Mark9

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

Pleasure Beach Experience needs to get a grip sometimes. They seem to want to attack something for no reason whatsoever and they do it consistently. YOU HAVE AN ALLEGIANCE TO A THEME PARK THAT SEES YOU AS A WALKING WALLET. HELL ITS NOT EVEN A THEME PARK ITS A SET OF OLD RIDES NEXT TO THE SEA SIDE

It really doesn't help that Merlin policy means the ride seems to do nothing for 10 minutes whilst staff amble about getting the second train on. At Miribilandia the second Katun train appeared out of nowhere and with only two staff on the ride it was amazing the speed they went at to do it.

The fact it still exists and look like that isn't funny, it's just sad..

I'm never surprised by this. Inbetween the asking about fastrack and what rides are they building next year, all the people who post on there just repeatedly moan about the price and how crap the rides are.. All the time..

As I said on TTF, this could ride like an absolute dog but it would still be loved on the quirkiness of its theming alone. :wub:May can't come soon enough