June 23, 201510 yr comment_211971 If the staggered openings allow for coasters to be on capacity on busy off peak days then I'll be be more supportive of it.
June 23, 201510 yr comment_211972 About 90% of the gate figure from opening to 12pm end up in the queue for The Swarm, so in any sense they may as well just open the coasters at 10am
June 23, 201510 yr comment_211975 Not a wholly shocking or surprising move, but there's something about staggered openings in a park of Thorpe's size that I just don't really like to be honest. The park did staggered openings on some of the quieter rides a couple of years ago if I remember correctly; the idea didn't seem too popular and didn't last too long either.. Will be interesting to see how this goes down.
June 24, 201510 yr comment_212003 I hope that the queue times website is wrong at the moment... 11 rides closed! It's showing Depth Charge, Logger's Leap, Rocky Express, Rumba Rapids, Samurai, Saw, Slammer, Stealth, Storm Surge, The Swarm and Tidal Wave all as being closed. Staggered openings don't work if you can't even get the other rides open!
June 24, 201510 yr comment_212006 Its correct Of course that depends on the queue board instantly being changed when the ride opens... which we all know isnt always the case.
June 24, 201510 yr comment_212057 I was on park today. Depth Charge opened late due to a fault which was dealt with quickly (worth noting that the queue board said it was meant to open at 10). Stealth seemed to be having troubles in the morning but opened before 12 I believe. Whenever I was near Colossus, it was running fine. Slammer seemed to have a lot of trouble during the day however. The other rides above listed as closed opened at 11 and ran fine during the day. The spread of people during the morning saw most people go to Swarm or Inferno and then spread around afterwards. Once Stealth opened that saw a lot of people go to it, naturally. Colossus see-sawed a lot between short and long queues, which I found unusual. The queue boards seemed quite inaccurate at a lot of points - Colossus stated a 40 minute queue at one point when it couldn't have been longer than 15 or 20. Samurai was sporting a 50 minute queue when it was about 10. Rush's queue never seemed longer than 15 minutes either. It was certainly a weird day for queues on park. The first hour wasn't helped by having Stealth out of action, and the usually reliable Depth Charge (the first ride you see) being fenced off. Not to mention school trips are coming in thick and fast and Saw being closed and fenced off make it feel a lot worse than it actually was to be honest.
July 17, 201510 yr comment_213180 Out of interest, does anyone know why the Lost City flats close at 5pm on Fridays and Saturdays now even though the gates for the concert don't open until 6pm?
July 17, 201510 yr comment_213181 Probably in case theres a queue for them, to allow them time to clear the area and clean up before 6pm
July 20, 201510 yr comment_213306 It was closed both days I went on the weekend and I didn't see anyone working it during my time there.
July 20, 201510 yr comment_213307 Anyone know how long samurai has been closed for this time round? Just looked it up, it died on the 2nd of July at 2:36pm Swear it's actually spent more time closed than open this season?
July 23, 201510 yr comment_213439 Swear it's actually spent more time closed than open this season? during it's time at Thorpe Park? Fixed that for you.
July 25, 201510 yr comment_213476 So today at thorpe closed/ part closed rides samurai, stealth, storm turd and stealth ....
July 25, 201510 yr comment_213477 So today at thorpe closed/ part closed rides samurai, stealth, storm turd and stealth ....And people wonder why I moan about Thorpe...
July 25, 201510 yr comment_213478 The closed rides, one of which is down for long term maintenance. Stealth will probably be back up quickly, Storm Surge usually isn't down for long. It's not great, but not exactly anything to worry about at the moment.
July 25, 201510 yr comment_213479 And people wonder why I moan about Thorpe... And then we wonder why you visit so much...
July 25, 201510 yr comment_213481 I understand where Jamie is coming from as I used to be in that mind set but I just stopped visiting as much. What was once 15-20 times a year is now 2 or 3. Get yourself out to one of the better parks and then you will see what Thorpe is. Then just visit less and save to go see more of the better ones. It may seem odd and something you don't want to do. You still get an adrenaline fix and don't have to put up with Merlin.
July 25, 201510 yr comment_213483 We have visited thorpe atleast 30 times this year and today has deffo been the worst so many shutdowns and evacs today. Tidal shut down as 2 boats ended up in one block on the lift hill evac, loggers evac, storm surge opened around 1 along with stealth. Detonator got stuck half way up. Rush is one swing which gives it the longes queue on park. I accept the park cant help much of this in terms of planning its just a pain
July 25, 201510 yr comment_213485 I really don't understand the whole bash merlin at every opportunity on here. Has anyone considered that they actually do know what they are doing and are a hugely successful company for a reason? Just because there are better parks elsewhere across the world don't mean that they would be a sucsess in the UK's industry.
July 25, 201510 yr comment_213486 I'm not bashing Marc just saying I know why shutdowns happen, but its not great for customers and a day out overall. Thorpe has been so much better the past couple of years just today has been an off day
July 25, 201510 yr comment_213487 I'm not bashing Marc just saying I know why shutdowns happen, but its not great for customers and a day out overall. Thorpe has been so much better the past couple of years just today has been an off day Wasn't really aimed at you or anyone in particular! We know shutdowns happen and always will do - generally Thorpes reliability is pretty good over recent years (apart from Samurai!)
July 25, 201510 yr comment_213488 And then we wonder why you visit so much... Post of the year. No. Make that, post of the decade. I really don't understand the whole bash merlin at every opportunity on here. Has anyone considered that they actually do know what they are doing and are a hugely successful company for a reason? Just because there are better parks elsewhere across the world don't mean that they would be a sucsess in the UK's industry. What makes the UK industry so special then Marc? From my viewpoint it's in the biggest lull that it's ever been in. Besides, the only reason people are suggesting go to other parks is because people Merlin bashing are also the ones going seemingly just to moan about the state of things.
July 25, 201510 yr comment_213493 The oldies here are less likely to moan as much, we've already become accustomed to things not being as good as they were when we were kids.
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