it was my birthday weekend starting from today, and so there's a queue from outside, 15 minutes wait. we all though allright cant be that scary. so i went right at the front. we walked through and yes it was slightly frightening, but i was very disappointed,

(A) its not a maze.
(B) i didn't see any live actors in torture scenes.
(B) you see all the actors coming anyway.

it was good and a little bit of fun, i just think thorpe park can do better.

i went on saw alive shortly after it opened first and it was TERRIFYING!! for a start i was at the front of the group got all of the bad frights. it seemed to go on for ever!! my legs were like jelly for the entire thing!! it must have less scary since then....

After reading this article, some of the reviews on here and waiting for half an hour in the outdoor, fake barbed wire rimmed queing area I wasn't really expecting all that much however as we entered the building I began to get pretty freaked out. I told my friend, Will, that he could NOT let go of my shoulders, whatever he did he couldn't let go and then we went in. My friend Ellie went in first. She was really really scared but she kept laughing. There were these two women stroking the boy's faces and coming right up to us. I buried my head into the guy in front of me and hardly saw any of the ride. The effects were really good and the actors were so scary. They wouldn't leave us alone and came right up in our faces, screaming and shouting. It was the scariest few minutes of my life and I just wanted to get out. When I did I was super proud of myself and now when me and my friends look back on it it's really funny. I loved it and hated it at the same time. Recommend this to any groups of teenagers who want a bit of a laugh. ;D

There have been mixed reviews to the maze, and I have to say it was okay. I was disappointed because I was expecting an experience, but the whole thing was just walking around looking at screaming actors and having a person jump out every few seconds. The groups of ten isn't good as although nice to go round in give groups of friends or family, it takes away the thrill factor.
I would have made it an experience, like putting groups of four or five in a series of recreated Saw traps, though of course, not putting any of those people in any danger.
For instance, the people will have to take part in about four traps (like in Saw 5), where one person comes out the overall winner, and the final level being the electrified maze with a series of tests and the Pig mask men roaming around to try and 'kill' the people by dragging them away or pushing them down trap doors.
I would have loved to do something like that, as well as the whole thing being recorded, and people who aren't competeing (like family or friends of the people inside) can watch their progress, as well as buy copies of the tapes afterwards from one of those photo stalls. And the winner gets a prize, like a mini trophy or something.
That would be the Saw experience people would like xx

I went in there with my friends. We watched videos on youtube and we all thought it looked really good! We travelled for over two hours to get to Thorpe park, and only mangaged to get on 5 rides, which we weren't too pleased about.
We were expecting people to be in traps and pig men walking around. There was like one trap, no pig men, and no bloody light. You couldn't hardly see anything. I don't think it was anything like the film. There's no 'posessed' people in the films running around all happy, is there? Unless I missed something...
It did scare me, i'm not going to lie, but it should be more like the film. But on the other hand, the saw ride was amazing!

Well I went in with 4 of my other female teenage friends, thinking it would be a laugh, and it wasn't.
I came out with finger shaped bruises on my shoulders from my friend behind me who was literally terrified and sobbing... she's a bit of a wimp haha.
I was fine and not really scared until we went into a pitch black room (4th I think...) The queue stopped moving and the only noises we could here were each other asking 'what happened?' and 'why are we stopping?'
They intentionally left it to the point when we stopped expecting some form of shock and were genuinely more focused on wondering what was going on before suddenly flashing a strobe light which illuminated 4 actors around our queue, right in our faces, one of whom grabbed my ankle. I screamed and afterwards considering, I am surprised that they would do something like that because I was THIS close to kicking whoever it was in the face. I have natural adrenaline reactions and once punched my friend who came up behind me and tapped me on the shoulder. :')
Overall I would never go in again, but it made for a good conversation piece for the rest of the day :)

From what I have read, Saw Alive is Scary but not extreme enough. I havn't had the chance to enter at Jigsaw's peril yet, because due to a small breakout of fire on April 5th 2011, the maze was shut for obvious reasons.

I think that Saw the Ride is exelent, and from my ex boyfriends p.o.v (point of view) Saw Alive was a Hair - Raising experience. But he's only one example, I was shocked that he was scared coase he has seen all the Saw movies...

So, does anyone think that Saw Alive is worth riding? Should I waste 10 minuits or so of my time at Thorpe Park? I need some advice, I want to go in, but not alone (I know how you feel Natalie! I am a totaly Chicken too)

Thoughts?

I've been into Saw - Alive twice now and both experiences have been very different. My second visit was very similar to other reviews of being very scared and not wanting to go back into the maze again. However the first time I went into the maze was a complete laugh. My dad was unluck enough to be leading the way around the maze and we quickly found ourselves lost. The rooms were so dark we couldn't find the way out and even when we did, we were then faced with the task of getting out of the next room.
So caught up in a mission to find the exits to each room, our group went from being very scared to laughing our heads off as we called out to actors to help us find the way. I remember very clearly asking one actor for a map. I guess the actors have been told to help people who are lost as one male slowly lead our group to the exit of one of the rooms without so much as attempting to scare us.
While my first visit to the maze was funny, the second time around wasn't and I don't think I will be running to queue for this ride again in a hurry.

well im not a wimp but this really did scare the c**p out of me!! i screamed like a little sissy girl all the way through. It was theee most scaryst moment of my whole life!! my brother has gone to Thorpe park today and i told him to stay wellll away from the maze. It was actually awful i hated every second of it!! I was biting my friend because i was that scared lol. Extremly cleaver but No-one could ever get me in there ever again! saw ride was excellent tho :D x

I was (un)lucky enough to be picked to lead our group through and I have to say it was a pretty daunting experience even though I'm not easily scared by such situations. The worst part for me was when I went down a dead-end with a mirror at the end, it was dark so I could only just make out a figure which seemed to be approaching from the other direction and refusing to let me through what I thought was a plastic strip screen. It took me a few attempts at fighting past myself in the mirror before I realised what was going on. My teen daughters thought it was very scary, I suppose it's that group that these things are mainly aimed at...

:o)

whent to saw alive this week ..different experience from those above, As our group walked in past the prison style desk the woman at the desk told us that jet would remove one of us from the group. which put everybody on edge...first the bathroom scene had a crazy woman staring into the bath who followed our group around the whole way latching onto the only female in our group wich scared her sh##less which i found massively amusing and laffed nearly the whole way through. the actor held onto her around her waist wispering your my mummy- save me into her ear the whole way through. Apart from my massive amusement which detracted from the scaryness the rest of the group (all men above 25) where genuinely disturbed/scared by the experience although for me as said there could have been less emphasis on throughput and more on apsoloutely terrifying the guests. but excellent no one was actually removed from the group but the actress followed us out the door across the bridge before she ran back in great fun. lee

oh and another thing, the pictures are a lie, theres no people with pig faces or anything like that!

i went into the saw maze with a few of my friends! i expected it to be amazing, but it was rubbish. i qued up for an hour ten minites in the sun, got sun burnt, and inside it stank, none of the actors came up to me, you cant really see anything, it was rubbish, it was a complete waste of time i think!

i did like it, but i do admit yes it could be more scary. fortunately when i went through the maze there was an actor in the bathroom scene in room 1, it wasn't a nice feeling when he grabbed my foot but i must say it was quite a suprise! the effort carried out to design this maze is amazing. big thumbs up for that. but as you said, i would be alot better if the public could help out actors in traps. it would add to the experience you get. hopefully Thorpe Park decide to do this for fright night this year. Then it really will bring saw ALIVE! :)

The Saw Alive attraction was RUBBISH.

We were made to line up in a train of around 8-10 people hold on to the person in front of you and run through a darkend few rooms really fast so they could get loads of people through.

It was so dark we did not even know what was there. I was told by freinds not to bother but I had to see for myself. Word to the Wise, by all means try it, but do not wait in line for 30 mins as you will regreat it.

Cut a long story short, waste of 30 mins lining up and another 3 mins in the so called maze. So I have lost 33 mins of my life on this rubbish.

To be honest, i was expecting much more from it. I would have thought that people would be alone, that would make it more scary for the person in. Also, there should be loads of ways to go so you dont know where your going and then that would scare the living daylights out of people. I would of also thought that they would get Jigsaw on the tv to ask the guests to do a certain challenge to make them get stressed and panicky as if they were really there! That would be great! Thanks for reading =D

Had read a fair few reviews online for Saw Alive but every single good thing i had read seemed to be missing today. The whole walk through lacked any plot. There was no video i had read about. We were just basically shoved in our group of 10 in to the maze and left to it. There didn't seemed to be ANYBODY being subjected to any of the traps. We could see where the scares were coming from due to actors standing right in front of us as we entered each room. Being shouted at by someone going "ragggghhh" dos'nt make a good scare. It all just seemed abit pointless and lacking something. Well...lacking alot in fact. Thorpe Park has done excellent horrors mazes in the past during the Fright Nights but something has gone wrong here. Maybe it was an off day. The reviews i'v read do paint it in a more positive way. We only had to cue about 10mins even though it said 30mins. But even cueing for 10mins for what only lasted around 3mins was again abit pointless. The scariest part though was the end room......where we saw how much they were asking for our group photo. We exited kinda shugging our shoulders.