Mark9

I've had three instance, all mobile phones. One was as a Colossus train was going through the first corkscrew, the phone landed and smashed in the queue line. The other two were both Vortex.

I personally think there a waste of money. Chessington does not get the queues that Thorpe Park gets and many of it's ride are empty for several hours at the beginning and the end of the day. For instance you could easily ride Safari Skyway, Rattlesnake, Billys Whizzer, Runaway Train, Tomb Blaster and Dragon Falls in the first hour with no queueing troubles. Fury's queue always dies down to around 20 minutes at mid-day so you could get on that then and Vampire with three trains at the moment has a faster moving queue then usual (queues recently have been around 20 minutes).Fastrack, as I have said before is for people that don't bother to plan their days properly as especially at Chessington you can easily get around the rides and save 7 pounds.As for ultimate.. well it depends if you have money to burn really. I think it is rather hit and miss to be honest as Ricky and Steve saw the other day, the queue for Fury was non-existent at 1pm and so anyone with Express passes really had wasted their money.

LOL.. guess who was that guy at Sea Dragons with Benin... I loved that rain at Fury I dids!

Nah no way! A new ride should have buzz for a couple few years, I can remember back in 2005 when Colossus would always open with a 30 minute queue from the word go.Hell Vampire and Fury always get a 40 minute queue upon opening and one of them is 20 next year!

It's more then just two visit's this year that have put members off. For instance I've been visiting Thorpe for years and every year it is the same old complaint.. ride reliability is shocking. Fine, you can say that it's not Thorpe Park's fault their rides aren't available but if the end of the day the more money thrown at the enginnering side of the park, the more open rides will be. The 14th March trip this year was really the icing on the cake to well my patience with the place. The general public have very little time to put aside for theme parks and when they visit, they want to make the most of my day with full ride availability and no rides breaking down left, right and centre.

It did used to but it was removed in 2005 as it had minimal impact on queue length and throughputs.

Lol, how curious!

So by Legoland getting basically what Chessington already has, Legoland is heading in a better direction... I don't think that really makes sense.

proof read your posts please.

I bloody hate the Jumbos...They make me physically angry!

Ashamed?

To be fair, Paultons version is actually really intense. It spins at least double the speed of Griffins. Sure it has the atmosphere of a plank of wood but at least it gives a good ride. Griffins on the other hand has the most epic music in the Merlin group

Yes it is. The first week of Hocus Pocus, we're talking walk on Fury from 5 o clock With the recession and all it makes sense for Merlin to save money where they can.

The parks closing at 6 all week. We aren't as busy as Thorpe so it's understandable for Chessington to still have 5pm closes.

The old gates were broken and it was deemed to costly to build new ones.It never had a queue in the old days of Bucaneer but these days it can regularly get 10 minutes queue and longer.

I like Skyway but it desperately needs something done to it. I think the general ride is adequate, it gives you good views of parts of the Zoo and a brief glimpse of the rides. Realistically though the park has grown beyond Skyway and I think a new layout is required as the Skyway no longer covers much of the Zoo anymore. the whole of Creature Features and the Monkey and Bird garden can barely be seen. The back of the Sea Life also looks pretty rubbish and the ride itself has seen better days. The ride needs new, up to date trains because the faded yellow ones look pretty nasty these days. It is a very important ride in the park and needs to be looked after better.

Well.. for some reason, he might not give a damn if hes banned from a theme park. it's not the be all and end all for some person.

No that would just make the normal queue longer. Fastrack is not the sodding answer to reduce queues.

Does anyone remember the old Vortex announcements, you know the one where the voice had a personality."Vortex is a very fast ride so please remain seated, hold on tight at all times.... prepare for a scare"A piece of my teenagehood died when they removed her awesomeness.

I'm with Ste on this one, this topic is titled "Your Thorpe Park", so nowhere is he in the wrong for saying what he would do with the park.

Hmm I dunno, you'd think the air-gates and rows of waiting riders would be some kind of clue that the way they are going is not the exit..

10 years is hardly old in rides terms. Rides like Grand National, Big Dipper at Blackpool and the Scenic Railway at great Yarmouth are old but a 10 year old Top-scan is not aged or past it. So what age do we deem rides not as young but as old. 5 years, 10 year, 20 years?

According to TTF, Hex, Duel and Log Flume Unplugged were closed on Tuesday due to storm damage. Duel is also still closed because of a thunder strike to the building.