getting slower. We were still in the cattlepen section after one hour and a half and people were beginning to moan. It was getting colder but there was nowhere to sit and no food to eat. I saw the end of the huge cattlepen... a bridge... of hope!! As we drew nearer, so did the 120 minute mark. In fact it may have even passed. Other rides raced and twinkled in the darkness but the dark queue of bodies around only rocked a few inches every 10 minutes. Finally we reached the top of the bridge, only to be gobsmacked to see yet even more queue. My feet ached and people moaned some more, which had now become a source of entertainment. After another 20 minutes we had passed only a few more feet, and I realised the ground below us was the only thing keeping me standing. I said I'd give this queue 0.5 out of 10 due to the ground below my feet. Another 20 minutes passed, we were still standing on the same bit of ground... the queue had stopped entirely!! After a long wait people were now sitting on the ground moaning and nobody knew what was going on. The timer for how long we'd been queuing read 2 and a half hours and the entrance was only just in sight in the distance. So we stood some more. The timer soon read 3 hours, the entrance was still only just ahead but my frozen feet could not longer feel the 0.5 out of 10 ground anymore, I guess that would make it a rating of 0.0?? I mean by that point, one could have learnt 7% of a foreign language in the time we'd been waiting, and my boyfriend remarked he felt he'd been born in this queue. Finally, after more queuing and more standing, we reached the beginning of the maze at a hefty 3 hours and 25 minutes!!! I have never been in such a long queue in my entire life, Thorpe Park. Then, Platform 15 itself consisted of walking along pebbles and through a long narrow, pitch-black tunnel, which I honestly believed would lead us straight into the lake. Either that or we were walking home!! To be fair, the maze itself was fun in the end, probably one of my favourites. But the queue was utterly abysmal. With the remaining few minutes of the park, we only just managed to get a backseat ride on Inferno, which was actually surreally smooth. Either that or I was dreaming by that point. Then, the car park. Oh that was an experience in itself! From the moment we left the park it took over 40 minutes to get out the car park due to more queues, during which we had created our own form of entertainment... a noteworthy chorus of car honking which was rather amusing. So that is my Halloween experience of the final few hours of 2016 Thorpe Park, and how Howlaweeningly horrifying they were. I do love Thorpe, but I feel their love for guests' sanity is questionable. Take the VR headsets from Galactica and use them for a queue line, perhaps. Even a few episodes of the Gruffalow on TV screens would not go as a miss. Or, if a queue is going to be almost twice as long as the time stated, at least inform guests so they can make informed decisions to plan their day. In any case, next time - if there will be a next time - a picnic, a hot water bottle, and a language book would be the minimum requirement to take on this island Halloween adventure... exciting? No. Memorable? It was record-breaking.

Which were the models left in the vampire queue line? I remember it was the snake pit Abdab, the model from the room where Abdab pulls the ring and falls into a chest, but which was the other one? At least it was only these models that were taken.

The ice skating sounds great, count me in

I've been watching the Dark Rides videos, and the terror tomb episode was by far the one I was looking forward to the most, I love this ride. Absolutely wonderful video, thank you so much for creating it as it is still special to me and to see and hear the ride again is just like releasing the roots of my childhood that have been buried for many many years. The music is magical, and I know we can blow things right out of proportion sometimes but I genuinely believe this ride and everything about it was a masterpiece. I was 7 when I first ride it in 1995 and it was like taking a magical trip into a tomb that was cut off from the world, so real and so believable that it still amazes me to this day just thinking about it. Since it was changed to Tomb Blaster, the charm is not as strong as it used to be and it's not scary anymore, I mostly ride it to pick out the pieces of terror tomb that were left behind. For me, something I would like to keep the most would be a piece of the dancer mummies in the rock scene, as they always stood out to me and were so freaky yet so amazing. Thank you so much for making terror tomb come back to life for even just a short while, it was definately worth it and I will enjoy listening to the audio as well

Can anyone tell me the name of the scent used for Bubbleworks (the oil in the oil burner)? And is it possible to find a similar one to buy???

I'm very excited to say I'm visiting Alton this Thursday! Can anyone tell me how busy it's been this week and what the queues may be like? Also, which rides have a single rider queue? Thanks!

Not only that, but there also used to be a creepy (possibly electronic) batching door that slammed open and shut before groups entered the station. I remember this because my Dad once tried pushing it open while it was closed, and, to my young eyes, I thought he really had managed to open it as it coincidentally opened after he gave it a hard push lol. I do also remember the hole at the exit, though I never dared put my hand in there. Instead, I listened in horror to the (air) sound, wondering what the hell happened to people's hands when they put them in! I loved this ride, it felt so real to me as a child and I'm so glad to see the recently uploaded old videos of it on Youtube. Looking back, I cannot believe how scary it actually was!

Is there a back entrance to Alton Towers? aka, one other than the main park entrance? I swear there was once a way to get in through the woods or something (that sounds reeeally dodgy doesn't it lol) I'm asking because I'm going in a months time and the BnB is at the back of the park (in Alton), around where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is? Basically, we will have to walk around the side of the entire park somehow in the morning, but I wonder if there is another way to access it (I don't even know if there is a pathway to walk on that leads to Alton Towers!)

So, you're saying the 3rd and 6th would be most busy? But aren't the kids all off school on the actual bank holiday days themselves? So which day would you recommend going? Basically I want to go to to alton towers on monday 4th june, but I want to be sure that it's not going to be busy because I'll probably be by myself and want to make the most of the day as it's not cheap, (I'm at uni and on a very tight budget!). It's just I would like to go to alton towers because it's so close to my university and they're hosting a coach day out for students! I have a strong nostalgia for the park as my parents took me when I was younger, and I also recently found out that John Wardley is the designer for most of the rides and I feel like I want to go and admire his work... and ride the rides as much as I can!!

I have a quick question: does anyone know how busy the park might be on bank holidays 4th and 5th June? (or might one day be busier than the other?)

Has anyone ever taken a closer look at the caked on, opaque and cloth-like cobwebs in the Vampire station?(ie. especially those above the tunnel's exit and those on the ceiling above the track)They're real!!

Is there a best place to sit on the Kobra? (I.e. where most air-time is achieved).As far as I gathered on my last visit, the side furthest away from the entrance gates are the optimum seats.

Well I rode TB for the first time this year a few days ago, and was impressed by the snake's beaming red eyes (it's a shame the mouth smoke machine wasn't also revived), the cracked molten rock walls in the 'massive dog?' chamber, and the *moving* rolling stone (which moved faster than I have ever seen it!!) The only problem was my gun wasn't working Something that I was unsure of was a white light shining behind the rotating zombie's door as it turned. Is that a ride effect?? :huh:I might also mention that a slab of ceiling which had been removed in the dark corridoor leading towards photo moniters, allowing a clear view into the 'massive dog' scene above. Very interesting!

The volume of the Vampire station also seems to have been lowered very slightly and is not as 'pumping' as it was at the beginning of the season.