Alton Towers have updated their website to reflect an increase in the price of Express Parking to £18.

Jungle Escape has now dropped in price by £3 across all tickets to be: £7 on the day; £6 pre-booked; and £5 for annual pass. Thorpe Park in “upcharge attraction not being as successful as we hoped so we’re having to drop the price” shocker. Along with the AT Dungeon struggling to attract visitors t...

Thank you to everyone who attended our Southern Screamer event at Thorpe Park Resort!

We'd love to hear your thoughts about the day, whether there are things you particularly enjoyed or any suggestions that we could consider for future events, do let us know.

PhNx Survivor wrote:

So apart from the first drop being different to Colossus, is there any other differences?

As far as I’m aware, the only difference between Colossus and the newer versions of the layout, such as Altair, is the profiling of the first drop.

daveclarkedaveclarke wrote:

Do we have an idea on any theming?

The planning application hasn’t had any documents uploaded to it yet, so at this time there isn’t anything that would point towards any potential theme.

Anyone find it strange that the ride is still SBNO? They said there would be an auction in May yet there is still no sign of this I don’t find it strange that the ride is still SBNO, neither do I find it strange that the auction hasn’t yet been held. It’s Thorpe, they don’t seem to know from one da...

Alton Towers have extended ride close by 30 minutes today to 4:30pm. They also extended by 30 minutes on Friday, which was originally a 5pm close. Now we are creeping towards school trip season, I imagine we’ll see a lot of on-the-day extensions. I’d much rather the scheduled opening times were long...

Swarm Chris wrote:

Some news:



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Good

1 - Wicker Man
2 - The Smiler
3 - Nemesis
4 - Oblivion
5 - Thirteen
6 - Galactica
7 - Spinball Whizzer
8 - Rita
9 - RMT
10 - Octonauts

Did my first ride in years today. The drop and backwards section is still fun and the outside bit is still a little disappointing. However, what made my ride great was that there were people on it that had no idea what was going to happen. Some of their party did though and everyone's reaction at t...

Enterprise isn’t going anywhere, as confirmed by Wayne Burton

Whatever Alton do for their 40th birthday, I hope it’s better than what Thorpe have decided to put on. I think that the very least we should get is Towers Street all decorated with the big birthday cake at the bottom, some specific merchandise like Thorpe have done (which I very much approve of) and...

I too rode DBGT at the weekend, and I was far from impressed with it. To begin with, once the group in was in was batches into one of the two holding areas, we must have waited at least 20 minutes before moving through to the pre show room. That passed largely without incident (although the smoke ef...

GregH94 wrote:

Any plans to release the mounted POV that was recorded at the spring event? 

It will be uploaded to our YouTube channel in due course

Well that’s..........uninspiring.

Even if this project does end up seeing the light of day (which I highly doubt) I can’t see it being anywhere near the standard that was originally conceptualised.

I don't find Nemesis rough in the slightest.

Considering she's 25 years old, she's ageing very, very well in terms of a ride experience.

I’m liking the look of this!

It will definitely be finding it’s way to my laptop when it’s released

Justin wrote:

They also list Warwick as a theme park?

Weirdly, Warwick Castle forms part of the Resort Theme Park division

Thank you everyone for coming!

It was such a great day and I can’t wait to do it all again at Thorpe in a couple of months.

Mind the gap.....

Shame, I can't see it being around much longer. I’m not sure what is making you say that? On opening day, Hex was making some unusual noises when the drum got to a certain position during the ride sequence, and I believe it was closed on the Sunday. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is an issue with...