Mark9

Currently playing Crash bandicoot 3 and Pokemon Gold/SilverI don't own a Wii, PS3 or Xbox 360 so I'm relying on older games. And none of them have guns in (unless you count Crash's applezooka) They don't make games like they used to

Me neither, always loved TTF for the discussion on parks that aren't Merlin ones.Welcome people to TPM.

Hmm.. Actually feeling a bit less impressed with Krake now. KRAKE (and its short layoutNot that the project has no merit just with the layout being so incredibly short, a hell of a lot is now riding on the theming. And with Merlin it can either be outstanding (Wild Asia) or to basic (Saw/Th13teen).I'm hoping they pull out the stops on this.

I love the colour scheme of Cheetah Hunt but that is ugly as sin. Happens straight after the station launch and looks hideous...And finally anotehr B&M has sprung up, this time 'Hair Riser' in China.

God, thats unbelievably closed minded. I'd recommend never going to Alton Towers (or any other theme park in the Uk or Europe) hun, your world may be rocked..

Oh absolutely, he was very funny. And just like Fawlty Towers it was best the Admin team killed the humour while it was good, instead of descending into 'My family' levels of boredom and tediousness. Garry Williams will remain a legend for the rest of time.As for Hex, I'm going to stand by my guns here... I think it truely was the best ride Tussauds ever added to any of its parks. Even now, and even knowing that the ride itself isn't in the towers, I can never tell when you leave the towers and enter a metal box. The transitioin is seemless and the attraction itself is fantastic.It's only negative is in the batching area where the speech starts, there's no warning so people either talk through it or ignore it.

So its decided. 100 photographers all photoing Rich skating.Fantastic.

I'm tempted to come now, but I won't be skating. I'll be official photographer if I do go.

Fury:- "lol who needs a transfer track anyway"

Weren't much better in your day

You seem to be stalking a banned troll.

I don't think it does and whilst Merlin is a big company its the European side that are getting the good stuff this year. They still seem stuck on what to actually do with Chessington tbh.

Marc?

Your friend isn't Rush I hope..

I'll just park along the side roads in Chessington then...

Might be the 13 year old kids drinking fosters, 9 o clock in the morning on the Alton Towers bus that done it for me...

I dropped out of uni after 3 months.I realised that no matter how good my results are, I'm still going to die so may as well enjoy life..

I'd go if this happened...

When pigs do eventually learn how to fly....a lot of stuffs gonna go DOWWWNNNNN

This is just a point in mind, people never just go on a tirade about Thorpe being crap. They offer subjective criticisms about the park and how they would like to see it improved. Anything like "oh well it's Thorpe, so its crap" are normally tounge in cheek comments.To hate a theme park would be pretty extreme to be honest, anyone slagging off a place and then continues to visit week in, week out either has very warped priorities or just likes to bite the hand that feeds it.I have only ever criticised the park when I felt it needs to be put down and am one of the first to compliment something if I feel the park deserves it. Back when I worked at the park that no one cares about, Thorpe had all the money, all the media interest and all the enthusiast attention and yet despite this, the reliability of its attractions was abysmal, the look of the park was a disgrace and the running of fastrack annoyed me to the point where I'd have rather gone to Brighton Pier then get in on the AP at Thorpe.I felt last year was a real improvement. All rides open at the beginning of the season, very little prolonged closures (I can only think of Slammer atm), things were looking better such as the entrance area which had looked in disrepair, was glistening, shiny and new.I feel this an age thing. When you are young and into Thorpe you see something like graffiti on a tiny part of Nemesis Inferno's exit ramp and you think it's the beginning of the end, that the park doesn't care anymore and that Chessington is the way to go. It's as you get older and you get perspective that you realise how little a theme park really matters. So what if Thorpe is getting an incredibly awful ride this year. Next year we'll see a brand new Beemer and thats where I'd rather see the money invested.

In previous years we've had Vortex removed completely for refurb, Zodiac replaced by another model, Samurai pods taken away, Rush arms removed. Maybe thats what JoshC is referring to when he says the park is quieter as nothing large scale has been seen from outside it.

you know, I don't actually think that will be necessary

Aww, guys, I'm flattered. I don't agree with some of the ride results, there's no way Paultons is the worst UK theme park vote.Well done Ryan for being the hottest member

We'll ignore the way Expedition Ge Force is run shall we. God that was torture..

They check heights but it's not in a "lets embarress someone by pulling them over , ramming a stick into their head" kind of way but in a very discrete way. They also only check bars on Blue Fire, everything else is sit down and go, henceIn this country, we're absolutely shocked if our bar isn't checked on a Flying Jumbo ride.