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In a promising development, the lift chain has started being slowly tested and the area music has been turned back on:

Plenty of people are complaining at the lack of updates on TT2 - in other words people will complaining regardless! Hopefully will open in next few days

True, but announcing it's opening the night before it's due to reopen is still an announcement, right? 😃

People will moan about not being given enough notice to plan a trip. Trust me, coaster geeks will find any which way to complain. I'm ready for the pot kettle black responses

I honestly think what's gonna happen now is, without fanfare, the night before it's due to open, Thorpe will say "It's opening tomorrow guyz" and that way no one can really moan. Ish.

In fairness, the only way they could have communicated differently is instead of the wording being "we cannot commit to opening before 8th" - which is in itself reasonable and transparent (more than we would have seen from Thorpe in the past), instead using the wording "we will update you around the 8th" instead. Other than that, I don't think Thorpe are in winnable position regardless. People are gunna hate if they gave a date, didn't give a date, blamed Mack, blamed God, Blamed the Tories - basically anything other than the ride opening is going to peeve people off - and even when it WAS open, people were peeved about 5 to 6 hour queues. So, they're damned in every way; then get accused of gaslighting if they try and stand up for themselves. They weren't to know that their biggest plant machinery would operate well for one day and over night just go "nope". That's the joy of plant machinery. NO amount of pre-opening testing can prevent a "catastrophic" failure of hardware in the same way that Zamperla couldn't have prevented TT2's issues. The difference is, Thorpe aren't throwing shade at Mack; and nor should we be. People need to understand and learn what is within our own personal sphere of influence. We have three options here: Manage our attitude, manage our situation or allow it to bother us rent-free. Either change your opinion on the situation; give up and come back to it or let the whole thing bother and consume you. You can't fix it. You can't control how or when it is fixed. You can't influence how Thorpe manage it. So just get on with your days and let it open when it is open.

Do agree with this. Although it’s been great they’ve kept everyone updated, and they never specifically said it’ll open, it’s definitely set that expectation with the dates which will disappoint a lot of people.

Oh dear… I’m not optimistic about Monday, I must admit. They haven’t said anything beyond it simply not opening on Saturday, so they could just be being cautious about the days immediately following Saturday, but the suggestion that they’re going to announce a reopening date suggests that it might not be any time soon. It’s probably best now if I go with the expectation that it won’t be open and be pleasantly surprised if it is… I must admit, I think they’ve shot themselves in the foot by continually announcing these arbitrary dates that they can’t meet. It just sets people up for disappointment.

Such a shame. But good to see that SAW is now back open which means the crane is no longer required, and testing will start soon. Can’t be long now!

It's gonna be the 11th innit. At least I'll get to experience opening day v2.0 haha. I guess that notice would imply that they need to get X amount of testing done and that won't be possible in less than 2 days...

what has happened, you may ask? well, there was a mix up internally. opening day was marketed, and taken literally by the operations of the teams. friday of the 24th of the may was hyperia's opening day, but on any other day, the ride can not operate. it could only run on friday on the 24th of the month, because that was its OPENING day, where the ride is allowed to open. oh it's sad, it's so sad, well it's sad, really sad, so sad, bom bom bom, pom pom pom, (angrier) bom bom bom, POM POM POM, bom bom bom, bombom bom bom, pompom pom pom, bom pom, bom pom pom, bom bom bom, pom pom PPPOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMM it's new, the ride that I've got and it's ooh, whoa oh, it's a closed coaster, it's cool, that's what I tell 'em no rides in breakable heaven, but ooh, whoa oh, it's a closed coaster it's cool, that's what I tell them no cash, in be