Oh I agree he is a lovley guy just not a huge fan of the artificial hype in his videos. He was brilliant fun when I met him

Prefer Lord Sanbrook for his fun but professional attitude and more critical/independent opinions.

We had a brilliant run through House of Monsters but from what I'm hearing a few others haven't had as many actors/ as enthusiastic as we had. We ended up in the same group as Jack Slikstone so wonder if they were putting on a bit more effort for him- it was quite entertaining to see the actors pick...

This announcement seems to be being met with about the same level of apathy as Walking Dead The Ride at Thorpe (which I feel was justified) 

35+mph winds predicted all day Saturday- guessing that means no coasters and potential park closure? We have our scarefest tickets and hotels booked

Do Woodcutter's and Rollercoaster Restaurant both do MAP discount?

Have tried Pizza pasta (Thorpe variant) which is ok and RCR (got food poisoning so not too keen to go back) so perhaps Woodcutter's for a change

We don't usually eat on park but on our scarefest visit we will be on park so long a hot meal is required.

What food outlet would you recommend for a reasonable (for themempark) ballence of quality and price?

Pit is looking fine now, Nemmy was running well when I went on Sunday.

Yes! Love my Thorpe album and Towers with be an instant purchase for sure!

Beware of visiting on a Sunday during the first week or two, especially when the Uttoxeter racing is on = Alcohol ban and high police presence ;) The Uttoxeter racing is on the first weekend (6-7 of October) for those wondering. Hopefully won't have any issues with the *cough* clientele that get at...

They really should have just bought a new Top Spin as they're great rides and relatively inexpensive. However, this is a Merlin park, they don't do flats. Would love a similar ride (perhaps a ripoff) for the park. I miss ripsaw and RR is just too tame on the stupidly short cycle it has now. RIP rip...

I had a weird one where some people were randomly allocated to VR rowsand some weren't in mid August.

Had the headsets physically been removed or were they still in their pouches?

Coaster Chall wrote:

I read somewhere on Instagram that Alton Towers are announcing 2019 today. Not heard anything else though?

Do you have a souce on that? Can't see anything on Towers' Instagram or Twitter.

Would be a certain winner with park guests! Something along the line of journey to atlantis at universal or a drop along the lines of dudley do right ripsaw falls would be epic! If they themed it aswell as Wickerman it would be worthy of the title SW.. Would be the fist water based SW aswell so ano...

A water coaster (with filtered water- please!) would definitely fill that gap though and be worthy of a Secret Weapon title if themed well enough.

wished thorpe park did this after I was stuck and ended up being evaced on ride after 45 mins in the underground car on ghost train They are meant to and normally do. Either the Island Action Squad get dispatched or a couple of managers. Not sure why that went doubly wrong for you in that instance....

Most of the time when I have had problems at Alton they have broken out the Priority Passes to placate me including getting return ones for Thirteen that I got in February due to it ceasing operation as <5 deg (used recently to bypass a 1.5hr Congo Rapids que).  wished thorpe park did this after I w...

If they can just pull a Thorpe Park and fix all the broken effects I would be a happy man. That said I'm going to echo everyone else- more flats going back to Thorpe their years when they added Rush and Slammer as well as Vortex, Quantum and Samurai added a lot to do at the park and took a lot of pr...

I thought it was ok but a bit on the dull side to be honest. Agree with the above that safety improvements would be nice to have been included. I thought they could have included some respected community figures like Shawn from TPW too, instead of just enthusiasts who use theme parks to help with th...