Kerfuffle

Thorpe HAVE had a problem this year!...THE SWARM BACKWARDS AND X FORWARDS!

Why would it be so hard to replace chain links anyway? All it takes is replacing the damaged links with new ones and fitting them together!

It better be open again soon

Bout time. Last time John had his own documentary was in the 90's with 'Themes, Dreams and Scream Machines'

They should either replace the fences to wooden, rickety ones, or just repaint the metal ones to make them look really rusty

What they could do is this: As there are 5 cars per train, the front two cars will face forwards and the back two will face backwards. As for the middle car, front row will face forwards, back row will face backwards. Pretty simple you might say, but this idea is more or less based on the Towering Coaster train design

Better get used to it if you're someone like me: Always sits in the middle seat brandishing two blasters like a lone badass for the whole ride!

It's also shocking how nearly all the rustic themeing was scrapped when Vampire was redone. These were replaced by the ugly purple fences you see today! Remember those coffins they had in the station to separate the air gates?

If they're gonna have those Abdab animatronic in the queueline, they can possibly bring him back to life by making him a grave robber and having one of the animatronics standing next do a dug up grave. Every few minutes, you'll hear him saying his former line: "Here it is! I've found it! Erm...nearly! Come to Abdab my beauty! Ahh! AHHHHHHhhhhhh!" (At this point, he could probably fall into the grave or something, like he did with the chest in Terror Tomb)

Usually, It's my PC doing the gaming! It's always Minecraft, Happy Wheels or RCT3. Otherwise, It's The Smiler, Jetpack Joyride or Fruit Ninja on my iPod or Call of Duty: WaW Team Deathmatch or Nazi Zombies in Der Riese on my Xbox!

Who cares about the backward seats anyway? We have the billboard this year! The billboard really is an excellent near miss, which is why I've filmed it more often in my offride compliation of THE SWARM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=U3lS7s0qtuU Well, OK. The backward rows were there in every shot, but most of us ARE against the backward rows. We don't need to include it!

Shouldn't think so. I think it may have just been composed by Merlin

FASTPASS, you meanEdit by Tommy, reason: Txt talk.

That's actually not a bad idea for the back two rows! People will queue for the back row forwards once again! Also seeing your friends terrified faces will be slightly amusing

That might just ruin the ride completely!

Because one of these days, the queues will get so bad that it might be that THE SWARM's capacity might go down, as the queue for Brave it Backwards also affects Fastrack and the main entrance (at times)

Alton Towers - Where the Magic Never Ends! Wait...WHAT MAGIC?

To make The Asylum more terrifying, they could add in one or two more actors in the chainsaw guy finale. They could be wielding knives alongside the chainsaw guy and wave them around violently. THAT'll get everyone out the maze in a split second!

I still remember when Thorpe's were called Fright 'Nites'

You mean 'Scarefest'? :/

I can still remember Miss Hippo's Fungle Safari being my favourite ride when I was 5 years old, before I had my first fly on the Fish later that year!

I guess the hype for The Smiler is reaching the 'overload' point at this rate. Still waiting to get corrected...I wonder why...

The backward seats look a bit eyesore as well. I mean, you see a fine set of horizontal lines going up the lift hill, when all of a sudden, they change to two ARCHES with LEGS! If you want a coaster to go backwards, the ride itself has to be designed in some way for it to go backwards! Take X, when it was X:/No Way Out for example. They are just plain sit-down cars, so they WON'T look eyesore when going backwards whatsoever

Notice the connection between heavy metal and an iron maiden on the ride?

Wait...Flying backwards? Never seen anything fly backwards horizontally!