Ringo

Not forgetting if you feel ill at the park then almost certainly you were already ill when you arrived. Staff doing restraint checks will have already been less than 1 metre away from you and not forgetting everyone else in a queue line

And on that news, https://www.thorpepark.com/about-thorpe-park/coronavirus/

An incident at the water park today. Firefighters & ambulances on site due to guests & staff feeling ill. Most likely caused by poor water management but not good pr for the park before the start of the season. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-51711729

Didn’t they also publicly state DBGT was the future of theme parks...

https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/10734560/chessington-new-rides-2020/ Images from Chessington via The Sun

That’s amazing, so people can’t dislike the ride without being labelled homophobic.

Pretty much like how they set Walking Dead ride up to fail by claiming it was “15 out of 10 on the scare scale” and “the world’s scariest ride” if the parks exaggerated less then people wouldn’t have such high expectations...

Both posters visited different days... But first Sunday is always dead

Impartial? 😂

I wonder if the added actor is to delay your arrival to vault? Are they having issues with the ride again which is causing a delay and instead of having guests waiting at the doors they are playing on it so you don’t realise there is an issue?

So all the 8pm closes have been pulled apart from 17th and 24th August and randomly 7th September. https://www.thorpepark.com/resort-info/opening-times-and-travel

'Jobsworth' Alton Towers employee desperately tries to stop customer filming their £30 ride photo’ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7260619/Alton-Towers-employee-labelled-jobsworth-trying-stop-customer-dodging-ride-photo-charge.html

BBC reporting Merlin have accepted a £4.8bn offer. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48797245 Legoland and Madame Tussauds waxworks owner Merlin Entertainments has accepted a £4.8bn offer for the firm. A group of investors, led by the Danish billionaire family which controls the separate toy firm Lego, has made the approach alongside a group of other private investors. Kirkbi Invest says it has the money and experience to "realise the company's potential to grow". Merlin also owns the London Eye and Alton Towers.

Lego family's Kirkbi and Blackstone to buy Madame Tussauds owner Merlin: FT (Reuters) - Britain’s Merlin Entertainments Plc (MERL.L) is to be acquired for 6 billion pounds ($7.6 billion), including debt, by a group made up of Kirkbi, the investment vehicle of Lego’s founding family, private equity firm Blackstone Group LP (BX.N) and Canadian pension fund CPPIB, the Financial Times reported on Friday. The deal to buy Merlin, which owns and operates Madame Tussauds waxworks exhibits around the world, is expected to be announced as soon as Friday morning, but no deal was guaranteed until the announcement, the FT said on.ft.com/2X9zLxD, citing multiple people it said were close to the matter. The deal is likely to value Merlin’s shares at around 460 pence, one of the people told the FT, giving it an equity value of more than 4.73 billion pounds. https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-merlin-ent-m-a-consortium/lego-familys-kirkbi-and-blackstone-to-buy-merlin-entertainments-ft-idUKKCN1TS3EI

Awaiting a replacement part, rumour is down for two weeks unfortunately

Gotta agree that soundtrack is just awful.

You can’t really go wrong with a bouncy castle, even Merlin would find it hard to ruin it although adding fastrack is a step too far.

It was never going to be anything but that

So why were the anniversary events cancelled?

Because Varney is desperate to get to the 1000 rooms, that’s all the sheds are for a tick box for shareholders.

Heads up for anyone who’s booked hotels or made arrangements for Fireworks this year, they’ve now changed the opening calendar and fireworks are now a week later with an added day -Friday 8th, Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th November.

Periods of downtime don’t necessarily mean reliability issues, it could be idiots with mobiles or a handful for other reasons.

Old thread I know but only appropriate place to post given it’s a relatively small park with no thread of its own. But Flambards have fortunately had the case thrown out as they had made significant improvements and they were even acknowledged by the boy’s legal team. Basically this case was wrong they only attempted to further it because it was “no win, no fee” but now it’s costing them thousands. https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/disabled-boy-who-tried-sue-2708196

Unfortunately until Merlin get tough on just who is eligible for RAP this is how it’s always going to be. I assume they are too worried about getting Daily Mail stories such as “Merlin said I wasn’t disabled enough anymore”