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Hi Katherine, welcome to TPM and I'm glad you chose a disney picture as your avatar.

Resulting in sing song (3 words is not enough )

Good to see the park steadily improving and expanding their hours (in reverse to those cuts we saw in 2012). I'm satisfied they've reverted to 7pm summer closings as hearing previous year reports it did need it plus the continuing of howl o ween 8pm closures and a slightly earlier start to the season too. Maybe one day hopefully we will see 2 week durations for Howl'o ween and 6pm closings for every weekend (or more). Also the last day of the season so far (by the looks) will be Monday the 2nd which will also be another Howl'oween day with an 8pm close which is good to see.

With some disney

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TBH I really don't know but the moment we take Casey Junior and arrive in France, I could well be like a genie freed from the lamp.And it will be very exciting once I leave my bell tower after eating five dozen eggs and then heading to Neverland Edit- my reaction when arriving could be a bit like this

Saw's themings okay,but it's not quite Swarm.

Yep, tbh I've known Pizza Hut was on its way out towards the start of the season as one of my friend's dads works in the accounting area and said that the contract was expiring so the park could bring their own inhouse equivalent in.

Colossus is his favourite thrill ride

Looks a decent ride actually. I'm not the biggest flat ride fan, but would like to definitely give this one a go when I visit (as long as it isn't too overpriced).

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The best part of Madame Tussaud's is the dark ride by a country mile, reminds me of the good old tussauds/Wardley Magic making days (compared to the modern mediocre cattlemen stuff we get now).

I don't like locked doors, because it means I can't get in

I don't know why, but that last post made me think of this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFeQXYxo-fA I guess it is a sort of Hunchback in ride form

Did Storm surge at night once, it was horrible.

It does look quite mediocre at the. Moment, but will have to see when it's finished. Hopefully they will theme the ride quite well (although Merlin).

Swap To be or not to be ;)

Scenic railway restoration seems to Be going along nicely so far. Can't wait til this ride is up and running again hopefully next year (currently the most exciting thing in the uk next year for me). I wonder what company is providing the materials of the ride and who will design the track. Is it safe to say the new scenic will be more of a new coaster designed in a traditional way then an actual restored old ride?

Right I shall reveal, The correct answer was number 2 which MrC answered (and gets to have the next go). Despite writing two blogs on the place and the fact I haven't been to any major parks outside the uk yet (cough disney cough) although this shall hopefully be changing from next year, you'll be surprised to know Tivoli world isn't the only patk I've visited as I've also been to Boudwijan sea park in Belgium, which is a small dolphin/Themepark as well as 2 waterparks as well. 1/ my wooden coaster virginity was in fact lost to Megafobia, back in August 2013, which is an amazing coaster and well worth a trip there for this alone. 3/ despite only doing it twice, Phantom Phantasia stays in my heart as the ride at thorpe I miss the most, followed by the ranger rides, thunder river and flying fish mk1.

In regards to both of these rides, Tomb blaster is definitely the better of the two. Whilst the ride is currently fairly worn in places with faulty boasters,lasers and passed its best, the ride is far superior as it features a heavily themed exterior with rock work, waterfall and queue that in good old Tussaud's manner (though slightly ruined by the tall fences now) snakes it's way around the area building up to the main event inside. It also features lots of highly immersive large quality effects (when working), a catchy souñdtrack and is one of the few rides at Chessington to exceed 1000 in throughput (when on 5 trains). Laser Raiders is still good in the way that it's more interactive than tombs, still features a nicely themed queue (for merlin standards) and also a fairly catchy soundtrack (tombs is obvs better) however there's quite a few problems. 1/ the train tracks run between the entrance and the ride building which means not just going outside the tent to get across it (slightly ruining the build up IMO) but also entering a second much poorer snd boring designed queue which isn't very nice to wait in. 2/ the throughput of the ride is rather abysmal (like most of Legoland's rides) and often gets 2 hour queues on peak days plus with the ride design of 4 people per car and dispatches around every 30 seconds (we're already less than fury), the ride probably doesn't get more than 400 PPH on a good day. 3/ the shop and scarabs feel pretty shoe horned in to the tent and it feels very mediocre appearance wise 4/ the layout wasnt done very well to begin with and was not really though out well. So yes, lasers is an ok ride (for Legoland) but Tombs is still better than a mile (even now), however neither are a patch on Duel . Edit- so many mistakes

In terms of size and variety, it's a real,y good fun fair with plenty of things for everyone, rollercoasters, flat rides, towers, fun houses etc. The main problem is of course prices which most things are twice as much as they should be really. I paid £6/£7 just for the wild mouse ride when I went which is still the only attraction I've done there to this day.

Glad the Caroulsel is still standing (although for how long who knows) Not much major yet apart from Pizza Hut work really, but then it's only been a week since Thorpe closed for the year.

I like using the winky face a lot when I write posts here,

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Topic resurrection (weather it's my go or not who knows) 1/ my first woodie was Megafobia 2/ Tivoli World is the only themepark I've been to outside the uk 3/ my favourite past ride at Thorpe was Phantom Phantasia/WWH