Mark9

It helps if your opinions hold credibility. Adding a top spin with some lights is hardly revolutionary in a park that is striving to be the best out there. Neither is adding a giant top spin when the things have already proved to be unreliable and unnecessarily large for their lack of popularity. So far, no one has really given a good enough reason for Thorpe Park to get a top spin, particularly as there's one down the road already. If you suggest a good enough excuse for Thorpe to add a tired, old ride concept, then I am all ears but so far apart from dressing mutton up as lamb, Thorpe really don't need one.

Bit confused by this. The Second MCBR has a trim break and will always slow down the car.

Why not get a breakdance, a huss pirate ship and a vekoma corkscrew whilst we are at it if we plan to purge the 80's and 90's for all their worth.

So on my last trip to Alton I noticed something... something perculiar. People love Thirteen. They really truely do. When you ride with the public everyone is just laughing with joy and its actually rather intoxicating that after a 50 minute queue, people still enjoy it. Thank god that two years later, after all that horrible hype had gone, people are really into Thirteen. It's great to see and for me makes the ride.

My friend at work told me that Swarm was (rhymes with pit). I naturally killed them and their family.

Our newest member, The Swarm, is beautiful. Oh and you guys on the ride are too (not including me obvs)

Thats just an image from the future, showing someones spine after riding SW7.

£9.00 is okay. £6.50 at Pizza/Pasta is even better.

and it's in Spain and it has two B&Ms and it has a rapids ride and it has Three A's in its name. Oh and a P!

Not that I don't believe you Rob.. but I just believe Mr Rabbit more.

Just a little bit concerned that a park that killed someone a few weeks back is opening an Intamin ride.

It certainly got us wet through the ride alone on my last ride..

Thing is are we saying every time the park gets busy, they'll ban 90% of the guests who go. I really can't see how the park can do anything to change the nature of the ride. You go with seatbelts, they can be undone, you stop the turntable to allow guests on like at rainbow magicland, you severely cripple the throughput. You ban anyone without a child which is actually quite discriminationary, the park then looks to be stopping accidents by stopping anyone riding... At all.

I quite agree that we should get a Diving Machine clone at Thorpe though.

As long as chessington gets the gate figures and gets in the people it isn't dead. It doesn't invest, that is true but if people visit and spend money then thats all Merlin ultimately care about

To be honest, my post was in that topic was totally tounge in cheek. In seriousness, whatever the incident was (It's not hard to imagine the dangers on a rapids ride), It's only *slightly* unfair to punish the many, sensible riders of the Rapids because of what idiots may have done. Things like people standing up whilst the ride goes round, I've seen whole family groups stand up as the boats hit the wave pool before, should they be banned from it so the only things going round are the water and the boats. Wait.. does that mean Gordon is also banned from the Rapids.

Guaranteed they all got in that queue thinking it was Shambhala and then got disappointed that it was only Khan.

Love it. According to PA Community, Shambhala is due to open on the 1st June.

Banned for leaving the cap lock button on.

You'd go for something that takes up double the space of a normal spin and is about 0.1% more effective. Considering the original one is now SBNO, I don't think buying one is a good idea (Although I like how Rameses's original design is still on Huss's website) My thoughts on the top spin are pretty clear. They are a waste of potential whatever theme park they are put in, You can theme them well but when more people watch then ride, it becomes its own conclusion. Waste of time and effort Thorpe Park even considering one.

http://mark2262.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/the-swarm/ I had an ephiopny in TPM chat the other night. And so I put my thoughts into words and decided to talk about The Swarm. Link as above and as always, comments as very much appreciated.

REALLY...

Not good enough. Open it late and put the money forward to retheme it instead of having a Mexican themed ride next to an explosion in a paint factory. If they are going to retheme it at the end of the season anyway, do it now.

This is actually a good start for a thorpe park season.

I know. engineers are still staff though