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I don’t know about that, I think they would want to keep the crows in the same area as it works so well in my opinion. If they’re gonna use that space the park probably has 3 options. 1) Move the crows to a different location and put the maze there 2) Make the new maze themed around the crows and keep the crows there and use it as a build up scare zone for the maze too 3) Shorten the crows scare zone and put the maze there too

That is the problem, they are moving away from the themed area. They no longer refer to places as ‘lost city’ etc. instead just generic areas of the park. I don’t think angry birds land will end up as ‘amity’ per say, it may be rethemed to something that is very similar to amity (which I would want, I think amity cove is a great area of the park) but it will never be properly referred to as amity I think.

If you’re not at the park there not much you can do apart from contact support or register it on the website. Usually if you tell the ride host that you lost a lose article they let you come back at the end of the day to pick it up if you/they know where to find it. Hopefully they get back to you and you can find the phone.

Shame to see the state of the posters in the ghost train queue line. It’s a small minority of people that ruin the experience for everyone unfortunately. Hopefully the park can find a solution as replacing the posters will just result in the being ruined again.

I guess that is a possibility but I don’t know how the ip works with thorpe. Would they need to get another ip for saw to use it in a maze? (I’ve got no clue how the ip worked with saw alive) Regardless, I would like to see a saw themed maze though, if done well it could be very good.

Not sure how many of the people on here have seen this but thorpe have confirmed that they will be removing slammer on the annual pass facebook group. Sounds like it’s not gonna be there for much longer as they said that they don’t want a run down ride around when exodus opens so it should be going sometime soon. Unfortunately they said that they were not gonna replace it with anything new, which I think is a missed opportunity but oh well. At least it’s finally gonna go.

I think the park are cautious to offer a ticket that allows people through the maze more than once though due to capacity issues. The mazes already have very low throughputs and allowing people to do them multiple times (even if they have to buy tickets for more) would increase the queue times for the maze. The park is stupidly busy in the last week of fright nights and making people queue 30+ mins for a maze that they had to pay at tenner for (or more if they offered an unlimited go ticket) would not go down well with the general public and press. I think this may be the reason we don’t have free mazes too. The queues used to end up at like 2 and a half hours sometimes and the park just don’t want that to be the case on. Or I could be completely wrong here and thorpe just want more money, that is a possibility…

How quickly do we think the can rip out black mirror to put a new maze in there??

I just assumed that card was related to fright nights and thought the teddy was something to do with a maze or scare zone this year. Didn’t go to fright nights last year as I was on holiday but I would assume that the card is just hinting that death doors would return this year if the teddy was part of it.

Nobody insults saw the ride, it’s my 2nd favourite in the uk 😭 I think that the park are missing a trick not putting a flat in the exodus area of the park. I think that a new area for a park should have a coaster and a flat or two to tie the whole thing together. Not having flat rides near coasters leads to issues that towers now have with massive queues on the major coasters (smiler cough cough) because there is nothing else to do in that area apart from the coasters. (I’m not counting retrosquad as flats they don’t count). I think the only exception to this rule is the swarm as the theming in the area makes up for the lack of a flat and the fact that the ride has a relatively high throughput. Also a new area with a flat ride as well as a coaster surly would look better to market than just a new coaster, but then I know very little about marketing so I could be wrong.

A new TV screen can’t even be that difficult to get a replacement of surly. It’s not like it’s a new ride part that they need to get it specifically from a certain manufacturer that could take months or years to ship (looking at you mr monkeys banana boat…). It’s an off the shelf product that could be cheaply bought (I think) so why don’t the just bite the bullet and replace it now to actually create a good first impression of the park.

I was thinking they looked massive but then haven’t seen coaster supports on their own before (I couldn’t find the nemesis ones when I went to towers 🥲) so I just assumed they were that size normally. Are Mack supports usually bigger than like B&M supports or are they just this big as Exodus is such a tall coaster?

Ah cool. Having now watched Jack Silkstones vid they do look white. Odd that they have delivered the top of the lift first, but as you said maybe that’s just the first lorry that has arrived. Still not fully sold on the gold to white gradient, hopefully it will grow on me when the coaster is complete…

Very nice to see supports on site! Construction will go vertical any time soon. Does anyone know why the supports look grey? I thought the track was a gold to white gradient.

I never really found trailers that interesting tbh, if bozos is just a worse version of that it’s not worth it for me.

I didn’t do Breakout at Bozo’s last year at thorpe. I’m planning to go this year at least a couple times in carnival, is it worth doing the maze. At £4.80 it seems extremely cheap, but that makes me think it’s not going to be up to standard as the other fright night mazes. Is it worth giving it a go?

I think the problem with offering free experiences for passholders is for the cheaper pass options. Owning a silver merlin pass myself, the £10 a month is pretty much nothing (even for a 16 year old with a super inconsistent job…) and I save ungodly amounts of money using it. I probably go to merlin attractions at least 15 times in a year, which if each ticket would be £30 (which it usually isn’t) would still have cost me £450. I don’t need any more perks with my pass, yes they would be nice but from a financial perspective it would be detrimental for the park imo. And the discovery pass exits too, that’s like £60 a year I seem to remember. Giving free maze access and other experiences with the cheaper annual passes just wouldn’t be financially viable for merlin because sooner or later everyone would catch on that its a no brainier buying an annual pass and the company would be losing money. I hope my waffle makes sense…

Park has sold out again tomorrow. School trips are the cause I assume… What is the max capacity of thorpe cause surely for them to have sold out they must have sold a bunch of tickets?

I think since the start Jack has been some sort of marketing for exodus. In the description of all the construction updates there is something along the lines of ‘this video is made in cooperation with thorpe park therefore I class it as product placement’.

Inferno is back up and running today according to the app. Seems like a snapped lift cable was most likely the issue with the ride.

I think the only worry is that they are still not giving is a date when it will reopen. With Colossus they at least said late spring, but for this it could be anywhere from it reopening next week to reopening in september some time.

I thought the park said this rumour was false on a facebook comment response.

Not heard anything about that. Definitely hoping it’s not. Got a good view of the ride on detonator on thursday. There were no ladders or anything around the track, transfer track was off to the side though; maybe an issue with one of the trains? We’ve had no communication from the park so it could be anything being honest.

Pre show was identical I’m 99% sure.

The hidden door was still obvious yes. I didn’t bleed light when it was dark, but the seam around the outside of the door is still clearly visible when the lights are on. Crypt scene was still identical I’m pretty sure, by the ghoul do you mean the thing that flies overhead. If so that will still hardly visible and I nearly didn’t notice it fly over.