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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.

~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.

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

Well I did offer him pedals for it but he didn't get that.

Returned from a weekend at BPB ; if you've never been, you really must go, for a couple of days. Infusion though was bashing the ears more than in the past.
It is a different type of park to TP and run in a different way. It has enough thrill rides for most members to thoroughly enjoy their visit, and take time out to do some traditional rides.

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.

Returned from a weekend at BPB ; if you've never been, you really must go, for a couple of days. Infusion though was bashing the ears more than in the past.
It is a different type of park to TP and run in a different way. It has enough thrill rides for most members to thoroughly enjoy their visit, and take time out to do some traditional rides.

Well if it's raining and you don't mind then you might as well ride Tidal Wave, so long as you have a change of the essentials.

I'll agree with that, long cycle today, but less on Rush?

I'll agree with that, long cycle today, but less on Rush?

Toby NBZ - "Inferno 31" that's going some considering the distance of the walk round, nice one.

Toby NBZ - "Inferno 31" that's going some considering the distance of the walk round, nice one.

and No launch!

An interesting day, mainly due to the changes in staff and so many managers with their "helping hands" with little groups of new staff. Noted that Security are "dressed down" not sure if this was because it was pass holders only.
RIDECOUNT:
Nemesis Inferno x 3
Colossus x 2
Saw x 2
Rumba Rapids x1
.............................................................................Oh Yeah.............................Stealth x 23

A real up and down day all round then.

As others have mentioned, the area available governs the distance of the launch track, and therefore the achievable height off that launch, relatively speaking.

A real up and down day all round then.

As others have mentioned, the area available governs the distance of the launch track, and therefore the achievable height off that launch, relatively speaking.

The weather was great today; met up with some of the TPM members by chance.
As with everything, loads of new staff being shown the ropes; several of the rides experiencing teething problems.
A bit odd, that most of the aforementioned changes/improvements still either not existing or being worked on.
Many of the previous tatty bits still remaining.
I had forgotten that I don't normally go on a Saturday so I was surprised by the amount of youngsters there, doh!

The weather was great today; met up with some of the TPM members by chance.
As with everything, loads of new staff being shown the ropes; several of the rides experiencing teething problems.
A bit odd, that most of the aforementioned changes/improvements still either not existing or being worked on.
Many of the previous tatty bits still remaining.
I had forgotten that I don't normally go on a Saturday so I was surprised by the amount of youngsters there, doh!

As others have mentioned, the area available governs the distance of the launch track, and therefore the achievable height off that launch, relatively speaking.

I can just see Slammer still hiding in there - words like "fingertips" and "skin of teeth" come to mind.

I can just see Slammer still hiding in there - words like "fingertips" and "skin of teeth" come to mind.

Hi Han, odd thing for most people is I don't count, and it is dependent on the team on the ride; it is a lot and I have a figure I use for last year. (interesting figures when the vertical distance is multiplied) New team this season, so have to do some work. (nuts I know)

This is good news, more people in the shop - less people in the queue!