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I imagine they'll put a facade on it so it at least looks nice - or a decent colourscheme

Did you just order shreddies? or £25 worth of shreddies?

The thing I liked about the arches was that it felt like you were underground.. in a dungeon. Bare brick walls adding to the feel to it all - trains rumbling up ahead like they would if you had dungeons over a trainline.. Being in a room kinda destroys all that.

The best memories of Space Mountain in Paris was the queueline - I was incredibly pissed off when I saw that white walls had replaced the cool windows.

Air (5) Battle Galleons (5) Berry Bish Bash (5) Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (5) Congo River Rapids (5) Driving School (5) Doodle Doo Derby (5) Duel - The Haunted House Strikes Back (5) Enterprise (5) Frog Hopper (5) Galloper's Carousel (5) Haunted Hollow (5) Heave Ho! (5) Hex - The Legend Of The Towers (5) Ice Age The 4D Experience (5) Marauders Mayhem (5) Nemesis (5) Nemesis Sub-Terra (5) Oblivion (5) Old Macdonalds Singing Barn (5) Ripsaw (6) Rita (4) Riverbank Eye Spy (5) Runaway Mine Train (5) Twirling Toadstool (5) There's Something In The Dungheap (5) The Blade (5) The Flume (5) The Gardens (5) The Towers (5) Th13teen (5) Sonic Spinball (5) Sharkbait Reef by SEA LIFE (5) Skyride (5) Squirrel Nutty Ride (5) Wobble World (5) Ripsaw +1 Rita -1 GO RIPSAW! (FU RITA!)

I imagine it'd be free too - the 1st November had pretty much free mazes, and the park was busier then than most Feb half term days still. Towers did a poll end of year, and apparently the fair majority responded saying they'd like a permenant scare maze. Ha, they did the same at thorpe and look what happens. Ask guests in march, not during scarefest!

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Bloody pin this to every moderating board ever, so people know to vote!!!!!!!! I'll do it in a bit.

Air (5) Battle Galleons (5) Berry Bish Bash (4) Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (5) Congo River Rapids (5) Driving School (5) Doodle Doo Derby (5) Duel - The Haunted House Strikes Back (6) Enterprise (5) Frog Hopper (5) Galloper's Carousel (5) Haunted Hollow (5) Heave Ho! (5) Hex - The Legend Of The Towers (5) Ice Age The 4D Experience (5) Marauders Mayhem (5) Nemesis (7) Nemesis Sub-Terra (5) Oblivion (7) Old Macdonalds Singing Barn (5) Ripsaw (6) Rita (4) Riverbank Eye Spy (5) Runaway Mine Train (5) Twirling Toadstool (5) There's Something In The Dungheap (1) The Blade (5) The Flume (5) The Gardens (6) The Towers (5) Th13teen (6) Sonic Spinball (4) Sharkbait Reef by SEA LIFE (6) Skyride (5) Squirrel Nutty Ride (5) Submission (4) Wobble World (4) --- Ripsaw + Sub Terra - GO RIPSAW!

Prefer top loading actually. It builds as much atmosphere - and infact has a bigger shock factor as some people just purely won't be expecting it. Who, being hanged, ended up being lifted first before hung? They stood (sat in this case) on a platform which drops from beneath them. Far more accurate

Hugely valid reasons as to why those two have entrance hosts as well, and why the rest of the park should adopt to it! However, they never have more than one entrance host. Only thing which makes me think that is during a long breakdown, between break rotas, or it's another department (Guest Experience) having a chat. They have more staff than thorpe, arguably require more (higher throughputs), but the budgets are still tight.

Only ride worth riding time and time again at thorpe is swarm. It's reridability is immense - you don't see people running around stealths queue to try different seats or sides! With Rita: Was the queue genuinely 5mins, or was it after the incident so the queue has to be away from launch track - making the main queue seem 5mins to anyone using the fastrack queue?

Alton Towers takes ticket tout to court, and he got something like 6 weeks in prison. Flamingoland owner assaults ticket tout, and gets charged. Interesting way of doing things.

I think they are replacing pretty much everything as new. The rides are certainly new ones. I hope it is as good as the current London one. I think London is the strongest out of the brand (having done all of them in UK this year), and would be a shame to lose it's feeling whilst moving.

Whats the difference between this and my poor old other poll topic?! Anyway: Best Paid: Sanctuary Best Free: TOTT Overall: Sanctuary. Sanctuary was little short of perfect for me - I dislike stupid strobe mazes at the end, thoroughly dislike them. But other than that, I adored this maze. I was literally in immersive heaven. I was going home and dreaming of it, it was that good for me personally. Yes, I was happy. Why are none of thorpes mazes in the tops for me? Because they're all samey and boring. They can try and scare, but I don't get scared by anything in the mazes so that'll bore me. Storylines and immersion wins hands down with me.

Enterprise needed work done to it though - by end of year it was pretty much knackered apparently. It was a case of either replace, or scrap.

Wah I wish I used skype. Damn young people and their technical abilities.

Does this mean he has a large penis? Who knows what will happen. They'll fix it one way or the other if they need to.

Err, amazingly everyone would have the same view here. The only one's who don't are people who work at the park (this topic is obvious who does), and people who protect the park because they are used to the status quo. If you asked a guest if they would like to visit a park, have no queues because the rides on two trains on offpeak days.. or visit and have 40min queues because the rides on one train and they're selling fastrack for it.. We all know, ALL know, what the answer will be. Ultimately, thorpe has this awful status quo and attitude towards its guests. This is something which should, and needs, to be challenged. Otherwise nothing happens. For the "long hours" thing. Towers engineers work 6am - 1030pm on the split shift. They managed to have Nemesis on two trains every single day this season (albeit about 3 days of it coming out by 11am due to maintenance). That's one example - coasters are always available for full service, only one's which run on less is when they have dual stations (Air and Oblivion) which can increase and do so. There is no excuse. None.

H&S is a very subjective thing - majority of which are park implemented, not anything else - X could probably have a full indoor queue, as many many escapes etc, however it's uncomfortable to queue in there for so long with so many people, so does not happen due to "H&S". Vampire and Bubbles is fine to have a full queue inside their stations, quite easy flow to exit. However, the fire door is/was useless on Vampire leading to many accidental openings and alarms. Instead of improving that system, they didn't like people queuing next to it - also when fastrack is in operation they don't like many people in stations as it affects fastrackers experience - so does not happen due to "H&S". Rita has been perfectly fine until the incident this year, the park took it upon themselves to ensure noone goes under the launch track now, including queueline, rather than told from above/HSE. Only one I can agree with is SAW really, as a billion steps in an emergency situation can cause problems. The building itself probably doesn't need ventilation systems due to the fact half of the building is just wooden slats with space inbetween anyway.

That's not a valid argument. All maintenance should be done outside of park opening hours regardless. It happens at other parks with similar opening hours, so there is purely no excuse not to at this park.

I miss the days of Tim Burton music being played everywhere. Far more atmosphere, far more fun. Thought the tracks I could hear on monday were very.. depressing or dull

They'll have records of you working there - they have to legally keep them for 6yrs. They won't keep personal details (such as disciplinaries etc), beyond stated times, usually maximum a year. Not passing probation is different to being sacked or being blacklisted, and you're older so attitude is likely to have changed. Just state you worked there, and should be okay.

I hate the excuses for thorpe one train - it's not required, it's not needed. They seemingly never are doing any maintenance with the other train. It's just sitting there. They're aiming at guests going during offpeak times, yes. So is towers. Do you see towers running one train Nemesis? Air runs one station until the queue is 20mins, to which point they'll open the other station making it full capacity with no queue - only time they don't do this is if one station is borked. Oblivion is the only one which can go slow when running "one station" but at least that's one ride, still capable of getting 960pph (16 riders every minute), rather than all of thorpes rides. Guest satisfaction and enjoyment should be number one here. Thorpe rarely, if ever, seemingly grasps this concept. It's such an embarrassment for the merlin portfolio.