Celia Mae

So, on park today... Nice themed hand stamps, shame about the delay... The signs saying main and fast track entrances have been taken down since this morning? Also, managed to have a sneaky peek through the window in the shop on Adam's shoulders and it just seems to be a ride exit passage, disappointing

I did raise the idea that the carriage was going to drop a while ago (1st of March, would quote the post but cant work out how to multi quote from different pages on this version of the forum) after all on the plans was a box with a cross, which sometimes can mean a form of lift, then the basic description from when they were first showing us the ride which said something along the lines of 'when guests enter the building they are confronted by a suspended train carriage held aloft by only a few chains', the way even now they keep using the word "suspended", and of course we can't forget all of the merch with the image of the train carriage hanging precariously from just a few chains as people fall out/try to escape, etc... plus the height restriction. I've definitely been pretty sure the train carriage is going to perform some kind of drop for a while now, though it could even be something small and slow that just gives you the sensation of falling when paired with the VR (like on Spiderman in Orlando where the movement pared with what's on the screens makes you feel like falling when in reality you've moved like a foot or something downwards I think it is). That theory would definitely fit if they are pistons under the carriage, pistons that size aren't going to be moving a "seven tonne" train carriage plus people at any kind of great speed.

I think one of the clauses in the digipass terms was that the head in a jar photos aren't included or discounted

Just hope it isn't like their last comeback... Slightly disappointing compared with the old stuff

Love that song so much. Old-school Gorillaz were the best

Speaking of merch, that just reminded me. This one really bugged me when I saw it on my trip to Towers in March... Anyone else spot the mistake? 'Adrenaline', they can supply. However 'Adrenalin' is a trademarked brand of adrenaline used for medical purposes...

I think you have to go back and get rid of the 's' from https

Hey nerds, I know I promised a part three of my disappearance blog AGES AGO but it's been a while so I'm just going to dump a load of Scarefest pictures and pictures from other stuff I've been up to since the end of last year here for anyone who's interested The welcome posters were fabulous... Spot the mistake? Compulsory trip Nemesis photos: Spooky! The Towers all lit up No lights on the Smiler Scarefest + scarecrows... Morning welcome dance from the Alton Ancestors Spotted! Duel had an actual queue! Shrek's Adventure... But I was more amazed by this! Went to the Olympic Park, which is soon to get a slide so I hear down the side of this monster... Soho Winter Wonderland The sky above Winter Wonderland (taken from the London Eye) I love all the lights at Winter Wonderland Thanks for putting up with my dodgy photography, will have a few more photo dumps for you soon!

I suspect I will be then after I see it on Friday

Sometimes you just have to be really insistent with them. My mum had salmonella food poisoning and went in for tests before they diagnosed it, was so ill she could hardly walk yet got told to go home and await her results in a week or so. She turned around to the person and practically yelled at him about how she felt like she was dying so no she wasn't going to "go home and await her results", and that she would sit and wait for as long as it took... They got her both the results and a person to talk to her about treatment within a few hours.

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Next Thorpe Park meet, 23rd of July for MoS, where we were HOPING to get on the ghost train. However next MERLIN meet is Alton Towers on the 25th-26th of June

It kind of irks me that people are using 'a ride vehicle is outside the building' as a reason it's been 'delayed for ages'. Pretty sure we don't know that's a ride vehicle. All we saw was what appeared to be half a tube train poking out of the building. Who knows, it could be a massive theming element for inside and outside that moves in and out as if to scare you that you're going to be run over. It's so huge I definitely cant imagine several of them moving about inside there. Also it has been fenced up now for at least two weeks so we can't see it, so now no one knows how it's moving or not. Maybe it is a ride vehicle, maybe that's the space where the spare will be parked as we see no other evidence of any form of maintenance shed. Basically, summed up, we don't know anything. Though if it's there and has just been fenced off so we can't see, my guess is it's meant to be there. I for one am putting my trust in Thorpe, we can't try and guess anything by looking at the outside of the building. After all, all we can really see is a queueline, and they're well known for being the last priority ride builders have during construction.

Can confirm if you click the blue dot on the main page or next to a sub forum it acts like 'mark forum as read' for that section like on the old desktop site, and if you press the blue dot/star (depending if you've posted in it before) next to a topic link it will take you to the oldest unread post in that topic

The baby panda is one of those half body suits with a fake arm underneath to look like yours and your real arm goes inside it to control it kind of like a hand puppet. The large pandas have people in, they interact with objects that move about etc, there is no way they can be remote controlled to do that much. Also there was an advert out for actors to go in some kind of panda suit a while ago on the Merlin job site, with a quite specific height/body size requirement if I remember correctly.

I always had that experience on the old desktop site too On another note noticed a thing with the new desktop site, not sure what I make of all the personal information about a person that gets shown under the avatars now. Firstly the way it's displayed makes it difficult to differentiate the facts from each other and looks quite messy. Secondly it is just quite a lot of information. As well as all the info we used to have like post count, title, what group they're in and their username (which imo was all you need to know about a person when just reading a post) we now see people's gender, where they live, interests, favourite ride AND favourite park, and depending on how much they have written on their own profiles it's a lot of text and makes the posts take up a lot of space. Also just not really sure how I feel about all that about me being put out there every single time I post. People want to know what I'm interested in, they can click on my profile.

The mobile site no longer skips to your oldest unread post when you enter a thread, it just takes you to the beginning if you click on the topic title or the end if you click on the last number like the desktop site

As said, Reserve 'n' Ride is a separate system to fast track, it was trialled a few times last year but haven't heard much about it this season. Went well if you knew about it but if you didn't and just queued normally it was horrific. Back to the apps, haven't heard about the Thorpe one for a while... However Chessington have a quite good app running at the moment that they seem to be pushing quite a lot at the moment, so maybe it's that goes well they may consider doing something similar for Thorpe

Going by some of the merch in the new store I'd definitely say ghosts are possible, almost certain, some of the designs (faces very faintly disguised in a bed of cogs, and the hand and face imprint merch that's been out since the end of last season) definitely points to them

No. Was on park today, no water splashes on Swarm, no geseyers (though I haven't seen them for a while) or mist on Inferno, and the blades after Saw's drop weren't turning and some of the speakers and screens weren't operational. Also didn't see the tidal water tower go off

Neither did my mum when I went up in April, I rode it eleven times in the three days we were there

Definitely Liverpool. Pringles or Doritos?

I didn't do anything that went upside down for years, then I got dragged on Colossus (?!) and loved it. You don't really register that you're upside down when it happens, it's just another movement as it all happens so quickly anyway you don't really have time to register it You're already beating me, I still refused to do Stealth for years after cracking inversions...

I saw it. There's a reason I hate drop towers...

Isn't it meant to be Whatever's turn now?