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I feel shamed to say I didn't know there was more than one crocodile, nor waterfalls. And I worked on Inferno! Shows how long they've been broken and covered up for

It is meant to be a thrill ride though and if it swings low you don't really get a thrill at all? :L

Thorpe thought it would be open for opening day, and it has been testing well quite recently so I don't think it will be long until it opens now. It's not sad, when it opens I'm going to be straight down there as well

Love the video!
I've always wanted to do something like that - love editing and playing around with videos, I made quite a few of my own of different rides at Thorpe back in 06/07 which are on my YouTube channel
There's also one from the awesome 2009 Fright Nights meet!
Then I got older and more involved with the social side of the meets, a little less geeky, and didn't think about making any more videos
But this has made me want to start making videos again It'll all be a good laugh though, I won't be interviewing anyone Shall leave that to the experts!

Didn't get the chance to meet up properly with everyone today, (wish I could but my family were with me all day) as I kept on bumping into everyone a few times, but still had a great time meeting you all during the event!
(In case anyone is wondering who the strange person furthest on the left is, that's me).

Well.. If its okay... (Don't want any infringements or arguements or anything, we all got on alright today...) Heres the group pic. I edited myself into it because I am socially unable to make good conversations at the start of meets.. So most of these guys didn't even know who I was until after it all xD.
Heres the pic:

lovely, right? Great day out guys, gonna try and upload the Q&A vid tonight. I'll be sure to come to another meet soon.

you beat my 39 on annual pass day!

It's not a world first, so why should Thorpe (or Merlin) look into that concept at all?!

Stand up magic carpet anyone? http://feriadatabase.es.tl/Alcatraz.htm

Everything is here:
http://archive.imbenjam.in/musicofmerlin/media/
Note that the site is just pretty Apache directory listings, so no actual web site interface I'm afraid. Also, to save some time, you may notice that the structure is "park > area > ride/attraction", and every ride has a folder, but not every ride has files for it. You'll see for yourself xD
As I haven't worked on Music of Merlin in a few years, the files will definitely not be completely up to date in terms of the latest season, etc.
Oh, and if you end up taking any (feel free to do so), credit on your site would be lovely ;-)

Went on stealth today and it was running fine had short queues right up until I left at 3. Here's a picture my friend took while I was in the queue

I used to help run a little site called Music of Merlin (if anyone remembers it), but we shut it down due to running out of money and spare time. I still have the 200 (roughly) audio files from Alton, CWoA and Thorpe around somewhere, would you be interested if I uploaded them somewhere?

I'm recording everything... EVERYTHING.

This new concept art is seriously nice!

Howdy, I've just uploaded my Scorpion Express video have a look I like the ride and actually think I prefer it to the old theme. Don't like the queue inside the building isn't very entertaining just some holes to stick your hands in and get blasted by air part from that its a very long boring wait. Theres fire and smoke effects and some water that only gets the left row wet, The effects work well and adds to the young thrills experience just hope they last and not get switched of after a week of operation. Not sure on the 2D buildings would be better if they had a roof at the moment it look like a movie set. Impressed with what they have done with the ride and will enjoy riding it again.

Rode this twice yesterday - both very intense and good cycles

Good news slammer was testing around 4pm by engineer team

Everything in that advert is false advertising! They used shots of the vampire pre the restaurant makeover, so that area looks completely different in reality. Showing images of Dragon Falls pre strip down is totally sneaky and of course the digital effects added to the Scorpion Express just add to the farce. If it were just the effects to upsell the 'new' ride I'd have no issue but the fact that none of the rides shown look like that anymore just winds me up.

I don't see why some staff don't turn the effects on! If they are working, why don't they have them on? Thats what they are for.

It was playing on Saturday though it was significantly quieter than last year, and was continually being interrupted by the standard Merlin procedure of 'make inaudible live announcements with the microphone in your mouth instead of the perfectly good pre-recorded ones'

I think it's quite cool... I'm just seriously gutted at how much they're targeting towards families now - I'm just fearful for any future investments in terms of thrilling/scary rollercoasters and flat rides, or being the lack of more to the point :/

The water jets weren't working today, so I asked the operator if they were broken and he said they aren't using them due to the cold weather. In past years they had them on regardless of the weather/time of year as it's part of the ride experience. In my opinion the water really makes the ride so much more fun and interesting.

Of course they are compared to Chessington, I think almost any park is.
I never said awfully run, but they aren't well run consistently IMO. I've never seen a park have so many breakdowns on a regular basis, or the way they deal with them sometimes.
Secondly, for a place that call themselves a "theme park," I can't believe that they still have that scaffolding under Rita!
Thirdly, two words; The Smiler.

So what are you saying MarkC, that AdamP is lying and it never actually tested.
Come on now, you can be queuing/riding Tomb Blaster and Skyway trains can do two circuits in that time.

It is now OPEN and I got a nice setting today was chucking me about