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They need a nice flat ride with a good throughput. I'm sure mondail or huss can sell them something.
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They have missed an opportunity, if you are having a ride you want guests to hear about it. If they had signs up during the summer saying something new was coming I'm sure more of them would return the following year. A late advertising campaign is never good. Also I know cultures are different but Cedar fair and six flags have already announced next years new rides to get people excited meanwhile Thorpe haven't said anything. Saying nothing isnt going to get anyone excited.
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I'm sure stormsurge is the source of nearly all complaints about long queues so I don't think that will help. All of that measuring the other day and tagging trees was for fright nights, so where or what the 2015 investment assuming it exists is completely unknown. If Thorpe wanted to start building the hype, they have missed the opportunity.
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Maybe low numbers is a sign they need to get the thrillseekers back. They either need to convince back the market they had developed for years and the park is geared up to, or invest a lot of money in the family section. So re-theme the rumba rapids, do up the loggers leap area and add 2 or 3 family flats as at the moment there isn't enough to advertise and convince family's to go. However what I fear they have done is the way they are going to get back thrillseekers is advertise the park as the worlds first queueless park and entice family's with a rumba rapids re-theme and if we are lucky a new flat.
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They have had a 2 low investment years in a row with nothing new for thrillseekers. They are approaching the point where they are going to have to do something. I think we will see a new flat next season opening the same sort of time as angry birds land did. I reckon it will be aimed at the sort of audience zodiac is aimed at. So good thrills but also family. Along with that they are planning a lot more side attractions like the music performances. So I wouldn't be surprised if a permanent stage was put up, like the one on the MTDP outside stealth.
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School holidays and weekends passholders are allowed in at 9:15, off peak which I belive tomorrow will be classified as will be 9:45 for passholders.
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I wouldnt mind being put in the mecahnics shoes, I am going to do a degree in enginerring so I think I would do better than some. Also iv been over 15 times this year and all of those trips saw them on 1 train. Most other parks can manage full trains on all rides every day of the season I dont see why thorpe cant.
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It will be a indoor doctor who aqua trax which becomes a RMC half way round to finish by breaking the 200mph barrier. The pre show will be a top spin as well.
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I know they got to nemesis late yesterday because of the fault with saw. I guess Swarm must have had the same problem.
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As a warning to anyone as I have experienced this one before between 15-19 and the 22-26th of september it will be very busy. Do not think it will be off peak as schools can get in for a very low price and there is a load of workshops for schools. Last year when I went and the same thing was on I managed 5 rides in the whole day as everything was 2 hours or above.
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The company pay for the tickets for entrance and Thorpe park throw in a fastrack with each ticket. They advertise it as free but I guess you could see it as paid for.
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Often Thorpe give out free fastracks to groups. As they were a very large group they gave out a very large number of fastracks. I guess you could see that as paid for but the fastracks were free to the DHL guests.
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They all had a pack with them which they were collecting at the entrance and in that pack they had a card which had something like Merlin magic written on it which they were handing to ride hosts as a fastrack. To me it seemed as if DHL paid for the whole thing for all of them hence all the extras they were given.
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If you go to nemesis before 10 oclock I'm willing to say that 9/10 times it will be on one train. It may be something to do with busy period engineering schedules and may not happen on weekdays/off peak but every trip I have been on this year nemesis has been on 1 train.
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So swarm was open first thing. The ride host lied to me. Although are you sure it was on 2 trains then as normally swarm will start on 1 train until about 10:00-10:30.
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It was certainty better than my previous trip I must say but it certainty wasn't faultless. I believe that swarm was on one train due to a problem with it hence its very late addition. The fact there were so many people in the park at closing was odd and maybe they should have extended opening. The number of fastrack was amazing, there was just a never ending supply of them.
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I was the very last car on the first row. So I would say I was at the back of the queue. The only place it could have been longer is if you were parked on the grass.
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Eww double post.
Swarm managed to get a 90 minute queue yesterday because it was on 1 train until 12:15.
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It was very odd yesterday at closing. Unlike normal when people start leaving early a lot of people were still in the park at closing. Colossus and saw finished the day with a 30 and 90 minute queue. Nemesis I think also had a 30 minute queue. I have never seen so many people in the car park at the time we left and it was causing a very large queue. However it only took about 20 minutes to leave so claiming an hour is exaggerating.
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Saw did reopen in the late afternoon however it went straight to a 90 minute queue until closing.
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Best amusement park is the award not best theme park. Also I wouldn't say that the rides are overrated.
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It is a bit odd that Europa won. Looking at Europa and what it has to offer I don't quite see how it can compete with cedar point, but that is the golden ticket awards I guess.
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According to huss their top spins can do 1000pph along with the giant Frisbee so high throughputs do exist. Power tower can apparently do 1700pph so to say flat rides don't have high throughputs is entirely correct.