We seem to have the answer to what the teaser was for:

As posted on SouthParks social media, it’s been confirmed that The Luna Cinema will be coming to Thorpe Park during the May Bank Holiday weekend (25th and 26th), with showings of Back to the Future and Bohemian Rhapsody.

With doors opening at 7pm, there will be the opportunity for guests to enjoy rides on Stealth, Storm in a Teacup, Detonator: Bombs Away, and King Pig’s Wild Hog Dodgems, before the screening begins at 9pm.

General Admission tickets are priced at £27.50, but guests wanting a seat provided will need to purchase a Seated Admission ticket for £35. It seems backrests and blankets are also upcharge, at a price of £15 and £12 respectively.

More details and tickets are available here.

Sounds pretty awesome, hopefully the weather is good. Seems like it should be a nice relaxed evening event.

Well the park have now confirmed themselves what we already knew. Brilliant marketing line for it:

UK's first Luna Cinema experience at Thorpe Park Resort!

Note, it's not the UK's first Luna Cinema experience, it's the UK's first Luna Cinema experience that happens at Thorpe Park.

Can't wait to celebrate other genuine and worthwhile mentioning UK firsts at Thorpe Park this year. Such as the UK's first 2019 Thorpe Park Annual Passholder Preview Event, next week.

It's the clearest and most representative of all the park maps this year. Would appear that the Living Nightmare pin on the online map is just something left over from Fight Nights, as it's not mentioned in this map at all.


The back of it suggests that Walking Dead might be actor-less, which whilst not surprising, is disappointing if true.

That picnic area last year was literally 2 tables.

The screen is perhaps a little unnecessary, given they already have one, which is brighter too.

We shall see what they have planned for it though.

As posted on SouthParks News, we visited Thorpe Park Resort for their Pre-Season Preview day. With guest numbers limited, the park allowed a small number of Merlin Annual Passholders to visit the park one week early, allowing us to take a sneak-peak at the Resort's 2019 updates.

Along with changes to the Dome mentioned previously, the park appeared tidier overall with a new sponsor for Tidal Wave, new food and beverage options and a surprise addition of roaming actors.

Will you be returning to the Island Like No Other when it re-opens this weekend?

The great weather mixed with it being the first public Saturday of the season, meant the park was extremely busy yesterday. Crowd levels were more like a peak summer day, with around 10 coaches and the car park looking like it had gone into the overflow.

The remarkable thing, Thorpe managed it and rides were running at full capacity with good to very good throughputs, even if the queues were 40-60 minutes across the park. Flashback to last year, when the park only ran at half capacity and then everything broke, and then everyone left disappointed, this year's start was brilliant. Like last weekend, park management were very visible continually wandering around the park. Again, the atmosphere to me felt very positive.

Painting and signage at Tidal Wave and Jungle Escape have now been completed.





It was even busy enough for The Grill in Old Town to be open, however Fins was still on a limited menu.



But one thing that didn't work very well was Coke Freestyle. The machines were running less than half the options, with only sugar free options enabled, and machines regularly running out of things completely. It seemed that this was a temporary issue, along with some other technical issues they were having, but disappointing that they simply didn't have half the stock there in the first place. Really hope the non-sugar free options are enabled as was originally promised, as the current flavours whilst nice at the time of drinking, left a horrible lingering chemical taste for hours afterwards.