Fred

Jungle was pretty much like rattlesnake, but about one quarter of the speed. The lids just made it feel like you were in a lorry, not the best experience ever.

Muhahaha. Least everyone can see it though, so you can just not count my vote

Black bin bags are always the best place for thorpe park stuff.

I was in the very exclusive member group "banned", yet still being able to post. It was amazing.

Go speed!

Introducing: Land of Irony.Shown on sign as "land of" due to running out of time to paint irony on the board before the park opened.Unfortunately, due to lack of planning.. the entrance to the land is via one pathway, which floods whenever it rains making the island inaccessible during light showers.Its position is a new island being put there today. Like we all know.. the water needs to go somewhere. Hence why thorpe flooded one of the carparks. To ensure the carpark does not exceed demand, they've introduced a carparking charge.The theme is consistent and unique to the park, mainly due to them realising first off that their budget WILL be cut which led to their half arsed attitude. The theming is very pristine, complete with half built shops which have all sorts of colours of paints on them. The one which is open, is the very british "Cadrafty's" chocolate store. There's even one or two.. (or maybe 6) HBL outlets for you to win AMAAAZZINNGG prizes!There will be many many bins, and loads and loads of staff. Unfortunately the park decide to hire agency workers/outsource their ES dept again, so nothing gets done and the bins overflow regularly. Fittingly, it makes the area actually look better.Contains:Newly relocated Jungle Coaster, complete with lids, from legoland windsor. This is to help improve the relations between the park and the guests noise-wise.Meant to be the parks icon coaster for the land, it can barely get throughputs higher than fungle did. The name is not changed, as the park thought it would suit the area best if it was to retain its name. You know, for theming and marketing purposes..Also, samurai moving over after being dragged by a couple of lorries into its new position. It's slogan is "scarier than your granny's scooter". There's a huuuuugeee empty space for development, which was meant to be for some stuff until we couldn't be bothered to design anything etc. The land was meant to increase overall capacity, but it kind of has due to the size of the queuelines and the island.As I'm sure you all agree, the theme is unique and realistic, takes into considerations the restrictions for the parks, has potential for expansion by filling the huge empty space or infilling more land, and the theme is equally strong. Although not disney, I'm sure the PR dept can sort that out for us.Finally, yes we know it's ****.. but afterall, I'm just creating this land to stay in my job and doing my job role in a hope of gaining a bonus. This is the REASON why this land has been created.So, for the love of irony - vote for me

And in MY opinion, you like AMUSEMENT parks instead of THEME parks.Good points:It makes moneyBad points:The park is ****.

Station was gutted by maintenance contractors who had to lower the floor to accomodate the new trains (look on the walls, you can see the old level of the station, and if you look on the farewell vampire video, you'll notice the lovely drop down between the platforms).The gates obviously went with that, as the floor was lowered, and they simply chose the quick cheap option of getting vekoma to install the airgates (goes in pairs you see - hence they don't fit with the ride!). Fun.

Yeah, unfortunately its not just as simple as them using prototypes etc.It's how much their engineering budget is, and what experience and skills the engineers have themselves.Remember that some of the engineers have been there since the 90s, and therefore had pretty much no experience in these other rides, compiled with the budgets perhaps being too small, which meant reliability went down. It's no coincidence that merlin taking over has changed the engineering depts and reliability at the parks since 07.

Colossus pre-07 announcement is there though, its pressed by the operator, and I heard them do it a fair few times when I visited last year.

Wasn't it the entrance playing inferno, with some crappy sound effects in the queueline? Then the epic dispatch automatically played.As much as I love the entrance track playing in the station, its a shame to lose the automatic dispatch, and I personally hate it playing in the area (same with Colossus!). Who the sodding hell designed the failure which is project link?

Such a business man you are! I'm afraid to say you wont be director of marketing anytime soon.

The pricing makes complete and utter sense, the park is busy, its simple supply and demand.Makes the bogof offers (which like everyone can get throughout like throughout the year) look amazing!

I like the website, I like the whole thorpe park in 20 seconds thing (thorpe park is not for everyone.. and in a nutshell it says its aiming at traveller immature twits, and if you want a good day out, go to alton towers). Dislike the flickr thing, cos half the pictures aren't relevant.. we could easily put "GO TO ALTON TOWERS" and tag as every ride, so it'll appear.

Gah I want my cache to clear!

Looks totally family image. Not.

I instantly wondered where the skyway and bubbleworks units have gone! Or whether its so old that they aint appeared.

The reason why I think that offer is purely for premium, is that firstly they need to entice people to buy it, and that'll help.Secondly they make an unbelievable amount of money from the unlimited refills daily, and they rely heavily on AP holders wanting to get the discount to boost sales. Therefore it doesn't make logical sense for it to be for standard.

Premium.

Nah thorpes is just badly worded, you still get discounts off F&B with annual passes.

What? That don't fit in, otherwise I can say thorpe shouldn't have gotten any attractions to start with .It's a business, I fully support AI in their decision, I just wish their arcades weren't ticket issuing

Flipping heck you've given me nightmares. I was hoping never to see that control panel again (especially seeing as pretty much the entire panel means nothing!)

I do forget people do not know me, thank you for that Rich

Least its better than in seperate towns.

Amazingly, we are.