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| MrDJ |
SAW The Ride Pre Opening Day Friday 13th March 2009All i can say is WOW!. SAW The Ride is the dogs dangley bits.this ride blew me away and imo the best ride so far at thorpe park. i only managed 4 rides on friday 13th as i was cream crackered after climbing all the stairs. one exception i found was that the disabled entrance lift took you straight upto the loading platform so it is easily accessible for disabled people as well so congratulations thorpe park. roll on SAW-TED click on image to view video 
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| bluea61 |
All I can say is what an excellent ride. The coaster itself I think would be ok stand alone, but the themeing makes the ride! I hope that all of Merlin's future installations are like that as it puts other areas of the park to shame. I won't give away details but I'm sure everyone will be impressed by this new standard.
I've uploaded some photos to my Coaster Fanatics profile, no internal shots though: |
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| bb0118 |
vids are on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQmv1Q9K3Yk - the drop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMAnojp28yM - onboard front row http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHXmhGdEJjo - onboard back row if you dont wanna see it, dont click the link! |
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| coaster-andy |
I can say that this is one ride Merlin has done a good UK job on the coaster and themeing. It could have had a bit more added towards the film side, there are 5 films, it wold have been nice.
Those who will ride it on 21st will hopefully enjoy as this is a good edition to Thorpe Park and all those skeptics who slated the ride before it was built will be skeptics no more as it is a good ride. I also enjoyed meeting with the crew that got in before me it was great to meet fellow coaster enthusiasts. |
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| smiler |
I think I can say what everyone else says it is a fantastic ride for the park and lets hope they keep the standard up all the time even when there on a strict contract to. The opening day despite the ticket mess up (thorpe sending the tickets at 1.40 even tho it started at 12) then the day was great. No ques great meeting people again great day.
Pics can be found on my mains site here and my other site to: http://www.smilers-photos.fotopic.net/ |
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| frosty |
Great vid's. I never realised there was so much before the 100ft lift and more than one car going round at once. |
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| bb0118 |
you only get to see "Jigsaw on the Tricycle" if travelling in the rear car. this allows the front car to distance itself from you. |
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| MrDJ |
great pics smiler.
ive noticed you havnt added to your sig yet, No. 1 blagger at thorpe park 
great on ride video bb0118. i was tempted to do that but after my zippo dropped out of my pocket somewhere on the ride i wasnt tempting fate with my video camera. |
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| Coaster Toaster |
What a good day out and the ride building and themeing are fab.
A Few pics form the day 
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| Boo |
Wow!! What a ride!!! The whole day was really good and I had a great time with people I knew and people who I met that day!! Luckily we got to ride from 12-2 and the ride is amazing!! It is spot on and the themeing is amazing...if only every ride was done to this standard!
Had some great rides on it though the front row (for me) was sooo much better than the back row! Got 12 rides in in the end and everyone was different, loved it! Was a great day and would like to thank everyone who made it fun 
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| MrDJ |
glad you had a good day Boo, i think we all did.
Dan, what the heck was i doing in that picture 
luckily i didnt have a blow out on the m25 on the way home. thank god for run flat tyres. found out it was a 3" nail which cost me a whopping £134 for 1 tyre Arghh! |
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| Coaster Police |
There's a theme developing here - i got a nail in my tyre on the way to Thorpe on Thursday. And i didn't get the bloomin coaster 
Again, thank god for run-flats, but not impressed with 300 quid 
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| MrDJ |
mine was on the way on friday. rang bmw assist and they said they would flat bed me to a garage or i could drive home below 50mph. hmmm maybe 60-70.
how much did your tyre cost, £300 
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| Coaster Police |
Well i inflated mine again at the garage just outside of thorpe, reset the run flat computer and headed for home. got bored of doing 50 by the time i got to the M3, so just went along at 70ish. Didnt have time to do anything about it yet.
So it's done so far... M3 J3 --> Thorpe Thorpe --> Poole Poole --> Southampton Southampton --> Poole And tomorrow it's going to Paultons and back. Since resetting the computer it hasn't sent an alert to me. Interestingly, it pinged after I flawed it out of Fleet services (RS4 in front), and stranger still, last time i flawed it out of a services i got the alert, stopped at the next garage, checked the pressures and reset the computer. (it was dark, so couldnt check).... I did find a small nail in the effected tyre, maybe it's a slow one that seems to not like warming up quickly??? I have been quoted 330 for a new tyre
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