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Martyn


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Date: 21:35 Mar 2, 2012
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Also looks like the chairlifts are supporting a new colour this year...

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Chairlifts were that colour at the end of last season!

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they were red and blue today, sure they were red, blue, green and yellow last year

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At the end of the 2011 season at least, they were as per that photo^

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Date: 05:17 Mar 3, 2012
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Yes..they look silly without the full covers on now I think

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Date: 19:11 Mar 9, 2012
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I've been looking into what Thunderstruck could look like with its travelling part removed and came across thease pictures:

tri star.jpg

I'm really hoping that The Tide Traveller comes out like this!

huss tri.jpg



-- Edited by Hpeek on Friday 9th of March 2012 07:13:03 PM

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Martyn


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Date: 22:31 Mar 9, 2012
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Coolskin, you said you saw parts of Thunderstruck the other day, had they been repainted?

I'm getting this horrible feeling that the main structure of the ride is being left as it is, blue with the red lightning bolt stickers!

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Lightning bolts would hardly fit "The Tide Traveller" though? xD

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Surely they won't half repaint a ride!

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Martyn - when i biked up the hills last night ( 8/3/11 @6pm ) the main arm of thunderstruck was next to fireball. It was blue and yellow.....

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Martyn


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Date: 04:44 Mar 10, 2012
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OMG, I saw that pic before reading and thought that was our Thunderstruck! laughing

That does look really nice though!

It was blue and yellow.....

So the gondola's are gold and pink, and the main structure blue and yellow!? When are they going to stop with all these zany colours! Look at how nice that Thunderstruck is above, yet ours will look like it crashed into a rainbow!

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Yeh it was weird it was like pizza shaped colours of yellow and blue....only at the top....The main bit may have been blue....the bush was too high for me to see any lower.....

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Martyn


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They look fab!



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oh god yes much better.......

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will it be open for saturday ??

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Martyn


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It doesn't look like it, but then we dont know when this photo was taken.

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Date: 19:39 May 14, 2012
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Some enthusiasts mentioned on their facebook page about the motors working properly, and it was going to be running at its proper speed?

So have we been riding a dubbed down Thunderstruck for the last 7 years?

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so maybe it will be a thrill ride then ?? Miss the Turbo Star !!

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Who knows, though it would be good if that turns out to be true. I've never been on another type of these rides, so I wouldn't know if it had been slowed down at all.

Would be great to see how its coming along as well! *coughlaurencecough*

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Looks good, the colours blend together a lot better than I thought they would.

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Looks good. Hopefully it'll prove to be slightly more thrilling than before.

Also, if they are keeping Jolly Drop, then i'd love to see it undergo a similar transformation during the next off season. (Fireball too, but JR first...)

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looks great, but looks don't count for anything hopefully i might get to claim first TTT points of the season and enigma points

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Martyn


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Date: 04:07 May 16, 2012
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I dont think it would be possible to this kind of work to Fireball. If you can, it is probably more hassle than its worth really.

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Yeah, probably not with the movable floor.... i was thinking of a general re paint and removing the fairground tat on the ride, like that one we saw on here at another park.

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Fireball needs to be sorted, looks worse than Jolly I think. Wipeout will need a lick of paint soon too really....

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yes, closed season jobs that were put aside this year i think to concentrate on the other new rides


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Martyn


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Yeah, probably not with the movable floor

Good point, didn't even think of that! Was more thinking of the 4 arms that hold it up..?

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Date: 01:42 May 17, 2012
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You could drop it into a hole, remove the back drop and lights, relocate the control booth and it could look really nice. I'd like to see that.

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^but that would probably mean an entire re wire.

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Martyn


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Date: 05:19 May 22, 2012
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Some of Pete's photo's (I'm sure he wont mind me putting them in here):






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