March 13, 201312 yr comment_152954 Firstly, this is a POV of The Swarm BACKWARDS Secondly, this pretty much confirms that The Swarm will not have prebooked tickets to ride it backwards? Where's this POV?
March 13, 201312 yr comment_152993 From the POV's of Internet the backwards seats look awesome but the only thing that dissapoints is that I can't see any of the head choppers until after, hopefully it will be better when I actually ride it.
March 13, 201312 yr comment_153016 I don't think the billboards been themed to make it seem its been dumped by the swarm, so what's a London style billboard doing parked right next to a church? Doesn't make any sense
March 13, 201312 yr comment_153024 In America it's quite normal to have billboards in the most random places, I know this is England but it's not totally unheard of! And personally It hasn't been picked up and dumped there by The Swarm, it just decided it slam through it! Has anyone every seen that Family Guy episode?
March 14, 201312 yr comment_153105 Back row queue was a mess again first thing this morning. Queued up for backrow, got all the way to the batching bit where I was told by ride staff that I needed to get a ticket from the Dome. So went to the Dome and there was no one in the Fastrack bit there, went to customer services and they told me to go to the Fastrack unit at Depth Charge, they told me to go to the dome, went back to customer services and they then told me to get one from the Swarm entrance. Looks like they will be selling fastrack for backrow Swarm though from what I could see on the fastrack board, may have read it wrong but sure it said something like £4/5.
March 14, 201312 yr Author comment_153110 Looks like they will be selling fastrack for backrow Swarm though from what I could see on the fastrack board, may have read it wrong but sure it said something like £4/5. If it's £4/£5, I will scream. That is too cheap. Last season, front row for Swarm was £6. If it's anything below that, then, well, I dunno. That's just stupid. Really stupid. Too many people would take the opportunity up, and it will make the backwards queueing system even more ridiculous than it already sounds. Never thought I'd say this but, please Thorpe, make the price high.
March 14, 201312 yr comment_153111 If it's £4/£5, I will scream. That is too cheap. Last season, front row for Swarm was £6. If it's anything below that, then, well, I dunno. That's just stupid. Really stupid. Too many people would take the opportunity up, and it will make the backwards queueing system even more ridiculous than it already sounds. Never thought I'd say this but, please Thorpe, make the price high. It might well have been £6, I can't quite remember, probably was £5 or £6. But they are trialing the free tickets for now.
March 14, 201312 yr comment_153113 I honestly dont know how they are gonna fit 4 queues in what used to be 2 queues, I feel I wont be riding this next week till later in the day.
March 14, 201312 yr comment_153117 I don't want them to make the price high, I want them to not sell it for the back! Unlike the front last year there will be 10x more people wanting to hit the back rows and fastrack just shouldn't happen. I will be most upset if I have to mess around just to get on the ride tomorrow!
March 14, 201312 yr Author comment_153119 It might well have been £6, I can't quite remember, probably was £5 or £6. But they are trialing the free tickets for now. The fact that they're contemplating selling backwards tickets / having Fastrack for it is bad enough as it is to be honest. If they do decide to sell Fastrack ones for it though, as high as possible please.
March 14, 201312 yr comment_153125 Back row queue was a mess again first thing this morning. Queued up for backrow, got all the way to the batching bit where I was told by ride staff that I needed to get a ticket from the Dome. So went to the Dome and there was no one in the Fastrack bit there, went to customer services and they told me to go to the Fastrack unit at Depth Charge, they told me to go to the dome, went back to customer services and they then told me to get one from the Swarm entrance.What a wild goose chase! And then you had to queue again!
March 14, 201312 yr comment_153126 What a wild goose chase! And then you had to queue again! Luckily the queue was only about 5 minutes otherwise I wouldn't have been very happy
March 14, 201312 yr comment_153140 I think so, looks to me like something new permanently. Could be wrong.
March 14, 201312 yr comment_153141 if they do there will be many complaints over the weekend which is a shame really
March 14, 201312 yr comment_153144 No, I'm sure that booking the tickets was just for Annual pass day.
March 14, 201312 yr comment_153145 You don't have to book tickets, but you do have to pick up a ticket from the bag drop off point.
March 14, 201312 yr comment_153147 The hell with that. I'd rather queue for the forward facing rows then put up with all the faff.
March 14, 201312 yr comment_153151 Front seat Fastrack is £5 and Backwards Fastrack £6 (taken from the Thorpe Park app). Today I went backwards several times, didnt need a ticket at any time I did it - but the park was absolutely dead and there was literally no more than 20-30 people in the queue at any one time.
March 15, 201312 yr comment_153163 Just makes me want to avoid the ride with them almost forcing you to get Fastrack and the queue it will cause. The Swarm is the ride I go on the least, I have more rides on Vortex than the Swarm.
March 15, 201312 yr comment_153177 Why would you want cheap fastrack? Some people on here really are clueless. I absolutely hate thorpe and it's selling of fastrack. Everything has to be fastrack related, everything has to be making as much money as possible. Not a care in the world of whether they're overselling it or whether it'll be logistically easy to do. Should do a towers.. not introduce fastrack on new rides to ensure the operation runs smoothly, and so you can get a relatively accurate average throughput.. then price accordingly if you really must do it.
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