Mark9

Post of the year confirmed.

I think in light of what happened at Tomb Blaster in 2012, the park would never hire anyone who they didn't 100% trust to do their jobs.

Shame you could't quite keep to this really LC12. Reserve and Ride really riles you doesn't it. Life's too short to be posting the same comments time and time again. It's not that I want you to stop posting about this but, lets face it, your opinion on RNR is a well travelled road now. Could you not just let it go because clearly Thorpe have no intention of dropping it.

More importantly for me, why aren't they using the dedicated Fastrack queue? Lack of staff/ Staff cuts?

I was generalising with four. But the point of your parents didn't own one until a few years ago, I'm presuming they do now. Which goes in line that smartphone technology and reach would have expanded since Josh's research quotes from 2013. Thats a taboo point. I don't know how people get through their whole batteries in less then eight hours. They must run every app on their phone and refreshing Facebook and whatsapp every few seconds..

Isn't the likelihood in a group of four people, for one to not have a smartphone, very low.

Was Guest Services on reduced capacity too!?

Phew, that wasn't so bad. Thank you for keeping it brief LC12.

I miss the optimistic AstroDan.

So what you're really saying is ITS GONNA BE AWESOME.

Some excellent BS right there. Something to do with money probably. In the same way Towers likes to close earlier then it should Thorpe likes to run less trains then it should and pretends it's for the guests own good.

I suppose for Florida it's pretty different to anything else there.

I'd describe Boomerangs as okay myself. I really liked the one at Discovery Kingdom but hated the Knotts Berry farm one.

Things like one staff member on those rides isn't a new occurrence, even 12/14 years ago, those rides had one staff member operating them. The difference is, take Buccaneer in particular, that ride use to take 20 seconds to unload/offload. Now with all the gating and seating rules, that process takes 5 or so minutes.

I looked on your website for the queue times and count 10 things closed but some of those things like Crush single rider, Main Street vehicles aren't really closed attractions (unless you want to send horse and cart and small cars in the way of a large parade. Captain EO doesn't even play at Paris anymore and Cinemagique has had its last performance of the day. So that leaves Big Thunder Mountain as the only ride under an unplanned closure.

I don't like the look of it at all. It looks like its engineered to be wonky but doesn't look fun. And for a ride that is quite long, neither parts look that different from the other. Ah well.

Even though I wasn't bothered about Colossus's look particularly, that repainted bit looks mighty fine. Good work Thorpe

This forum has never been as fun as Grcade, lets face it.

I hate it. But then I like Green Lantern and Kanonen so what do I know.

If there's any activity or sign of opening, there will be a flurry of activity, mark my words. Didn't it open around July last year?

For the first time in a while I was tempted to go to this meet. Turns out I'm in Berlin. Bugger.

I got a whole pizza for a £1 today. You just can't put a price on Nando cheeky experiences.

The best way to have a cheeky nandos is to have a cheeky sangria. Otherwise it is worthless.

True. And that scares me actually. Because what the population is saying is that for all the bad things currently occurring such as abolition of the human rights act or putting MP's in place who oppose same sex marriage or the equality act, the population is fine with it. Whether it comes to fruition is another thing. I'm seriously worried for the future of this country though. I don't say a thing like that lightly either. I'm proud of being a Brit and I'm proud of being part of a wider community in the EU. I don't want to see a friendly neighbourly relationship with Germany, France, Belgium and the rest being tarnished, I don't want to see the BBC wrecked beyond all recognition and I don't want the NHS which benefits every single one of us ruined in the next five years.