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Not much to do with this, but I'm going to see Derren Brown tonight. Exciting stuff. I've seen him before, but I'm actually a little nervous for some reason. Plan not to end up on stage!

I very nearly went, glad I didn't bother now!

Wow. Can't wait to get back here. All for £8m? Do Merlin look at this sort of thing and wonder where on earth they manage to spend all their money on their investments?

A thousand times, this.

But this is a cumulative thing, they dish them out like confetti for all manor of complaints, and then the whole system collapses under the weight of fastrack and no one is happy.

He didn't miss Detonator off, it's is part of Angry Birds Land which he listed. You of all people should know that.

I did enjoy it, and if you are going to spring a subtitled film on people it's a good choice as it's not too dialogue heavy, but it left too many threads unresolved for me. I know that's just the French being a bit French, but giving some clue as to why all this stuff was happening and a hint at where reality ended and ptsd started would be nice. Soundtrack was awesome though.One of the weaker unseens for me, but that's fine.

A bit harsh Benin. How about you sign up with a new anonymous account Nick, and just tell us?!

Doesn't go through enough just opening in time sliding doors for my liking.

I've never even heard of 'get in the sea'. I'm so not down with the kids any more.

Of course there will be. Cars, train, plains, and coasters will all crash occasionally. Not everything is foreseeable and not every human infallible. It will happen. But your odds are good. Noting is ever completely safe. Being alive always carries the risk of death. The first half kind of reminds me of Varney being interviewed just after the incident while the other parks remained open!

1/ doubt it. It's all camera'd up, processes in place. The processes will have to be followed and gotten used to, but they'll be up to speed soon enough. 2/ as 1. It will be routine in no time. 3/ why? that wasn't the problem. 4/ again, not the problem. The block system actually work perfectly, until someone over rid it. The overriding process is what needs to change. 5/ probably. I can see the queue times being less than that, like they were even before this. 6/ if your earlier guesses are right the throughput will be nearer 80pph than 800, and the queue will start in the coach park. I'm sure if they couldn't open it confidently and with a way of running it sensibly they wouldn't bother at all.

Got my tickets too. Much excitement! The Witch? Anomalisa? The Boy? Zootropolis? Eddie the Eagle? I've no idea, not looked at any clues this time. Not that it seems to help when I do?

One of the most disturbing things about that video is the way it is presented by TPR. The thumbnail being a freeze of the moment he falls, the description with all the exclamation marks, the describing of the victim as a Darwin award nominee based on an entirely unverified comment. Just crass, turning the death of someone into sensationalist traffic stat fodder. I would message them to tell them what I think, but they'd just ban me. Like they did last time, the fools. On the incident itself, it appears to be a knock-off?

Not much to go on there, but it looks soulless and joyless to me. But then I'm just bitter Goldmine/Creek has gone.

It really was. It went to crap many years ago now, but what it was in it's time can not be judged by what it was allowed to become. The flume site will clearly never be used for a new water ride. It's a 'natural' lake, ie it's not a closed water system, so could not be reused in the same way again, as new water rides can not use untreated water. The same issue Thorpe have with loggers if they close it.

The owner of the Vortex ride which slung its disembarking passengers in 2013 after the owner had tampered with the safety systems has been jailed and fined after a bizarre thing called and 'Alford plea'... Americans!

Any excuse to dig out an old favorite, would this logo be more to your liking?

Yes! Said I was going to do something similar a couple of years back, but couldn't work out how to play music clips 'live', so gave up.

After the first few Summer Nights actually sold out a few times in the first year I think? They were low staff, low guests, so must have been running at a profit; they wouldn't have been running at a loss when reaching their own self imposed capacity, surely? I'm sure evenings in the UK can be a success, they just have to be done in the right way, with the right attractions and catering.

Ripsaw was always the poorer version. Even more so now!

Summer nights did OK, a base to work on. They ballsed it up with the concerts which hemorrhaged cash and unnecessarily confusing ticketing when it came to other events running. Instead of going back to the simple success we'll throw the baby out with the bathwater, shall we? Morons.

I presume that's the finished look though? Surely the biggest problem with repaints is access, so the access wouldn't have been removed before any given section was finished? If it is going to be left like that won't it age quickly and horribly?

Weird. What's the other one? I presumed this replaced, not complimented, the previous show. I may well be wrong as I don't know/care about Chesington much anymore.

While I find much of Oasis and their subsequent stuff just alright but ultimately quite boring, I really quite like that.