[I Remember When...]

I remember visiting thorpe on it's closing day of 2005 and Ranger County was essentially flooded. I got soaked.

[Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach]

Better than the Great Yarmouth Pleasure Oak. Surprised that didn't appear in Operation Yewtree.

Fat people standing up, water losing underneath log, logs pile up. Oh, it's like Pirate Falls at LLW <3

[Scorpion Express]

My favourite thing about this is we can finally do a proper true comparison of the two rides we've always really wanted to compare.

Flying Fish Vs Scorpion Express.

Which one looks worse now than in it's original state?

I personally hope Scorpion has a half built pond also!

[Adventure Island TPM Meet 16/02/14 (Half Price Tickets)]

Argh first time to visit since a meet the year Woolworths closed.

You always know this with me, I'm a maybe (though I'll genuinely book this off and not leave it to fate to decide). I need to do this park again as it's good.

[Thorpe Park Ride Game 2013]

Oh, went to play this and it's already done. That was quick.

Good old Slammer!

[2013 attendance]

2013 hasn't been released yet. Usually like Feb time?

Can't remember 2012, it'd be around the 1.7-1.9m mark.

[Scorpion Express]

I originally thought that, and then realised they're just calling the train the "scorpion express". Like they name some express intercity trains now.. or the pineapple express maybe.

[SAW: The Ride]

Can imagine that bully puppet announcement being in incredibly poor taste. Winding up guests or upsetting them during a breakdown is the furthest from what you actually want to achieve.

Just imagine they tried stuff which just didn't work. Plus, some stuff has probably broken so literally doesn't work instead

[Rant]

Balls to that, does she not have discretion?

[2014 Season]

It RUINS it.

That's what difference it does.

Edit: Sorry, thought you meant visiting THORPE PARK in general, not the name THORPE PARK Resort.

[Angry Birds Land]

Magic Making do everything. It's really not a biggy at all.

They've done some right stinkers. Most of it's on the right track. I imagine this will be crap though, there's not much they can do.

They changed their name to magic making in 2012, just rarely been used.

[Angry Birds Land]

Id of thought 2013 was thorpes lower budget year (if they still have the 1 large, small and medium budget years!)

Am looking forward to seeing concept art and plans to see exactly what they are wanting to do.

With the coaster being pushed back to '17 or whenever (and that being an obvious big budget year) it's pretty obvious that cycle didn't last long.

[Angry Birds Land]

Would it cost more than you think though? If sundown and lightwater can afford to have the Angry Birds franchise.. I can't imagine thorpe paying too much more?

This'll be a low budget thing through and through.

[2014 Season]

Woo, we've now got a chance to mix up the two TPRs.

TPR is a load of ****e.

Which one am I talking about?

[SAW: The Ride]

Equally, queuing on the stairs stopped due to Health & Safety intervening. Those stairs are pretty hard kiddos, and with so many girls opting for the 'run up the stairs I'm scared of my boyfriend jumping me' approach; face planting is a daily occurrence.

Yup, weirdly the way to stop people face planting on the stairs is actually by having people queue on them. No running up them can happen then.

[Angry Birds Land]

I don't get comments like this (I don't mean to pick on just you!)

But we've not even seen plans for this area yet so I don't see what we are basing opinions such as this on?

We can look at angry birds lands at the other two parks in the UK (Sundown and Lightwater Valley), and then we can compare thorpes recent lower cost editions (Storm Surge... a bunch of nothing, flying fish). And then look at a ride that they're implementing, a dodgems.

Not difficult to come to the conclusion that it's gonna be ****.

[The Smiler]

Hmm, I'm unsure there.. do the outdoor speakers actually like being outdoors?

I've not witnessed any attraction, ANYWHERE, with Bose speakers where all of them work. Thorpes constantly die, towers ones on every ride have dead ones (sub terra and smilers died within a couple of months, with no audio volume changes). JBL seem to work best..

Considering it's bose who do the installation half the time as well.

[Merlin Entertainments]

Merlin, screw you with your obsession of making fastrack as difficult to run as possible.

The new merlin designs feel very very end of tussauds era. I was half expecting a 52 visit limit on the standard pass to reappear! .

Ugly designs, ugly benefits, ugly passes.

[Chessington Fire 21/12/13]

The problem is making the thing indoors and theming it up - they're not designed to have anything anywhere near them.

They were fine at refresh, they were not fine as creaky cafe. They certainly should not have been on for a themed attraction in there.

[Chessington Fire 21/12/13]

Yes, it's called a double entendre.

It goes right over the kids heads. We need more of it, though not as much as Bon Bon Land it seems.

[Chessington Fire 21/12/13]

Wait a second, so this would've removed the only remaining sign relating to the old bubbleworks?

Balls.

[Chessington Fire 21/12/13]

Plant room would be bubbleworks plantroom - that's located just behind the fountain finale (think left to the "pop in again soon" fireworks bit just before station).

All water treatment areas are called plant rooms. So that'd mean a good 50% of bubbles damaged if it got there as a fair bit of the ride (fairground, lift, potentially station) is surrounded by plant room.

Edit: Reading the article, sounds like it did get to fangtasia shop.

Edit again: On a lighter note.. Karma for doing a half arsed creaky cafe retheme? They never bothered touching the inside and left it with park benches .

Wonder what this means for the rest of xmas event, seeing as the grotto is no more.

[Chessington Fire 21/12/13]

The photo shows it's Creaky Cafe, santa grotto.

Spread into bubbles apparently, but no further. Good news for all.. well, apart from the apparently poor xmas attraction,

[TPM Crimbo Meet In London]

I'm working from 5. So, no chance

[Chessington 2014]

I'll more than likely stay in the hotel, considering I love the current one, and because it won't have the HI association I'll actually be able to get decent discounts, or those discounts will actually be available to use.