Right then.... proper trip report time!!!
Thorpe Park
Despite evidence to the contrary, like many others, I found this visit most fun (as a social event that is :wink: )
But as a trip it failed epically, which means that I am going to do a ride themed trip report as opposed to this "yay it was fun chatting malarchy. So I thought for Thorpe I'd do a running commentary, as it's the only way which the day can make sense...
8:00 - Train from Aldersh*t train station to Chertsey (yay, escape time!)
9:00 - Arrived at Chertsey station to see a mass migration of poor "walking" chavs who obviously hadn't the money for the bus.
9:05 - Mark (Slayed) and Leighton arrive, and I had the world's most amazing car journey from the station... all of 10 yards to a parking space! :lol:
9:10 - Subway time! (At this point, great fun and optimism was being had)
9:25 - Pulled up in Thorpe car park, Slayed tempted to run over the woman in the florey jacket to put her out of the misery of working for Thorpe!
9:30 - Decided to be a tad evil and jump the queue, meeting up with Ollie, Peter and co.
9:50 - Thorpe announce that they are going to let us in slightly earlier than the scheduled 10 o'clock opening, which was most alarming and unlike them. Much talk of how perhaps this year they had been right to give them a fresh slate (Oh the irony! :roll: )
10:00 - Much faffing in the dome, Ollie was being a fanboy and pinching all the Thorpe gate maps *facepalms*. Ian cheered me up by giving me a Paultons Map, so that I could be different
10:20 - off to the Saw q-line, which at the point of our entry was outside of Colossus's shop!
10:45 - Got to the actual island of Saw and at this point the day had gone fine, the line itself looked decent and was most aptly themed to what I now call "Thorpecatraz"
11:45 - After much time of doing bugger all (albeit to great success), suddenly the MCBR wakes up and decides to do something! Here, begins the downward spiral of failing
12:00 - Queue evacuation... fail
1:00 - fail
1:15 - fail
1:30 - fail
1:45 - fail
2:00 - I think by this time you get the idea :wink:
2:30 - I remembered I was in a theme park, so went to ride Inferno with A-Kid and southend_marc after Ben gave us a heads up that the queue had somehow disappeared! This was to be, the ONLY ride of the day!
2:45 - Following much disappointment, I discovered that Liverpool had walloped the "invincible, untouchable, unbeatable English, European and World Champions" Manchester United 4-1! Much merriment was to follow
3:15 - After my half an hour merriment in which no less than 12 of my friends received gloating phone calls (which I still hold the firm belief was the best £6 ever spent in my life!), I again remembered that I was in a theme park, and a failing one at that!
3:45 - Time for a bitchfest at Guest Services: The Ride, this one was working! I personally put it down to Thorpe giving the "S" word only second billing :wink:
4:00 - Stole more freebies from Thorpe, then went back to Chertsey with Slayed and Leighton
Paultons report to come soon, when I have decided on layout, etc.
