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It is worth mentioning that the piece of theming from Vampire (with the horse) has now been placed near to where the train stops to head up the second lift hill.

Trip report from Wednesday 3rd April 2013
TIME IN PARK: 10:00am - 3:00pm
A very poor day at Thorpe today.
- Colossus and Saw: The Ride down all day (don't know if they opened after 3pm or not.)
- Nemesis Inferno on one train operation until 11:15am with a 1 hour queue.
- X on two trains because the other's weren't ready yet.
- Rush, Slammer and Stealth were all down for part of the day.
- General operations were slacking a bit with stacking on The Swarm and no sense of urgency whatsoever.
- Heaters in Calypso BBQ were not working at all, quite appauling considering the weather!

RIDECOUNT:
The Swarm x2 (Once backwards, once forwards)
Stealth x1
Nemesis Inferno x1
X x1
Loggers Leap x1
Rumba Rapids x1

Very poor day, would not have been happy if I had paid full price or even half for price for park admission. (Merlin annual pass holder so won't be making any form of complaint, however one would have been warranted with the poor operations seen today.)
I do understand that the weather affects rides like Saw and Colossus, but the lack of urgency and one train operation on some rides was not acceptable.

Rush was closed and testing for most of the day today.

If you are a fan of water/dark rides then I reccomend Valhalla. It's an amazing experience (yes not everyone likes it buy hey ho) with fantastic effects and drops etc...
One thing though - wear your own waterproof, then buy one of the ponchos from there (not too expensive if I remember rightly) and wear that on top. You do get rather wet, but it is worth it for the experience.
Also The Big One and all of the woodies. (From what I have heard about Stampida it is much rougher than the Blackpool ones, although I have not ridden it myself so don't take my word for it). Start of with Nickelodeon Streak/Blue Flyer, then Big Dipper, then if you like them go onto Grand National and Wild Mouse.
Also don't forget their new ride for 2013, Wallace and Gromit!
Hope this helps

I find the idea of buying clothes just for certain brands to be utterly pointless, especially considering the extra expense involved.

Personally I think rush is too short, you only get about 3 full swings

With regards to the 'jolt', this was posted shortly after Saw opened:
So basically, just a change in curvature of the track. This then led to higher laterally Gs at the base of the drop than, which creates the jolt so many people experience. At an educated guess, I think this could be down to the drop - it was originally meant to be a 97 degree drop, like most Eurofighters, but was instead changed to the 100 degree drop for the record, which could explain the change in curvature of the track (as the Immelmann loop was kept exactly the same, so was designed to follow a 97 degree drop, not a 100 degree one).

Valhalla, not running too bad to be fair to it, 8 boats, however they were going round mostly empty, clearly not many people were game for it in such conditions....it certainly wouldn't have been entertaining me had we not had a BPB virgin with us! All effects were working with exception of the snow, water tunnel (which I was greatfull for!) and the fire accross the final drop.
Pics!
It was rather dead!


Monorail has run its last :-(

Thrill-o-matic



Still quite

Funshine seems to be making a return!




This was once free....its now £1, and demand has dropped through the floor! If it doesn't open on a bank holiday things cant be looking too good for it!







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It's absoloutley appauling to state a 60 minute queue when there isn't one to promote fastrack sales. In fact, it is downright theft.

It's absoloutley appauling to state a 60 minute queue when there isn't one to promote fastrack sales. In fact, it is downright theft.

Does the smoke in the pyramid smell like Stealth's?

Should of keped Burger King

It's absoloutley appauling to state a 60 minute queue when there isn't one to promote fastrack sales. In fact, it is downright theft.

Or back for 2014! LOL
It looked amazing this year, we really need it back

One of these would fit in at Thorpe in my opinion but it would have to look a lot less "funfairy" and not hold people upsidedown for quite as long as that!!

Open an hour and still no review? Come on people, I'm waiting!
From TPM facebook

Having been on it several times last weekend, can I just say the new boats are running a LOT faster than the old ones did. On several occasions people came off the end of the chute and stright over the carpet, into the cash beams! Either its the new boats for noones deited since christmas!
Ash

It looks just like Storm Surge did when it actually opened.
Oh and still now.

"That's Nice!"
- Mrs Brown's Boys

Am I the only one wanting A more fleshed out Story line For the Swarm Like a 30min movie in the time voyagers theater

That's all very well but it's a whole year operating in that state. Going by the Disney theory of total immersion - its not really good enough to say 'oh we'll get it done soon', the minute those rocks are taken down you're not in mystic east, you're in a utilities warehouse.
There's no reason the ride couldn't have had some major work over the close season - it could have even closed early last year (since water rides are less popular at the tail end of a season) and been back looking brand new for the start of the season.
Also, they never replaced the last bit of theming they had to tear down (the rocks on the lift hill) so its not like this is without precedent.

I can't actually believe how awful that looks. Never really realised just how close the Tomb Blaster building was behind it - or what those rocks covered up.
What I can't believe even more, is that those in charge of the park have SO little pride in it that they're happy to leave the ride looking like that just to save the money it would cost to replace them. It is a sad indication of how shoddy the UK park industry is that this kind of thing happens - to put it short, those in charge of these parks literally don't care about them beyond their money-making capability.

That'll forever be a depressing sight.

You could name every top manager from the last 25 years who have allowed the theming to get in such poor state that the only option is to tear it down.
Chessington to me is no longer able to call itself a theme park. From riding jcbs through vampire in 2001, turning bubble works into the worst retheme of any quality and now tearing down theming that lifts falls and runaway above bog standard rides. We could argue for ages about this being an order from on high and whatever but the fact is that wont being back the theming that was created 26 years ago that made Chessington different
Chessington, you are idiots.