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  4. Fright Nights 2016

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    58 minutes ago, lefroy92 said:

    Just tried to book 6 tickets for me and a group of friends to go to FN on 29th Oct and the price is £51.50 a head! It was £35 when I checked last week and I paid £25 last year! Anyone know why it is so expensive and how they justify this with even less attractions on offer?

    Anyone got any info or tips on discount codes etc? Would be much appreciated! 

     

    It's the same for this Saturday - can only assume this is what they are charging for Saturday's as they will be the busier day, it maxed capacity last Saturday so can assume it might be close to capacity again so has reverted to standard price. All other days still on offer though. 

  5. Derren Brown's Ghost Train: Rise of the Demon

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    I went on it Saturday gone. The 3rd or 4th group of the day. Couldn't have been more of a disaster.

     

    The pre show  wasn't working so was ushered to the top of the stairs. There was an engineer there working on it though.

     

    First train section we were sat waiting on the train for a good 25 minutes with the please remove your headset message. When we got going I was in the air looking down at the video. Very frustrating.

     

    Live action sequence not working. Very poor.

     

    2nd VR was clear however 10 minutes of watching the green smoke. Tedious!!!

     

    All in all very poor experience. Not one aspect worked correctly. Didn't bother with reride as didn't want to queue 2 plus hours for it not to work again. Now I'm left with this poor memory for the rest of closed season. ?

     

    The only positive were the actors were a lot more hands on especially during the green smoke section so at least something was happening. My mate even got dragged across the seat, but afterwards realised we now had someone sat between us, presumably they had been relocated due to a broken headset lol

     

    Overall a disappointing 2.5 out of 10. Think they should focus on getting it to work before adding a new destination!

  6. Fright Nights 2016

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    3 hours ago, Morgan.B said:

    My Containment ticket this year has told me to go to a Fastrack unit on the day and choose a time, I imagine it's the same system.

    Thanks Morgan. I assume the time slots are on first come first served basis so should get there early if I want a night time slot for Platform 15!

  14. Derren Brown's Ghost Train: Rise of the Demon

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    10 minutes ago, Marc said:

    Ghost Train will open from today at 11 to all for Technical Rehearsals and all going well will continue over the weekend :) 

     

    If your lucky enough to get on please remember not to spoil the secrets for others!! 

     

    I'm so happy! I hope I get on this Monday or Tuesday. I had just accepted It probably wouldn't be open!

    Fingers crossed all goes well! 

  17. Derren Brown's Ghost Train: Rise of the Demon

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    I have actually heard that a while ago as well (I'm sure it was on here) when Thorpe had been asked about the queue lengths and they said they had plans in place to manage this but couldn't say anymore at that time. Would make sense if it is hugely popular, could even use the Reserve n Ride system in some capacity. I would still like the option to queue for it as well, would probably like to do it more than once and when I actually wanted to. 

     

    Who knows! Hopefully more will be revealed shortly. I hope they reveal an opening date soon. 

  20. Derren Brown's Ghost Train: Rise of the Demon

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    37 minutes ago, mah boi said:

    I am very interested in the train and would most likely buy one. However, the last time I visited Thorpe was on the friends and family day and the shop wasn't open, so I couldn't register my interest. If thorpe allowed people to register their interest online, I would. It would be a bonus if they were able to post the levitating trains as well as I am not sure whether I would be able to visit thorpe during the rest of this year. 

    I just emailed Guest Services and they have added me to the list. 

  23. Derren Brown's Ghost Train: Rise of the Demon

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    1 hour ago, StevenVig said:

    The whole area and building is just a giant cattlepen and extension of The Swarms Queue. When you exit the building you are teleported to the back of the queue on The Swarm Island. 

    My brothers, girlfriend's next door neighbours' cat's friend goldfish told me you would be teleported to the back of the queue to purchase a Swarm Fastrack.

  25. Containment

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    7 hours ago, Dodge2002 said:

    I still think this would make a great after hours attraction aimed at the hotel guests for evening entertainment. If I was offered a fun little escape game for £10 and an excuse to get out of the room for a bit I would definitely bite. Add in a champagne reception at the bar and a small prize for winning and that's a damn easy sale imo. 

    I never thought of this. This would make sense due to it being located near the dome. I would certainly do this on evening rather than suffer the "hotel entertainment"

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