Spent the last two days on park at Thorpe and experienced Derren Brown's Ghost Train for the first time. I actually thought it was pretty good, although clearly not worth the huge expense and not nearly as re-rideable as traditional dark rides or even something like Hex.
There were a couple of jump scares in the VR in there that were genuinely pretty scary and I thought it was pretty effective, although the middle section was only decent if you had a good view of the tunnel area. There were a few small problems such as being able to see the projector in the pre-show room (and those at the back not having a particularly good view of it at all), and also the acting in the middle section was indifferent and often ineffective; this is certainly the weakest section of the attraction. But on the whole I think it's really fun and it was certainly going down very well with those that rode it. I absolutely love the gift shop finale.
It also had no reliability issues whatsoever over the past few days, which is a lot more than can be said for most of the rest of the park with Swarm, Stealth, Inferno, Storm Surge, Samurai, Slammer (closed all day) all suffering considerable downtime over the two days. Very short queue though which is a bit of a worrying sign - longest it got to was 20 minutes despite its' poor throughput, and it was walk-on at times. This compares with maximum waits of 60 minutes for Colossus (one train), 60 for Swarm (one train) and 45 for I'm a Celebrity. I can easily see Derren Brown being the victim of budget cuts in the very near future.
I'm not sold on Thorpe Park at the minute, but Derren Brown is certainly worth a return visit for those who still haven't done it. It's decent.
Timber Tug Boat was testing for much of the day today surrounded by a group of people that looked like management types. It looks hideous.