Mark9

This 'slow down' has been happening for the last ten years.

Is it? As each season goes its getting slower and slower. It's now struggling to do the tiniest of hills. That bend into the tunnel used to be full of force and now it's just really forceless.

What a killjoy.

I wish we'd got that. Toby is beyond cool.

I thought this was a wasted opportunity. Ironically enough, in spite of all the stories of massive queues that I had heard of previously, it seemed to run a flawless three train operation and so the queue remained at 10 minutes all day. I only had one go on 'Galatica' and I didn't think much of it all. Too brief and too rushed it doesn't have a long enough ride to create a story so it just rushes you through locations and then ends. I'd say I was disappointed but I wasn't. IF they had to have had VR it should have been on rides like Runaway Mine Train as then they could have created a story and have the ride length to justify it. On Air, it just makes a short ride feel even shorter which is quite a feat.

Without context as to why the fastrack queue is so long at that point, there are no issues raised that need addressing. Maybe for instance, this is a one off moment and for the rest of the day the fastrack queue has been negligible. Maybe there's an incompetent member of staff who is prioritising the main queue which has caused that fastrack build up. There's many scenarios that could explain that picture without anything needing addressing.

http://rcdb.com/3621.htm

It's not even trying to be Baron Oh man, I love Tatsu (looks like it supposed to be there) and I love Scream: The Car park coaster. What do I win?

You mean like how Slammer and Saw have re-opened and how Samurai has already been shown to be moving today. So looks to me like they adding a container and getting rides open, who'd have thought it.

I would have raved about it but it wasn't necessary. I liked it though, Spiderman, Ant-Man and Black Panther are awesome. I could watch a film with just those three in.

Shambles/10

Saw Alive then dropped like a stone. Nemesis Sub Terra was dropped faster then an F1 car and that included a ride section. Is that because it just sits there, on a pathway doing nothing for 6 months of a year. If it wasn't there, would any guests ask for a scare maze to do outside of the Halloween season. I don't know anything about Containment, I only know what it is know because of this forum. Would any guest be able to tell the difference between a scare maze and an escape room attraction realistically.

Seconded. They've tried twice to do the horror maze thing all season round and its never gone well. Why would this be any different.

Unacceptable.

Whenever I go down South from where I live, I can't believe people still wear track suits. I thought they went out with burberry shirts and caps but no apparently not.

Marc asked politely for this to stop. So take the hint.

Because it's not so much the information we are getting, its the use of the word shambles or unacceptable. Using Samurai and Loggers on the list of closed rides is to persue an agenda, to back up his viewpoint of the park being a shambles. He can have that opinion, but it's not like the facts of the situation are going to be important when someone just wants to be negative. It doesn't provide relevance because we know Loggers is out all season and we know the intention that Samurai will open later in the year.

We'll just have to beg to differ then. I'm more sympathetic to Thorpe because the last thing they want is to annoy people.

It is acceptable. It's in the terms and conditions which you agree to each time you walk through the front gates.

Now you're just moving the goalposts. Now the complaint is that they both suffered downtime. Everything suffers downtime in its first season, thats obvious because we know that engineers have to get to grips with the technology behind these increasingly advanced rides. I understand the frustrations. But I don't think Thorpe have really done anything wrong here. Rides delayed, they have informed people and urge people to contact them. Thats it. The outrage and sense of entitlement by people never fails to surprise me. The delay will cost Thorpe more then it costs individual people but of course, peoples sense of 'its my right to be angry about something out of anyones control' is more powerful then common sense.

Just get your facts straight next time then Jamie. You said it wasn't open on its opening day which it was. Doesn't matter if it was only an hour, it was ready (and open) for its first day of public operation. You're so desperate just to make digs. Thirteen didn't open finished. Well guess what, lots of rides open unfinished. Blue Fire at Europa, Black Mamba at Phantasialand, Shambhala at PortAventura, the whole of Disneyland Shanghai is going to open in June with lots of unfinished rides and areas. It isn't just Merlin, its a theme park industry problem. As for delays and poor plans, well guess what. I'm still waiting for my night tube on the London Underground, I was looking forward to Inhumans from Marvel which has been indefinitely delayed. Chiapas at Phantasialand was delayed for an entire year. I'm not defending any of these things, I just can't be bothered to get worked up about something so inconsequential. Besides, on one hand you want it opened finished but you don't want it delayed. Which is it would you prefer with Derren Browns Ghost Train because you can't have it both ways.

Saw did open on time. It broke down about an hour into the opening day due to a major incident. Winners preview day, seriously grasping at straws there. The other rides opened on time.

Not to mention that Thorpes track record with major rides is pretty good actually. Tidal Wave, Colossus, Inferno, Stealth, Saw and Swarm have all opened on time.

I CALL BINGO!