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...and all the time fastrack sales continue. Shot down every time I suggest there is a fastrack sales potential / manipulated low throughput correlation; it must therefore be just a very very happy and lucrative coincidence that the very experienced and highly budget driven park management have not considered in the slightest. No siree, never ever crossed their minds.

Oh my!

We did that yesterday, and it seems the answer is no!

... which can be seen here. Good to see her up and about. The smiler themed wheelchair in the background is a bit much though.

I don't think anyone is taking these guesses too seriously, they certainly shouldn't be, and the speculation thing is all a bit of fun. That is until someone states it will or won't be something and gets aggy when people disagree (a la the washing machine element declaration by those buffoons), but no one's doing that here so we may as well play along with the parks little games.

Looking through the parks website these tickets strangely get no mention, I believe Tommy is right though, pretty certain that was the case last season at least.

As ridiculous as that sounds, it'd actually be a pretty good idea for some programmable kuka arms!

This is some very good thinking!

Looks like they've taken delivery of the trains, hopefully the scenic will be running soon...

The secret is a dark one but I won't leave you blind. Here are some guiding lights but where will you find them? Look familiar to anyone? My guess is they are building a branch of Ikea. Google tells us they are examples of 'industrial scone lighting'. Wiki tells us that 'sconces are often used in hallways or corridors to provide both lighting and a point of interest in a long passage'.

Same layout, but was rougher with more underwater agitators and a big rock before the tunnel the boats would bounce off quite harshly. It was all toned down when a led fell out of the boat and had his ear cut off by said rock. Was also a lot more open and sparse with the vegetation having not developed. It's easy to forget this really was barren pit land to start with, with no vegetation or natural landscape at all.

I find 2002, which feels like yesterday to me, being described as 'Thorpe's old days' deeply depressing. Nice video though.

It could be because they built it about 5 years after they should have done When Shreck would have marketed itself. This sort of thing is surely driven by child pressure, and a generation of kids watching frozen and probably not having much more than a passing awareness of Shreck even existing will not be pushing that pressure onto parents with their big bulging wallets. And LOL at not having forseen a big heavy thing moving in an old building would be a bad idea.

No. There was a female mod, there now isn't. When the last two mods were taken on a couple of years back it was done blind, based on a written applications. Ie, they were deemed most suitable based not on their sex but their ability. To put a female on the team purely because they are female, to tuck some non existent box, would be quite wrong. Have you actually seen the male line up here be a problem? If so where, if not what's your point?

Beastie Boys themed attraction confirmed.

I think my very first nugget of interest came from Joyland at Great Yarmouth; I was smitten with the Snails from the moment I laid eyes on them, and there was this little red plane called the Red Barron that was operated with a 10p (like the rides you get outside Sainsburys) which was on a little scissor lift and sent you off what seemed to a three year old to be impossibly high into a tree. I think it actually was pretty damn high, I'm sure it wouldn't be allowed today! At the same time I remember being fascinated by the watershute in the main Pleasure Beach; too young to ride I'd watch the wooden boats with the shark faces painted on sending waves up against the glass viewing screens in a never ending conveyor of fun. Shortly after that our annual holidays for a few years centered around two places; Butlins and Gunton Hall. Butlins had a good sized fun fair, notably a Spinning Penny and the 'Knightrider' being a Waltzer in the dark. Gunton Hall was (is?) on the same site as Pleasurewood Hills and included unlimited entry during your stay, with a trioca, death slide and a tame coaster. I'd disappear off and spend my whole day going round and round the same few things, seeming to never tire of them. Those things definitely laid the foundations of interest in rides and thrills, and I know that theme parks and fairs were constant requests of mine from a young age, but there was one place that turned that into an obsession, and that was Chessington. The Fifth Dimension, Vampire, Bubbleworks, Runaway Train, Dragon River and Black Buccaneer took it from an enjoyable thrill I'd has elsewhere to a place of fantasy and escapism that was well beyond just being spun about for a bit. The place back then was very very special, the atmosphere was like nothing else I'd ever experienced. Looking back that was driven by the completeness of what was offered, it was a truly joyous place to be. One specific visit, on a Halloween with spectacular lighting and smoke effects, roaming actors and proper dark time riding, was as perfect a time I've ever spent at a themepark, and will probably never be beaten in my memory.

It's where the 4 ABC drop towers go for the finale of this ground breaking, game changing dark ride.

Excellent! But where was this warm summer they speak of? Seems to have been pissing down daily since about June!

The planning and implementing of many millions of pounds worth of dark ride have not been significantly changed because of the lack of sale of a couple of hundred thousand pounds worth of coaster (that could go into storage anyway), so no. Whether serious consideration was given to removing X is another matter.

To avoid any confusion, this is nonsense.

Surely that frame is more complex than the shell of a building would need to be, so is intrinsic to the ride design? Anyone seen anything similar previously?

Games of 'I know something you don't know' do not go down well here. Lots of people know lots of things, they don't get said to protect sources. That is knot 'knowing', by the way.

In the new brick built hotel?

It was Me Earl and the Dying Girl. Was alright; pleasingly odd and quite amusing, but didn't quite hit the emotional spots it was aiming for considering the subject matter, and ends on a bit of whimper. 7/10

After saying I'd never go again after my last day of horrificness there... I might be going again next week if I find myself driving passed in the way to Europa. Or I might be flying to a beach somewhere instead. The rides are so damn good, I'd love to experience it on a day when they do cope with guest numbers so I can try to enjoy it.