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Thorpe Park: General Discussion

There are a lot of cameras in there and e-stops all over the place that the actors can press if anything happens. Actors will also know their way around much better than guests so can jump out and disappear again very quickly and easily.
 
Absolutely laughable how busy the park is today and how poor operations are. Ghost Train and TWD not opened at all, SAW didn't open until 2 hours in, Hyperia on 1 train and an unthinkable queue. Half arsed staff making no effort to dispatch quickly on multiple flat rides, meaning they have 15 minute longer queues than there should be. Pretty much every coaster on 45+ minutes. An all round misery unfortunately.
 
Alastair said:
Absolutely laughable how busy the park is today and how poor operations are. Ghost Train and TWD not opened at all, SAW didn't open until 2 hours in, Hyperia on 1 train and an unthinkable queue. Half arsed staff making no effort to dispatch quickly on multiple flat rides, meaning they have 15 minute longer queues than there should be. Pretty much every coaster on 45+ minutes. An all round misery unfortunately.
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What are the ops like on the other 5 coasters? Colossus, Inferno, Stealth and Swarm on 2 trains like normal?
 
Coasters were running fine of those that were open (barring Hyperia), particularly Inferno which, to their credit, the staff were really doing a great job on. It was the non-coasters that I took issue with. Vortex, for example, was sufficiently staffed but they were making very little effort to dispatch quickly. I didn't time the cycle length but it was far in excess of what it should be, with restraints not being checked for periods and long waits for boarding guests to be let into the ride area.

We got lucky yesterday and got almost right to the front of the main queue when Hyperia reopened, meaning we got a ride - however I fear a large majority didn't. Not the worst day overall but not great either!
 
I've just read a comment online that thorpe has a 'family day' and is usually the second weekend of scarefest

Next sunday happens to be the night we're having our yearly trip down and staying over in the shark hotel so we're stuck if that's the case

Does anyone know if this info is correct :weary:
 
Stitches is the MVP of the mazes (I put it up there with the sanctuary and some of the older mazes at towers). Not really a fan of dead beat or survival games, they lack any sort of narrative and just amount to people grabbing you and saying boo. Trailers is still fairly good but it might be time for it to go.
 
A non-press night review and it's not good for most of the mazes. I often think attractions are setting themselves up for a fall when they invite vloggers/press to film inside the maze; and I'm glad that Towers (with the very occasional exception in the past) don't do this. Not only does it avoid potential disappointment but it also gives nothing away (yes I know you have a choice to watch maze walkthroughs!).

As these guys say towards the end...you watch the press night videos and you buy your tickets expecting to get that experience. But in the case of this video, their experience fell well short of the press night experience - they only saw 3 actors in the entirety of Dead Beat!


From: https://youtu.be/Av6QT5oOVQs?si=1q5O4ZM6UWH6UZV9
 
Stitches is fantastic. Dead Beat was a bit of a disappointment. Trailers was ok.

Can't really comment on Survival Games because I managed to go the wrong way and come out behind the actors doing the finale and by the time they'd got me back where I was supposed to be I'd no idea what was going on lmao. Didn't seem like any games were going on after the opening setpiece which was great.
 
Steve74 said:
But in the case of this video, their experience fell well short of the press night experience - they only saw 3 actors in the entirety of Dead Beat!
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I said similar in the Hyperia thread after Fridays debacle, its tantamount to false advertising when they're getting all these influencers to advertise the optimum experience and then the general public are receiving a far lesser offering.
 
Martin said:
Stitches is fantastic. Dead Beat was a bit of a disappointment. Trailers was ok.

Can't really comment on Survival Games because I managed to go the wrong way and come out behind the actors doing the finale and by the time they'd got me back where I was supposed to be I'd no idea what was going on lmao. Didn't seem like any games were going on after the opening setpiece which was great.
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Agree.

Genuinely no narrative that I picked up on for Dead Beat, Trailers or Survival Games.
Tell a lie, I picked up on the whole "last party ever" thing with Dead Beat at the end when exiting due to some of the posters popped up, but my initial thought was "ok so these people have OD'd at a rave?"

The set pieces for all of them were solid, but again with Stitches the standout (and their golden ticket award on display as part of a set piece).

It did feel like with all of them that there just weren't enough actors.

Survival Games was a stumble in the dark around some corridors alone, with the occasional person popping up and grabbing you to go this way. It had such a strong open (and I ended up left alone in the room caged for a chunk after everyone else before getting grabbed)

The worst part of the mazes however are the queues. Trailer was the most guilty and it genuinely ruined the rest of my day. The queue made no sense. The batcher would let through 6-10 VIP & RAP users at a time, treating the main queue as single riders. Worst was when the batcher clearly knew some people in the VIP- a few I recognised by face as Twitter 'influencers' as well.

The park felt like a half thought. The rides, feeling half designed in terms of the circuits (except Colossus, Saw and Stealth), the surroundings with that "ok they're on to something here... and oh nothings been done".

The positive is how attentive and effective their security is regarding queue jumpers and others in the queue. In the morning we saw people getting escorted out of Hyperia (which for those at the front where the jumpers met up with would have waiting over and hour), people getting pulled out of Trailers' queue, all over.
I ended up using it myself in the queue for Saw when a group of older teens tried to jump, where I admittedly snapped and didn't let them through since at that point of the evening, I was sick of it. They were very fast and attentive, and handled it well. Wasn't pleasant being sworn at, harassed and vaped on in the 4 minutes it took from starting the report to them being kicked, nor the passing swears as they were taken to the back of the queue.

All in all, think I'll leave the place alone for another decade and we're all being too harsh on Towers- it could be much, much worse.
 
yoursilentface said:
I've just read a comment online that thorpe has a 'family day' and is usually the second weekend of scarefest

Next sunday happens to be the night we're having our yearly trip down and staying over in the shark hotel so we're stuck if that's the case

Does anyone know if this info is correct :weary:
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If I were you I’d contact Thorpe and see if you can change Saturday Sunday to Friday Saturday because you do NOT want to be there on the so called family day
 
yoursilentface said:
I've just read a comment online that thorpe has a 'family day' and is usually the second weekend of scarefest

Next sunday happens to be the night we're having our yearly trip down and staying over in the shark hotel so we're stuck if that's the case

Does anyone know if this info is correct ?
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I’ve combed the page and have found nothing on it. Was it Thorpe saying that it some random ass guy? If it’s the latter, I mean what do they know?

I’m going on that day too, and found out while booking tickets you can only buy one discounted package per annual pass. I get it, but like… do they need more money to whips their bums with? Even with the sponsors?

please go better then last time please go better then last time please go better then last time I really want to enjoy this event because the mazes are actually really good
 
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