TPDave

Wow! This looks incredible. It's nice to see the halloween events are taking off all over the globe

^ If you already have a me.com account you have to switch to over, but yeah it's pretty simple

I'm on a train with free wifi going to Alton Towers, i'll die happy...

THE SWARM!!! Well, maybe just because it's down the road

I'm sure Dan will join in with a picture of how much I enjoy fascination soon enough. Personally I'm a skeeball fan, especially the few remaining $0.25 ones

The M Sport version of the BMW 1 series is pretty badass too. I saw one of them at a show a couple of weeks ago and loved it! Still a bit too much money for a car of its size though, this has aways been a criticism of the one series. Dave

^ Really, I hardly think he was instrumental enough in this to make a second term inevitable. Hopefully this is the beginning of something great for the country, they have a lot of natural resource wealth which can be put to good use. I just hope the new "prime minister" (Not really sure he should be called that) is only a temporary patch before democratic elections. Dave

Not really, but it gets the parks in the papers. When Thorpe made lots of stuff up about their new ride that they got this season it made it into all the tabloids. The mission is column inches, that's what Th13teen did, that's what storm surge did, I'm sure it's what AT's new ride will do and it appears to be what Thorpe are going to do with this ride. I'm guessing they're going to tie it into the theme as "the swarm" throwing the piece into the water or something. Dave

I'm not a huge fan of these rides, but the lap bar only thing does look pretty cool! Dave

I wish I could Wes, but this is from the same chain of parks that brought you the Th13teen hype...

Wow, that looks perfectly comfortable!

That's a really decent number of people to get on the first day! Congrats man

Amazing thread Eric! I never knew the backstory of the Barnstormer before, that's got to be the best theme for a screaming swing out there. Keep the epicness coming!

Something about the convertible to me looks immeasurably better. The symmetry of the lines of something, it's just awesome. I also realised the other day that the disgusting early 2000's "melted" designs were growing on me a bit more. Anyone else partial to them or have I just gone crazy again? Dave

We will rock you is coming through Bristol again, I think i might have to go and see how different it is from the West End version!

More than the financial cost, the time factor could be huge if significant rework/re-fabrication gets involved. That said I'd love to see a video of that... Dave

Wow, such a long time working in the park too. He leaves a fantastic legacy in one of the best parks on the east coast.

^^ Wait, so they build it and then paint it? Amazing.

^ The airPhone is still my favourite knock off chinese product ever! Maybe this thing should have a crappy ripped off Intamin logo somewhere on the ride Dave

It's not the copying that makes them bad, it's the terrible/non existent engineering

Wow, that's pretty cool. Great job! Dave

Oh dear lord, this looks to be an epic ride! Dave

^^ Don't expect the rain to put off thorpe park guests!

^^ They are predicted to hit capacity for the entirety of half term, it's going to be hell on park. Make sure you but fastrack!! Dave

This thing looks like more of a reason to get out to California than any of the SFMM stuff! Dave