Mark9

Every ride at least 30 minute queue basically

No-ones complaining. Family rides are more fun then thrill rides will ever be regardless of how intense a ride is. Obviously we're all under 5 so we are silly.

What an absolutely terrible justifcation for having a slow ride. People are scared by it anyway so it doesn't need to be fast? The biggest WHAT THE BLOODY HELL ever. I know that I can only speak for myself when it comes to Samurai, having ridden it a lot at Chessington and knowing how awesome and punch the air it can be when you get a decent ride on it. Suffice to say I've had that about twice since it moved.

Except that it is.

It was awesome tbh. It looks crap but we're looking at it with 21st Century eyes where everything has to be highly realistic and be logical and etc. 5th Dimension was just a fun little dark ride with a zany story and completely fitted into the Chessington of the late 80'sUnfortunately I don't remember a hell of lot of it because when I rode it I was four. Along with the original Bubbleworks, Cwoa really was a force when it came to dark rides.

Thats what reviews are supposed to be. They are supposed to balance the pros and cons of a ride and come to a natural conclusion of what he believes of the ride.

Low capacity rides will always have long queues regardless of settings or speeds.

I'm not offended, its just a debate after all Anyway onto your comments.1) I think its a very bad idea to over-crowd Thorpe. By playing a flyer right at the parks entrance, the park immediately hits you with rides from every angle. Think of any park you have visited, and you will find very few have rides so in your face right away. I myself rarely use the beach or Depth Charge but I don't think a rollercoaster is the right approach. I think someone on here suggested a Splash battle which I think is an excellent idea. It compliments the other water rides perfectly and would be a fun ride in its own right, as well as making sense in Neptunes Kingdom.2) I also don't think moving all the kids rides away to a seperate area is a good idea purely because whilst Thorpe is very small, kids get tired a lot faster and if you have a place crammed with rides, themes (as lacking as they may be) become confused and less obvious. (Amity Cove for example doesn't make realistic sense anymore for example). With that, if Thorpe is just a THRILL island, then what is to happen to Loggers Leap, Rumba Rapids and Storm in a Teacup which are family rides. You can't really move them around as they are fixed structures.

I don't have a problem with it, but what I don't understand is why intelligent people do it. I know several people who are obviously educated, at uni etc and yet smoke. Despite this the little messages on the boxes don't put them off, don't seem to have any effect at all. So why do people start or put effort in to stop.

Bit unsure why people are taking the piss, its not as if Sam was questioning what the website was saying.

Didn't know Dragons Fury was even on the website, its been open everyday this week

And you've just prooved my point quite adequately. They don't even believe the park is a "MEGA THRILLZ park" if they expected Eclipse to go down well, only for it not to. They then add Fish back and have rides with 1.2 metre height restrictions which generally rates them as "family friendly." And what about the bear hunt Mr Hicks, or are we ignoring that?

Topics like this make me realise how out of touch I am with the coaster world. The thing thorpe fanboys want is more and more thrill rides and huge rollercoasters, and I think if anything they need some kind of family rollercoaster in-between Flying Fish and No Way out height restrictions to balance the park more. Under 1.4, and the closest you get to a rollercoaster is the fish.Where exactly is this believe that Thorpe is solely a thrill park? Surely rides like Tidal Wave, Flying Fish, Quantum, Eclipse and the Bear Hunt proove that Merlin are not interested in keeping Thorpe within a specific genre of rides.

Uh What?

Nope. Both rides have one vertical loop, one inline twist and two wing-overs (otherwise known as corkscrews).And as for red, it depends on when they dye the water.

Aww poor Skyway.

Have you been on Rattlesnake or the Runaway Train at Chessington?

It used to get 3 hour queues...

Err.. bit confused actually. Chessington isn't a throughput based run rides and attraction department, one of the sole points of Chessington is that its staff speak to guests, find out how their days are going etc etc. I also don't like how you call everyone who works at Chessington pathetic. Generalisations are pathetic and thats how you come across.

Not really. Everyday guests at the park wouldn't really twig onto the fact that they are by the same company and besides there are other rides there to cope with Rush being closed (again).

Why does it matter Pete?

God, does it even matter. Gay, Straight, Bi, Trans, Asian, White, Black, African, Sweedish, does it ****ing matter.

I'm going to be controversial and GO AGAINST THE CONCENSUS Ok.. Drayton is crap. There is no denying that if I had to go to Hell or Drayton, I'd be buying my one way ticket to Satan's house right now. However, Drayton bless it, tries very hard to get it right and on some occasions it succeeds. The problem is, as it always is, is money. Drayton can never compete with Alton Towers, its only way of clawing profit is to have un-motivated staff on minimum wage, one train operation on its rides and moderately themed rides with graffitti everywhere. It's only way of adding rides is to throw things whereever they fit. Look at their recent additions such as that pirate ship and the drunken barrells.It's to much to say they could build a spinning rollercoaster because it would always be overlooked by Fury and Spinball. What would be the point of an Eurofighter when thorpe is opening what will be a very popular ride next year. The smaller parks have to look outisde the box when they build rides as they simply cannot compete with the Merlin 4.

How can ANYONE thinks that looks fun!

I would have except I'd try to talk to you on say Lift 1 and end up speaking to the queueline... yeah..