August 16, 201510 yr comment_215144 Have to say that even with the terrible reliability yesterday, the park operations were awesome. The ride crews were working their backsides off even with the short queues. Particularly on Swarm, Vortex, Colossus, Inferno and Detonator. Was mucho impressed. For all the crap we give Thorpe, the staff were awesome yesterday. Friendly, engaging and damn hard working.
August 16, 201510 yr comment_215146 Have to say that even with the terrible reliability yesterday, the park operations were awesome. The ride crews were working their backsides off even with the short queues. Particularly on Swarm, Vortex, Colossus, Inferno and Detonator. Was mucho impressed. For all the crap we give Thorpe, the staff were awesome yesterday. Friendly, engaging and damn hard working. It's so easy to criticize, so this is a great post, and if I can, I always thank and praise the staff, it is only right.
August 20, 201510 yr comment_215479 Much better operations at Thorpe Park today compared to my previous visit. All staff worked hard and efficiently as possible Only issue was queue times inaccurate. For example it said 45 mins on X and it was only 20 and Rumba said 5 but had a virtually full queue from bottom of stairs. Angry birds stated 8 mins till next show and had the waiting area completely full for it to then not even have the doors open and the timer reset to 20 mins. By the time the second timer got to about 15 mins a lot of us gave up and left.
August 20, 201510 yr comment_215480 Much better operations at Thorpe Park today compared to my previous visit. All staff worked hard and efficiently as possible Only issue was queue times inaccurate. For example it said 45 mins on X and it was only 20 and Rumba said 5 but had a virtually full queue from bottom of stairs. Angry birds stated 8 mins till next show and had the waiting area completely full for it to then not even have the doors open and the timer reset to 20 mins. By the time the second timer got to about 15 mins a lot of us gave up and left.
August 24, 201510 yr comment_215741 Recently the operations have improved at Thorpe and fast pass seems to be better now but when I went to cwoa their operations were twice as bad with a sign out front saying tomb blaster, rattlesnake, monkey swinger and safari skyway will not open, bubbleworks broke every 30 mins, dragons fury opened 3 hours late and closed early and then Vampire said it had a 70 min queue, go in its on two trains not going back far in the queue so should be twenty mins or so, when I get in the station they are running a normal train and the other is for ultimate fast-track because they had most likely been oversold massively.... That on Vampire was just ridiculous
August 27, 201510 yr comment_216069 At the park and every coaster except saw is on one car! Queues double what they should be
August 27, 201510 yr comment_216072 At the park and every coaster except saw is on one car! Queues double what they should be Yep my brother is on park as well, he's told me that all coasters are on one train and that even Rush is only on one swing. What is going on with Thorpe at the moment? when I get in the station they are running a normal train and the other is for ultimate fast-track because they had most likely been oversold massively.... That on Vampire was just ridiculous That's ridiculous on any ride, when will they learn?
August 27, 201510 yr comment_216083 What I said about vampire they were doing on inferno earlier, and stealth has had its second train on the transfer track all day and has been closed since about 1 with four engineers on it, swarm opened late and keeps breaking down with row 3 locked off on both trains and rush on the swing which doesn't reach 90 degrees but is actually passing it today (right swing I looking from tidal wave).
September 6, 20159 yr comment_216833 Most operations are fine but swarm is on one train with a 45 minute queue Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk
September 6, 20159 yr comment_216835 Swarm keeps breaking down lately, still better then the ops at cwoa though....
September 6, 20159 yr comment_216840 Gotta say, lately the operations at Thorpe are dire.. At Europa they most of the time run three trains on there coasters, and Thorpe struggle to run two.
September 6, 20159 yr comment_216844 Well operations are opposite to my last visit. All teams working hard and ride queues short and being dispatched/run quickly. Only Swarm on one train for reasons mentioned above.
September 6, 20159 yr comment_216873 Colossus was on two for a change Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk
September 6, 20159 yr comment_216874 Went today as my last time before I move to Wales with some come back for £10 voucher and I have to say it was a nice end to my era at Thorpe. Operations were good. Slammer slow as usual but not an issue. Everything else was getting through the crowds well.
September 6, 20159 yr comment_216904 Hopefully Colossus will now remain on two till the end of the season, its just annoying when you see it at the front of the workshop with no engineers and it looks as if they just cant be bothered to move it out....
September 6, 20159 yr comment_216926 Hopefully Colossus will now remain on two till the end of the season, its just annoying when you see it at the front of the workshop with no engineers and it looks as if they just cant be bothered to move it out.... Whilst it may look like that it won't be the case - Colossus spent the last few weeks on 1 train due to the other needing repairs.
September 7, 20159 yr comment_217069 I only ever saw work on it when it was right at the back of the workshop which it was for a good few weeks but whenever its been at the front with no engineers it suggests to me that they were either testing it the previous evening (likely) or they had planned to run it that day...
September 12, 20159 yr comment_217359 It seems Thorpe have gone back to my favourite excuse again. "We are sorry you felt this way, but to conserve energy and aid the environment we reduce cars when there is low demand"
September 12, 20159 yr comment_217361 It seems Thorpe have gone back to my favourite excuse again. "We are sorry you felt this way, but to conserve energy and aid the environment we reduce cars when there is low demand" Funny, you would think that if they felt so strongly about the environment, it would be the same at all Merlin parks... So how come Alton Towers will always run rides on two trains even if there is "low demand?"
September 12, 20159 yr comment_217365 Just some rough working (may have gone wrong) stealth only uses approximately 3.5kwh per launch. So say it launches 40 an hour which would be pushing it with 2 trains so it's looking at around 1000kwh per day. The saving energy thing doesn't save that much. An average house uses 6500kwh per year. Stealth is definitely a maximum in the park so there saving the environment thing with one train is basically worthless on the other rides. Stealth would have an impact but swarm...
September 12, 20159 yr comment_217366 Telling guests that there is "low demand" when they are stuck in a 45 minute queue does not cut it.
September 12, 20159 yr comment_217368 LOL I guess they get their logic from the same lot that thought reducing hover power usage would mean people used less power, when in reality the reduction in power means you have to spend longer hovering, thus increasing your total kWh usage....
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