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The element/airtime hill/whatever it is after the drop looks rediculous in the best way

I think depending on the landscaping the queue could be.. ok? I think Colossus & NI's queues are as best you get at thorpe purely because the trees and going under the coasters give at least a tad of escapism.. it's a shame instead of the cattlepen they couldn't have the queue follow a similar...

the plans do mention climber plants for the queue line

train update: no train :p

my bad I always assumed pull throughs were to make sure there wasn't any warped sections of track or something that would damage the train 🤣

Don't they need to do a pull through with one of the cars before testing also?

I remember on the quiet days of back when they had fright night on non half term weekdays it used to run insanely on the longest setting

is 0:23 sped up or is the lift hill now on crack? 🙈

am i wrong in thinking it's meant to look like that as they've painted it like that as the step before it's black coat?

I read the part about tidal wave's fire effect as 'but we have given up!' at first 🤣

Yeah i think they had planned to make use of the other island sooner

a year or 2 difference will still look better on either side than the 20+ year aged paint it was before so it's still a win 🙈

Do we know if the trains are on site? I assume the construction was slightly delayed due to all those storms but surprised we haven't seen them arrive yet despite that

Is this possibly one of the most complex support builds in a long time? I mean the amount of supports in the lift/drop/stall/Immelmann thing is insane :p Even building it piece by piece as a miniature I wouldn't know where to start, let alone with the muddy floor they're working with and trying...