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All the constant daily vlogging is getting ridiculous this year. At the end of the day, Towers are in their right to enforce the rules of their rides and discourage people who think it may be ok to do that. There is on-ride photography for those kinds of pics. Its a shame some people can’t just enjoy a ride in the moment without trying to get their phones out mid-ride. Thorpe staff have been more on the ball enforcing the rules this year, saw them eject two people from Rush for queue jumping and warn a guy for trying to film on Flying Fish.

I guess the concern from the park's perspective is that if someone has a camera out, they won't be holding on, which risks a person falling out of their seat / into the water. There's also the case where someone could drop their phone into the water and jump in to grab it. Unfortunately there's a lot of stupid people out there. Towers do say on their map and website that filming and photography isn't allowed on any attraction (so technically not even the monorail or Skyride if we wished to be pedantic). To say it doesn't explicitly say it on a ride restriction board is a bit of a grotty loophole which ends up with us having stupid, spoon-fed restrictions and over the top safety rules. This specific situation is obviously all the more high profile because we're looking at a well known enthusiast, who is an ex-employee of the park. It sets an example to over 20,000 people. Can understand why Towers don't particularly want them to go 'hey, we're breaking park rules and we get cool stuff from the park'. There's also the cynic in me which wonders if this is Theme Park Worldwide trying to just get more publicity. All publicity is good publicity as the saying goes..

Wow 3 years since a post! Quantums opened for the 2018 season now - all be it a little later than the rest!

14 replies... ugh I bet each and every one of them is attacking AT for daring to reinforce their rules at the expense of Lord Sanbrooke...

But... but... Mr. Worldwide is elite, no? Rules are for normal guests

Towers aren’t happy with a vlogger breaking the rules today https://mobile.twitter.com/altontowers/status/995692063390920704

I feel like Thorpe are really clueless sometimes with their unclear future direction. They had a great ImaScore track made for fright nights and they use it any time they want now. There’s going to be very little left to differentiate Fright Nights from TWD events this year. And how many years will they recycle the studio director audio?

Run from it, hide from it. Ride cutbacks still arrive. ( (The person who tweeted this put a smile on my face)

Just saw the “theming” for the apocalypse weekends event. I know you’re on a budget Thorpe but damn, I’ve seen better diy efforts during Halloween. ?️ Hoped that The Walking Dead would at least set some standards unless they approve of the dirty sheets and marker pen signs.

Sometimes I feel like I'm on another plane of existence when reading this guy's posts because I cannot even begin to comprehend what they're trying to say.

Talking with my "late eightys" Aunty, when I informed her of my enthusiasm for roller coasters she loudly commented...... "What? that's worse than tattoos, don't you tell any of my friends, up to now they liked you"......................right between the eyes!

It's nice you constantly have me on your mind babe.

When you come out to your parents and siblings and they respond..