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Odd thing is that they are intending not to touch it this year, after the close. So perhaps it has a future life. Luckily for me I attended this park a few weeks back and found it brilliant and excellent staff. Bizarro is great. Sad for Cyclone, though a little rough, great airtime if one anticipates the twist. Cat Woman's Whip - just for the visit to see the "themeing", hmm, nice.

It is difficult on some rights to arrange for single rider access. The staff are under some pressure to fill rides so it is a helpful filler for the empty odd seats. They did get larger groups who were together, forming up in that queue, supposedly prepared to split to occupy single seats, and then they would be the stroppy ones who did not want to separate from their mates, for thirty seconds. Not having SRQ reduces some aggravation for the operators but doesn't help them when managers moan that they have empty seats.

Stealth yesterday was performing great; new team members cottoned on to my needs very quickly and very helpful. Weather was great, staff really do need optional hats. Turned out this is a "schools week", do they never go to school now? Cultural origins can certainly cause problems for staff chaining us in.

Spellbinding stuff!

With all the good music of that era it's a pity they don't vary it. When visiting several times on one day, though it's good, you do get the same plays. I'm sure there is some budding DJ in the park/resort/island/pit that could put something together.

Rode Leviathon on Sunday at Toronto's Wonderland (four times on my own), without belts at the moment. Later in the day throughput was in excess of 1400 per hour, great ride ops. and a fantastic ride with loads of airtime. Managed to keep the restraint fairly loose which would still need my legs to be broken in three places to get me out of the seat (no offers please).

This is very encouraging because the crew then develop a greater relationship with the riders, and the whole atmosphere improves.

Perhaps just a big bird's nest on top?

Everybody's entitled to an opinion, even if that's the only opinion in that vein. At least there is somewhere else for when it rains.

Gosh, there's going to be some damp birdies today!

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.