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OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHApart from the 'excitement' of what's going on behind there, I love their canvas on moveable metal fencing screening. It's very neat and tidy, adaptable and reusable. Better than sticking up and then paying to decorate a full chipboard wall, just to tear it down a couple of months later. Smart.

I think the idea is the bits taken from it while it is in bits are used to stop the other trains dying. Making sense does not come into it.

If it says on the ticket it is valid any day until that date then they'll be hard pushed not to let you in (unless the park is full).The terms and conditions on / with the ticket are totally unclear as to how special a special event has to be for the ticket not to be valid (surely all fright nights are a special event?).....http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/deals/product.aspx?R=188 BUT, they have the blow**** up logo on the Tesco ticket page. To promote the event on a page for a ticket that would not be valid at said event would be totally out of order. I say it is valid.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/1026/breaking11.html?via=mrAnd here's the same ride (or a similar one) being somewhat crap a few years agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjTW8okqHDY Looks like a knocked up in a shed rust bucket. Is it by a known manufacturer? I don't recognise it at all.

Just because someone has managed to get high up in management does not mean they are not an absolute idiot who will make stupid decisions. I have worked for and with 'managers' who are morons of the highest order who make continuous bad decisions, but it can take a long time in a large company for the disastrous results of those decisions to show their full effect (which in my own experience has included the collapse of a major highstreet name around me). Short term gain often leads to long term pain. Having said that, it might be completely financially unviable to continue CCRs operation, there might be outstanding maintenance issues that just can not be resolved within a reasonable budget. But I highly doubt that, I think they have driven the family audience so far away that the cost per passenger to run CCR is too high even though they are just the same costs as they have always been. The decision to completely drive away the families is another issue altogether which a long way down the line I think will come back and bite them on the bum. What do we think they will do with it? Will they spend money removing the track and the station? No, they will leave them there rotting so to first time visitor guests (which there should be many of next year with The Swarm) will look at it and think "Oh, that's broken. Poor reliability here. Some of this place looks a bit run down, doesn't it".

mmmmmmm

Surely Swarm island needs a support flat before one is wedged in right next to two other flats? It's a fairly useless long thin strip anyway, other than what is under Saw / Loggers, which is obviously dead ground due to what is above it.Closed, I'm sure, to save operating costs now rather than with any plans or thought behind it for the future.

Thorpe are dumb ass mo fo's sometimes. Spend a decent sum on money a couple of years directing it around Saw, keeping something traditional in the park with a bit of heart and soul about it, but decide to rip it out now just as they are about to try and push themselves to the fore with The swarm.No wonder people accuse Thorpe of being a concrete hell hole with no class or style about it. Angry.

Why is TPG reporting CCR is shutting down forever? Surely no? Surely a joke?

Listening to Capital? Don't you mean you are a big fan of adverts?I have a totally irrational hatred for that station.I like listening to Bill Wyman's metal detector.

Using the tag line 'Expedition Himalaya' seems quite odd really, considering the other Expedition into a particular Himalayan mountain coaster which already has such a name for itself. Innovate, don't imitate!

Massive station is... MASSIVE! 50% maintenance shed.Awesome pic though, and a view you won't get even once the ride is open.

Yeah, people who stop dead in front of me while I'm battling my way through Lakeside stand a very real chance of being violated from behind and donkey punched. It's the only way they'll learn.

There.Their.They're.It's not freakin hard.

Oh, sorry. Damn out correct. I meant impotent.

Nemesis is beautiful. But -1 for being smug about it.So 7/10. Ha!

Well that's just BS.If they've proven that the missiles have not come from the actual train (which I'm sure they can rule out as bits would be missing if they had), then it is guests throwing things / carrying stuff which has fallen from their pockets etc. This can happen at any time on any coaster with idiots throwing things or coins falling from pockets at a bad time. With that logic we'll shut all coasters shall we, along with anything that goes fast or inverts?Makes me angry. See, angry.

It's your group, shown under your pic.Most of us are 'members', the important ones are 'moderators', some are 'guests', and people who have gone away are 'gone away' as their account is not active. Except they sometimes have come back, but the systems seems to take a while to catch up.

Strange to see this reported today, it has been like that since summer. Unless they are saying it is now a permanent change, which would be a great shame, but it doesn't actually say that?Edit It is saying it is permanent then, is it? That's not how I read it.

But what about gas engineers to install fire effects that the ride may or may not feature? That's what I want to know.

Yeah, I knew that was coming!! But I'm just talking about that single little element (as I can't think of another ride that does a manoeuvre quite like it), and did mention how much better this will be!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-15357932They're going in.What do we think? Is it the right thing to do?I just hope they all stay safe.

Damn that's sexy.It should feel amazing. It kind of looks like a massive version of the last inversion on Rage (although POVs don't seem to support this, it certainly feels like a slowish twist then a dive into itself when your on it). That is one of my favourite elements of any coaster and really makes Rage, stuck out on a wing and at that size it should be a huge wow.

The funniest 4 seconds of TV ever. Gets me every time.

Last time I rode I noticed a half played game of chess on the platform just before you enter the station. Has that always been there and I've never noticed it or did it just turn up over summer? Also, WTF?