Mark9

Are you ever going to stop listing Loggers Leap as closed for the year? Although I have doubts that it will return next year, it currently lies in the same bracket as rides such as Big Thunder Mountain and Star Tours at Disneyland Paris, I.e. closed for refurbishment.

I'd like to borrow one of your time machines please. I know at some point, Merlin might build something that people will like and I'd prefer the positivity over the constant pessimism. Right now even the thought of something drives people crazy and they've already designated it to the dustbin. The Gruffalo doesn't exactly send me running to the turnstiles but as far as I can tell, Chessingtons target audience hasn't changed and the Gruffalo is within the remit of younger families.

The state of this thread.

It must be so tough being a manager of Thorpe. To think there biggest attendance achievement in the last five years was Storm Surge. The Swarm was a genuinely good ride with a great theme and it fell on its backside, Angry Birds Land was a non event, I'm a Celeb is just a throughput nightmare and Derren Brown's Ghost Train doesn't work properly. They didn't know when they were better off did they, the park is completely adrift in its ambitions right now.

It wasn't very good. You didn't miss out on anything remotely special.

This has been discussed a few times. The parks quieten down so drastically whenever they have attempted later closing that the first things cut the next season are the opening hours. I've always maintained that Thorpe in particular needs something to keep the guests attention for later hours. The rides themselves are not enough.

With how short the UK parks opening hours are, they could easily do this stuff after park close but they choose not to.

I'd move it to a seaside park. Or preferably into the sea.

On the other hand, Pete's Dragon is absolutely charming and thought provoking. Worth a watch.

The comments make it for me.

Thanks everyone for doing the searching so I didn't have to. It all sounds really wishy washy. Winky face emojis in the tweet, 'the resort hopes' on the official website. Until they say what they are doing, I'd consider Loggers isn't getting anything done or an major relevance.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but have Thorpe ever said there was a refurbishment on the cards. Is it even re-opening in 2017?

To save time, I'll just go to the countries that have air-time rollercoasters. Better to be realistic then to chase dreams that won't come true.

You lost me at Cheetah Hunt. I don't get the hype for it at all. Launch, slow to a crawl, Launch, slow to a crawl, do a tree thing, drop and slow to a crawl constantly. Rides like Taron and Helix blow it out of the water. Points for having Space Mountain in your top ten though. I'm a big fan of it

It's not really for safety frankly, its a BS rule that seems to be all about theory and not reality. And it's inconsistent across Merlin.

Thats because Universal are going for the everything and the kitchen sink approach and so far, its kind of worked. And as we know, any investment in a Florida park equals attendance rises for all parks. Disney don't have to do anything and people still flock to their parks. Is it any wonder they don't rush investment.

It was in the Blade/Ripsaw pit. It was the reverse Oblivion if you like with majority of the ride sunk down. I had always heard it was removed because of the noise it made, more then the track being visible outside the park.

Average rating of 4.7 on Rotten Tomatoes just means its average. Problem is, Marvel films have knocked it out the park more times then most. DC are playing catch up far too quickly and shows through their films which just don't feel right.

They still run Smiler like they used to, they were definitely duelling during my visit.

I miss 2003 Tidal Wave. In fact 2003 Thorpe Park. Nostalgia sucks.

What do you think they should do? Open it anyway?

Thats a very American response to something out of a companies control...

I do think you are being pedantic, particularly as visitor numbers have risen steadily over the last ten years.. This thing they are offering isn't compulsory, no one is being forced to go on the tour. It makes sense for a theme park to profit from one of their attractions if people are willing to pay that amount. In a sense, it is a last time opportunity to see the Bubbleworks behind the scenes. I'd be intrigued as to how they intend to include Professor Bubbleworks in there.

And what a wonderful twelve years it has been.

They needn't have bothered. Its a great coaster without having to be some kind of record maker.