May 6, 201213 yr comment_137213 Gosh, let's hope marketing don't hear about this, otherwise the swarm is going to lose its music ad instead that new song "turn me on" will be played on a loop... Shudders
May 7, 201213 yr comment_137270 Managed to get on 16 times today! Must say the improved water jet by the helicopter is excellent! Easy to get people behind you drenched if you put your hand out and hit the water! Shame the jets near the fire engine are so out of time. Also they set a record today, it was for the most people on The Swarm in an hour and the record is now 1260! Congrats to the staff on it! Queue never got bigger than 20 mins all day with it mainly being around 5-10 mins!
May 8, 201213 yr comment_137278 Have to say all day yesterday they were releasing the train in the station as the other one was flying through the station inline. I actually heard a staff member saying what would happen if it reached the top of the lift hill before the other train was back in the station. 1260 is brilliant for a new ride at Thorpe and smashing the projected 1100pph. Keep it up Thorpe Park for the peak season
May 8, 201213 yr comment_137281 It seems theres been a slight change in the Fire Effect on the truck. The disperser cover has been removed.... I think they may have put the cover back on. I noticed it on sunday when I was there. Ill get a picture up asap.
May 11, 201213 yr comment_137364 Sorry its taken so long, had to find the picture. This was taken on Sunday (6th), and as you can see it has the splitter back on it.
May 11, 201213 yr comment_137377 Managed to get on 16 times today! Must say the improved water jet by the helicopter is excellent! Easy to get people behind you drenched if you put your hand out and hit the water! Shame the jets near the fire engine are so out of time. Also they set a record today, it was for the most people on The Swarm in an hour and the record is now 1260! Congrats to the staff on it! Queue never got bigger than 20 mins all day with it mainly being around 5-10 mins! Wow! 16 times, maximum queue time 20 minutes?! And it was Bank Holiday! This is great to hear, I hope the park keep this up, especially during the busy periods such as summer and Fright Nights. Well done to the staff for setting a new record too! Great to hear about the improvements to the water effects too (well not the ones that are out of time!). Anyone have any idea what's happening about the onride DVDs? Also how is the timing with the ORPs these days? Must be sorted by now!
May 14, 201213 yr comment_137446 They were testing the on ride cameras on the bank holiday, one train had them all on and the other just had one on one row, didn't look like the cameras were on though when you were going around!
May 15, 201213 yr Author comment_137484 ME LIKE! :D Might have to pop down to the park this weekend then..
May 15, 201213 yr comment_137488 Wow. Is that going to trigger as the train passes, coz you'll really feel the heat if it is!
May 15, 201213 yr comment_137490 That picture looks awesome; very excited also to see the LEDs finally used. Do people think that it will be a short sharp burst of flame to create a fireball or do they think it will be drawn out so that it continues for the whole length of the train to pass? Assuming that it is triggered by an oncoming train which I hope it is
May 15, 201213 yr comment_137492 any fire on tidal wave yet?? I think it was stated somewhere that it would be in place for the start of next season.
May 15, 201213 yr comment_137494 We have fire!! Hurraaayyyy :-D looks good :-) goin again next month will be cool to see :-D
May 15, 201213 yr comment_137495 A video of it in action, it will go off when the train flys overhead
May 16, 201213 yr comment_137501 I'm actually shocked and pleased that they have gone to the effort of getting the fire effect working. IMO, Thorpe seem to be doing a better job than the other UK parks at 'park extras', especially if they are attempting to get Tidal's fire effect working by next season too - it's something not heard of very often by the parks recently. Anyone else think it will come quite close to the left-side of the train too - closer than expected?
May 16, 201213 yr comment_137502 Hearing that the Fire effect hasn't been working today and Swarm has had some downtime? Curse of the "S" as Stealth and Saw both having downtime aswell!
May 16, 201213 yr comment_137504 Looks good, but I thought that the fire ball would be a little bigger than that.
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