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I'm not entirely sure but seeing as it was closed for the most of 2012 on selected dates only it looks like we will only being seeing it for fright nights! If you haven't been before its defintaley worth the trip. Hope this helps.

Well I visited today and I have to say, we ended up buying the photo at the start because it was so good I also loved the boat ride and the drop tower certainly shocked me on how fast it was! However, I was disappointed was vengeance, it didn't really impress anyone in there and the guy was having to tell us to shoot them, but when we did shoot, nothing exactly happened. It didn't really have a story line either, to be honest I didn't understand it! I was also shocked how they put a 1.2 m height restriction on! Other than that I had a great but scary time, it wasn't to bad overall but there were some scary moments!

It would be a cool idea but I hate the feeling of I'm about to fall out. I went on a maimi called 'big wave' and it had lap bars which didn't go down very far at all and the whole time I thought I was gonna fall out, I wanted it to stop but it kept going on and on and I was clinging on for dear life. It depends how far down they go really, rush's lap bars are fine because they can secure you in tightly and you don't feel like you are gonna fall out. To be honest, when I ride slammer for the first time next season(it's always been broken ) I will probably hate it because I have been told you feel like you will fall out, however maybe on vortex is could be different! The spinning definately does need to be improved, I will not ride vortex more than once in a long period of time if it doesn't get spinning faster. It just gets boring, I mean the swing speed is fast but in order to make it a good afterburner it needs to have good spin. The question is, are thorpe park not running vortex to it's full potential just like samurai?

Yea that's totally true, even if they didn't put the lights on though they should at least up the spinning and put on ride cameras. When I went to thorpe they got rid of most of the ride themes and played chart music- yes it was entertaining in the queue but it ruined the atmosphere and theme so why not add lights if they are taking the funfair approach?

Guys I think vortex could be a great ride(it could be it isn't at the moment ) here's my suggestions of what they need to do: Ok so firstly the swinging part of vortex is good but I would go on rush for the swinging because it is better, the thing which makes an afterburner good is that it spins while you are swinging, but frankly vortex's spinning is rubbish. You don't get a variation of heights you either end up at the top or bottom- simple as that. What they need to do Is make the spinning faster so people get dizzy and so people get a variation of heights, that would make it a great ride! Next, I would love vortex to have some cool lights just like showtime has. With lights all over it would be a great night ride just like samurai is. The lights would make it so cool as from my experience with showtime! Finally, I think vortex should install onride photos, a camera could be placed hanging down on each of the 8 arms(connecting the seats to the centre) when vortex was at its highest point in cycle, it would take a photo capturing people's reactions. I think this would be a great improvement on vortex! What do you think?

Also, I went in the pirates adventure on my second visit, if anyone wants to know what is inside it just send me a message! I will be posting another review very shortly...

Well you have to pay for that and I could just find the anwser on the forum... I will probably end up phoning them anyway!

How do you exchange/buy a merlin annual pass voucher there though? Also my friend has booked a timeslot, will I still be able to go in with him?

Where is air at in that video? Is it Oxford st giles fair? I am wondering because I want to know a good funfair near Richmond which contains air thanks guys, I really like this ride and I am just wondering does the Ealing common funfair have it? Please tell me some good funfairs which have it, nothing like hull fair or Nottingham goose because quite frankly I live no where near there! Also can they be quite close to this period in time because I don't want to have to wait ages to ride it! And yes, I know winter wonderland because I previously visited and first went on air thanks guys! Also, you said they add an extra £1 when both sides are filled! How do they control who goes on when both sides are filled?

Don't want my question to be left behind Someone please answer it! About veagence, is it good? I will have a ride when I visit on Saturday but also where is it going to go? I know people say the will not happen, but I really do think it is going to thorpe!

Just double checking, I have a merlin pass voucher, how do I redeem it at the dungeons, where do I go? Then also, how do I book a time with my merlin pass, do I just go in the priority queue and enter or do I have to do some special booking! I am visting on Saturday, and I am very excited but it is my first time visiting, how scary is it? Thanks very much guys, it's very appreciated! Also guys, is veagence returning to the new dungeons? I am wondering where it will go if its not!

I would have paid alot for a wristband, the money does add up quickly and I would be happy to stay there for the whole day! The Alpen hotel is great but I found the irrengarten mirror maze much better because it seemed to be much more detailed than the Alpen hotel, it contained 12 of the crazy mirrors whereas the Alpen hotel only contained three! The actual mirror maze part was very unique and was really hard to find the way out! It was great and it also featured funhouse features aswell! I just hope it returns next year. Showtime is a very unique experience and I found it very scary indeed, it spins much faster than vortex and when you are at the top it is utterly scary! Great experience Although there are high prices, if you go there in the morning, you can get long ride times and it is really worth the money! I would really love vortex to have some great lights, it would be absolutely amazing in the dark also if they upped the speed of the spinning, I would be more keen to go on it! One more thing, air is £6 at winter wonderland, I love it and it felt really forceful when I rode it for the 2nd time! Also blizzard is £7 and although it is an amazing ride, I feel the price is too high! Just wondering, if you went to a normal funfair what is the price you would pay for these?

Well that would be fun, with the realistic-ness of no limits and rct3 mixed together so you can manage a park! I love rct3 and I don't play no limits due to the fact that you make a coaster and don't particularly do anything with it! No one rides it except yourself and that just made me feel that it was a bit boring. That's why I play rct3 Also one thing, can you build flat rides in this new game because it made it all part of the fun!

Looks like the cobra roll thingy has been built I don't think I will be heading down to the resort more than once next year, the queues for sw7 will be overflowing out of the rails and everything else will have really short queues! As much as I would like to ride sw7 next year, I will leave it to future years when all the commotion is down!

Well going back to blue fire, I would love to see stealth extended, but saying that, the park don't have any major coasters without inversions and they need that so it isn't really an option: What I would like to see: A nice ride like shambhala or expedition g force with lots of airtime and hills. Also I would love stealth extended in the same year so it would become a better blue fire!

Going back to x, if the queue line was actually a maze after waiting to go outside to go in, it would make it seem like there was truly no way out!

I was talking about the one at heide park! But I think the one at thorpe is good too Shame we won't be seeing a new coaster until 2016, however I think this means thorpe will install more flat rides(up to the 9 proposed) over the years!

You can't be putting down Colossus...Colossus is an amazing experience although I have to admit it is not one of the best I've been on! If thorpe park got a starflyer type ride it would be nice and also maybe if they had samurai replaced with a zierer starshape it would be good aswell! If detonator was also double the height and still the same intensity, it would be one of the best dop towers ever! Detonator is a really intense drop tower but I prefer power tower because of the height! To be honest as long as thorpe brings something good which I can ride, I'm not particularly bothered if its a woodie or a flyer!

If it was to be a woodie it would have to be an inverting one or one with a major woodie! Beating outlaw run this year it would probably have to be the steepest and the woodie with the most inversions to get much interest in it. My idea was to have the worlds first wing-diver. It is a dive coaster mixed with a wing-rider, the trains would be 3 rows of 4(2 on each side of the track) it would stop like oblivion does and would become the worlds steepest wing-coaster aswell! The ride itself would have up to 8 inversions and would be up to 200ft tall! As much as I would like this at thorpe, it will have to go somewhere else because thorpe have the swarm! A b&m flyer would be awesome but it would definately have to be something special...

To be honest as many people would like to see those things done, most of them are unlikely to happen. Firstly, saw alive is not going to be reopened due to high costs to run it, I would like to see something like a saw themed flat ride instead! As for the new ride, I think thorpe will be following their MTDP and will build a new ride. The only obvious possibility for this is vengeance from the London dungeon, but the problem is it has to low capacity and through-put! If veagence is not included in the London dungeon next year, what are merlin going to do with it?

Wait so how many people is it per pass? I would like to bring my friend along but maybe for £10 or cheaper than a price of a ticket!

Hey guys, today I visited winter wonderland in hyde park and had an awesome time; here is my review of what to ride and what not to ride. So, I started by looking round the angels market, breathing in all the delicious smells and I have to admit the food looked delicious, however the prices were high, extremely high! We headed over towards the alpine adventures zone to start with and noticed the wild mouse XXL going with empty carriages, infact the whole park was absolutely empty! We payed £6 each to ride the mouse and joined the queue(well there wasn't a queue but whatever!) the funhouse features in the queue were awesome however it was rather disappointing that they didn't bother to turn all of them on. The mouse was fun but not one of the best rides I had been on, however me and my friends extremely enjoyed it! After that we headed to the Alpen hotel, we only paid £4 each for this funhouse and we spent 17 minutes in it! The funhouse features were great and my favourite part was where there were spinning discs and water was fired at you out of this guys nose! This attraction was great and worth the money! We had booked tickets for the ice kingdom and went straight in and although the statues were amazing I was desperate to get out after 20 mins because it was so cold. We then got hot chocolate to warm up in the carousel bar and headed over to the snow jet! The snow jet was an awesome ride only costing £4 each and it flicked you up the sides! It was awesome! After that we went on air and even though it was empty he gave us a really short circuit, however the ride was awesome and I paid £6 and my friend only had to pay £4(child 12 or under!) I then took on the beastly power tower which was so scary(I paid £6 for it and it was well worth it!) I got five drops and I flew out of my seat screaming(yes I was screaming) on every drop! A classic, amazing ride! My friends didn't particularly like the look of blizzard(£7 was really expensive) so they rode deep impact for £3 whilst I had a really long, exciting ride on the blizzard booster! Although I paid £7 I loved the ride flipping upside down and rocking, and it was my best ride of the day! Ride/attraction count: Wild maus XXL- £6 Alpen hotel-£4 Magical ice kingdom- £8 Snow jet-£4 Air-£6(although £4 for a child) Power tower-£6 Blizzard-£7 Deep impact-£3(yes I didn't ride this!) Scariest ride- power tower Best ride- blizzard booster Most fun attraction- Alpen hotel Although this was an expensive trip it was well worth the money and it was so fun!

Mate, thorpe park prices go up every year, this resulted in me getting an annual pass due to the horrible pricing(£45) per visit! It is going to go up even more next year and no doubt the crash pad will do this aswell! I don't know how they think they can get away with this although I love thorpe park and the rides.

Wait if you are a child can you get on the big rides, I have a friend who likes big rides like AIR but if he cant get on then there is no point going! Thanks guys, I'm visiting thursday!

Urge, storm surge is one of the worst water rides ever! It is worse than rumba rapids and everything, I mean the spinning pannels don't even work anymore so you don't spin, it's a disgrace!