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CF Legend
As I do every year, this Thursday I headed to the lovely London suburb of Staines for the opening day of Thorpe Park, the nation's thrill capital, now with added 'resort'.
We arrived a bit late as I always do and headed straight to Stealth. I would have done this either way, but Swarm was down so we pretty much had no other option. It boasted a 15 minutes wait but because Thorpe are a bit awful and insist on one train operations we probably waited more like 30. It wasn't too bad, but annoying to know that should they add on another train it would be a walk on is very annoying. They've added a shop thing as you exit Stealth and have extended the hot-dog diner thing into what is looking to become a fully fledged sit down affair. Good, the lack of indoor seating at Thorpe has always irritated me.
From here I pretty much always do Thorpe in the same order, so next up was the Rumba Rapids, now with new for 2014 wetness! They were a LOT choppier than usual and Conor got a little bit splooshed. Annoying as always to see the park couldn't give two **** about sprucing the queue up a bit; bits of the wooden fencing were crumbling/falling down and last year's litter was still floating about. Lovely.
Inferno was next, which we hung around outside seeing as the scrolling text said 'waiting time CLOSED minutes' (which made me giggle because I'm childish like that). A train WAS eventually farted out of the misty tunnel, which again indicated loathesome one train ops. Mergh. Quick bog break before joining another unnecessary queue for the B&M. Once again irritating to see that a quick once over with a broom and a touch of TLC to the queue hadn't occurred during the off season. During the queue we witnessed theming:LIVE!, new for 2014! A man was painting the buildings of Calypso Quay a disgusting green colour to spruce the area up read for Angry Bird invasion in March. Whatever. Oh, and the Mexican food place now has extended indoor seating. Yay for indoor seating, new for 2014!
Inferno was doing what it does best and being mediocre, so we didn't re-ride. We were hungry so went to the BBQ place thingy. I've never eaten in there before and for theme park food it's really not half bad. Touch expensive but I'd rather than than putrid deep fried chicken, so it sufficed.
We continued on towards Loggers for some wet action, but decided that based on the level of wetness of the poor sods coming off of the thing that that would be too much wetness. Slammer is still dead. I was going to take a humorous photo with one of the water mannequins but I couldn't be ****.
Conor loves Saw so we sashayed into the queue. The police car is back. Yay. The queue was outside of the building, ewwwww but we joined anyway and had a little chat with Chris (Infernus) before boarding the thing. As always, inside drop=good then it's all downhill from there. Usually I can hack it but it was being particularly brutal today and I was very sleepy so it just annoyed me. I came off it grumpy and decided we needed something a bit gentler so we headed to Storm Surge.
On the way we passes Colossus which had a 30 minute queue of no and Rush which was walk on. So we did that. It did the thing that Rush does and it was good.
We queued about 5 minutes for Storm Surge in which time we lolled at a stupid guest who couldn't grasp the concept that water rides might get you wet. Because she didn't want to get wet. But wanted to ride the water ride. Stupid girl. I half had a go at her then had a ride of awkwardness when Conor and I were shoved in a dinghy with her and her other half. Storm Surge, as always, was a bit crap but a nice sit down.
X next, because I think it's funny. Weirdly enough the twisting tower of disco lights has gone and replacing it are loads of actually quite well placed lasers. It was actually fun, I enjoyed it and would probably have gone on it again if I weren't so bloody tired. We entered the Megastore in search of sweets for a bit of a sugar rush and a look at some of the new tat. They have some more of those resin model things now for Colossus, Tidal Wave and Inferno. The Colossus one is quite cool.
Unfortunately the sweets couldn't cut it and after seeing the dismal queue for Swarm (once again on one train operations) we decided to call it a day and head home. I slept the entire way back.
Have a photo of me by Nemesis Inferno:
We arrived a bit late as I always do and headed straight to Stealth. I would have done this either way, but Swarm was down so we pretty much had no other option. It boasted a 15 minutes wait but because Thorpe are a bit awful and insist on one train operations we probably waited more like 30. It wasn't too bad, but annoying to know that should they add on another train it would be a walk on is very annoying. They've added a shop thing as you exit Stealth and have extended the hot-dog diner thing into what is looking to become a fully fledged sit down affair. Good, the lack of indoor seating at Thorpe has always irritated me.
From here I pretty much always do Thorpe in the same order, so next up was the Rumba Rapids, now with new for 2014 wetness! They were a LOT choppier than usual and Conor got a little bit splooshed. Annoying as always to see the park couldn't give two **** about sprucing the queue up a bit; bits of the wooden fencing were crumbling/falling down and last year's litter was still floating about. Lovely.
Inferno was next, which we hung around outside seeing as the scrolling text said 'waiting time CLOSED minutes' (which made me giggle because I'm childish like that). A train WAS eventually farted out of the misty tunnel, which again indicated loathesome one train ops. Mergh. Quick bog break before joining another unnecessary queue for the B&M. Once again irritating to see that a quick once over with a broom and a touch of TLC to the queue hadn't occurred during the off season. During the queue we witnessed theming:LIVE!, new for 2014! A man was painting the buildings of Calypso Quay a disgusting green colour to spruce the area up read for Angry Bird invasion in March. Whatever. Oh, and the Mexican food place now has extended indoor seating. Yay for indoor seating, new for 2014!
Inferno was doing what it does best and being mediocre, so we didn't re-ride. We were hungry so went to the BBQ place thingy. I've never eaten in there before and for theme park food it's really not half bad. Touch expensive but I'd rather than than putrid deep fried chicken, so it sufficed.
We continued on towards Loggers for some wet action, but decided that based on the level of wetness of the poor sods coming off of the thing that that would be too much wetness. Slammer is still dead. I was going to take a humorous photo with one of the water mannequins but I couldn't be ****.
Conor loves Saw so we sashayed into the queue. The police car is back. Yay. The queue was outside of the building, ewwwww but we joined anyway and had a little chat with Chris (Infernus) before boarding the thing. As always, inside drop=good then it's all downhill from there. Usually I can hack it but it was being particularly brutal today and I was very sleepy so it just annoyed me. I came off it grumpy and decided we needed something a bit gentler so we headed to Storm Surge.
On the way we passes Colossus which had a 30 minute queue of no and Rush which was walk on. So we did that. It did the thing that Rush does and it was good.
We queued about 5 minutes for Storm Surge in which time we lolled at a stupid guest who couldn't grasp the concept that water rides might get you wet. Because she didn't want to get wet. But wanted to ride the water ride. Stupid girl. I half had a go at her then had a ride of awkwardness when Conor and I were shoved in a dinghy with her and her other half. Storm Surge, as always, was a bit crap but a nice sit down.
X next, because I think it's funny. Weirdly enough the twisting tower of disco lights has gone and replacing it are loads of actually quite well placed lasers. It was actually fun, I enjoyed it and would probably have gone on it again if I weren't so bloody tired. We entered the Megastore in search of sweets for a bit of a sugar rush and a look at some of the new tat. They have some more of those resin model things now for Colossus, Tidal Wave and Inferno. The Colossus one is quite cool.
Unfortunately the sweets couldn't cut it and after seeing the dismal queue for Swarm (once again on one train operations) we decided to call it a day and head home. I slept the entire way back.
Have a photo of me by Nemesis Inferno:
