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Construction update for air race! The ride is now in place! Looking good (Photos from TPW facebook)

I think there is early rider at Chessington, but only for hotel guests. I believe it's not all the rides either only Wild Asia, Dragons Fury and not sure what else.

I hate it so much when people put 'The' in front of rides like Stealth or Colossus. I know it's a really little thing but it really annoys me when I see it hahaa, it doesn't sound right saying 'The Stealth' so don't say it!

South Parks were lucky enough to have a sneak preview of all the angry birds land today, and posted a photo of the cinema. All the plastic has now been taken off the seats. Looks pretty good, and bigger than I expected (I never went in the previous cinema) and really looking forward to it now!

They did answer a question either on here or on Facebook saying a round a week before but they didn't confirm it, and I agree, it should be posted on there website with Slammer.

It's not just us on the forums that think Colossus is rough

I think the lap bars look good, they look better than the seat belts in my opinion, the seat belts look tacky.

Just to let everyone know, Detonator will be closed tomorrow and will be closed until next Saturday for it's 'retheme' as Thorpe Park have confirmed this on Facebook.

From photos on Facebook, it actually looks a lot bigger than I was expecting! Sent from my iPhone 5S using Tapatalk

Oh yess! And then then when I got older, me and my brother would stand there and try and make the witch laugh, and we did a good job of it! Once on a day it was dead we were just in there having a conversation with her about her job! Taking it you used to see Santa at Christmas as well

That's great! I know it's quite hard to tell but what was the Speed like on them, compared to Tuk tuk?

Well if they had a period of no testing, and now they are doing the same sort of tests again, they probably had a problem and had to fit another part. Can't wait until it opens again :D Sent from my iPhone 5S using Tapatalk

Shark hotel update, starting to look quite good now in my opinion. This photo is from the company that are making this shark. You can see there Instagram below Sent from my iPhone 5S using Tapatalk

Wooo! That's good news! Hopefully after a lot of testing, we will see Slammer open again! To be honest, after the testing every day stopping and no work continuing on Slammer, I thought that they had given up with her.

How they didn't spot this does worry me hahaa

I've probably seen you at one point then haha, I live about 10 minutes from Drusillas and pretty much went there every weekend from the age of 4! I loved this place as a child. Glad to see they are finally using up that area seeing as when I went there, there was nothing but a little bouncy castle for that whole area.

Photo update - (Photo from TPG facebook) Looks like the roofs structure is complete or is almost complete. (Photo from TPG facebook) I believe that's one of the HB leisure games they're adding themeing to.

Taking it Detonator is now closed?

I don't think operators have any control on the cycle of Vortex at all, seeing as a current operator at Thorpe Park either posted on here, or in the chat that on Vortex they just click one button and the computer does the rest

Thorpe would never get one of these, not just because it's similar to Vortex but the throughput would be diabolical. There's only 20 seats and that ride cycle is 4 mins, and a shorter one wouldn't be that good on that sort of ride. Looks like a great ride though

Really really good to hear, I did think that they might as well carry on trying to get it going, seeing how much they've spent on it in recent years. Another problem must of came up though, seeing as it was being tested daily and then it just suddenly stopped. Maybe they are waiting for another part, and this takes a long time as they get 'specially made'.

It probably does the same amount of swings each time, but then the more lower swings there are, the shorter the cycle will be I guess.

Banned for always getting stuck on Detty

The only flying coaster I've ever ridden is Air, and I find that quite slow and boring if I'm honest, but that look's great!

I had a great couple of rides last month, no juddering and go up and above 90 degrees very quickly, it was also a longer cycle Saw a video about a week ago it looked like it was getting bad again, so it's good to hear it's still running well About the ride experience not being the same every time, I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that it depends how much the operator spins it at the beginning, before they make it start actually spinning. While I was in the que, the operator was making it spin for a lot longer before it started spinning, and it looked like it was spinning pretty quick. Once I rode it, the operator had changed and he pretty much made it start swinging straight away, and we were at the top every time? Sent from my iPhone 5S using Tapatalk