Mark9

I neither wanted or over-hyped Saw for myself. Does that make me the winner or the loser?Either way, if it's a B&M I will be very happy. Or a Mack.Gotta love Macks.

I've had a think about this and..Depth Charge is thrilling for kids.Therefore it fits in with Thrill Capital becuase somebody is being thrilled by it.In a park where there are two thrill rides for every *real* family ride, I don't see why Depth Charge has to go anyway. I'd get rid of it on other grounds, but not the thrill capital rubbish.

At least we scored a goal against them. Of course people use the old bollocks as to why they didn't want Germany to win. Yes they did blitz us to hell 70 years ago.But they gave us Europa Park so I could forgive them for anything.

The people dressed up as Angels, Snow White and the Queen from Alice in Wonderland.Is that who they really are?Anyway.. Pride was fun. Although some people go to far, anyone wearing a "I've never kissed a Tory" sticker gets my undying respect.

So just browing through.. it looks like Thorpe are planning on two new rollercoasters and five flat rides. In addition there will also be refurbishments to some of the maintenance areas, extensions to some of the shops and refurbishment of the areaThe nine sites where flats rides are possible are- Three on the new islands- Fungle Safari's old site- Where Wet wet Wet currently stands- Just under Tidal Wave, near the Stealth plaza- Next to Zodiac and Rush were that baguette restraunt is- In front of No Way Out (possibility of NWO going?)- Octopus Garden

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I remember the time a guest lodged a complaint against me because Tiny truckers was closed. Every ride should be accounted for on the website because a single ride does have an effect on the rest of the park, no matter how small the ride is.

SO.. went to Thorpe yesterday with Marc. Good trip actually, Thorpes run of full ride availability continues and as it stands, is the best of the old three Tussaud parks. Started the day off by going to Stealth.Now this was a first...I have never visited the park and Stealth has been open on time. Well ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, I have witnessed a miracle as we got on Stealth at 9:30 for a front row ride. Having now ridden Blue Fire, I do think it is the better ride. However, Stealth does what it does very well and is still the only ride I go on still slightly scared. So really what I'm trying to say is... both are good rides and are Mark approved.Our next ride was Rumba for two goes rounds. Was nice, nothing awe inspiring though. Didn't bother with Inferno as it was closed and decided to ride X:\ No lights off. It wasn't bad actually, it's definitly a novelty seeing the ride in the light and just how compact it is in there. I just.. I can't help thinking the ride is so meaningless now. The order gets a bit blurry.. I think we next went on Saw and queued 30 minutes, then decided to just queue for Colossus because I love queueing. We queued about an hour for it and for some random reason, no one was using the front row queue so walked pretty much straight onto it. It was a very sly method of queue jumping as it wasn't intentional in the slightest. Had KFC, then probably rode a few more rides. We took advantage of the England game by riding Rush and Vortex together, both only had 5 minute queues so was worth the while. The England game totally changed the atmosphere on park though. In the morning the park was a very happy place. I liked the England flags on the top of Rush and the front of CCR and I had no pings of hatred from the England covered Stealth train. After the England match.. my there were glum faces. I hope no one was feeling suicidal yesterday...Thorpe have upped their game this year. They are finally in a position to say they are a fantastic park. Reliability is better. There's still the odd problems occuring but 95% of the time everything is going and the park is all the better for it.Stealth X2 (1 front row)Colossus X1 (Front row)Inferno X1X:\ No lights off X2Samurai X1Bear Hunt X1Saw the ride X1Vortex X1Detonator X1Rush X1Quantum X1Flying Fish X1Rumba Rapids X2

But they aren't crap. One bit. They may have lost one match, drew two and won one but they got to the world cup in the first place when so many countries failed to do so. I don't get the attitude that immediately says as soon as we lose we are a rubbish team.It's almost like people are trying to say germany only won because we were awful. No, they were by far the better team.

To be honest thats ludicrous. The website is an advertising tool, but it is also a means of informing guests about any potential problems the park may have. For instance, last year it said about the high number of school groups it was expecting during July. That's not putting people off, it's being honest with its customers which is far more important then the management packing the park out.It's all very well saying you can find out when you get there, but I'd be pretty pissed off if I came from quite a long way away to find out a ride has been closed for several days but it wasn't advertised on the website. And saying, call, yeah I could but 9/10 people won't as they don't expect rides to be down at all...

At my prom, everyone started getting stoned.I no longer talk to anyone from secondary school. That can't be a coincidence.. surely.

Could it be all the staff dressing up for the day for charity. OH MY GOD IT IS!Of course I shall not link to said photos as, well you know, merlin don't like staff on facebook showing where they work and so might issue a few firings

Part of him has Outfit.

Staff that don't even look at their rides? Rides so graffitied they wouldn't look out of place in Brick Lane? Rough, short and boring rides? A park that won't even put on a second train when said ride as an hour queue and can't even be bothered to purchase a second train for its second major coaster? A delapidated Zoo?A park that has quite literally fallen out of the 70's through a crack in time into 21st century Britain.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with not having a relationship at 21. You don't have to bow down to the pressures of modern day society and you shouldn't let it get you down. So what if you haven't had a relationship? You're 21, you're still young, you're going to unviersity, you have a plan for the future. Besides what is living anyway? I know you hate your aspergers but at least you try to overcome it. So many people wouldn't You're far stronger then you are giving yourself credit for.

Love you Dan.

Do you visit the place more then you actually work there?

Are you calling m,e a bad member of staff then Benin Anyone who has run a single rider queue will tell you they are absolute hell. The majority of single riders are selfish bastards and when they start telling you how to do your job.. well lets just say I'm glad they removed it from most of Thorpe's rides.

Get it right Peter..

What a match... Tennis players deserve so much respect.

(you are to by the way )

I'm a bit fed up of football to be honest. Particularly England fans who jump about from "we're the best" to "we're the worst" and back again within a few days. It means sod nothing.And yet all over BBC news it's how England won one match out of three. Jesus Christ, they don't deserve any praise as they got through by the skin of their teeth.The real winners today are playing a tennis match, carried over from yesterday, that has gone on for over 8 and a half hours.Currently it's two set points each and 50 points each. Thats real passion there, not 22 players randomly kicking a ball around for 90 minutes.

And yet some never shut up about it...

The old rock-work structure was close to collapsing. It was either goodbye rock-work or goodbye dragon falls.

I disagree with this. Battle Galleons is a clear example of how Merlin aren't all that different. Now admittedly I haven't ridden it since it's opening season, but back then even two months after it opened, half the targets didn't actually do anything and on our boat only three of the eight guns worked. I don't know if the blame could be put down at Merlin's doors because after all they are a multi attraction owning company and probably care less about one gun working on one of its minor attractions. But the point is, everything should work every single time without fail.