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It was only open for an hour that last day it was open. I assume they are just doing maintenance to it/ waiting for a part. I doubt it will be much longer.

Great idea! Always loads of empty seats on Vortex. I could also see it working well on Rush and hopefully they can bring it back on Stealth as well. Hopefully next years ride will see a single rider queue as well. I don't understand how this will slow down loading? Single riders will be in the batching area with everyone else?

Not that you ever hear it anyway

Wasn't keen on hearing Dettys theme music had been changed back to the 2007 theme, but after hearing it at the park I actually really liked it. It was being played really loud (I could even hear it well from the top of Infernos volcano) which created a really good atmosphere around it. The speakers have also been repositioned slightly, they are facing upwards and you can now hear the countdown pretty well from the top which is nice.

Anyone know if X has been on 3 trains recently? On Wednesday it was back on 2 meaning it had one of the highest queues on park, and reached 50 minutes. Shame to see it on reduced capacity most of this season.

It was having problems all day when I was there on Wednesday on 2 trains, and from looking at Twitter I think it's been on 1 train since.

An article to show how quiet the place is at the moment - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3180987/Heading-Oblivion-Alton-Towers-quiet-thrillseekers-barely-queue-popular-rollercoasters-park-shuts-early-hardly-s-there.html

Concrete has been poured in ... fact

I normally find the staff really friendly, but they just weren't Yeah that is strange, it makes such a difference without the music though especially on Quantum. The Swarm did have long periods of downtime throughout the day so all the effects were probably off as they never got reset after it went down?

The fast track sign is back up now. I'm not sure if fast tracks were being sold but I know they accept priority passes. There was constantly people in the Fast track queue, and like said half of every group was being used for Fast track/disabled when I was there.

Wednesday 29th July Rides closed all day: Slammer , Samurai Rides that opened at 11ish: Saw, Stealth, Loggers, Rocky express, Angry birds 4d, Dodgems, Quantum, Tidal Wave, Colossus also broke down at 10ish and reopened at 11ish. We got no early ride time as rides weren't ready, and the rides that were available at 9:30 was ridiculous. All coasters were on 2 trains, X was also back on 2 trains, and tidal was on 2 boats. Ride count: 36 Link: http://ridecount.com/browse/trip/15195 Pros: Park was pretty quiet, didn't expect to get re-rides in the Summer holiday All of Storm Surges effects were working!? Haven't seen them on since it opened. Dettys speakers have been repositioned and was playing very loud so you can hear the count down at the top. Created a very good atmosphere around the ride as well. Vortex running very well again and music back. They've done a lot of work on WC16 Angry birds 4d show time countdown was very useful, and is very accurate. Coke Freestyle was very cool, flavours I didn't know existed like Coke Orange? I made a mix of Coke, Fanta and Cloudy Lemonade which was actually very nice! Cons: Slammer was closed all day AGAIN. Was teasing me by testing all day No music on Rush, Quantum and Zodiac, Dodgems and no entrance music. Creates a dull atmosphere. None of the Swarms effects were on and no mist on Inferno. Very weird incident happened on IAC but that'll not be shared on here. Rush wasn't running well. It was very out of time all day, and 1 swing was going a lot higher than the other. Got stuck on Colossus Staff were very blunt/unfriendly compared to normal. Lots of breakdowns. Lots of rides opened late and no early ride time. Queue time boards were very inaccurate on most rides, and a few queue time boards weren't working/turned off. I know inaccurate queue time boards and selling fast tracks get brought up a lot, but I saw something yesterday which is completely unacceptable and I think should be brought up. Inferno was advertised as a 15 minute queue but the queue was empty and you could walk straight into the station. With the queue being empty there was still a member of staff standing at the merge point accepting fast tracks of people, so people that had paid for fast tracks were waiting the same amount of time as people in the main queue. Why on earth was this member of staff still accepting fast tracks knowing there wasn't a main queue annoys me. This sounds like a very negative report but all true and still had a good day

So I went on I'm a celebrity again yesterday, first time I had been on it since April. It was a lot different, and a lot better as there were new challenges. The throughput however seemed even worse than last time, I counted a group of 10 every 6 minutes giving it a throughput of 100. With half being Fast track/disabled this meant the main queue had a throughput of 50 people an hour! The only thing I didn't really like was the fact that you only have 1 actor taking you round the whole time. It just means your experience every time changes every more than it already did. The actor we had yesterday was no were near as good as previous actors I've seen in there, and was putting no effort into it. A very strange incident also happened with our actor which ruined the experience. The people who I was with have emailed the park.

So Slammer has been closed for the last 2 days now. It was testing pretty much all day today, staff said they weren't sure if it was going to open but didn't end up opening. Samurai is still sat there with no visible work going on. Today was the most amount of breakdowns I've seen in a long long time, and the amount of rides that opened at 11 today was ridiculous.

Trying to get into chat (even though theres no one in chat) and getting this error?

Finally they have a board to tell you when the next show is ... (Picture from theme park guide)

'Just a little off the top please' (Credit to the lad bible)

Anyone know if the cargo net has been added back to the cyclone, or has it been taken out permanently?

Just looked it up, it died on the 2nd of July at 2:36pm Swear it's actually spent more time closed than open this season?

So the beach huts on Amity Beach are available to hire for £25. Bit of a strange idea if I'm honest? Can't see many people paying to hire a beach hut at a theme park? Will be interesting to see how they do. (Photos from Theme park POV facebook)

Video of the new machine here - https://instagram.com/p/5PY3KqEgDA/?taken-by=thorpeparkofficial Looks good, and didn't realise you could fill up quenchers here as well, thats great.

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