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Each to their own!

Go on then, have a look at this one for an intriguing video

Brilliant ride - The Beast was great but virtually the same in the dark was a different dimension. The walkway into it was themed and had one of those illusion-turning tunnels. Up the lift hill to be warned by the illuminated Alien to "Hold tight!" then away into the darkness belting round the two astronauts connected by a single strobe-like flashing rope . Loved it.

It was a great evening at, for me, an unusual venue, I.e. Standing! Fantastic to find that they are just as good live as online, and so into audience involvement. Things have moved on and most singing these days is accompanied by whooping, whistling and cheering, and a face full of phone cameras. This was performed live beautifully, and the whole hall was silent

Definitely running two trains on Friday.

As to lap bars, the straps were just a "nod to Health and Safety" and in reality, this should retain younger persons more securely.

Still think the area is a bonus - less people going through to Stealth, unless I get drawn to the dodgems.

Right, for my twopennyworth - How will they get to Thorpe Park? either by train or car, maybe coach. Rail travel is safer than road travel - more people are killed daily on Britain's motorways than are killed worldwide in a year on theme park rides. Each ride is only as high as your bottom, and you are harnessed into a seat that's bolted to a vehicle that is retained on rails by at least three lines of wheels that surround the rail. Not a boast, but fact, I have ridden Stealth thousands of times, and never had a roll-back, don't want one because of the delay it would cause, but as stated by others, it is designed to accept a roll-back, evidenced by the brake plates on the launch run. An engineer I was talking to recently has never seen a roll-back. Each ride should be ridden at least once so one is then entitled to either moan or praise it - the rider should try to feel the ride and it's physical effects. My last comment is that anybody with any doubts should look at the faces of those coming off the ride, invariably grinning like "Cheshire Cats". If that lot doesn't persuade them, then they should take a good book, and hold everybody else's bags; but truthfully, we are all different, and if someone doesn't want to ride, they should not.

and no Hard-Hats!

Not so much the parts being obtained and fitted but other procedural matters.

Nice shiny green and red, let's hope they keep them clean, unlike those at Chessington.

~As the weather forecast was so good, I put the replacement of shed roof felt on the waiting list and attended Thorpe Park.... The team on Stealth were mostly new, so the loading was slow and the queue kept around the 25 minute mark most of the day. Colossus I consider is running nice and smoothly and had virtual walk-on queuing . Saw, well, it had a "ten" minute queue shown on the board, the announcer said "thirty"; I got to the loading in ten minutes, then it broke down for ..... twenty minutes, so the announcer was right. Nemesis Inferno was running well, queued for no longer than ten minutes. Rush, still swing A (nearest the control hut) has the over ninety degree swing, but the whole cycle just seems short. Vortex was really swinging well. Angry Bird-Land is coming on and with twenty-five gleaming red and green dodgems just waiting for hoards of people to try and smash them to bits. A nice day, with a good overall ride count. I.e. Stealth 29 Saw 3 Colossus 5 Rush 1 Vortex 1 Nemesis Inferno 2 Total rides 41 - a very good day.

Rode it today, swing A, and though I was getting good airtime it seemed a terrifically short cycle - the op. assures me it was that standard cycle.

It seemed to give a really good ride today, loads of "floaty airtime".

Keep watching, told by an "angry bird" today that it should be back in operation very soon.

Just had a great evening in Oxford in the company of Pentatonix, great entertainment, and great talents...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzB2lf2gQyY

If you've not come across Pentatonix, they are a fabulous American group who sing almost entirely A Capella, or Accappella, depending which dictionary one uses. Absolutely outstanding......http://pentatonix.org/ and I'll be catching up with them in Oxford on Thursday - which will be entirely different from having seen Rick Wakeman last week giving a live performance of "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" at the Royal Albert Hall.

Must be, I've been on it.

Interesting article. It's an okay ride for me, but it just drops. Drop towers appear popular wherever they are. The new name seems a little odd, as it's supposed to have Angry Bird connotations, and this takes it into a more confrontational term - unless it relates to something to do with that theme?

Hmm, pre-SWARM, and he still gets down in a quicker time than the duration of the ride.

EVerybody's different and the obnoxious ones prove how good and pleasant you are, you have a comparison in those plonkers.

You do take them on Tidal Wave, and the updraught from the water displacement will take any waterproof covers - away for ever. Rumba Rapids I recall they get left on the platform. If you are concerned over small valuables, wear a bum-bag under clothing and put said items in a freezer bag or similar, and then in the bum-bag.

"Drunken Barrels working properly, tilting on an angle.... " That's a nutty ride and with a tilt, even more so, which I have not had the chance to experience.

Likewise; you certainly had a longer weekend and more events, nice one. The Big One has still got the "cans" through which the ride runs prior to the launch hill, and they don't look like they've been cleaned since it opened.

For me, the Aerial Flying Machine is such an important piece; when it was built in 1904 by Hiram Maxim, only one year after the first successful controlled flight by the Wright Brothers, it was to earn money to finance his interest in aeronautical research. To the Edwardians it was the fastest thing they could do safely, and the unsafe thing would be to jump off the Blackpool Tower. The motors for this ride are still the original electric motors, and the workings are a sight to behold.