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Being realistic, we live in an imperfect world. It is a world where the rich can get richer, where the poor get poorer, where women can live in fear, having to hide their faces in one country, where in others even showing a little bit of affection can land you in jail. It's a world where owning a gun in America takes priority over another human beings life, or a country where hunting foxes is seen as more important then the foxes life itself. Lets be honest, we lived in a screwed up world, one full of self importance and self righteousness. When the storms hit on Christmas Eve I can understand that pain of no power and no christmas dinner. Instead of sitting around moping, moaning at Cameron about being abandoned, I'd have gone off and found my nearest homeless shelter and help feed people that don't have any home, possessions, family, hope of a warm Christmas. Happy new year

Could easily make this a Mack coaster topic, what with so many of the Megacoaster type being built for next year. I for one am relieved so many are finally coming to fruition, despite Blue Fire being a top drawer, amazing ride, it seemed to take a while for the ride type to take off.

Yeah I mean, if I was going down the pass route, it would remain at the Premium level. That VIP one, aside from the special events which could literally be anything, is way too overpriced when many of the perks of the pass don't interest me. It would be marvellous to have the funds to visit Gardaland, Heide Park and every Lego park in a year but thats unrealistic. For someone who only uses the pass for Thorpe, Chessington and Alton all the other things won't persuade me to upgrade upwards. Taking away the perks from the premium such as the capsule will only anger those in which the perk was previously useful.

Furius Baco as 2nd best international coaster, Cheetah Hunt up there too and not a sign of Blue Fire. Now I really have seen everything.

Looks like that kind of area. Regardless of the damage to the rides, I hope any person/animal is safe and well. As for the rides, if it was Bubbleworks then there's potential for Vampire to be critically damaged too.

Seen a few films recently for some reason.. Frozen - 10/10. Just awesome, the best Disney film made for a long long time. Saving Mr Banks - 8/10. Fun film, made me want to go and get drunk afterwards though. Desolation of Smaug - 9/10. I am a dragon with lots to say but how can I talk for I am a dragon. Better then the first Hobbit film, more fun.

£14 million is more like it. I'm kind of glad that Runaway Train is going to be a little bit different and from the sounds of it, I'm relieved it won't be just a giant Scorpion train and will remain an old style train like its current form. Maybe, Creepy Caves which is currently down by Sealion Bay should be relocated over towards Mexicana to complete the experience. Still.. it needs to become fruition for me to be actually impressed.

This must be the most boring closed season for years.

Didn't Lightwater Valley go after Alton's car parking charges for a while a few years back. I seem to remember one status saying "AND our parkings free too!"

Depends on when you go. When I went last year we didn't queue at all for Nemesis or Air, it was even walk on for Sonic Spinball. Baring in mind though, that was an exception as we went on the last day of the event and the previous days had seen long queue for the other attractions.

Only 80 for me, only really boosted by the animated classics and the Pixar films.

The event was advertised as having zero queues which I am sure the majority would agree with, it did. The park realised that for its trial that it was never going to be amazingly busy. It must have done something right for it to return next year. Therefore we can probably conclude there will be changes to the way the event is organised and run.

Yeah so it's only one of those things, but the one in Tivoli scared the bejesus out of me. Maybe it was the wind or the rain or the fact I am scared of heights. The other, also at Tivoli I wouldn't go on. Just didn't look much fun.

Classic.

I'm nailing the Worst UK ride award to Storm Surge. Maybe we could give it to the ride itself come 2014 open day?

There are various reasons. Whilst it made a lot of money, a lot of that is BBC Worldwide and not the BBC itself. BBC Worldwide is the commercial arm and some profit it makes goes back into the Beeb but a lot is retained by Worldwide. You then get people who don't like Doctor Who asking why THEIR license fee is going on a programme they don't like ignoring the wealth of programming they get for a very small £145 a year. Throw in the license fee freeze forced upon them by the Tories and suddenly more episodes of what is a very expensive show to produce is less likely. Shame, because as it stands, Day of the Doctor is the most successful single episode in the history of the programme and whilst it lacked in any real peril throughout, I really enjoyed it and thought it layer the foundations for what will hopefully be a fantastic Capaldi era.

Best thing you can do Ellie is first, ask him one last time to keep the noise down. After that, keep a log of every time his music has become unacceptable. How long it goes on for, what times and how it affects you at each time. This way you can proof that it is having a major effect on your work/sleeping pattern. They may say 11pm, but you have a right to peace and quiet therefore have to act.

Would be the icing on the cake for that sham of a theme park. On the plus side, it would mean I'd never have to waste money on travel visiting there again.

I would personally never use the facebook page to contact the parks with an actual querey. The page always feels geared to very general things and when someone gets on their soap box, every comment looks like rambling. Twitter is the better method of speaking to the parks as the 140 character limit forces you to get your point across, the same with when the parks reply to you.

You mean like Lloreal ask 127 people whether they like a product, 94 like it, therefore the product must be loved by everyone. Has anyone on here been asked whether they want to see a woodie or not? If the majority are asked, it figures that some TPM members must have given there opinion at some point. Anyone, anyone at all? Fact of the matter is Merlin won't build one until a gimmick rears its ugly head. A Crying shame but if it helps, going to mainland Europe isn't that expensive and Zeus, Troy and Wodan are not that far away.

It could work at Thorpe. They have a ride themed around a film franchise that involves extreme torture and horrendous ways of dying in Saw, so teenagers killing each other is completely appropriate.

We'll send the mental health tweeters Heide Park's way. If there's anything bad they can find with this ride, they'll be all over it.

Our theme parks only do the new ride every year thing because that is generally what the UK public require to have interest in visiting a park. We're hardly far behind the rest of the world. 2012 may have been the eye opener for all three of the parks, particularly Thorpe and it can't be a coincidence that the year after Swarm's perceived failure, special events were at the forefront and focusing on more then just the ride hardware equaled better guest numbers and more positivity from the public.

We could do what we did this year and just stand around laughing whilst everyone does the rides.

4000th post coming right up.. I'm going to put money on it. This ride is going to be the best ride in Europe by a country mile. I put so much faith into a Mack product and knowing Blue Fire, Helix is just going to be utterly sublime.