Re: Thorpe Park
Finally did Fright Nights, a week late it would seem... Here goes:
Saw Alive:
Nothing changed - disappoint. However, they'd put a few more actors in, and in new places, so it was less predictable than before. But, and this is the biggest but, we waited AN HOUR AND TWENTY MINUTES, mostly because, as per usual, fast track ruined everything. Not worth the wait, although there are some lovely touches in there.
Blair Witch:
As everyone else has said, this was DULL. Random people growling, standing around, then the B&Q shed, just to top it all off. The only bits that were like the film were the woods setting, and its dullness. I knew this was crap, so I wasn't too bothered.
Cabin In The Woods:
SO disappointed with this. As per usual, leave it to Thorpe to take a good idea AND POOP ALL OVER IT. The free flowing idea was awful, it meant that unless you scoured for secret doors and passages, you didn't get to see anything interesting, which, of course, means I will have to go back and scour for secret things. The actors were completely random, and there wasn't an aquaman. I really wanted this to be good, and it wasn't.
My Bloody Valentine/Experiment Valentine:
I am aware that this is just Experiment 10 with a miner, but I didn't ever do Experiment 10, so here is an impartial view of Valentine. By far my favourite maze of the day, lots of loud noises to make you jump, actors placed to split up the group and scare people effectively, decent, yet predictable ending. While queuing, I saw several people come running out of the exit. The compact spaces and free flow idea worked on this. We actually got lost for a while. I did not find the end scary, I kind of sauntered out, but it was predictable.
Park in general/roaming actors:
During the day, apart from on the smaller rides, there was no indication that it was even a Fright Nights. However; come three, everything came to life. I only saw the You're Next roaming actors briefly at the end of the night, but Benin saw them lots (cause he didn't go on the mazes) and he said they'd put on a really good show. The other roaming actors were a Director and his female assistants, and they were good fun to argue with. Very much in character, and argued with us that Blair Witch was a good film (which of course, its not). But, Thorpe was up to its usual shenanigans. Waiting for the park to open in the annual pass queue and two wheelchair users in front, the staff decided to put another queue in the annual pass entrance, so two queues in that narrow entrance. And of course, all the chavs wanted to push in front of the wheelchairs. Inferno was running well, Vortex and Saw were running horribly, Samurai wasn't running at all! Organisation at the park was completely non-existent, gaggles of people waiting for mazes to open, fast track entrances in stupid places, and fast trackers making everyone else's queue times far longer.
Overall; 6.5/10
