Posted May 10, 20178 yr comment_249772 Discuss the new for 2017 ride here. Signage has been spotted on park confirming the name and the fact that the other ride from Sea-Life along side the Timber Tug Boat will be coming soon.
May 10, 20178 yr comment_249776 Can't say I'm excited but - well I can't do Detonator anymore and actually quite enjoy those little jump/drop rides - just wish they'd sort out the theming (or lack of)
May 17, 20178 yr comment_249914 Excellent addition to the lineup to soak up those queues, and the blue fences fit in a treat with Old Town
May 20, 20178 yr comment_249938 Couldn't Thorpe At least repaint Timber Tug Boat , Lumber Jump and those horrid fences To Fit in with the Canadian Theme of the area
July 1, 20178 yr comment_250559 Question. How has it taken four months (and counting) to get a frog hopper open?!
July 1, 20178 yr comment_250561 I expect it was a low priority - as far as I know it was originally not planned for this season (wasn't on the early maps etc) - hopefully it's open soon and gives some much needed attractions for smaller visitors!
July 6, 20178 yr comment_250654 34 minutes ago, ThorpeAddict said: The day everyone has been waiting for.... LUMBER JUMP IS OPEN Nobody has been waiting for this day.....
July 6, 20178 yr comment_250658 2 hours ago, StevenVig said: Nobody has been waiting for this day..... I have.
July 6, 20178 yr comment_250659 38 minutes ago, BaronC. said: I have. Should've gone to Chessington then, at least theirs its a little taller
July 6, 20178 yr comment_250660 I find it funny that no one on Twitter was commenting on the fact they were happy that Lumber Jump is now open , they were just asking them about Loggers and when it will reopen
July 6, 20178 yr Author comment_250661 This has to be the worst new attraction Thorpe has ever done. A half arsed re-theme of a used ride with a hut and fencing painted by someone colourblind. To top it off, a grand opening with no-one on it.
July 6, 20178 yr comment_250662 19 minutes ago, Stuntman707 said: This has to be the worst new attraction Thorpe has ever done. A half arsed re-theme of a used ride with a hut and fencing painted by someone colourblind. To top it off, a grand opening with no-one on it. Certainly not grand, just open. Your Loggers replacement ladies and gentlemen
July 6, 20178 yr comment_250666 31 minutes ago, StevenVig said: Your Loggers replacement ladies and gentlemen Loggers replacement That's funny even for you Steven!
July 6, 20178 yr comment_250671 1 hour ago, Stuntman707 said: This has to be the worst new attraction Thorpe has ever done. A half arsed re-theme of a used ride with a hut and fencing painted by someone colourblind. To top it off, a grand opening with no-one on it. Still better than I'm a Celebrity
July 6, 20178 yr Author comment_250673 55 minutes ago, Coaster said: Still better than I'm a Celebrity I disagree, people at least queue for I'm a Celebrity.
July 6, 20178 yr comment_250676 I still don't get the hate. >People say Thorpe should include more kid/family rides. >Thorpe introduce such rides (admittedly on the cheap). >People complain that Thorpe introduce kid rides. Yeah alright, they look a bit naff and out of place. It's clear they've been added in very cheaply and as a side project to help keep the family side of things happy in the short term. But Thorpe have introduced 2 0.9m attractions which are attractive to the younger market, and will help boost the 'things to do' quota for those people. It hasn't happened instead of anything else, hasn't got in the way of future development, and causes no real harm to anyone. I just don't understand the hate outside of 'they don't fit in with the brown-coloured area'?
July 6, 20178 yr comment_250678 It's just an odd situation I think, half the park is shut and in dire need of investment yet they bring in two second hand flats. The rides aren't really of the standard you'd expect in a park on the scale of Thorpe and they look terrible, though I guess it's better than nothing.
July 6, 20178 yr comment_250680 8 minutes ago, Coaster said: It's just an odd situation I think, half the park is shut and in dire need of investment yet they bring in two second hand flats. The rides aren't really of the standard you'd expect in a park on the scale of Thorpe and they look terrible, though I guess it's better than nothing. Part of me thinks that whatever kids / low-key family ride they added, it would get moaned at for not being something you expect at Thorpe. A Rockin' Tug is a ride which you'd find at a lot of parks, but because Thorpe have added one that isn't themed to the surrounding area, it gets mocked. Frog Hoppers are pretty common too and work as a 'little extra', but again, Thorpe are getting mocked for it. And the mis-match of theme as a moan-point feels pointless, when basically all of Thorpe's investment since at least 2012 (arguably earlier) hasn't 'fit in' with its surrounding, bar I'm a Celeb. Just feels like a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. And in fairness, the total investment cost of the two new rides is going to be in the thousands. The investment needed for any closed-off area of the park will be in the millions. So it's not really a case of investing in one over the other.
July 6, 20178 yr comment_250682 I accept that this is ultimately a second hand ride, bur I cant help but feel that it looks like a second hand poundland ride from the gondala design and how old it looks to to the exposed and wuite frankly ugly tower. Our local beach park 15 years ago had a better family drop tower called the bat than this pile of ****
July 6, 20178 yr comment_250683 Wow, this is great investment, can't wait to ride it! So nice to know Merlin doesn't just rip out second hand rides and plonk them in, like that would be really lazy and pathetic for such a large company.
July 7, 20178 yr Author comment_250684 I don't think anyone is complaining about Thorpe installing new kids rides. Every park needs a good mix of different flat rides and fillers. Its just the way it's been done on the cheap like a funfair, heck worse than that as even Brighton Pier managed to invest in a brand new rotating frog hopper. So since a funfair managed to build a better ride than Thorpe Park, then I'm afraid Thorpe rightly deserve a damn good mocking over it. It's not what people expect to see in a top UK Resort. Nor should we drop our expectations so low to the point we shouldn't moan and be glad that they installed literally 'any old s**t' in an almost abandoned area of the park just to boost the ride count. There's no excuses, Thorpe Park Resort should not be run like an unsuccessful funfair. If anyone thinks it's pointless to keep on moaning about a lack of theming at a theme park, then you're misunderstanding what a theme park should be about. When you can see what other places like Europa Park are capable of, it is frustrating to know that's possible and frankly insulting to imply people would still moan if Thorpe was anywhere near that standard of theming. I'm certain that Towers would not be doing TLC if it hadn't of been for forums like this moaning about years of neglect. I have always praised Thorpe when they do things right but I'm not going to defend them over this ride just because it boosts the ride count and they never do theming properly anyway. I hope this clears up the misunderstandings as to why most people on here aren't exactly being positive about this ride.
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