Fred

Nah, I'm alright thanks

Fuuurrryyyyyyyyyy.God I love it. Reminds me of my old photo taking days. Therefore it's a 2.

The big one? Thank the lord we have opinions..It's an awful ride. It reminds me of the outside part of Dragon Coaster, just worse

Are you stuck there?

The sudden realisation that Gary Numan lives in the village right next to me. I could walk past his house if I was bored enough

Is a idiot.Lolololool

Has a surname beginning with the letter C...

^ Definitely had to look at who gave you rep to see which mod it was.Favouritism in the forumplace

I thought they had moved away... obviously not then.God, this case is boring.

Watched Arthur Christmas yesterday.It's rather amusing! Go see it if you've got time. Brilliant british aardman!

Primark. Obviously.Duck or Goose?

Let's make it like inferno opening! COME ON THORPE!

Indeed, I completely agree.Apart from your spelling, as its paedophile. We're not in america

YES IT DOES. THIS IS COMPETITION.

Merlin obviously has not noticed Fungle Safari

Had gotten rid of a "reasonable" amount of graffiti?There's no such thing of a reasonable amount. It should not exist in any park, it's one of the BIGGEST downers to a theme park and instantly ruins any presentation they've tried.And that includes all parks, from small Oakwood to Disney.

Oh, well thats awkward..Pretty good that they manage to get a fireworks display then, considering 8k is a tiny amount of guests really. But this does mean that the event cannot really expand...

Different markets. I don't know, but does Six Flags or Cedar Point offer entertainment to the standard you're talking about, seeing as most people compare thorpe to them?Again, it's market, and its attendances to the parks themselves and then to the entertainment. Disney Paris gets 10m visitors a year. So naturally they can afford, and will be able to do, an amazing show which will capture all audiences.Our parks are far, far smaller. Therefore it's only right for them to target their main audience, in the way that'll get the most amount of attendance possible and best ROI.

How's it show that the UK invest less? Surely the amount of rides put in at the parks which have similar attendances equal the amount of investment put into entertainment. As mentioned in the other topic, different markets.Why are we mentioning PA fireworks display, when you are only comparing it to Towers due to comparative audiences? Why are we in this thread?

Not really.. different markets.It's pretty much been proven that very little amount of people in the UK care about entertainment. Otherwise they would've turned up to the shows they had. They don't invest heavily in shows because people don't turn up. Everytime they've tried, they've failed.The UK relies on rides to get people to their parks. They come to ride rides. The more rides there are, the more variety and choice there is, the more people want to come to ride certain/all rides, and the less queues there are.For the UK, the parks have definitely gotten their priorities right. Ents can come as an additional bonus to reducing long queues.

Average gate figures?So I presume over this entire time, they've had fireworks over every single day, and every show they produce now? Considering thats what you're telling us. That they do all this on only 4k a day.

I still believe investment is down to attendance. UK can never really compete with europe for holiday destinations. We leave the country to go on holiday, barely anybody comes here to go on holiday. Plus, the weather instantly puts us at a disadvantage.

Mate, as much as you seemingly love PA and hate merlin... I can ASSURE you that PA does not get an average of 4200 in its park.Towers average over the entire season is 11k. Based on 2,750,000 visiting over the 240 days of the season.In 2010, PA had 3,050,000 guests. Over 365, that would make 8300 a day. And pretty certain they're not open 365?Edit: Fun fact. Based on Kevins statement that chessie got 1,450,000 this year, thats an average of 3983 guests per day (closed for christmas day). Hmm, doesn't quite stack up about PA, sorry!

I imagine that it's due to park attendance, to how much they can and will spend.Thorpes fireworks in 08 had attendances as low as 8k.. From peoples views on queue times this year, I cant imagine it being tooo much busier this time round either.

Ohh lego used to do it regularly... now they just have rather large opening times (probably the longest openings in the UK? Beating, or almost beating thorpe?)Oh, and I'm sure their attendance is more than one million a year. Even chessie got more than that this year