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55 minutes ago, Whatever said:
*Ipswich fans are probably laughing in the distance*
*Norwich fans are probably waffling on about how Ipswich have been stuck in the championship for years and how we're higher than them in the championship and that they have a minuscule budget and no recent success. Oh yes, and how we beat them in the play off semi finals lasts year!*
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2017
in The Future
2 minutes ago, Ian-S said:Hex, The Flumes, Charlie, Driving School all wave hi!
None of those are ground breaking, popular roller coasters though are they? Especially considering that Colossus was the first really significant coaster to come to Thorpe Park.
Plus Hex is under refurbishment so it isn't gone for good.
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Well I saw my second Norwich match of the season yesterday. Away at Brighton. We lost. 5-0. I have never been so embarrassed to be a Norwich fan. #neilout
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2017
in The Future
20 hours ago, Josh3103 said:I think in 2017 we will see the removal of Slammer and Colossus and the reopening of Loggers Leap
And if it did close the park would tell us and I'm sure they'd do a last ride event like the ones that are very popular at Cedar Fair parks.
It wouldn't just get dismantled over the closed season with absolutely no mention...
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I had a good day at Howl'O'ween yesterday. Vampire being shut for the majority of the day was a real disappointment but other than that I managed everything I wanted to do.
I have to say, I didn't feel much of a Halloween atmosphere and I was slightly disappointed by the lack of roaming actors and general spooky occurrences (though that may be due to the fact that I went to Towers on Saturday so I was automatically comparing it).
The event was very busy, busier than I can remember at a theme park - a queue for KOBRA that was meant to be 30 minutes was 2 hours!
I didn't do TOTW because it looked insanely cringey and I think I'm to old for it but we did do Curse of the Lost Tomb:
Now, this maze was interesting. Thoroughly enjoyable yet slightly bizarre. The interior theming was very detailed throughout and the actors didn't do a bad job (overral). The first room with the letters on the floor was my highlight: the actor was very enthusiastic and explained the scenario very clearly (though I don't know why he was dressed as a pile of leaves). The walks between rooms were also good and the occasional actor in a mask gave a mild but sudden scare.
Now, this is when it all got bizarre. The room with cogs was the most utterly contrived puzzle I've ever experienced and the actor who tried to explain it was way too fast. She then told me to hit a button which made a sound, and then another, and another. They had no logical sequence and she essentially solved it for us. Like what!?
The ending was very anti climatic but the sequence prior to it with the skull and the coffin was well done and mildly scary.
I enjoyed my first Howl'O'ween experience though the event could be improved greatly.
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Please stop moaning, let's not judge this book by it's cover!
I for one quite like this theme and I think it could do really well at Chessington - that's if they take the story of the gruffalo as opposed to just the theme. If you were to go through the attraction as if it were the book that would be much better than just seeing the gruffalo appear in every seen IMO.
Oh and Sam, I highly doubt that's true - Transylvania is one of the most distinct and popular sections on park. (But, if this rumour is true and Vampire becomes 'room on the broom', please, Merlin give it Vekoma's dragonfly trains and theme each seat to a broom stick.
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8 hours ago, Ian-S said:
At Summer Nights this year someone in the swarm station shouted bogey (it was supposed to be a jokey call sign to others in their group) within a few seconds everybody was shouting it including the guy in the control box over the PA.
Christ knows what anybody must have thought outside hearing "bogey, bogey, bogey, bogey" being chanted over and over.
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(Sorry for very off topic)
5 hours ago, Ian-S said:Schools and anything to do with technology is deeply flawed full stop, my sons school introduced a homework "app", the system promptly crashed one day which meant nobody could complete their homework....
Their solution? Give everybody a detention for not handing in their homework...
My school has a homework app and I have to say it is very effective. I get notifications when things are set and due, and you can even submit homework via it.
Back on topic: clowns terrify me.
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Or just turn your phone off!
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22 hours ago, ChessingtonSam said:
Yes, but there's a fine line between marketing and causing this...
No publicity is bad publicity Sam!
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My order is:
- The Swarm
- Nemesis Inferno
- Colossus
- Stealth
*BIG GAP*
5. Saw
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10 hours ago, imindetonator said:
I think the park is in desperate need of a Airtime Machine, as currently none of Thorpe's lineup give good airtime..
I think a Hyper Vekoma SLC would do that job great!I think a Intamin Megalite/Chance Hyper GT-X Coaster would be perfect!
Though a GCI/RMC would also be great, I see GCI more likely though as there pretty cheap.
+1 for the megalite.
Intamin and Mack megalites and chance hyper GT-X are essentially small hypers. Obviously they don't have the 200 foot hyper status but they have features which are very similar to those on a hyper coaster. (Lots of airtime for one!)
Don't get me wrong, I'd love a hyper, but I don't see one in the foreseeable future, and a megalite/GT-X are the closest things to it.
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Energylandia is the biggest theme park in Poland and looks to have a very exciting future ahead.
This year, it invested in a Vekoma launch coaster called Formula 1 which looks like a really wild ride!
But, for 2018, the park will be opening a mega coaster. 2 layouts have been shortlisted and both have been released to the public. These layouts are from Vekoma and Intamin and the park are giving the public the chance to vote for which one they would like to see built.
Personally, I prefer Vekoma's design, but what do you think is the better design?
Discuss that, and anything related to Energylandia below!
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I hate halloween. I suppose it means that I hate October too, because whilst it is my birthday month, the whole period is taken over by horror related things.
And for those who don't know me, horror is not my thing. Never has been and probably never will. In the theme park industry, pretty much a month of the operating year is horror based. Which basically means a month of the year for me to not visit theme parks!
The closed season's started early for me!
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I'm not going to FN this year, but if I was, I would have very low expectations of P15. So far it just looks like a train with every other theme squeezed in. Ouija boards, tattooed people, trains and people who like like they're dressed up as pandas.
I know they say never judge a book by it's cover but it doesn't look very good at all IMO.
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May I just say nice themed logo change!
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11 hours ago, CianBasq said:
Hi guys, let me just start off by saying this is my first time posting on here but bare with me as I've been doing some poking around for info on Platform 15. After going to Thorpe Park yesterday (September 30th) I've seen a few things regarding the new 2016 horror maze. The entrance is next to Samurai where the Canada Creek railway used to run past, there is an entrance to a long, black tunnel that is coated with a black tarp. After going on Colossus twice I can confirm it goes all the way back past Saw and Logger's Leap, takes a right turn into the trees around the back of Loggers and that's where the tunnel ends. After going on Saw 3 times in a row I am certain that the tunnel ends as it enters the trees near the place where the camera for Saw is positioned. The black tunnel is only 2 or 3 meters wide so I'm not too sure what to expect from there. After scouting outside Samurai (which was closed and testing all day yesterday) for around 30 mins we saw some staff wheeling a costume rail covered with a black tarp around. When looking underneath all that could be seen was some black and red cuffs at the ankle area of the trousers (relates back to the advert, conductor perhaps) there was also another member of staff carrying a sealed briefcase, can't give anything else other than that I'm afraid. The exit is next to the Canada Creek toilets and the railway track so my best guess is that it runs around loggers leap and through the trees. The exit (not surprisingly knowing Thorpe Park) is a shipping container. Some wood was being cut on a table saw in the creek railway station yesterday as well (presumably for Blair Witch) and from the exit of Nemesis you can see the hut at the end. Please see the images attached. That's all I could see. More coming soon! Thanks for reading my first post!
Yes, I was on park yesterday and from Samurai I could see this black tunnel you were talking about. And, it's huge!
It seemed to follow the railway for as Iong as I could see and was still there all the way past saw. So a considerable portion( if not all) of P15 will be indoors.
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^ I really rate Pritchard. Him and Wesley (Hoolahan) really have great chemistry on the pitch and they've put together some very nice moves. Especially against Rotherham when Pritchard's through ball through the legs of the defender found Wesley Hoolahan who span round 2 defenders flooring them both and the keeper:
As for Canos @ChessingtonSam, his head doesn't seem to be there. On the ball he's decent, pretty fast and skilful but he has a really poor work rate and I think he believes he's better than us.
Good luck against Fulham, they looked rather good when I saw them against Norwich on the 18th. I think they're better than their league position shows. Their recent form isn't too shabby either...