Mark9

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.

But why does it NEED to attract more people. It already does its job very well, adding a taller tower with stand up seats is a very short term thing. In a park with Stealth it seems so pointless.

It had temporary planning permission (5 years I think) but I believe they got permanent permission in 2006. Don't take that as gospel.Besides Detonator is awesome. It's the very definition of why taller doesn't automatically mean better.

Possibly.. the fastrack points at Chessington are all called the batch position..Ignore my post then.. whey!

Exactly....

Probably because batch is just about the worst positions on any ride anywhere. It's the position where you get the most complaints, moaning, irritating comments and all those snobby guests who genuinely think they are clever buying into the fastrack system. It's very hard to be smiley and polite after even just an hour at batch so here's a typical conversation with a guest on a batch position.Guest:- "How come we keep stopping and you let all those others through first"Staff:- "They purchased fastrack which allows them shorter queueing times"Guest:- "We paid as well, that's not fair"Staff:- "They paid more to be able to use the system"Guest:- "What's your name, I'm going to guest services"Repeat every 2 minutes and you can see why staff really can lose their patience.

Exactly.. its counter productive. Thorpe really need to find another solution around it as having two rides being evacuated and giving exit passes out just means the people in other ride queue lines have to suffer.

Hmm the solution to every problem, bring on the exit passes.In all seriousness.. how long were both queues to justify throwing out the exit passes at everyone.

It's more like "we paid 35 quid for your rides to be closed."But yeah, so far, reliability at Chessington has been awesome, I've never felt so proud of the park.

That ride was Billy's Whizzer and that was about 4 weeks ago.Another statistic for you, so far in the season, Dragons Fury has only opened late twice.

So.. only one day with a ride closed all day so far this season..GO CHESSIE

Oh crap.. they've started to do it now.Honeymoon period = OVER

I'll just say that's it's very very unlikely for an all out gang war (which spreads from ride to ride throughout the park) to occur at Chessington.He's right though, Cwoa does have a slightly... softer environment then Thorpe. Whether that's an advantage or a disadvantage is completely up to you.

Well you know thats crap, look at the reaction I got the other day.

It's true but you can only really see it at night-time. You can see the lights on Colossus's lift hill and in 2005 you could see the lighting effect they had on Stealth during Halloween.

Fantastic ride, if it wasn't for the look of Blue Thunder, Black Mamba would easily be the best themed rollercoaster in Europe this decade.

We did yeah. We managed to get there for Extra ride time where Oblivion, Rita and Runaway Mine Train open at 9. The other rides tend to open around 9:50.