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This is brilliant what Thorpe have done by looking at customer feedback. £15 for regulars and £5 for pass holders is a much better price. Well done Thorpe.

Just a heads up,Thorpe are advertising on FB that there last few tickets for tomorrow night are available, so I advise anyone who hasn't bought a ticket yet to purchase one ASAP as they are extremely likely to sell out. The link For the news/status is here https://www.facebook.com/thorpepark

For me, I think Merlin membership is a way to con people. Okay, you pay a certain amount a month and can terminate the package after 12 months. But however it's actually more than the passes to subscribe to every year and yet you cannot use it less than 12 months. Though it may be good for some, I'm sticking to my traditional method of buying a pass year in year out.

I don't know what/why people don't like Slammer. I think it's a great ride giving a spinning free fall experience as well as the unnerving feeling you don't feel safe. The ride is very unique in terms of experience (especially with the one in Six Flags now gone). The ride is a one of a kind experience IMO.

This sounds a very good idea although I don't why they couldn't just do longer open hours as its more money for a few more hours of rides. Even us pass holders have to pay for it and though its a little cheaper, it should really be free. Though its a brilliant idea, I don't think it's right paying that much more for the experience and I won't be able to do any of the days anyway due to commitments. Shame they couldn't go back to the later openings they did several years ago.

Noooooooooo! I was hoping to ride it Saturday and looking forward to it as well. I surely hope the park can fix up the worlds only Sky Swat though I know it'll be closed for MOS .

Though towers had two coasters in three years, I suppose that is different because of the five year gap between Thirteen ad Rita as well as the fact one is a thrilling family coaster whilst the other is a thrill machine (despite what the park's classification of Thirteen).

Sounds like Tidal weather to me .

Aggggggh, this is terrible news. No major coaster for possibly another four years plus more of the shipping container hotels. This is not good news at all and I can't wait that long til the next coaster. One other thing,is it just me or are the prospects of a permanent hotel appearing to have the chances of Thorpe getting a top spin ?

When I was there Sunday, they played the ride theme in the queue. I don't think towers ever used the story audio in the queue. That said, my first visit to Towers was only last year so who knows.

Providing its the 7-8th then I should be able to attend as long as nothing important appears. I will however need a lift from someone as I can't drive otherwise I won't be able to make it. The 28-29th will be a definite no as It will be hit with three bullets which will be at uni, work on the Sunday as well as attending a cousin's wedding.

Can't wait for uni, start at Brunel in September. There isle problem I have is with accommodation. When I first started applying, I saiid wanted halls but have decided I want to stay at home now because the uni isn't too far away and it's very expensive for halls. I have no idea how this will work.

In terms of attending, I should be able to make it for the trip however I will need a lift there and back from someone.

I'm up for playing but will likely have to PM you the answers.

Went on Thirteen today and the shutter didn't close on the drop section which quite strongly detracted the first section of the ride. It's very disappointing that it didn't lose as it sets the scene much greater when it does. On another note, Thirteen delivered some relatively good airtime on the first half.

Ridden Smiler for the first time today (twice) and have to say its absolutely superb. The ride layout is impressive and immense and delivers many moments of weightlessness and overall delivers a well paced and constructed ride where no inversion used is wasted. The ride I find find is rather smooth (which is from riding one of the rougher trains) plus the duelling motion (though a rare occurrence) is pretty impressive. Some say the ride doesn't have too much theming, but it isn't a big deal as the ride is very much the centrepiece especially as all the queue is around the ride area and very near by as well as interacting with the ride itself. Overall, a brilliant ride which I strongly enjoyed and for me almost as good as the legendary Nemesis, 9.5/10.

It's good to know everything's gradually being fixed. Shame though about the broken speakers on Saw & Tidal Wave and the fact Colossus and Amity Cove music are still high. I hope Thorpe sort those out soon.

Yeah, I'm hoping to be there for park opening. Can't wait for MOS.

Tbh wasn't planning on visiting the park again this year even if Mine Train was reopened. Although the other parks have ad their fair share of pros and cons for this year, Chessington is definitely noticbly worse than the others with two of it's staple rides removed of their theming due to poor maintenance, poor ride operations and their only inverting ride down for the rest of the season or forever. Even with the few decent changes such as Zufati ad Creaky Cafe, the park is king downhill and has taken two steps forward, three steps back in 2013. The park in one year has gone from quite well themed to badly themed and I believe it to be the parks worst season since 2001. I expect Mine Train to be a disappointment next year from what was there pre 2013.

Well here's a surprise (not really to be honest) but Chessington are now asking people to not just sketch ideas for Falls but Mine Train as well. http://www.chessington.com/updates/#help-us Despite first expectations, it sounds like Mine Train could well be SBNO for the whole of 2013 seeing as it states the ride will reopen with new theming in 2014 whilst it says Falls will be rethemed in 2014 but is currently open. Looks like that's 2 rides down for the rest of the season.

They'd better make sure this ride is working for Sunday, otherwise a certain someone may go down to ride guest services .

Oh goody, another bit of publicity for the park. At least the rides still open according to the site which is essential anyway as the park doesn't have many decent throughput rides. Really isn't going well for the park this year.

Well that's a stupid idea, blocking off a large pathway so that people almost have to walk though the shipping container shop to get out or double back on themselves. Surely if they wanted people to head through an exit shop, they should've designed it better, perhaps likeThirteens where you walk straight in to the shop after the photo booth instead of removing a perfectly useful path.

£10 is far too much to feed giraffes, Chessington certainly is overpriced in many ways. They should charge £5 to feed them or even nothing at all really for this. Starting to look like it was a bad idea of Chessington posting about that on their Facebook page with the amount of people criticising the amount and referring them to Colchester zoo.

I'm very interested in part 5 especially as I get the impression it will be based around the terrible journey leaving the park.