Thorpe Park Discussion Thread

[monkeyoverlord71I eat 10,000 rancid testicles for breakfast.]

Thorpe Park is marketing itself as a thrill orientated park. They are trying to appeal to the young adult generation as all the other U.K. parks are aimed at families. Thorpe have seen the gap in the market and instead of competing against other parks as a ''family park'' they have a clear run as the thrill park. It makes scence to me.

[Divv3kControlled by a sentient spreadsheet...]

I'm all for this, year round haunted mazes are a big win in my book. I just hope it's an upcharge or a fast track is available for it as I can see this thing getting crazy lines.

Here's hoping a lot of effort is put in by Merlin on this!

Remember everyone: If Scottish Steve asks, it's just a "Behind the scenes look at the making of the films".

[EdTHE BOY]

Thorpe's mazes have been rather lacking in scare factor in previous years i've found.

I honestly don't see them running this all year round with a full host of "actors" in it to scare people. It'll probably be restricted to weekends during school terms when the park isn't that busy (2hour queues instead of 3 hours. ) and then full on from summer till halloween.

[cfcI've gone pantless!]

The Saw house at Orlando was amazing, you see all of the traps killing people, there can be nothing bad about it!
It was a lso a pretty decent story if you knew what to be looking for.
I highly doubt Thorpes will be run aswell as HHN though, at all.

I'm not a big fan of the Saw flicks, but I liked the maze, too. It's a challenge to maintain a "haunt" all season long, but Grona Lund and Liseberg have been quite successful at it. We'll see what happens at Thorpe.

[StealthFan"Excuse me, miss, may I pound my large rooster into your donkey?"]

An update hasn't been released on this in a while, so here are 2 pics from the park showing of Saw - Alive!


Saw Alive signage, in the SNOW!


A look over the lake at the Thorpe Belle currently getting a "nice" new paint job. (Bigger version of this photo can be found here: http://twitpic.com/x1ysr/full )

So thats it for Saw Alive right now, no idea how the interior is going but i'm sure its coming along quite nicely.

-Craig

[StealthFan"Excuse me, miss, may I pound my large rooster into your donkey?"]

Thorpe Park have updated their Twitter page with our first look at the inside of Saw: Alive!

Keep checking Thorpe Parks Twitter for more updates before the park opens for the 2010 season on the 18th March!

-Craig

[SteveCDonald Duck...]

Blimey, although I find this gross and pathetic if anyone is up for £500 I suggest eating lots of asparagus!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100224/tuk-theme-park-is-taking-the-pee-6323e80.html

Thorpe Park in Surrey is eager to introduce a "signature stench" to its horror maze SAW Alive which opens next month.

In a "contest" on Friday, members of the public will be offered a £500 cash prize to produce the most pungent-smelling urine. The smell will then be used alongside other stenches in the maze.

The job of selecting the smelliest sample falls to Thorpe Park's entertainments manager Laura Sinclair. She said: "We want SAW Alive to be as authentic and terrifying as possible to make visitors feel as if they are living in a real-life horror film. "To do this we need to really push the boundaries of what our guests experience from a sensory point of view."

ADMIN EDIT: I have edited the post to include the story. Thanks for sharing this with us!

[PKI JizzManJizzy jizz jizz jizz jizz]

Damn, can't use my jizz powers here.

[coaster_dude2002TWO PINTS ONLY]

They really are going all out for this maze.

^^Steve I'm grossed out from that news story as well.

[jarmortoken black guy]

Damn, can't use my jizz powers here.