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Totally agree with your point, with Chessington around the corner, which is aimed for families I don't see why Thorpe are suddenly aiming for families. Most people go there for the bigger rides like Swarm and Saw.

If this clearly is the case then, why wasn't this fixed over the closed season!?

They are normally on regardless of the weather but I suppose it is up to the operator to turn them on or not. I don't see why they wouldn't keep them always on though because if you don't want to get wet, you can go in the inside seats and you don't get wet.

What rules?

I think it's just dependent on what car you are on, I went on it 3 times last weekend, and 1 of them were really good! The two times I noticed it being bad was on car number 7 and the good one was number 1 I think.

And they used to have to dispatch in 45secs? What they actually doing in the station for an extra 3 mins? The que has gone down to 20 mins btw

Haven't seen or heard about any downtime this year so far, but I'm sure it will go back to it's daily breakdowns as the season goes on

Good to hear that it's open! Is it running any faster/better than it was last year after getting new parts?

And at the bottom of the stairs at Saw haha

How exactly do you know this?

On top of it being mothers day, it's a Sunday and I find Sundays a lot quieter than Saturdays.

You can just about hear it at the top, and was that today that they weren't playing it? Think there must be something wrong with the audio as it is always normally on, and they weren't playing it Sunday afternoon.

People would use the Skyride to get to areas of the park, so I don't understand why they are opening that late.

I just saw a photo of this guy that someone posted on Thorpe Park's facebook page, saying he clearly loves his new job ect.. This guy was working on Vortex last Sunday, and I've got to agree with you about keeping everyone entertained and that, he was doing the same thing then!

Wowwww, what an improvement from what I saw on Sunday... (Photo from TPG) It actually looks really good!

When the the ride is actually working, I've never actually seen this ride break down during operation, where as I've seen nearly every other ride on the park break down, so I wouldn't be too scared.

That's awesome! Was it running any faster than it used to? An engineer told me that it had a new pump.

Wouldn't get your hopes up, it was testing on Sunday and wasn't right. Apparently there was no sign of testing today.

Yeah they tend to throughout the day, but most people go to the Swarm first and no one tends to go to Saw and Colossus first so you get straight on both of them in the morning.

Yeah we were discussing this in chat yesterday. The thing is how are people meant to buy things from a shop or buy a photo if they have already handed there bad in at the beginning.

I don't really find it intense, but I think it is the most intense ride on the park. It's the only ride on the park that gives me a really weird feeling in my tummy. When I am sitting up there it also feels a lot higher than it actually is, and you don't necessarily know when you are going to drop, because most staff drop it at different times and sometimes when they are not playing the theme music. Detonator is my (Joint) Favorite flat ride on the park and I love the theme music. I think I'll miss the theme music when they re theme it.

I thought this was an Annual Pass day......

I don't know why, but I love it how they call you adventures at Chessington.

Doubt it will be that busy as it is a weekday, although it is the start of the season so I don't really know. If you get there for opening, go to Colossus then Saw and you should get on both of them straight away. Enjoy:)

Yeah I know, but what I'm saying is why would they go out of there way installing them on the ride if they didn't come with it. If they aren't going to use them, what was the point putting them there.