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Nice! Is it the ground pins next to go in or do they need to do more ground work next?

Awesome, does this suggest lake infilling is nearly done already? I thought the infilling only just began, is it a short process or am I just getting everything mixed up? Wish I could be on the pass-holder group, keep getting declined lol, I asked thorpe park support and they said they can do nothing about it apart from confirm my pass is valid lmao.

Lmao yes definitly, there's no hope of it being open anytime soon by the looks of it. This was why I was skeptical with Taziker doing the retrack...

Damn that's a shame, hopefully it's done soon. I'm going down a couple of days after ghost train opens, hope it's back up and running by then!

Same tbh, Colossus is genuinely fun if you can get your head around it being rough. I just wish they would be upfront about when it’s actually going to open I’m fed up of this it’ll be open ‘soon’ business

I quite like the look of that to be honest. Not sure if it will be in line with the theme but the sign does look clean.

That is so true, instead of re theming to TWD they could have made it an egyptian theme and repainted the pyramid. That would have worked well if they were thinking in the future too, planning exodus to be egyptian themed.

I still think a mountain theme is on the table to be honest. The original concept art that appeared was mostly yellow, which could suggest the gold I guess and it looked very much themed around mountain. I just don’t really think an egyptian theme will do it unless the ride is heavily themed, which for a coaster this tall is almost impossible.

Fair enough that’s a valid assumption. I’ve only been an enthusiast for about 2/3 years so I’ve never witnessed thorpe build attractions and see what easter eggs and clues they put. Definitely excited to witness the construction of exodus though!

I seem to remember Jack saying that the bird was an old peice of theming left from loggers leap that has nothing to do with the theme of exodus. He could have been trying to keep the theme a secret but I don't believe he would have mentioned it they wanted that to be part of the theme and wanted it to be kept secret.

The gold definitely gives me lost city vibes, I could see it working as an extension of that area 100%. The only issue I have with this is the fading to white of the track. I know that probably have to do it for planning reason but I just feel it takes away from the scale and beauty of the coaster. Same with stealth in my opinion, I think the coaster would look better it was all one colour. Also the track fades to white at 32m, which is definitely less tall than swarm if I remember correctly. How come swarm doesn’t have to have the white for the top kinda 5/10 meters of its track?

Is that the logo in the kind of block capitals with the middle bit of each letter cut out? If so I totally agree, it seems like the logo for a modern tech brand almost not a ghost train at all.

Odds on their being a Jack Silkstone video on exactly this in the next few days?

They could probably just say it's too foggy outside to see or something like that so the windows are black. The concept art seems like their is some kind of fog or mist so they could play on that I guess.

Now we have a date for Ghost Train we can start putting bets on if we think Colossus with open before it 😂 I do think the photo looks like there may have been drastic changes to the ride, or at least to the storyline. Hopefully they have changed the theming on the train/station to match what seems to be a graveyard theme. It would just be odd to walk of a London Underground train into a graveyard with church behind it

That's actually a valid point to be honest. TV advertising won't target the main audience Thorpe want to attract (I assume they are still going for the thrillseeker, teen/young adult demographic). Even without the TV advertising etc. though, as you said, they have been very quiet on social media and in advertising the ride in general. Either they are going to drop something massive tomorrow that they have been waiting to reveal until now, or the marketing budget for Ghost Train is practically non existant, which in my opinnion makes the investment almost not worthwile.

That is so true. At this rate we’re not going to get any TV advert or anything close to Curse at Alton Manner got. I think the park have missed out out on that behalf. The scale of the refurbishment is pretty similar to what happened to duel (or I hope it is at least!) so you would have thought they would have seen the success of that and advertised it like Curse at Alton Manner was. I do have a slight feeling that the lack of advertising is due to the fact that they worked with Jack Silkstone for advertising for the start of the campaign. No offence to Jack at all but he’s just not skilled enough to do marketing for a massive cooperation like Merlin, especially they’re not paying him or paying him very little to do it. Hopefully we do see something new come out so because I don’t want this to be a wasted investment for Thorpe.

Just seen that too. Do you think that means they will announce the opening date tomorrow?

That's true, the only good bits of airtime at the park are the hill on saw and stealth. Would love to see an RMC on the back of swarm island, but then we've been asking for that for ages so my hopes for aren't very high.

A straight airtime coaster would have just turned out to be another generic B&M hyper in my opinion. It would have had your usual long floater hills, camelbacks etc and not been any different from any of the other hypers built. I do think that B&M hypers are great coasters but then don't offer something innovative or special like thorpe wants. I really like the layout of exodus (even if it is a tad short) and as you said it seems very unique, which is definitly a massive positive.

Oh yh, I forgot about that. That is very true.

I think thorpe have just tried too much with the themed rooms. They tried to make their hotel feel like a resort by adding the theming, but the rooms are way to small for anything major to be added. I think the first focus for the park if they want to be classed as a resort is to build a proper hotel, then they can start theming the rooms.

Cool, hope you got everything sorted! Enjoy the park.

I don’t know that much abt RAP at Thorpe but I’d definitely assume that they would accept a photo. If you explained to them that it was too much of a risk taking in your passport I’m sure they would 100% understand. Like I said I’m not the most knowledgeable about access cards so might be best to get someone who knows a bit more about them advise you, but I assume it would be ok.

I thought when they got the approval from the council they could just go ahead and build the coaster. I don't know how planning works so do they have to get new planning everytime they want to move to a new part of construction. And does this mean that the vertical construction could in theory not be allowed, and if so then what happens?