Mark9

I can sort out your spelling, but I can't change the orientation for you. You need to sort that out yourself using the small arrows below the uploaded picture on Facebook.

Take that you piece of crap! Yes Cat!

/\ Coined the phrase "If I wanted trees I'd go to a garden centre"

Hi, I'm 88 years old and I still pull the queues

My first reaction was.. awesome. It was then.. yeah that music is rather apt. I wish I could say I wasn't surprised by the decision. The way Thorpe has been going the last few rides, it was only a matter of time. One wonders how long the remaining RMC rides have left. I always feel liks Depth Charge, Neptunes Beach, Chief Rangers Carousel and Mr Monkeys are on borrowed time anyway.I just can't see a park where the only family rides are Flying Fish, Storm in a Teacup, Rumba Rapids and Loggers Leap though. They can't really just bulldoze down everything that young kids can get on..

You mean ignoring the fact Samurai at the time was the most intense flat ride the country had ever seen right.

Yeah pretty much. I'm not as gutted as some. I'm probably more sad that it's another part of Thorpe's heritage being ripped up and scrapped.

Can you give blood straight away if you have sex with a man?Are you able to get married to another man or can women marry women?Do straight people have to come out as straight to their parents?We aren't equal from the word go. A national coming out day can give strength to people who might feel they are all alone in a world where hate crimes, bullying and gay suicides are oh to common. That is the first step to equality if we can be accepted for who we are and not for a facade you put in place in fear of being discovered as gay.

I don't give a damn if the platformers don't like it frankly. They are there to do a job, to fill the trains up as much as possible and if they have to be in a position where they actually have to speak to paying guests then so be it.If the park are saving thousands on cannabilising the third train (not to mention operational costs) then the park can do their best to fill the existing trains up.

I think you miss the point slightly of Adam's post. The 1000's of paying guests may matter a lot to the park, naturally they would, but I don't think of what the 1000's of guests might like, I take what I like from an enthusiast perspective, as would most sane people on TPM, and discuss. Yeah Intamin get a bit of a bad rep on here sometimes but actually, Thorpe's Intamins are pretty damn solid and have propelled the park far faster then a normal B&M would have done. Now that time is starting to catch up on them, particularly Colossus, Inferno rides better all the time. You said it yourself to me via text Marc, how well its running. To be fair though, the general public do that about most rides. The general consensus on theme park forums about Colossus and Stealth is that they are above average so I'm not to sure what you mean by this.

Swarm looks wonderful. I can just imagine how wonderfully smooth and intense it's zero g roll is going to be. It oddly completely dominates the right hand side of the park. Despite Stealth's size, Swarms chunky track and massive inversions make Stealth look like childs play. Wonderful stuff.

Ha! Love it. (Although it would have been better with an Inferno train on it's lift hill)

Updated from September 1. Expedition Everest - Disneys Animal Kingdom 2. Hollywood Tower of Terror -Disneys Hollywood Studios 3. Superman de Acero - Parque Warner Madrid 4. Samurai - Chessington 5=. Katun - Miribilandia and Nemesis - Alton Towers 7. Blue Fire Megacoaster - Europa Park 8. Black Mamba - Phantasialand 9. Manta - Sea World Orlando 10. Oblivion - Alton Towers Been having a trip down memory lane and just remembered the effect Samurai had on me when first seeing it, riding it and saying goodbye to it at Chessington. So it jumps straight to number 4 on my list.

Going back to this a second, I sometimes feel Samurai would benefit from having limited music on it. Because of the nature of the ride very little music works with what action the ride is performing. Maybe going as far as just having the sound of the ride itself because its quite a noisy ride as it is. Particularly when the ride speeds up, it makes quite a beautiful motorised sound.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB5P8fD56fw I haven't ridden it since March so I forget what it plays, does it still have the piano loading music or is it now playing some ghastly rubbish?

Lovely.

God thats wrong. Surely the guy with skids all over his boxers was the culprit.

Trip to Port Aventura now confirmed. B&M Mega year. More prove if needed, that Europe is more then a match for the Americans at the moment. Wonderful stuff. Just hope that Shambhala (if thats its name) isn't shambolic. I'll get my coat.

Very true. Like this a lot. As long as the queue doesn't get a big old view of a shed it should be fabulous.

Double post for impact. This time, just walking.You need a cash machine. You head to a row of empty ones. All of a sudden people come out of nowhere to use them and you get stuck behind the people who enter their pin, remove their card, put it back in, get a statement, take out the card yet again, insert it again to get cash. And then stand there counting their money.You leave a shop or a station. Any normal person would carry on working but not mothers with prams. Deliberately stopping in the most inconvenient places, these people are trolls.People in groups of threes who deliberately walk in a row along the pavement pushing everyone out their way who is walking towards them.Some trains have three across seating. Despite it being rush hour, some idiots decide to sit on the inner seat meaning the window seat often has no one in it but because these people give you the look of thunder when you try to use the empty seat, most people don't bother. They just stand in despair as idiot people put their VIP bag onto the seat for added insult. This can also happen on planes.

I find I make a spelling/grammar mistake if I'm writing particularly quickly. my mind isn't computing whats gone bfore. it's's just thinking of the nextg sentence to spellbound you. Theirs no to ways about it either.

Considering how heavy the trains are and how quickly they pick up speed, I would put a lot on the line to say that near miss element will be more effective then you suggest. I kind of get where you are coming from in terms of preferring terrain to height but.. Swarm will have both.

8/10 for having an Inferno full front row.

In my head everyone on this forum is important.