Marc

Apparently since this article Merlin confirmed during an earnings call their interest in buying the Busch Gardens parks https://skift.com/2017/08/07/merlin-hints-at-interest-in-buying-seaworlds-busch-gardens/

Noticed a few changes with queue boards recently - firstly on Saw the ride - it seems there's a new system in place with cameras monitoring people entering the queue lines - when we entered the queue it was advertised at 36 minutes - out of curiosity we timed it, we was on the ride in exactly 36 minutes - impressive! Secondly there seems to be different messages they can display now - for example Zodaic went down for sick and instead of just stating "unavailable" it was showing as "Short Delay". Also during bad weather last week they boards were displaying "Weather delay" on affected rides. This all shows on the queue line TVs too for the individual rides.

Colossus is the latest to see work - has its new theme playing which seems to be a longer version of whats been around Lost City the past few weeks - sounded good and also great to hear l the big bose 802's fixed (near rush, under the first drop, at the entrence and the one near the snack shop) and sounding good - a few of those I've not heard work for years! The queue had a couple of quiet spots (looks like during some works some speakers had been almost completely covered in dirt) which I'm sure will be sorted! Also I know it was mentioned a few weeks ago about Amitys WWTP - this is playing much louder now around the area.

The riuht type of lap bar can keep you perfectly secure upside down - im not sure if colossus would suit lap bars personally as it does throw you around a fair bit!

I'd suggest going to the park and listening to it before deciding you don't like it!

New music at the park today - Colossus has a new theme as well as Lost City having an extended version of what was added a few weeks ago!

Not too bad as far as I know- usually the first few weeks of the school holidays the the quieter times before getting bustier towards the end!

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Surely it's more imaginative than "place your heads back and brace your selves" as it previously had?!

Tapatalk finally fixed it and its back up and running

Glad you enjoyed it!

The Swarm has a new themed announcement as the train departs

I have Beats solo 3's and air pods - both have their pros and cons. If you have an iPhone both work very well - connecting is so easy it really is seamless and will also connect across all your iCloud devices - they do also work if your not apple! Both have great battery life too - like insanely good, the AirPods when they run out get a decent charge after 10/15 mins in the carry case and slips in your pocket. The beats solo 3's are bulkier - but imo have very good sound quality.

Thorpes is definitely different - I've seen that system at towers think - towers one also used to popup on your phone when you was at the entrance telling you the queue time / advising fastrack which you could buy on the phone using Apple Pay.

Had another look at this - it looks like the tapatalk plugin they've released for this version of the forum is corrupt - as soon as they've fixed ill get it installed

Amazing to see what some people are doing with this game - really good work!

https://www.thorpeparkmania.co.uk/articles/20-07-2017/Show+Services+Q+and+A if you've not seen it this is a good read - park wide sound is now maintained by the show services department and I'm sure we will continue to see improvements. [/plug] TBF I think a lot of the original Bose systems are still going strong - Colossus / Inferno still sound good and they are 14/15 years old now!

Aha sorry - should be fixed now!

TBF I've not been into the Tidal Wave queue for some time so no idea how that is - the "area" around Tidal's speakers on the telegraph poles seem to work still. Another thing I noticed yesterday was the Saw Plaza music has been turned up a lot - was much better! Good to hear audios been added to the Megastore too!

I expect they can - just cant all happen overnight Also Storm Surge before its new speakers were installed was very quiet which I would guess makes it a higher priority- I wouldn't say Stealth and Tidal are too bad apart from an odd quiet spot.

Stealth has a new WWTP loop - much longer and great to hear the return of some classic WWTP songs!

Yep!

Updated the forums to the latest software version tonight - if you notice anything not working let me know! The biggest change you'll likely notice is enhancements to the "Like" system - you can now react to posts much like you can on Facebook! The skin is the default one at the moment - am working on an all new skin at the moment which will hopefully look alot better!

You do hear of this quite a lot (and I've done it my self before too) it's very easy to wonder around the park deciding each queue is too long, before you know it you would of been better off just joining one of them. One tip I would have is get there early - a few times this year I've got there for 9 ish - the gates are often opened early (no promises!)) and the park has been so so much better at getting rides ready for opening. At 9:30 my last trip all rides which were due to open were - you can easily get Stealth, Inferno, Colosus and saw done before the queues start to get to bad!