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Don’t worry Marc. Seeing as it’s the same building as XNWOTWDTR that skip will be full of....
 
 
 
 

Don’t worry Marc. Seeing as it’s the same building as XNWOTWDTR that skip will be full of....
 
 
 
 

Oh god it was ****

Animatronic?? Ok....!
 
P.J: the train in the second scene had a mind of its own. It’s not coming back...

The future of theme park theming consists of labelling what buildings are supposed to be (e.g. "Safe Zone") rather than actually theming them

I'd take the queue times with a pinch of salt at the moment. They are still displaying X and FN mazes. Ask a member of staff.

Guess they thought it worked well for DBGTROTD, so would do it again. Really, they should have come up with something new. As you said, what did happen to her? bit late to carry that on now as the ride has been announced.  They do need to work on better marketing, the audio on the video was horrid

Well it definitely comes across like that. It's very "Jordan jordan jordan" rather than "thorpe park thorpe park thorpe park". Using business news for personal gain.
Thorpe park mentions: 2
Jordan mentions: 8
 
Possibly the worst marketing campaign ever and turned it into as you said, a press relase about a job promotion as some excellence manager... And what seems to be false advertising going by what people have been told to say. Like this ride is operational now....

That'll be one problem they haven't thought of yet. If everyone has visited during the summer and done two mazes, whos going to pay the extra on FN days to do 3 attractions, compare to the previous year of 5.
 
I feel like Thorpe have boarded the Walking Dead train a few years too late. re-theming an attraction on a dying IP that needs to be around for 5 years easy, is a bold move. Yeah, it'll be alright, people will like it, but feels like the park's direction has no GPS signal. The money could have been better used on a new flat to replace the lost attraction count when slammer went, and 60-70k or so spent on making X a better experience of 'light and sound'. No IP costs, actual identity for X and new ride instead of a re-theme. Of course, this is all subject to how much money there is to spend, but I think it's got to be around the "I'm a celeb" mark?

It takes some effort to make storm surge look good but this has done it with flying colours. At no other point in thorpes lifetime has the park looked completely directionless.

I wonder if anyone at the park has any idea what the park should look like in 10 years time. 

What an odd comment. The CD was released because fans really wanted the music - and so far Thorpe have been the only UK park to do it, based on lots of guest feedback. The music was designed to be enjoyed on park and as part of the island atmosphere, which is why the park has always been so keen to remove any  recordings etc from the likes of YouTube. But a CD is something so many people wanted and gives fans the ability to listen to the music, while looking forward to hearing it all at the park in all its full length glory. 
 
Still, you can’t please everyone - there’s always someone who moans because they want a CD per track ... I’m sorry if it doesn’t fill you with confidence. This has become one of IMAScore’s best selling CDs!

Probably in the minority view here by saying I actually prefer listening to the tracks as they have been edited together on the discs as opposed to hearing the full versions and here's why:

• Tracks such as the Entrance, Port & Basecamp, Fright Nights, The Jungle and DBGT are each somewhere I'm certain in the 30-minute range and all of them have sections which I like to call "filler areas". These areas sound as though they are used as transitions between some key melodies and sections and don't sound anywhere near as interesting compared to the extracted parts we have on the discs. For example, take a look at the Port & Basecamp tracks on the disc. There are 6 altogether totalling in at around 17 minutes, which means approximately 13 minutes of audio has not been included on the disc for this area. It is likely these are "filler sections" to help transition each of those 6 tracks together into one big version without any noticeable pauses or silent sections present.

• If I were to have a single 30-minute file to listen to, what if I want to scrub to a point I like the sound of when listening to it? How do I know whereabouts in the track I need to be in order to find it other than guessing or remembering a certain point? Having a long track split into several smaller ones makes it much quicker and more convenient to find the moment I am after when I'm either listening or editing a video for example.

• Something I really like a lot with some of the tracks is they have been remixed together in a way which sounds better compared to hearing them at the park itself, the perfect example being Big Top's theme. The version on the disc has clearly been remixed to include all the variations played inside the maze into one file and honestly, I love it! Works much better to have just one file with all the variations put together into one, as opposed to having at least 3 separate versions of the same 2.5 minute melody.

Also, I don't know why people are surprised the full versions are not on this disc, because if you look at every single album IMAscore has made (minus Kärnan), not a single one of them features the full versions used for their respective attractions. Not one. The Klugheim and Chiapas albums don't have all their audio on them, nor does Heide Park, nor does Liseberg, nor does Magic Valley etc.

As things stand as an enthusiast, of course I would love to hear every one of these tracks fully, but I'm just glad we've managed to get something out of this audio changeover more than anything as I thought it would never happen. Heck, people are still waiting for more of The Smiler's 75-minute audio and it's been nearly 5 years of waiting so far! So I'm thrilled with what we have and hope Alton Towers are next to follow.

What an odd comment. The CD was released because fans really wanted the music - and so far Thorpe have been the only UK park to do it, based on lots of guest feedback. The music was designed to be enjoyed on park and as part of the island atmosphere, which is why the park has always been so keen to remove any  recordings etc from the likes of YouTube. But a CD is something so many people wanted and gives fans the ability to listen to the music, while looking forward to hearing it all at the park in all its full length glory. 
 
Still, you can’t please everyone - there’s always someone who moans because they want a CD per track ... I’m sorry if it doesn’t fill you with confidence. This has become one of IMAScore’s best selling CDs!

What an odd comment. The CD was released because fans really wanted the music - and so far Thorpe have been the only UK park to do it, based on lots of guest feedback. The music was designed to be enjoyed on park and as part of the island atmosphere, which is why the park has always been so keen to remove any  recordings etc from the likes of YouTube. But a CD is something so many people wanted and gives fans the ability to listen to the music, while looking forward to hearing it all at the park in all its full length glory. 
 
Still, you can’t please everyone - there’s always someone who moans because they want a CD per track ... I’m sorry if it doesn’t fill you with confidence. This has become one of IMAScore’s best selling CDs!

What an odd comment. The CD was released because fans really wanted the music - and so far Thorpe have been the only UK park to do it, based on lots of guest feedback. The music was designed to be enjoyed on park and as part of the island atmosphere, which is why the park has always been so keen to remove any  recordings etc from the likes of YouTube. But a CD is something so many people wanted and gives fans the ability to listen to the music, while looking forward to hearing it all at the park in all its full length glory. 
 
Still, you can’t please everyone - there’s always someone who moans because they want a CD per track ... I’m sorry if it doesn’t fill you with confidence. This has become one of IMAScore’s best selling CDs!

I just want the fab lighting & audio to stay, sod the Walking Dead...

I can't help but feel like the CD is a bit of a con / rip-off then. Doesn't particularly fill me with hope for if they ever get round to an Alton Towers CD then seeing as most of their tracks appear to be somewhere between 30 and 70 minutes long. 

Yes Marc - an unfortunate lack of care, attention, time and money.

Buggered? like drivers gone, amp, cabling or they just don't produce any sound? I'm sure they'll be able to work out which ones work and don't anyway... I mean, just because 5 speakers don't work doesn't mean they are all broken  

Theres actually currently 4 black speakers as well as the 4 Bose Freespace 360 mkll speakers. From what I remember, only 1 of the 4 black speakers don't work by the bunker. Never know, the subs could return... 

I too noticed last year on nearly every visit more and more areas were being worked on and gradually fixed which was great to see, especially with Rush's queue speakers finally and the loads scattered around Colossus. But there are still some in a few areas which could do with maintenance this winter, namely the ones used on the bridge from admissions to the dome as a couple sounded as though they were damaged by water and didn't sound quite right.
 
As for the Dome's audio, the inside sounded fine near the screen, but across where Fin's is, it was almost inaudible in this area. If this could be resolved and the speakers outside around the perimeter of the Dome facing Vortex could be amped up a bit in volume, that would be great.

Already this is reminding me of the build up to how IAC was announced back in early 2015 (for those that remember) - silent, vertical videos filmed across the other side of the park by staff members for an attraction nobody really asked for, or is remotely interested in.

Glad you like the booklet.
 
The main theme (which went through quite a lot of change and scrutiny) will always be subjective up against ITHOTMK - an instantly recognisable peice of music. What’s nice, however, is that ITHOTMK is not and will never be solely Alton Towers’ theme music. It’s a peice of historical, classical music which will forever feature in film and television. 
 
The new Thorpe Park theme however, is only that. It doesn’t exist elsewhere and now dominates the park audio as a short phrase that sticks in your head and stays with you, and can be tailored to the different styles of the park. 
 
I’ve always felt you should be able to sing the name of the brand or product to its theme tune. So now when you listen to  the theme, sing ‘let’s go to Thorpe Park’ in the second and fourth set of 4 bars! It works! Now try and fit Alton Towers into ITHOTMK!  ?

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Never catch me doing that