Matt A
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1 hour ago, JoshC. said:
I believe that during winter maintenance a major fault was found with the ride which couldn't be repaired.Â
My assumption would be that the support beams holding the ride in place had cracks in which weren't repairable. When I worked at Chessington in 2018 it was a problem, hence the repaint to be grey (makes the cracks easier to see), but the ride didn't need to be closed yet.
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2 hours ago, JoshC. said:
Aroma Prime, I'm fairly sure, are just a rebrand of Dale Air. Thorpe have used their scents before, particularly for horror mazes (Saw Alive and Cabin in the Woods spring to mind, no doubt others too..although I think a different company was used for Big Top?
Looks like Containment, Creek Freak, Platform 15, and Screamplexx Cinema at least from what is listed on their website (I imagine others existed too but have since been removed)
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A few photos of the refurbished flume pieces from the company doing the overhaul in case anyone is interested (doesn't show much):Â https://www.garmendale.co.uk/blog/log-flume-refurbishment/
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On 1/16/2020 at 10:50 AM, Benin said:
we get a dark ride that wasn't even planned for Towers
Could you explain this for the uninitiated? Never knew it was planned for use elsewhere.
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2 hours ago, Wicker Matt said:
Thorpe just doesnât get the crowds or clientele like places such as Kew Gardens.Â
Âno one knows what Thorpe want, even Thorpe donât know what they want tbh.
It doesn't help that's it's not near any train stations, so getting there isn't easy if you don't have a car, or if you want to drink at an event (which I'd imagine most would).
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1 hour ago, JoshC. said:
I imagine very few trained lifeguards will really want to work for minimal pay to watch over an outdoor swimming during summer..
Do they generally pay any better at swimming pools/other locations? At least Merlin give you the free tickets and some other perks.
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Didn't even realise there were staff on Amity Beach before, just assumed it was unsupervised.
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3 minutes ago, JoshC. said:
In that sense, they're 'signed in and out'. But it's more in the sense that they're a paper trail that shows where any copies would have been at any given time, rather than a central document.
Just to add clarification to that, the signing is only to prove that the staff member has done the necessary training to work on the ride, rather than keep track of where the documents are. If there's not enough copies or they go missing, they just print more.
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So this probably doesn't mean much but I noticed recently on Google Earth that land next to Swarm is clearly being worked on, with all the vegetation being cleared recently.
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May 2018:
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June 2019: (the yellow lines indicate where a likely link would be with the current theme park)
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This could be for a future development or it could just be nothing, the land might just need maintaining.
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1 hour ago, daboywunda said:
Any-one willing to leak you the official ride document would be in serious breach surmounting to Gross Misconduct; I'd be surprised if any-one will reach out to you with it or if they even have it on their person as in some cases / rides / parks / sessions they are signed out and in again within a classroom setting..
He was joking.
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Also the health and safety manual contains no secretive information, simply how to operate the ride. They're not signed out/in, and they don't give you the magic ability to operate the ride, you still need the key.
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From my experience while working with the seat belts on Vampire, they are used to indicate if a larger guest can get the restraint on properly, if it won't clip in, they can't go on.
But the seatbelts remain a purely cosmetic thing, the ride will function fine without them. For someone's restraint to come undone the locking system would have to have completely eroded and broken inside, and the seatbelt probably wouldn't save you anyway.
The policy now is that you can send an empty train with no seatbelts done or all of them done, (although we pretty much always did them up since they swing around and damage the train if undone). All belts must be done up if guests are on the train.
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17 minutes ago, Martin Doyle said:
OI!! Iâm a Celeb, Walking Dead,DBGT and Angry Birds are (was in IACâs case) all top top top quality attractions that have the higher ups at Disney,Europa and Phantasia up all night with nightmares!!Â
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Merlin do love to spoil us!
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22 minutes ago, JoshC. said:
Go high enough up, and I'm sure there's people who think 'Thorpe has world class rides'.Â
Are you trying to tell me the I'm a Celeb maze wasn't a world class attraction bringing in people form all over Europe? đź
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45 minutes ago, JoshuaA said:
On a high speed roller coaster a loose object could be very serious, if that phone gets dropped it could seriously injure someone and it could completely damage the park's credibility and reputation. Some rules you can bend, but not enforcing this rule in particular could end in complete disaster.
I'm not saying it ok or right, I'm just saying that's why it happens
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2 hours ago, Ivsetti said:
On another note, it's interesting how the park so heavily advertise "filming is not allowed on any ride" yet they so blatantly don't enforce their own rules:
https://youtu.be/mj9WXLkO0WE?t=319
(relevant part starts at link's start time). The staff member clearly sees the visitor holding a phone and doesn't ask him to do anything and the ride starts with him still visibly clutching the phone (which if let go is a major H&S hazard especially given how badly it could injure someone).
The lack of care or enforcement is also true for their "no queue jumping policy". And then the park wonders why they're not on par with international parks when basic things such as, you know, their own rules they don't give a toss about.
The staff are paid minimum wage to do a job which is quite tiring. The reason they don't do anything about the phones is simply that they don't care, it's not worth their effort to deal with, especially with the reaction the customer will give, which just then delays the dispatch.
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In case anyone on the forum who hasn't been to a meet before is considering coming to this one and is a bit nervous, I was in exactly your position last year, the 2018 Christmas meet was my first ever TPM meet, and I don't regret it for a second. Within minutes I felt a part of the group and had a wonderful day! So much so I've been to plenty of meets since then! If you're considering coming, just go for it!
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Except for the Disneyland's and Universal parks, every non-enthusiast person I've spoken to have never heard of any or the parks outside of the UK.
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Thorpe is a decent park for most people and makes for a good day out, which is what they are looking for.
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If the railway was still used I'm sure it would have had a rebrand to something 'Merlin' by now... World's first Walking Dead Ghost Train on a train!
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An update from the Drayton Manor case: the death was ruled an accident
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4 hours ago, Marhelorpe said:
With credit to TowersTimes who found and shared this the other day, look at whatâs been found lurking in the corners of Vimeo...
Never thought this would get published, thanks for posting it! Wish it was still an option to use on the ride, thought they'd done a suburb job of it.
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There's a glitching effect at the end of the most recent video posted on Thorpe's Facebook page, followed by 'Initialising 2020'. Could it be a hint at the next thing to come? (probably not but who doesn't love a bit of speculation!?)
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Doesn't the trespass injunction make it a crime though? https://www.thorpepark.com/trespass-injunction
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17 hours ago, Kerfuffle said:
One rumour about next year never fails to make me cringe really.
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Enthusiasts who actually think Thorpe are getting an RMC next year:
But the staff told me it's happening next year! đ
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Thorpe's is also 10 mins between refills but I'm fairly sure the staff explain that when you purchase the cup. To really sue over something like that is crazy...
2020 Season
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What was it originally out of curiosity?