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Anyone know anything about the cycles? How many is there? Which ones does it usually run on? Which ones are the best? What are the staff like when you ask for a decent one?

Well, it opened for 3 and a half hours at least Did you get a go on it? Was it running well?

Samurai is open Just waiting on Slammer now...

About capacity, people on Facebook have been complaining that it's been taking over 5 minutes to unload and load Octonauts. Over 5 minutes to get 14 people off and on a ride is ridiculous.

No idea... Detonator and Vortex have been closed all day today. They didn't say Vortex was going to be closed tomorrow though so should be open soon.

Thorpe Park have said on Facebook that the only rides scheduled to be closed tomorrow are Slammer and Detonator, so they are planning on having Samurai open tomorrow! It's been testing today. Hopefully it'll be more reliable this year after the work it's had done over closed season.

Rumba Rapids re-opened today at around 12ish. Good they got it open quicker than expected.

That's such a shame, re-riding nemesis last time I went was one of the best parts of alton towers. I don't understand why they've done this? Yes people can re ride or whatever but what harm is this causing? It's literally just filling up empty seats? A really disappointing start of the season from Alton towers hearing about all the cost cutting, and now this Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Rumba Rapids was testing today, so hopefully they'll get it open this weekend! It does say on there website however it'll be returning in Easter, so I guess it could return anyday between now and then.

Personally find it crazy how on a Saturday they opened all their coasters on one train. They left them on 1 train till around midday making the Swarm reach 70 minutes, then told people of twitter they won't unless theirs demand?

Accroding to the queue times, Kobra, Rattlesnake, Skyway and Toadies are all open now. Very poor start of the season from Chessington. Yes Thorpe had a lot closed, but at least only 1 was a main attraction.

Wrong topic I think Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looks like they are planning on opening Tidal Wave and Saw tomorrow, as Rumba, Slammer and Samurai are the only ones planned to be shut. Let's hope they get them both open, especially Saw!

No one was complaining about one train op? There were no queues so there was no need. Yes they aren't disney, but they're charging people 25 quid without telling people that 5 things are closed. If I was paying and find that amount closed, including a main coaster I'd not be happy. They at least need to post it on there website, facebook and at the entrance.

I personally don't think Slammer will open till April at least. But I think, and hope Samurai, Rumba and Tidal wave will be open by then. It's obvious all these rides have had more done than usual, although I'm unsure about Rumba. Slammer was testing this time last year though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It takes minutes to fill up. It get's pumped from a lake.

It's gone down to 5 rides down now. Tidal wave, Rumba Rapids, Samurai, Slammer and Saw. Wonder what's wrong with Saw seeing as it was meant to be open last weekend? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Could be that they haven't had enough time to train staff as well, like Vampire and Bubbleworks

Also, what happened to the shower at the end? Do you just not turn it on as it fills boats up with water quicker or is it broken?

Fair enough. I like it, I mean I can never really hear it at the top anyway but it's good when watching. Also makes it more fun when they drop you early, or keep you up there for a while when it's quiet.

Towards the end of last season the speakers were sounding really weird, and then they ended up turning them off. Next visit it was playing but really quiet, they'd obviously turned it down as they were broken. Shame they haven't seemed to of fixed it over closed season, gonna miss Detonators theme blasting out

That's what I was thinking, but the fact they're giving away tickets may attract more people to go. People who don't manage to get a free ticket may buy one anyway as they are there. It's around double that aha. Most coasters get around 1000 people an hour, flats around 300/400 so 500 people spread around the park really won't make much difference at all.

Was there just no audio on it at all?

Worth noting they're giving away 500 tickets each day for that weekend, the 14th and 15th of March. https://www.thorpepark.com/events-experiences/events/my-first-coaster/ May encourage people to go to get the free tickets but I doubt it will make much difference at all, seeing as no one really knows about it anyway. I imagine it will be dead, especially mothers day.

How many trains is X currently on? It's on 40 minutes so guessing it's on pretty low capacity? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk