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Glad you got the quiet day you'd hoped for! I agree with your comments about Rush - I love an S&S Screamin Swing but I don't even bother going on Rush anymore. I hope one day it can get replaced with a new version.

I was one of the people who saw how quiet it was, booked a half day at work and spent the afternoon there 🤣 Was one of the best afternoons I’ve had there. Honestly felt like a buyout day it was that quiet. Great atmosphere on Stealth with a big group of us lapping it, the operator encouraging us to fill up the empty seats.

Launch pad looks near complete and a new screen has been installed. I imagine this area will be open before 10am and they'll do some kind of countdown for park opening in the morning? I'm certainly not complaining, but not sure how viable these last minute openings are, as the park was deserted today. First time I've seen Hyperia walk on and able to re-ride on empty seats throughout the day. Spent my afternoon lapping Hyperia and Stealth. Great atmosphere, particularly on Stealth as it was full of enthusiasts re-riding. Someone I spoke to had done over 80 laps 🤣

It’s rare I say much positive about Towers but they’ve just announced Twilight Towers from 22nd - 31st May with extended hours until 8pm, which covers the whole half term. Good to see and I hope it’s successful.

App says it’ll be reopening this Friday 1st May, which is in line with how long it takes them to do a cable change. They regularly do them a little faster than scheduled so wouldn’t surprise me to see it open Thursday afternoon.

Stealth is back open today!

Seems they've gone back to not sending empty trains again. On the last train yesterday we spent what felt like forever on the break run whilst they filled the 3 front rows with water dummies.

No one batching on Inferno today so just queueing as normal inside the station.

Not sure when this was updated, but they’ve scrapped the two closed Wednesdays in May and will now be open 10–5, which is good to see. They’ll still be closed next Wednesday 29th, but after that they’ll be open every day until September.

Operator was clearly just feeling generous, unless they run 5 laps as standard now. But they do usually adjust laps based on queue time.

The only time I've seen that was during Covid times, which I imagine was to prevent too many people being 'indoors' at once. I've seen a few people mention this recently so don't think it was a one off either. Very strange. I'm going tomorrow afternoon so will check out what they're doing.

The operator can control the amount of laps, so it usually runs between 2-5 laps. 3 laps is pretty standard, 2 when its very busy and then 5 when its quiet. I've personally not seen more than 5. Odd they were doing 5 laps if it was busy though 🤣

Colossus getting a higher throughput than Hyperia I do hope they consider throughput for their next big coaster. No matter how hard the staff work you can't really achieve a high throughput on it and when its the most popular ride on park, with a huge RAP and Fasttrack allocation it struggles on the busy days.

Tidal wave is open today for the first time this season!

Yes, I saw that he has now announced his new role as 'VP of Hotel Operations & Global Performance' Does anyone know who has stepped into the VP role at Thorpe, or are they currently recruiting for it?