August 20, 20169 yr comment_240249 One week it's been closed for. Not good at all given that the ride has only been open for a month and is already suffering extended downtime..
August 20, 20169 yr comment_240261 3 hours ago, pluk said: Which is a nonsense and should never be the case in a seasonal park. Now get on with the rest of your lives......
August 20, 20169 yr comment_240264 17 minutes ago, StevenVig said: Now get on with the rest of your lives...... Are you deliberately missing the point, or is it just an accident?
August 20, 20169 yr comment_240269 6 hours ago, pluk said: Which is a nonsense and should never be the case in a seasonal park. That isn't the point I'm making.
August 20, 20169 yr comment_240271 Been to the park twice now since DBGT opened and both times it's been down for the whole visit. Obviously I understand that downtime is a thing but it shouldn't take three (at least I hope!) trips to the park to have a go on the new ride.
August 20, 20169 yr comment_240272 3 hours ago, Mark9 said: That isn't the point I'm making. I know. It's the point I'm making! At least the ads for DBGT appear to have been pulled from Facebook, the advertising while it was shut was what seemed to be riling people most on the comments.
August 20, 20169 yr comment_240273 5 minutes ago, pluk said: At least the ads for DBGT appear to have been pulled from Facebook, the advertising while it was **** was what seemed to be riling people most on the comments. Both an unfortunate yet humorous typo there.
August 21, 20169 yr comment_240285 On 8/19/2016 at 2:13 PM, Matt Creek said: Thorpe lately is been having so many problems. DBGT downtime, constant ride breakdowns, fastrack not to mention most of the park looks like a rundown sea side town currently. Whilst number one may be unavoidable, something certainly needs to change as the same problems have reoccurred most years and the park can't properly improve until these are resolved. Think it says a lot when the last good attendance year was 2011. Can't say I'm tempted to go back until Fright Nights. That's not really just lately though, they've had the same problems for like the past 10 years
August 21, 20169 yr comment_240287 On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Matt Creek said: not to mention most of the park looks like a rundown sea side town currently. Well Amity Cove/Beach does cover quite a large area of the park
August 23, 20169 yr comment_240405 Good Evening all. Is anyone aware whether Ghost Train was available today? Going tomorrow.
August 23, 20169 yr comment_240406 Wasn't open today, testing sign on doors in staff area so looks like work was being done
August 23, 20169 yr comment_240408 Hopefully that tells us Thorpe are attempting to refine all the little issues (4D effects, computer's overheating etc.)
August 23, 20169 yr comment_240410 24 minutes ago, cianjs said: Good Evening all. Is anyone aware whether Ghost Train was available today? Going tomorrow. Shut and fenced off.
August 23, 20169 yr comment_240422 Has there been any official line about this from Thorpe? No wonder Derren isn't saying much about his attraction.
August 24, 20169 yr comment_240425 The official line will be that they won't update - they never do, the ride will just re-open!
August 24, 20169 yr comment_240426 https://www.thorpepark.com/faqs/ There's a couple of FAQs answered there, which is as much detail as we'd ever get. Thorpe don't like going into detail about why a ride is closed, and you could argue that for DBGT in particular, any more details could spoil the experience for anyone who hasn't been on it.
August 24, 20169 yr comment_240427 Interesting that they seem to be suggesting it'll be open next week, they must have some confidence in that if they're putting it on the website.
August 24, 20169 yr comment_240428 Blimey that is a first suggesting a reopening date! Always dangerous though mentioning dates...
August 24, 20169 yr comment_240429 Anybody considered it might be something out the ordinary that's caused the shutdown? Like one of the mirrors got broke?
August 24, 20169 yr comment_240430 16 minutes ago, Ian-S said: Anybody considered it might be something out the ordinary that's caused the shutdown? Like one of the mirrors got broke? I personally think the ride system is completely shot... The amount of times I've been stuck in the transfer room... It wouldn't surprise me.
August 24, 20169 yr comment_240441 4 hours ago, Cornflakes said: Interesting that they seem to be suggesting it'll be open next week, they must have some confidence in that if they're putting it on the website. They were confident about their May opening date 2 hours ago, MattyMoo said: It's not that, it's just maintenance Maintenance on a ride that just opened......
August 24, 20169 yr comment_240444 Hence the wink The website mentions about if you've booked for the week of "17th-21st August" - and then about taking it out of action "this week" - assume by that they aimed to have it open for Monday 22nd but that hasn't happened.
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