Everything posted by Mark9
-
Thorpe Park Blows It Up
The adventures of TTF and the Oblivion Fanta advertising speaks otherwise. Just because you're happy to put up with the crap Merlin sometimes throw at its audiences, doesn't mean others are.
-
Random
Q: "Why doesn't water run off the Earth?"A: There is a vast "ice wall" that keeps the water where it is. This explains why you can find a vast plane of ice as you travel southward. The wall is roughly 150ft high. In the McIntyre model, however, the height of the wall increases further as one moves toward the edge of the world.Genius!
-
Random Picture Thread.
THEY'RE FROM THE 60'S
-
THE SWARM: Construction Updates
As I wrote in my blog"And yet I can still call the way the’ve promoted ‘The Swarm’ exceptional and that the park hasn’t hit a duff note on the ride at all. If I was to be a hater, I’d say Swarm is too short, its got trims, it’s a dull colour, the tank is in the wrong place and it has a fake turret, none of the theming will appear or work after its first season and that the actors aren’t out long enough."More then enough criticism to get off on.
-
THE SWARM: Construction Updates
Oh B&M and your wonderful ways.
-
Random Picture Thread.
- Parks, Rides And Coaster News
Just lots of corkscrews instead.- How Busy Is It Going To Be?
- Random Picture Thread.
- Rate The Avatar Of The Person Above You
Grammar, Spelling and using tenses properly applies to you as well TPGG. If you're going to go around the forum being a little grammar Nazi, you could at least do us the courtesy of using proper English in your posts as well.- Say Something About The Person Above You
Will shortly be banned from TPM.- Say Something About The Person Above You
Loves the Little Mermaid.- Rant
This a thousand times. Driving ever closer to me won't make me go faster.- THE SWARM: Construction Updates
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.- Random Picture Thread.
Take that you piece of crap! Yes Cat!- Say Something About The Person Above You
/\ Coined the phrase "If I wanted trees I'd go to a garden centre"- Canada Creek Railway: The Bear Hunt
Hi, I'm 88 years old and I still pull the queues- Canada Creek Railway: The Bear Hunt
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..- THE SWARM: Construction Updates
You mean ignoring the fact Samurai at the time was the most intense flat ride the country had ever seen right.- Canada Creek Railway: The Bear Hunt
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.- Your Sexuality
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.- Vampire
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.- THE SWARM: Construction Updates
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.- THE SWARM: Construction Updates
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.- THE SWARM: Construction Updates
Ha! Love it. (Although it would have been better with an Inferno train on it's lift hill) - Parks, Rides And Coaster News