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What do you do if the customer isn’t staying until close? I do agree though free fastrack does cause issues as well. Least we aren’t at DBGT will it / won’t it open compensation levels again!

Wasn’t that the plan, cheap passes = more visits, oh look attendance is up we’re doing something right ?

Is vengeance still knocking about in storage or did it finally get scrapped? You could imagine them trying to add that on

Reports of an incident at Towers. https://mobile.twitter.com/TowersExpert/status/1025084198435147777 Edit, https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-news/emergency-services-alton-towers-after-1856252.amp?__twitter_impression=true

It’s the third increase in 18 months I believe, £10 is obviously where it’s heading.

New parking charge?

It’s no coincidence that “TLC” was dreamt up and run by a former marketing executive, they know how to bend the truth for gain

Obviously just a revenue generating product, this officially announces they’ve lost the plot. It’s basically the parks version of a VIP pass in stealth mode, you need a separate pass for entry so add on a premium pass for £229 and you’ve now spent £629.

Isn’t this use of fastrack at the exit just a budget save, one less staff member. Hardly seems any point to be honest, guest satisfaction is supposed to be priority at Merlin.

That’s gotta mean the fastrack entrance is closed and sending them via the exit which then adds to the RAP queue.

don’t say that I’m going tomorrow

Merlin have now got a High Court Injunction banning those named and others from trespassing their properties worldwide. https://www.merlinentertainments.biz/trespass-injunction

It’s certainly the current social teams sort of promotion tactics, deny knowledge but drum up interest then a silence and then emails to those who gave info as the chosen few. Who remebers that “drama” about enthusiasts trying to wreck the parks PR for DBGT as the park had uploaded random images and left them unprotected on the internet and they got noticed and then went on the war path as people started posting them and the park then requesting they were taken down, just to drum up interest... Haven't seen a statement from Thorpe Park stating this project thing isn’t them and that Merlin Pass tweet is obviously someone who doesn’t know and assumed someone was on about the well publicised scam

Vampire will keep going until it’s too costly to repair, I think it’s been said many times before that the park would never get permission for that sort of ride these days due to the noise complaints so removing it is off the cards.

Something Thorpe do rather well

Makes absolutely no sense does it, just like the trashing of Colossus soundtrack.

It’s because it’s got high running costs due to it being actor led attraction, unfortunately it’s a story familiar with almost every other Merlin actor attractions. Cheap to build and a headline grabber but very expensive long term and then cuts appear.

Haven’t been able find it on any official sites / social but an employee has tweeted this. Good news for single riders

Slightly off topic but does that mean Slammer actually had an issue they couldn’t fix which led to it SBNO?

Ride status shows it operating with a 35min queue at the moment ?

Any links?

Premium & VIP holders free MoS entry for this weekend. Limited tickets https://bit.ly/2kdwY0m

They’ve given away a lot of half price passes already and now student special. Is the push to literally give away annual passes because it looks better on paper vs on the day sales? Some investor meeting they utter lines like we had an increase in pass sales and on average they visit xxx times a year proving our products are in demand etc

A new twist, a statement from Towers reiterates the original point that filming isn’t allowed at all. The post from TPW regarding management stating you could film is very questionable now. https://twitter.com/attractionimage/status/997129322795290625?s=20

It’s only an issue now as someone directly asked Towers, Towers couldn’t ignore it so had to reply with the no message.