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Wonder how the site looks currently the water coming down the Thames is rising day by day and the road from Staines to Thorpe is currently flooded….

I think that’s fair enough, but they do seem to be doing a huge amount in what is really a very short closed season.
Hopefully the closed seasons will be a little more like this going forward - they’re never going to fix everything in one go, but fingers crossed they keep the momentum going.
 
Speaking of the toilet upgrades though - I hope they keep the foot pedal operated taps. There’s something very classic Thorpe about the mass unspoken confusion around the sinks.

Hopefully it will be used to show replays of live streams where YouTubers say a ride name 50,000 times.

There’s a clear shift in how Merlin spend money the last couple of years tbf, I would guess the combo of a new CEO / going back to private have made this more possible.
 
Agree all this stuff should be standard but I guess it isn’t in recent times here so it is nice to see.
 
Hopefully once it is done they can keep it up - even just smaller touches up around the park each year can keep it up to a decent standard whilst not costing multi millions which I can only assume all this is costing to bring it up from where it currently is / was.

You going to bring out a poetry book 

I’ve thought the same about the responses to be honest.
 
Ryanair can get away with it because their entire brand is build around “we’re cheap, that’s it, and if you don’t like it then you can f*** off”… their brand isn’t even about travel or flying, it’s ALL about low price, no frills, and their notorious reputation.
 
I think Thorpe’s CS going down this route is bad and doesn’t fit the new “brighter future” brand at all.

The jump into the brakes, and the brake run, have gone in:
 
https://twitter.com/DG95Official/status/1725858289638875338/photo/1

Has anyone created a coaster themed around literal Easter Eggs yet? Seems like a very Merlin idea since they love them so much.

We got the rusty logo in 2009 for Saw, which they brought back several times. Quite fitting to go with the rusting infrastructure!
 
And a sPoOkY white logo for DBGT
 
(pic from https://x.com/dg95official/status/1094600599860072448?s=46 )

The only person who knows what the new logo looks like is @Parm Pap

They are also producing a new entrance and dome theme to be fair!
 
Event was posted on the Thorpe annual pass Facebook group 

Thorpe to Imascore….
Hi we have a new rollercoaster being built could you produce the music please…
 
imascore… sure thing that will be xxx
 
thorpe… oh that’s a little bit high, perhaps we will get our crew to do it….
 
imascore…. How about you offer us a seminar with your enthusiasts to bring the cost down slightly.
 
 
thorpe…. Sure thing! Let’s sell this out!!
 
in all seriousness I wonder if this is the day in which the music for hyperia will be signed off and handed over to the park and then this event is a little add on to make some east money?

Chessie uses an online system.
 
However on our recent visit we had to split up the usage between the group as you can't use Parent Swap in conjunction with it. We had 2 people who qualified for it so used it separately in twos unless we could all ride together with baby. 
 
Not all who use it abuse it in the manner that many unfortunately do. However it is not helped by the poor implementation of the park's own rules by many staff members. Even at Chessie there were a number of times we weren't scanned for various reasons (including not having a scanner at one of the rides).
 
The system exists, and they'd be better off implementing it across all the parks asap. However I don't think it'd necessarily improve things due to the number of overall users. And any methods they'd use to alter things would no doubt result in an outcry (likely from those who've happily been abusing the "free fastrack" for years); be it max 1 carer, limiting use or being stricter with giving it out. Presumably Nimbus was meant to improve matters but don't think it's made much difference. 
 
End of the day majority who use it have to suffer with a daily issue that affects them constantly and living in an often inaccessible world. That's far more unfair than getting a slightly higher ride count over able-bodied persons. Its just a shame that many abuse the system so that those who need it often suffer and often get the "WeLl ThEy QuEuE fInE iN a HoUr RaP qUeUe" comments.

oh well bom, pom, parm pap is spam, bom, pom, I tried to tell you but noone listens! don't listen to old parm pap! but there you go!
 

Thorpe park were on the silkstone livestream this evening answering questions. They teased an 8 in answer to the new logo.
 
Also what do you think will be released on Thursday? It wouldn’t be a silkstone event without some sort of teaser!

No it won't be Candy Crush Land.
 
https://x.com/THORPEPARK/status/1719061116515471434?s=20
 

Hardly 'breaking in' when its a pathetic white tent

I think the issue with this is people don’t want to go on some random days at the end of October - It’s always the same weeks / days packed every year simply because that’s when demand is. The park do limit the capacity, I’m pretty sure the numbers they let in are no where near what used to be seen back in 2008/9 etc.
 
It is a tricky one to balance - it’s easy to say they should sell less tickets / fastracks etc but from a business sense that only makes sense if they also up the price - which will equally annoy some people. I do wonder if enthusiasts maybe overstate it and maybe people visiting once a year on fright nights just expect it to be packed and are pretty happy getting on a handful of rides and having a day out - hard to tell!

Of course, agreed.  End of season for TP has always been extremely busy.  I think the issue is whether the park focuses investment to meet the demand for 1 week of the year.   I remember doing Universal and it took us 3 nights to get around all the mazes.  The Studios park was heaving and we couldn't get near the place on actual Halloween.  I think my biggest issue is the upcharge (however I'm biased as I come from a time when the mazes were part of the entry ticket price).  Universal charges an extra ticket price for the evening (or did when I visited in 2009), and I think it makes sense that Thorpe should.  However, I think the way the mazes are currently designed don't meet the demand for this last week of the year from a throughput perspective. (I.e. batching in smaller groups, pre-shows etc).  I think its nice that Thorpe are able to offer these experiences, however at some point as the park expands they would need to start looking at volume and throughputs.  Granted, the conga line method may be a lesser experience overall, however I think it would be a great challenge for the design teams to do something different with it?  Or they put more mazes on.  I'm surprised that as part of the Hyperion development site, they didn't factor in a purpose built fright nights building as part of that development. Somewhere to store everything throughout the year and then maybe use the space for 1/2 mazes.   

I'm not sure we can really say the park is struggling with capacity most of the time. Thorpe has overall been run pretty well most of the year, far better that Towers and CWoA, but always faces it's largest crowds this week and into the last couple of FN weekends. It's a similar state of affairs all over. 
 
Look at King's Island last Friday for example. 
 

 
It's the experience on those days that needs improving such as a slightly lower cap on their 'capacity' and Fastrack much more limited. However, that is money which they won't want to lose as FN brings in a fair proportion for the years income.
 
Think we need to look at the year as a whole for judging capacity and operational issues, rather than a couple of almost sell out days. Last week and the first couple of weekends (aside from a specific Sunday) crowds were completely manageable and park ran well. 

I think you misunderstood me.  What I meant was, if the park closes at 10pm, some staff could potentially be working until 12pm.  I remember when we had 10pm closes, and Megastore was still heaving at 11pm.  I didn't get out until 1am.  Luckily I lived locally and had understanding parents. If I lived in London or relied on public transport to get home, not sure I would have many options open to me.
 
Regarding mazes, I think its a tricky one.  Do you go down the conga line route (Universal), increasing throughputs, or just add more of them?  If the park is struggling with capacity, I should imagine it would need to change it up a bit over the coming years, especially with Hyperia on the way.

Seeing some people defending half term will always be busy.
At what point will Thorpe take action and improve guest experience whilst perhaps upping the prices or adding more attractions 

Once the world realises that capitalism is evil.

Seeing some people defending half term will always be busy.
At what point will Thorpe take action and improve guest experience whilst perhaps upping the prices or adding more attractions 

Petition to bring back the Nemesis inferno whipping theme….