Good Evening to all of the fantastic members on here!

It is with the greatest pleasure that I can announce this FANTASTIC opportunity we have been given. It is something that none of you will want to miss! Thorpe Park are holding a Swarm Photo Shoot and have invited us to attend it.

Date – Friday 15th March
Time – 4:30pm to 7pm (Please be there on time)
Number of places – 40

Where - The Swarm (Fire Engine)

So book the day off work and come (I already have)! The reason for this is they need to take new promotional photography to show off the backwards element of the Swarm and the new billboard. This photography will then be used in all of the parks publicity materials throughout the year and possibly for longer. The images could be used in newspapers, on posters, on leaflets, on social media, Park signage, etc.

So if you attend please bear this in mind!

If you attend you must wear – light non-branded, non offensive clothing (I.e. no logos or offensive language/slogans)

Everyone who takes part must be willing to sign a photography release form to allow us to use them in promotional material. If you are under 18 I will need to send you the form for your parents or guardians to sign that I will need to give to Thorpe Park early next week. Please can I also point out that general pleasant behavior will be expected at all times!

You will be required to ride THE SWARM a number of times and there will be breaks in the middle to give riders a breather!

Please PM me immediately If you wish to attend as there are a limited amount of places - If you want to come but cannot due to not having a ticket please inform me about this and I will see what I can do about that!

Contributing members and those who contact me first will be given priority - for details on how people are chosen for an event please look at this topic http://forum.maniahub.com/topic/9912-what-do-you-wantexpect-from-a-tpm-trip/. However for this event there will be slightly different priorities as we need a good mixture of both genders - Deadline to book your place is on Wednesday 13th March 2013

If you are coming to spend the day at THORPE PARK there will be some additional meeting points for you all to come and join us. Outisde the park entrance before opening at 9:45am, by the stealth rocks at 1:30pm. We will not wait if you are late! attend these meeting points and will still like to meet up beforehand you will all have my number so you can arrange to meet us in park.

I think I can speak for everyone that this is just a BRILLIANT thing for THORPE PARK to allow us to come to this event, and would also like to express my Thanks at this point.

Attending (34)

AliceHuskyRedden +2 (Meeting 9:45am)

browneggsandham

C1hrisin +1 (Meeting 4:30pm)

Dan9

Dodge (Meeting 1:30pm)(or earlier)

Ellie (Meeting 1:30pm)

Gary (Meeting 4:30pm)

Han30 (Meeting 9:45am)

IanNem (Meeting 1:30pm)

jackstevens217 (Meeting 4:30pm)

Jonny392 (Meeting 1:30pm)

Marc +1 (whenever Marc wakes up)

Mark9

MattyMoo (Meeting 9:45am)

Mer (Meeting 9:45am)

Michelle (Meeting 1:30pm)

Mr Fish (Meeting 9:45am)

Peaj +2 (Meeting 9:45am)

Phill Pritchard (Meeting 1:30pm)

Pluk (Meeting 9:45am)

Ricky (whenever Marc pick's him up)

Sidders +1 (Meeting 9:45am)

Smidget (Meeting 1:30pm)

StevenVig (Meeting 9:45am)

Stokesyboy (Meeting 1:30pm)

ThrillNation (Meeting 1:30pm)

TobyNBZ (Meeting group at 2:30pm)

Tommy (Meeting at 9:45am, But Not ERT Boo!)

4 Places Spare! PM me if your interested.

Brilliant opportunity - massive thanks to everyone from here and Thorpe for organising this!

Ridiculously gutted that I won't be able to make this rare type of meet. Hope everyone who goes has a great time!

Sounds good, but I don't fit into Thorpe's target audience, so they wouldn't use me or have me out of sight :-)

Plus I would turn up with a Smiler or Stealth T shirt on :-)

Don't be silly BBJ - If you wanna come get yourself down there just say yes and Ill give you a place!

Such a shame I can't go

Anyway, hope everyone has a great time! I wouldn't be too keen on wearing non-branded clothing myself though

P.S I would have loved to ride the swarm without a queue

Could I bring a friend? He doesn't have an annual pass though, would he have to pay for entry just for those two hours?

Yes Tommy you can bring a friend - I have PMd you about his entry

I shall try find out if I can get the day off today. Shall keep you posted!

Can you put me down Peaj?

Just go to book the day off work, but I'm sure it'll be fine! Yay!

I seriously can't wait for this! Thanks Thorpe Park and TPM for this great opportunity.

I'm coming from Essex, anyone between there and Thorpe roughly along a13 / m25 who would like a lift a lift drop me a pm.

Gaaaaah so excited for this! The exclusives we've previously had from Thorpe are wonderful but this event just makes me feel so privileged and proud to be a member of their official fansite

I'd like a place please Peaj. I'll try and get some shifts swopped for it and will hopefully be there. If anyone wants to give me a lift from Feltham/Staines, that would be much appreciated.

So so gutted that I cannot make this

Next Friday confirmed as booked off from work

To add to the lift related opportunities - I'm driving from Farnborough, so will probably go through Chobham to get to Chertsey as the M3 is no fun in the morning during rush hour.

Don't be silly BBJ - If you wanna come get yourself down there just say yes and Ill give you a place!

It's OK I don't really like the Swarm. If it was Stealth or Saw, I'd be there.

Can I come please would really loved to do this. Since I missed my backwards swarm tickets on the merlin day

Sign me up brilliant opportunity and I Hope I can go

Right people who have requested and contacted me up to this point in time are now on the list - I will be at THORPE PARK tomorrow so if you contact me in the meantime up to tomorrow evening and you don't see you name being added to the list - please do not panic, I will catch up with you.

As you see the places are being filled fast, so get yourself a place as a soon as you can!

Right I'm now off to Dreamland

I'm rather looking forward to this - and meeting you lot for the first time Be gentle with me please?! haha

Ahh boo gutted I've only just seen this now, me and the missus are off work too.

If your still local Gary I can put you on the backup list, if anyone no-show's I can drop you a call.

Yeah if you could mate, me plus one. I'll pm you my number.

Been watching this thread for a while and really want to go! Unfortunately with college there is no way I can make it but I wanted to say well done for creating this opportunity! Thorpe clearly appreciate the site and it is great to see opportunities like this opening up.

If you attend you must wear – light non-branded, non offensive clothing (I.e. no logos or offensive language/slogans)

I was wondering how other members had interpreted the 'light' section of the dress code. Does this just mean light in colour e.g. bright blues, reds, yellows etc? Or does this mean light in the sense of a 'light' summer jacket?