September 6, 201212 yr comment_140866 Was there for Ministry (also during the day)... Was lucky enough to be on a train where the fire effects went off.. It was mental to look at! In terms of effects - Fire was present.. In a way.. Sound effects working, heli-blades rotating with splashdown there working but not the one by the fire engine. There seems to have been a new fountain added since my last visit, that spurts water up vertically by the helicopter. It also seems like the fire isn't meant to trigger every time the train passes, only seemingly attempting to trigger completely randomly on between 1 in 3 to 1 in 7 times. With varying degrees of success. The area is looking amazing in terms of themeing now that the ambulance and telephone box are in.. But I can't help but think that there should be something more by the entrance... So, hopefully future development of the island will address this..
September 7, 201212 yr comment_140888 There seems to have been a new fountain added since my last visit, that spurts water up vertically by the helicopter. Is that the one that goes up occasionally, train doesn't seem to pass sometimes and it'll still go off! That's been there since opening!
September 7, 201212 yr comment_140892 THE SWARM had some major downtime on Wednesday, didn't open up until 3pm. However the moment it opened it had a massive queue. And it only really struck me then how fast the queue line moves, the thing is a throughput monster when its running full capacity!
September 7, 201212 yr comment_140896 That was possibly helped by the fact fastrack wouldn't have been sold if it was suffering issues all day!
September 7, 201212 yr comment_140897 THE SWARM had some major downtime on Wednesday, didn't open up until 3pm. However the moment it opened it had a massive queue. And it only really struck me then how fast the queue line moves, the thing is a throughput monster when its running full capacity! I went on Wednesday afternoon and noticed the queue reached 90 mins, probs was more but I didn't bother queueing for it. I did also notice the fastrack queue for the Swarm was long - didn't surpriseme. I guess some people wanted to guarantee that they get a ride on it. Colossus and Nemesis Inferno were walk-on so I decided to get re-ride on those. SAW and Stealth still had a fair amount of people in the queue, I queued for around 30 mins for both.
September 8, 201212 yr comment_140927 Reqlly sorry if Ive asked this already, I really cant remember if I have. But wouldnt it be cool if thorpe built some sub woofers under the floor off the Swarm island, and then every so often have an explosion sound effect going off making it sound like a battle, and with every explosion you would get a rubble under foot from the sub woofers. What do you guys think?
September 8, 201212 yr comment_140928 Reqlly sorry if Ive asked this already, I really cant remember if I have. But wouldnt it be cool if thorpe built some sub woofers under the floor off the Swarm island, and then every so often have an explosion sound effect going off making it sound like a battle, and with every explosion you would get a rubble under foot from the sub woofers. What do you guys think? Sounds awesome, why not suggest it on the Ask THORPE PARK forum
September 8, 201212 yr comment_140934 Seems like it's be a little risky seeing as the island is infilled land, it'd cause a lot of structural disruption over the years. Plus lets face it, it'd be broken after a month anyway...
September 8, 201212 yr comment_140935 I don't think that would be possible as you describe it. It would work for a certain area only, depending how big the sub woofer is. And also it might not be safe for the soil around it, and it might cave in and disrupt the rest of the island. In the sense of the foundations.
September 8, 201212 yr comment_140957 I will be going Friday so hopefully it'll be quiet as most people will be back at school, I'll try and get some pictures in and also do a ride report of what is and what's not working!
September 11, 201212 yr comment_141008 I think it would be brilliant if Thorpe Park put a BMX bike near the helicopter behind the fencing (so no-one could get at it). It would be a cool continuation of the advert and a little easter egg.
September 11, 201212 yr comment_141018 Wow this is the best and most costly addition that Thorpe Park have added to there new ride 'THE SWARM' I am happy to announce: THE WING HAS A NEW LIGHT! OH EM GEE! Heres a pic: Compared to before ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
September 12, 201212 yr comment_141067 On my visit to thorpe park today, I saw that all the effects on the swarm were working. I also took a video of the fire effect, which took some time to record. And as you can tell from the video, the fire effect is quite loud.
September 12, 201212 yr comment_141072 Advertisements have taken over the swarm TV's already.... Disgusting
September 12, 201212 yr comment_141073 Actually, it might make things more realistic, as the news report is meant to be like Sky after all...
September 12, 201212 yr comment_141075 But there are no news reports.... just a 5 min cycle of adverts
September 12, 201212 yr comment_141080 How disappointing. Like Benin said- it'd actually be pretty cool if it was integrated into the loop to reflect a proper television channel. It wouldn't surprise me if this was to end up being the case. I'm holding onto hope.
September 12, 201212 yr comment_141081 This is completley ridiculous. How is any atmosphere going to be built up with advertisments?
September 12, 201212 yr Author comment_141082 My first thought after I heard this... Actually, it might make things more realistic, as the news report is meant to be like Sky after all... After hearing that it's on constantly... I'm holding onto hope. I do hope they aren't doing this permanently, and this was just a glitch or something. Not only would it ruin the atmosphere a bit, it would be a shame to see a very good video which obviously had a lot of thought put into it used for only a few months...
September 12, 201212 yr comment_141086 Thorpe are not going to pay £1000's to create an advert which is a fairly big part of the ride experience to change it to adverts a few months later, ive no doubt there will be a reason for this and it will change back.
September 13, 201212 yr comment_141098 And so the downward spiral begins on yet another new offering from the park. I give it a year before it ends up in this sort of state:
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