Mark9

So sexy.. Seriously. That looks so daunting, even six years later, and everyone's six years older. That's gorgeous

That to me shows that you know absolutely nothing about funfairs or their rides or even what a decent showman goes through to get there ride looking in tip top condition.I'm not denying that accidents haven't happened in funfairs but then they have happened at many of our theme parks to. We've had the Runaway Mine Train at Alton Towers split in half, Thorpe's Zodiac, Slammer, Rush and Colossus throwing bits of themselves off, a girl dying on Hydro because of negligence. That's only covering what I can remember from this country. See, that is where your logic goes wrong. A funfair showman knows everything about their rides. If they are taking them apart and putting them back together every few days they are able to replace parts much more faster and are able to apply the proper TLC to their rides. The point of funfairs is to attract people with glitz and glamour. Don't even start kidding yourself that funfairs are unsafe because at the end of the day they go through the same adips testing that any theme park rides goes through.

Oh it's in there.

Because they are.

Funfairs are just as safe as Theme Parks.

Right but you see the thing is Vampire in 1990 did a lot of damage in terms of noise pollution. It was a noise machine and so since then building new rides has been extremely difficult. Building an exact replica wouldn't do much as it would be essentially the same ride at the same cost. And a major problem with doing anything to Vampire is that you've got the Bubbleworks on top. You've got to remember that Merlin have been doing a lot with Vampire recently, a new food unit built and a new refurbished queueline means that if anythings going to happen, it will not be a replacement ride.I personally think it's got a long future at the park. It's still after Dragons Fury, the parks most important ride and more notibly is almost the exact defintion of a family rollercoaster.

Samurai - face your fear - enter

I have four cats (Holly, Misty, Amber and Sasha) and a Tortoise named Speedy.

1. I would wish that I was 7 again. With my 21st birthday speeding round so quickly, I now feel so old =(2. I would be able to relive some of my happiest moments in the last few years.3. I'd cure cancer.

You really should go and read your contract with Merlin again dude..

I'd say it's sorta military but really it's to do with the unknown. The story is on the X-Sector entrance signage so maybe one day someone will take the time to read it.

Agreed.

But I'm 21 this year...

Queues are weird at Chessington. At one point Fury's queue was at 35 minutes, Runaway Trains was at 50. It's because guests move round the park in the same way so instead of every ride being busy, rides are busy and empty at certain times.For instance on an average day, Fury is always the busiest at the beginning of the day but its queue time goes down by half around lunchtime. After lunch the other rides such as Runaway train, Tomb Blaster, Bubbleworks and Rattlesnake get really busy whilst Fury and Vampire remain quite short.(Chessington Geek)

I feel really old now!It's been 10 years since I first saw Samurai at Chessington and now 10 years since I first rode Bubbleworks.Someone book me a place at an old peoples home before I fall over

Average queue times coming your way!Dragons Fury 40 minutesVampire 40 minutesTomb Blaster 20 minutesRattlesnake 30 minutesRunaway Train 30 minutesDragon Falls 15 minutesBubbleworks 25 minutes

I think the irony of Chessington is that despite the lack of investment in the rides department, the park is still able to attract over a million people every year on the strength of its name alone. Over in the polls section Thorpe is quite easily thrashing Chessington as the favourite park to visit out of the two. But this is a completely biased forum as most of us on here are thrillseekers and like the big rides. What we forget is that rides are for everyone and the sheer variety of things to do at Chessington puts it well above Thorpe Park.James you said there's not enough to do at Chessington but I really do beg to differ. If you think of it as a family unit, you've got all the different kinds of rides, the zoo and all its shows and feeding times, the many things going on around the park and probably more stuff thats slipped my mind right now.My point being the rides at Thorpe you could ride anywhere else in the world (and ironically rides like Colossus, Stealth, Fish and all the flats can be). There's nowhere in the world where you can get rides like Tomb Blaster, Dragons Fury, Dragon Falls, Bubbleworks, Safari Skyway and Vampire. Even the common rides such as Rameses Revenge, Rattlesnake and Runaway Train's are themed beyond what they would be at many, many parks. And here ends the Chessington praise!

Lol... yeah shut up yeah

Post it here dude... we all wanna see!

Always put it higher. Some things can't be accounted for on rides so I'd rather have people queue less then they expect then more then they expect.

Depends really because like today for example it would be sharp showers then sunny again. So the queue was from 40-80 minutes.

Ah well you see the thing with Chessington is that most of the major rides do run in adverse rain but they aren't totally immune from problems. For instance Tiny Truckers, Safari Skyway, Peeking Heights often close totally in rain. Truckers because it's an indoor ride so doesn't like damp, Skyway because the trains have trouble getting up the hill by Seastorm and peeking because being bucketed with rain at 85 feet isn't exactly nice.Dragons Fury and Rattlesnake are affected by rain. Only today, we could only load two people on each Fury car because they were going to fast around the track. The same happens on Spinball Whizzer at Atlton Towers.I believe Griffins Galleon and Black Bucaneer are also effected by weather.

It's rubbish. Seriously, if you want to keep the old Bubbleworks alive in your mind, do not ride the new version.

Now now Jack, don't be like that

They left a gate into a ride area open....Amazingly not the first time, there used to be a smaller gate leading into Infernos shed/lift hill bit and someone has a picture of it wide open for anyone to run into and get beheaded...