Mark9

Trucks has the most jumpy queue time in the whole park. Because of its location next to Market Square and Carousel it tends to suffer from really really long queues. Normally, the only way of keeping the queue manageable is to slightly inflate the queue time shown on the LED board. It the queue board had said 5 minutes, chances are the queue would come out the entrance and overflow into the main part of Toytown.From what I saw today average queues at the park were.Fury - 60 minutesVampire - 45 minutesTomb Blaster - 50 minutesRunaway Train - 45 minutesDragon Falls - 45 minutesRattlesnake - 30 minutesBubbleworks - 40 minutesThe park closed at 7 today as it was quite busy.

They've added squirters to Tidal Wave.What is the f........g point.

It means I agree with you. I was just to lazy to write more then I did!

Seconded lol

Short answer yes.Long answer. Sexuality is nothing. When you are young it's the scariest thing thinking you are not normal by liking the same sex and thinking you are all alone in the world. It's when you get older and you encounter other people that you realise sexuality doesn't define you as a person. It's an aspect of your personality but it should never dominate everything about you.I'm me. From the word go I am myself and if people do not like the way I act or talk then there is nothing I can do to change that. I like men, so what. Doesn't mean it's all I think or care about. At the same time I'm not scared to talk about my experiences with the same sex. I'm very lucky that no one I know has ever had a problem with it or made it an issue.

(was talking about Fury!)

I don't know.. whenever I've opped it in the rain it works..

The only rides which definitly close in the weather are Safari Skyway and Peeking Heights, the main reason being the ride becomes very uncomfortable. Other rides which can be effected by the weather are Tiny Truckers, Griffins Galleon, Rattlesnake, The Dodgems and Black Bucaneer.Fury actually behaves itself in the rain surprisingly.

When it originally opened it was called Dragon River, it was renamed in 1998/9

Yeah I saw Katy price to. you must have got on just as I left Fury. Peeking did open at around 4:30, it was closed due to the weather as it's not very comfortable up there when it's raining and windy.

Has only happened 2-3 times this year. Last year it was a daily occurrence during the holidays. Obviously with Saw at Thorpe and the new land at Legoland, Chessington is not as packed as it was in 2008.

If Chessington has a certain gate figure by 1pm they always extend the opening hours by an hour.

Awesome work Thorpe in getting the mist going again on Inferno. The tunnel mist in particular is such an important effect and I'm glad its been fixed. The fact that they have gone to the lengths to get the geiser mist going again near the top of the volcano fills me with hope to other effects at the park.

Probably not using the extension if we use some logic.

God that Intamin throughput is exaggerated like crazy. Our target at Fury is 650 pph so I mean how that thing can get 700 is crazy.

One of the trains plays the Berry Bouncers music and another plays Tiny Trucker sound effect music. Music in the Merlin group really is like a whore.

The park is currently trialling a system where Vampire, Bubbleworks, Black Bucaneer, Rattlesnake, Runaway Train, Safari Skyway, Rameses Revenge and Toytown open at 9:30. I'm not sure if this is just for hotel guests or for everyone but if successful it may stay for good.With Beanoland already opening at 9:30 for people who come through the South entrance, it means the park opening is essentially now 9:30 with only Dragons Fury, Dragons Falls, Tomb Blaster, Peeking Heights and the rest of Land of the Dragons opening at 10.

The animals are the best part of Chessington. Yes rides are all well and good but the animals are something special.

Lol.. I wouldn't make a job decision because every now and again you might be able to go on a ride... I think you'd be very disappointed

They are hardly going to say it's an above average ride but no where near as good as the one at Alton Towers are they.It's hardly one of the worse ones either.. Pepsi Max easily takes that position

I'd rather have a view of the sea then a view of closed rides personally (or rides within riding distance that I can't ride because I'm at school!).

Very right. Doesn't matter now anyway, Rameses reopened today some time between 10-11.

ATA's information would be from Alton Towers itself.

Rameses Revenge is currently unavailable. It has been for the last two days and it may continue into the weekend.

ATA has confirmed that the SW6 will be an Intamin rollercoaster. This should put to rest all the discussion that Merlin only go for the cheaper companies.