Great I now have to travel to heide park. Oh well should be a fun trip.
I feel music is over looked too much, good music can turn a good ride into a great one. Something I actually think Thorpe does well compared to most parks.
New trains to Colossus may even convince me to return while RnR is active. I have to say that music is lovely, I sort of hope it does become the new theme as that would change the entire mood of the area. Take a way from the menacing current vibe and make it more of a lost city feel with mystery.
You probably would have been able to experience all of them with out RnR. It doesn't create time it just lets you wait in a different order. The only way it would allow you to ride more is if people at the beginning of the day were unaware of the RnR system. This would be the only time it would allow you to ride more. So come the full introduction of this those extra rides you got wont exist.
Sounds like the same problems as the early swarm trials. Also judging by social media response it was all the same problems as the previous days but smaller. With fastrack only having to wait 45 minues today rather than the 1 hour 30 minutes of saturday.
Doesnt help with thorpe park supporting groups all reserving different rides and getting on all of them 1 after each other. Read through the comments on facebook and you will see that they support the idea of people doing that. Disgusting in my opinion. Also it seems to be fastrack allocation over fright nights is set at 50:50 from the wording thorpe park were saying today. Not sure if that was a mistake or the real allocation but something to think about none the less.
Mantis was good but it will be far better as a sit down so not sad to see it go. Also Thorpe park seems to be doing a sort of tweetup thing today like cedar point does. Its one tiny step towards improving.
Yes, but I was asking a valid question. They have been refusing to answer what happens if you don't have a smart phone for weeks. Also I'm not moaning at them any more, due to the lack of activity on here today I decided that I would just discuss it with the general public. There were a lot of complaints from yesterday.
It seems to be working better today, still the same problems as yesterday just on a smaller scale. They have also taken the very wise move in ignoring me on twitter.
Can I say I told you so yet. It will work like that when the real thing comes along, there is no solution to the problems they have. I feel sorry for anyone who was robbed to go into the park today.
Looking at twitter there were a lot of complaints. I have never seen anything get so many. I was going to count them but as I went past 50 I lost count. A lot of people spending £25 of directors cut to be met with 1 hour 30 minute queues demanding their money back. Someone who waited 3 hours virtually to be met with 2 hour queue. People who arrived at 5 for the mazes ot find they had to wait 3 hours and couldn't use RnR. Interesting one I came across was someone who waited 35 minutes for guest services to complain. Thorpe Park did a lot of apologising over twitter this evening.
I don't think RnR went down to well today as they seem to have said this a lot this evening "We are currently working hard to minimize all waiting times. Please feel free to visit Guest Services for further assistance."
They couldn't close the standby queues as anyone without a smart phone today was absolutely... Did they really have no option for people without smart phones, I know they removed the card system yesterday but did they really not have a replacement. Anyone in a 4 hour queue for a maze must be absolutely furious by the end of it.
People waited 4 hours for a maze in a physical queue??? They waited longer for an average maze than people waited for Gatekeeper, millennium force, maverick, Nitro, TTD, kingda ka opening day?
He was aware that the smiler wasn't having a washing machine element hence why the aerial photos where censored. He has good links with merlin and often knows more than the average enthusiast on future things. He isn't always told the correct stuff all of the time but he generally has a good idea on what will be happening. I do agree though that it is repeating information we already know.