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Henry and the Flying Kipper crash =(!

That looks really nice actually. Still feels slightly pained that we lost a rare Arrow swinger for it, but on the other hand as a concept this looks great. A lot of parks are going for the Expedition Everest type of ride at the moment. It's interesting that now the higher and faster fight is over, parks are now attempting to give multi sensory rides instead.Verbolten looks rather cool I must say.

It was one of those programmes that you could never do these days, showing the true consequences of death. When the hedgehogs get run over or when Adders mate gets killed by the rats. Traumatic show but brilliant.

That Rita turn around is the best part of the ride! ^_^It will go around that corner quite fast though, Raptor's similar looking turn into the break run really picked up a good amount of speed.

Just be greatful they are opening the park at all.

Me to. I'd pay over the top prices for all of it.

Marc needs to wear more coats. He is not wearing enough coats.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Uk's fifth B&M. And what a bloody stunner it is. The sound, the strange way the seat slowly turns through the inversions, that amazing feeling its going to be on the right hand side as you flip over, the theming.Hats off to Thorpe. Well and truely.

Katun.

Inferno was my personal favourite from the last ten years. No FROM THE PARK THAT BOUGHT YOU or pointless gimmicks just a theme and a B&M train hurtling into a cavern. Beautiful.

Looks like a teaser ad to me, considering that had dummies on it and the actual TV advert apparently has people.

Just casually listening to some Rumba music. Open day in t-Minus 16 days. :D

By building an Intamin?!

GET PAST THAT TRIO CYCLISTS

Not that I made any inclination to what I think of the bus though Peter, you do raise a few points about it.For instance "gorgeous bus". Most of Londonders probably just want to get to A to B. Secondly, who cares if its broken down? Probably the people that want to get somewhere but missed the double decker that passed them two minutes ago.I'm sure everybody wanted a routemaster that doesn't run at night, doesn't run the full length of its bus route and doesn't have a conductor past 7pm which actually defeats the point of the thing in the first place and I'm sure Londoners are happy to have lost the higher capacity bendy bus for the lower capacity (and less of them to boot) double deckers.But as you say it showcases London and all for only increasing Oyster fees by nearly 100% and paying 1.2 million per bus. Woo

Make way for the Boris Bus, broken down in a city near you!

As has been pointed out, Saw opened on a warm Saturday and it's queue's were impacted by Stealth, Slammer, Rumba and Loggers all being closed . Unless Thorpe cock it up royally, most rides should be ready to go.For reference, Stealth opened in 2006 on a Wednesday, with one train and its maximum queue length was about 15 minutes.

It won't get even a 2 hour queue on opening day. I say that because as long as it opens on time and has both trains going, I'd say a maximum of an hour wait.. if that.

Like?

It's amazing how many operator error deaths happen on Intamin rides and yet you rarely hear of operator error deaths on Mack or Gerstlauer rides.It's almost like Intamin are just very unlucky or something

Bless those people. Sure Storm Surge is the closest thing to unrivalled crap at Thorpe, but it's so easily ignored as a ride it's barely worth talking about.

That's good but was there any music?