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  1. This was exactly what happened today - Then you also have the problem that the slower the queue moves, the more it builds up resulting in an even longer wait! It was the same on Thursday when I was there on a school trip although we were there at the beginning so at least there were no fasttracks then. Today however was a different story, there were tons of them! I agree, today the helicopter water skim didn't go off once (when I was in the area but I doubt it did at all, I was in the area on three seperate occasions throughout the day.) The fire engine one was (I think) going off every time, but it wasn't going off until the train had started going through the tower. I think it is such a shame that a brand new 20 million pound roller coaster is being run like this already, having not even lasted a year running well. I know that it will have problems but with all of these at once it is appauling. Hopefully these will be sorted soon.
  2. Went to the park today, and I have to say... MOST BREAKDOWNS EVER! RIDECOUNT: The Swarm x3 (Very poor show today, for details see my post in the main Swarm topic.) Colossus x3 Nemesis inferno x2 X:/ No way out x3 Saw: The ride x2 Samurai x1 (On the worst setting ever today, literally at half speed throughout the whole ride - Also it opened at 11 and closed at 5 (park 9:30 - 6) Vortex x1 BREAKDOWNS: Saw: The ride x2 Stealth Colossus The Swarm x2 (On one occasion the whole area was evacuated, not sure why. We walked up to it and everyone was being evacuated from the area) X:/ No way out (It closed at 5 so it may have just been laziness or cost cutting rather than a breakdown. Even so it was annoying.) I am sure there was another one but I can't think of what it was. (Some of these didn't affect us, we just saw them.) Overall an average day at the park, and I managed to get my total of rides on The Swarm up to 50!
  3. The Swarm was a poor show today. - No water shooting on the helicopter turnaround - Very bad timing of the water jets on the fire engine area - No LED's on the trains - 1 train operation for most of the day plus lots of fasttracks causing a very slow moving queue - Breakdown causing everyone to evacuate the area - Not as many jets of water shooting out of the fire engine or helicopter With that said, I did manage to get 3 rides in on it meaning that I have reached 50 in total!
  4. I am going tomorrow as well but I doubt that it will be too busy given the crap weather we are having.
  5. Well that is definatley what he said but I wasn't sure either
  6. I agree with what you are saying which is why I was so surprised and confused when the man doing the speech said that
  7. I went to Thorpe park on a school trip today. We had an hour talk with a member of staff (which was very good and interesting) and he told us a rather surprising bit of news. He told us that The Swarm was a mistake because it was based on something that guests didn't really understand or know about (whereas with Saw everyone knew what it was.) He also told us that they were down on 200,000 guest figures this year. Not good
  8. 1. Inferno 2. Storm in a teacup 3. Banana ride 4. The ugly frame on Storm surge that still hasn't had anything put over it! 5. Tidal wave 6. The Swarm 7. Rush 8. Quantum 9. Vortex 10. Zodiac 11. Colossus 12. Saw Alive 13. Colossus 14. Samurai 15. Loggers leap 16. Rocky express 17. Inferno Thank you for taking the time to do this
  9. Oh right. I guess that this is because of fire/emergancy evacuation?
  10. Coaster

    Slammer

    I would like to see it get a new theme and restraints. DEFINATLEY new restraints! I really hope they don't get rid of it because in my opinion it is the park's scariest ride!
  11. How busy does anyone reckon it will be on Thursday 5th July? Because I have a school trip there
  12. I agree with you. The shotguns are part of the experience therefore you should queue where they are. What I meant really is that the queue seems slower because instead of moving like a normal queue you stop for ages then move up a lot whereas you used to move a bit but a lot more often in my opinion.
  13. Nooo! Why stop zoo days? They still have to spend money to feed the animals and all that so why not open the park to make a bit of money?
  14. When I went on the ride today it seemed slightly slower but a lot smoother and therefore it was much more enjoyable! Maybe they are doing something to the trains (I.e. new wheels?) and have only done 4 so far. I have noticed though that the queue for it has seemed slower ever since they started not letting people queue with the shotguns.
  15. Went to Thorpe park today (Sunday) RIDECOUNT: The Swarm x8 (The ride got stuck! For full details read my post in The Swarm topic) (2 FR) Saw: The ride x2 (Seemed slightly slower but smoother than usual - more enjoyable!) Colossus x2 Nemesis inferno x2 X:/ No way out x2 Samurai x1 (On a very bad setting today! Very short and not very spinny. Also took about 5 minutes to lower at the end of the ride.) Stealth x1 I am sure that I went on more but I can't remember it off the top of my head.
  16. I got stuck on The Swarm today! After the ride we were in the station for 20 minutes because the bars wouldn't release. They then sent us up the chainlift where it got stuck again for another 10 minutes!!! Me and my friend were laughing but there was a VERY angry man in the seat in front of us! At least we got to go round twice once they fixed it
  17. Is the fire effect up and running yet does anyone know?
  18. In an ideal world (yes it probably won't happen) I would like to see Vengeance as a pre-ride where you battle the swarm of aliens, then some sort of storyline saying you have failed to beat them and then a sub-terra style ride followed by a walk through alien life form models and strobe lights in order to get out. Probably won't happen though!
  19. Why don't they try something new for 2013 and open a new scare maze that uses anamatronics and props rather than live actors?
  20. This is so annoying, I always start my Alton towers day with Duel, Nemesis, Air and now Sub terra after air. It's been messed up! Why the hell have they closed two of their major attractions though, it just doesn't make sense at all! Air always gets a big queue from opening!
  21. I much prefered this theme in the station: http://youtu.be/nbZmhprwcgc
  22. Why are Air and Thi3teen closed until 11? They are two of the park's most popular rides! In my opinion why not close Rita and something else as Rita's queue only builds up early due to poor capacity.
  23. Yes but whatever they do the general public will always pull then down as far as possible because they feel safer even though it doesn't really make a difference.
  24. I think this is a lot better than ripsaw! This does 4-5 loops in a row and ripsaw does 2! Also the water reaches you on this and it only does sometimes on Ripsaw.
  25. If I owned Chessington at the moment I would make these four things my top pritoritys: 1. Closure of the tomb blaster bridges. (After the recent accident I would not use those. If the ride was busy I would put temporary fencing outside of the ride entrance.) 2. New family dark rollercoaster. (It doesn't have to be expensive, just fun and with a high capacity.) 3. Improvements to the car park. (Exit road tarmac etc...) 4. Bubbleworks revamped with strobes back in the final.
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