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Swarm at Thorpe... Problem? or PR Stunt?

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Postby FParker185 on January 24th, 2012, 5:41 pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... limbs.html

It's always entertaining when you don't know the answer, though I'm leaning really heavily towards PR stunt.
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Postby DejaVu2001 on January 24th, 2012, 6:05 pm
PR stunt. And I'd imagine one that B&M is less than pleased about.
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Postby Jerrykoala2112 on January 24th, 2012, 8:01 pm
This is what Thorpe comes up with for PR. No one can forget the whole frooh-la-la about not raising your arms due to bad B.O. Although the Swarm still looks much better than Wild Eagle.
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Postby DeathbyDinn on January 24th, 2012, 9:57 pm
Atleast this is better than saying the ride is so scary you have to be between a certain age and can only ride once a day. :roll:
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Postby w00dland on January 25th, 2012, 5:32 pm
I'd go with 85% PR stunt 15% problem.

I also don't think it would work too well in America.
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Postby Chitown on January 26th, 2012, 3:05 pm
The giveaway is the department store mannequins in the front row while the rest of the rows have the standard test dummies.
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