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- Birthday 08/08/1980
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I love your Stealth stories đ€Ł
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What is your favourite Merlin-created dark ride or dark ride retheme?
Han30 replied to Matt N's topic in General Discussion
In general I would say the offering by Merlin for dark rides isnât great but I LOVE Hex. Also really like Flight of The Sky Lion and Bubbleworks (not so keen on Gruffalo). I wish there were more dark rides to chose from - something like Symbolica at Efteling would be pretty cool to have -
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Iâve only just seen this! Reminds me a bit of my younger sister who considers the flying jumbos something of a breakthrough for her personally. I took her to Chessie 3 years ago with my nephews and she wouldnât even go on Scorpion express or the log flume. My niece and I went on Rameses and my sister looked genuinely concerned đ€Łđ€Ł. Also Iâm creasing at the term âdigestive evacuationâ - brilliant! Speaking of stealth, my younger sister had a job that she had to drive sort of near to Thorpe and asked if Iâd ever done âthat big white tall arch thingâ
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Mattgwise reacted to a post in a topic: TPM Thorpe Park Meet Saturday 13th August 2022
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Have a fab meet everyone! If it wasnât for the heat I would have loved to have joined but alas, I canât function in this weather
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If you are timed out for an hour you can still use main queues in between - for example if you are timed out for 60mins and another ride only has a short wait then you can use the main queue on that ride before using your ride access pass again. You can use your ride access once the time out has passed to go to the next ride using the pass. Hopefully that makes sense
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It really is grim and needs some TLC. The graffiti aswell is disgusting - I saw one a couple a months ago with a phone number and to call for sex?! It was there on my following visit a few weeks later. I havenât been to Thorpe since May and Iâve developed a strong disliking of the place - the word skanky seems too nice to describe it
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Mer reacted to a post in a topic: Potential TPM 2022 meets?
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I would be up for a catch up - you free before 22nd July at all? Itâs been ages since I last saw you
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You really havenât missed out with Storm Surge - itâs pretty naff, your feet get absolutely drenched, it takes forever to get to the top - and then you end up bobbing around at the end for what seems like an eternity!
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Matt N reacted to a post in a topic: Most rides you've ever had on one attraction in a single day?
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Most rides you've ever had on one attraction in a single day?
Han30 replied to Matt N's topic in General Discussion
Stealth 17 times Saw 9 times one Summer Night event years ago - I had a wicked headache after that đ„ł And X around 10 times in a row also during Summer Night event -
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I went in BML last week - end of the day and it was just me and the people I was with. Have done is 4-5 times now having gone with people who hadnât experienced it before. I guess itâs ok but my main gripe like others is that (a bit like DBGT) you only really need to do it once plus it is taking up a decent sized space which has previously house fright night mazes. On a side note I love the music played in that area and also the uniforms that the staff/actors wear - I want one of the jackets đ
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Have you ever had any theme park related dreams?
Han30 replied to Matt N's topic in General Discussion
@Matt N blimey that was a pretty vivid and detailed dream! The only theme park related one I can remember was going to Thorpe on a really windy day and Stealth had blown over so it was essentially flat - it still had a big queue which confused me! -
The whole experience is just a mess and itâs like they never really thought things through that well. The 2 photo points in the queue are no longer in use so the ending part and the photo booth is pointless. They had the bag drop the first year and then got rid of that after just one season. Instead of fixing the mid section which I thought was a really good effect theyâve just hashed up a mini maze in there. The pre show is so long and tedious and theyâve now added almost a second preshow with an actor which seems to go on forever and as a result the second VR section has been cut. The initial second VR section was very odd so I do prefer the updated one but I would rather it have stayed what it was instead of cutting it to accommodate the actors speech which is quite tedious. My favourite part was the exit/gift shop but theyâve fudged that up now that the demon is gone - it genuinely scared me the first time I saw it but now just a person coughing doesnât have the same effect. Even the shop looks pretty awful compared to how it used to be - half empty and selling other ride merch. Its just not worth re-riding (I only do if Iâm with someone who hasnât been on and wants to try it). There are so many options they could have gone for for a dark ride - even a bog standard ghost train would be better at this point. All the hype surrounding it and itâs just a pile of crud - I guess it was a gamble they took which hasnât paid off. Wondering at which point it will just be called âghost trainâ because I donât think Iâd want my name to be affiliated with it. Maybe Iâm being harsh - I just miss the arena in all honesty.
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They definitely werenât communicating well - if you were riding for the first time you might assume the ones in bags are the clean ones maybe. Anyway I didnât hear what was said as I had my head set on but apparantly the actor was both shouty and very sarcastic. Also - do they no longer touch peoples legs in there? Thatâs the main reason I went on đđ€Ł. The ride is so dead in the water. We just had a woman coughing at the end - right in my face at one point so hoping she didnât have a dose of covid. Will the demon at the end ever resurface? That was genuinely the best part of the ride
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I went on Tuesday - second visit of the season. It was pretty busy in comparison to over the Easter weekend (guessing due to only premium and platinum passholders being the only annual passholders able to attend those dates). The Thrill Makers areâŠ..interesting - Iâm not bashing them because they seem popular for younger visitors - one of them came over to us and was really engaging which was nice but we wanted to move on before the show started so used the excuse that I needed a cigarette - I was quite shocked when the girl said âoh itâs fine donât worry you can smoke here, itâs not enforcedâ - literally smack bang in the middle of what was a quite busy area and where kids were around. She even pointed to someone else smoking to prove her point. I know Thorpe arenât as strict as other parks but I wouldnât sit and smoke where there are kids about because itâs disgusting and Iâm sure many parents wouldnât want their kids inhaling second hand smoke. One fairly big gripe I have is with the Colossus team - painfully slow. Both this visit and last they werenât even opening the air gates until the station was clear from previous riders which is insane - the queue yesterday was at 90 minutes at this point and my friend timed how long it took from the train coming in and the air gates opening and it was over 2 mins. If this is to do with safety issues then fair enough but itâs not happening on the other coasters? Very bizarre and it also results in being sat on the brake run for what seems like a bloody eternity which is uncomfortable. The new toilets are actually the best thing this year đ. Staff on the whole are very friendly aswell
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The weird thing was that when we got on the train the actors kept saying âdonât take the headsets out of the bags yetâ giving the impression that the headsets actually work. My niece who I was with assumed the same (we hadnât been on for a couple of years and a ton of headset were in bags) - after the first section my niece said she got shouted at by one of the actors for not using a headset - cos it was broken. Apparently the actor was quite rude and shouted at her for not having a working headset - would make more sense for the actors to tell people that the headsets in bags donât work but they didnât and implied to take them out once everyone was seated. I think my niece has only done ghost train twice before and due to covid and what was being said itâs an easy mistake to make, however I donât think shouting sarcastically at a guest is the best attitude to have! Honestly I wish they would flatten the thing - at least the arena was a decent space for fright nights mazes