to think that a family theme park shouldn't have a ride based on really scary cert 18 films?

[HeadFairy]

Is it really appropriate to have a ride based on the film saw

I know some rides are meant to be scary, but aren't you just encouraging under 18s to see the films which (from the tiny bit of the first film I saw from behind my hands) show extreme violence.

Maybe I'm just a wimp... but I think it's unnecessary.

I don't see the point of the ride being advertised as some kind of film tie-in, purely because from what I hear, the films are incredibly gory and horrible. Presumably the ride is safe and you don't actually get your face sawn off or bits of your body severed, so how is it related to the films? Sticking a few blades out of the sides of a rollercoaster should be a scary enough prospect without promoting a load of movies at the same time.

I agree greenelephant, I don't mind about the ride being there tbh, same as I don't mind the film being in Blockbusters. It's the fact that the film is 18 but the ride is 12.
I had a similar issue with Pirates of the Carribean toys and that was only a 12 IIRC
so YANBU.

I'd discussed my views on the other thread and couldn't be bothered doing so again.

When it says it's suitable for 12 year olds they mean it is safe for the average 12 year olds, that they meet the minimum height and weight requirements to enable a safe ride that is all.

If you(general you) do not want your children to ride it do not allow it. It doesn't mean others shouldn't be allowed to make that choice.

A ride is not quite the same as the film.

YANBU. i don't even like the ad on the radio because it often plays in the morning on the school run. the voice itself is scary.

OOOh I just Youtubed the ride adverts, that voice is FREAKY (and I'm 19! Although I don't do horror films...)

How many people saying 'oh but this theme park is for older children' have got a 12/13/14 year old that they would be happy watching a Saw film?

The Saw films are 18. The ride is 12. It is a marketing ploy to appeal to the 12-16 age group and to encourage further watching of a sick film. How depressing.

We like theme parks. Dd1 loves white knuckle rides. I would be pissed off at having the film and all the related teen in-crowd culture thrown at us at a theme park.

Do you see violent/gory images during the ride ? If so, I could see you have a point,otherwise i don't see a problem

The ride will make many 12+ want to see the film and will make them see the film as cool. Then they will see very gory images. That much is obvious.

but didn't you want to do that anyway when you were that age pointy? (rides or no rides?)

I remember being desperate to see Nightmare on Elm Street - not sure when it came out but I reckon I was a young teenager then.

Thing is, you are either the type of child who is going to want to see those sort of films or you won't want to. And if you want to anyway, having a ride named after it isn't going to make much of a difference surely.

maybe they should balance it out with a 'remains of the day' ride

LOL at SEA

how would that go then? Would the butler come in with cucumber sandwiches with the crusts still on

Followed by mild perturbation.

YABU

most teenagers want to see shit scary and unsuitable movies

most teenagers want to go on shit scary and unsuitable rides

tis the perfect coupling dreamt up by a marketing genius

(I hate theme parks and horror movies...for anyone)

hardly a marketing genius, depending on your interpretation of genius.

I realise that nobody really cares these days about 10 yr olds and younger playing 18 rated xbox games, no one really cares about 11 yr olds watching teh Saw movies. No one thinks it's any big deal at all. I realise that.

But I do care. I think it is detached and just so depressing that I cannot just shrug it off.

lol at Laurie and the crusts on!

Thorpe Park is definitely for older teenagers. The littlies have Chessington and Legoland. In fact what everyone else has said...

what do you mean 'older teenagers'? 12 and above. Hardly older teenagers

I am so fucking sick of people treating 12's and up's as 'older teenagers' as if it's 'Cool'

It's not fucking cool, its not fucking liberal, it's just lazy, lax, shit parenting by people who think their kids are their 'friends'.

By saying 'older teenagers' I mean my 17 year old wouldn't be seen dead at Chessington and will only go to Thorpe Park as there are more rides there that her and her friends think are worthwhile.

Until I read this thread I didn't know the Saw was a film, had only heard of the ride through dd1.

I can not wait to go try this ride.
Yes thorpe park has family rides but this one will be aimed at older people as it has hight restrictions .

I would not let a child watch the film but sometimes the whole world does not revolve around children/ people with children

The ride is for 12+. Go and try and watch the film.

This ride most definitely does revolve around children, kimi. Don;t care about the whole world

all high school kids would want to go to thrope park, not just 16+.

I'd imagine they say 12 not meaning suitability,thats for the parents to judge imho, but meaning that your average 12 year old meets the minimum requirements and can travel safely on it.

yes I relaise that thunder. 12 meets the height restriction and also, conventiently, promotes an 18 film to them

Yanbu. The film is pretty extreme and will only make it more cool for kids to see the film. Sounds like very innapropriate product placement to me. [Old biddy and proud of it emoticon].