Fred

You've just argued against someone who works for Pizza Hut (above that post). Interesting. If you're happy with thorpes awful PH, why wouldn't you be happy with merlin doing it considerably better?

A ride, discontinued by it's manufacturer, possibly flawed by design. Constantly having downtime, constantly being extremely expensive to replace (rumours are merlin forced the decision to repair at any cost). That, mixed with the fact the ride has low popularity, has low throughputs and high staffing costs makes me think it'll go sooner rather than later. The second they have the right ride, for that location, it'll be gone. If not sooner due to the ride trying to kill itself every ride cycle it performs. Eventually the park will give up on it. It's not really even worth spending the time, money and effort on.

See, I thought 7 or so rides, £4m to play with = rockin tug, small fun rides.. basically Drayton Manor's thomas land, without thomas.

Is that the old black forest sign in the background? Not sure if he's holding a burger or something?!

Good way to start off the attraction, with boat ride. Should mean relatively consistent groupings and steady flow of guests at entrance. Looking forward to trying this out when it opens!

You're not paying more for quality though. You're paying more than a normal PH buffet (cos it's in thorpe) for a worse quality than a usual PH buffet. There's practically no difference between merlin outlets and the PH outlets.

Doubt lower height restriction is just an added benefit, as supposedly they're getting individual lap bars to allow this. Seems weird getting individual lapbars when the other ones worked perfectly well for a 1.4m restriction. Unless they had to scrap the trains, and get generic vekoma boomerang style trains instead. But then the ride could easily be 1m tall to ride!

Either that, or you three are bloody tiny.

Hey Spider! I remember you from SP! Good to see some of the old members making a return visit/slight read up haha! Shame SP no longer exists!

Issue I have is that the Pizza Hut pizzas found at thorpe aren't anywhere near the quality of Pizza Huts elsewhere, even if you just think of the buffet. They pretty much use same ingredients and stuff, and so I don't have much of an issue. Both go for quantity rather than quality, yet thorpes are pretty useless at actually having pizza half the time.

It'll also help allieviate problems when people do take youngens to the park, which still happens even now. Gives them something to do! I imagine they'll slowly start to focus back on families as well, might mean they'll try and neaten up the bloody place!

I don't think they did deliberately remove the strobes - afterall it was a pretty important and spectacular part of the finale, and the entrance signs do state it. The lights, since they've changed, have been literally on test mode. I think this is the reason why it don't!

One of the first questions which should've been asked was how you'd do the queue. You'd know from the off if this was going to be easy or not, and you'd know how to do it.

Or a step in the right direction, allowing those who are under 1.4m to actually ride something more.

Do you pay attention to any updates recently Will? . No chance. The park needs a big restuarant area. Plus it's just become a Burger Kitchen.

I think they've just forgotten what the theme is. To which the answer is: There ain't one thorpe, there just aint one.

And Dust. Anybody? No?

That photo would've been taken either Saturday, or a week before then. Think it was Sat, where there was incredibly heavy snowfall.

My Mad Fat Diary. Brilliant.

It's what happens during recessions and the job pool is large I'm afraid. Not much use to anyone really. There's always ways of getting previous experience if you are really wanting to get into certain jobs.

Nope. Alton Towers uses alton-towers.com. Seems to be the least popular address typed in is the email address

Rather not have a plastic smoked burger. But also rather see the back of Storm Surge. Hmm..

Tranny updates look good - nice to see them getting rid of the vines exposing some theming (and presumably making the facades safe/repaint them at the same time judging on the toilet block scaffolding as well). Refresh looks ace now it's not refresh as well. Impressive spend chessie, I'm happy!

Towers have a cleaner on every toilet block - so there'll always be one somewhere cleaning something. You can't polish a turd though, and it does help if guests flush their own as well.

Thorpe has shown us what it does to immersive well themed coasters. If they can't even look after that properly, they wouldn't be able to look after a dark ride.